Emerging IT & Data Center Technologies
This track focuses on IT advancements that have recently begun to impact the data center, providing a practical look at emerging technologies and processes. You’ll hear about the most buzz-worthy topics in the news and takeaway an understanding of how they may affect current and future business norms. Separating fact from hype, you’ll learn from experts who will help you and your team navigate these ever-changing technologies.
- Legacy vs generative AI and its effect on IT operations, design, construction, and maintenance.
- AI ethics
- Fiber/Interconnectivity
- Innovations in Hyperscale & large-scale data center computing
- Optical connectivity GPU and next-generation processing
- Power distribution and battery technologies
- Cooling technologies
- Product roadmaps for compute, storage & networking equipment
Sponsored by ABB Electrification
Data Center BUILD
This conference track explores how companies are designing and building out their data center architectures for maximum efficiency and performance. We’ll include topics on community relations, outfitting, operating, control, maintaining a data center, as well as monitoring operations of assets, and provide expert advice across the spectrum of data center management.
- Build, upgrade, retrofit
- Site selection
- Community relations
- Capacity planning or optimization
- Predictive & prescriptive maintenance using AI
- Software tools: DCIM, APM, EMS, BAS, etc.
- Automation/Robotics
- Modular data centers & skidded infrastructure
- Labor & recruiting
Sponsored by Grundfos Pumps
Colocation, Hyperscale, and Cloud Innovation
This track explores the latest information on colocation, edge computing, cloud strategies and on-premise architectures. We’ll also include topics on application development, systems integration, and workload management.
- On-premises public and private cloud infrastructure
- Colocation provider selection criteria
- Edge computing planning and management
- Colocation planning and management
- Impacts of and potential for reduced capacity
- Existing and emerging managed services
- Infrastructure-as-a-service
- Energy-as-a-service
- Provider sustainability metrics
- Tier based pricing
- Software defined data center
- Workload/Cloud Repatriation
- Private cloud
Sponsored by OpenNebula Systems
Power Sourcing & Sustainability
This track covers the important issues that impact management of a sustainable mission-critical facility including how data center operators consume and conserve energy, and best practices in tracking carbon emissions. This year we’ll go deeper into how the insatiable demand for power will push innovation in a variety of new technologies including solar, wind, nuclear and more. We’ll also cover sustainability topics related to the characteristics of scope 1, 2, 3 emissions.
- Power sourcing for sustainability and power challenged markets
- On-premises power generation
- Cooling techniques that lower power consumption
- Power consumption and management for electrical/mechanical systems
- Water usage
- Renewable and low carbon energy sources
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impact on data centers
- Decommissioning legacy equipment, electronic waste, responsible disposal
- Rate reduction programs (grants, rebates)
- Carbon emissions tracking and accountability
- Tracking of carbon emissions throughout the supply chain
Sponsored by OceanTech
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