- Peer Learning
- Optional Data Center Tours
- Optional Tutorials
- Keynote Address
- Cloud Computing Track
- Data Center Management Track
- End User Case Studies Track
- Facilities Management Track
- Roundtable Discussions
- Product Information Sessions
- Open Forum Closing Session
- Event Overview
- Technologies
- Exhibiting Companies by Name
- Exhibiting Companies by Classification
- Floor Plan
- Strategic Partners
- Data Center World Sponsors
- Data Center World Raffle
- Data Center World End-User Expo Only Pass
In conjunction with Data Center World Expo, leading vendors offer sessions about how technologies and services in the market can assist in your data center success.
*Please note: These product-specific sessions are presented by official Data Center World Expo exhibitors and will run concurrently with educational sessions.
P01: Asset Tracking - The Next Generation
Larry Lozon, General Manager, AIS, Methode Electronics - Data Solutions Group
Through advancements in RFID tracking systems, Methode Electronics'- Data Solutions Group is introducing the next step in data center asset tracking. Now assets are instantly located for real-time inventory control, automated reporting and serviceability. With Methode's new ATS RU, assets are instantly located, right down to the rack unit location within your data center. Come to this informative session to learn about the latest advancement in managing your assets in real-time, now and forever.
P02: Transforming 400V Power Distribution in the Data Center
Steven Carlini, Global Director, Data Center Solution Marketing, Schneider Electric
Final power distribution for a data center has risen to a main topic for organizations seeking to increase safety and efficiency while reducing costs. This session will focus on how to recapture both costs and space: through the implementation of a new breed of 415Y/240V modular power distribution units. Featuring hot-swappable modular breakers, this PDU allows electricians, facilities engineers, and IT managers to add and replace circuit breakers, cordset and branch current monitoring without disruption.
P03: Optimizing the Data Center Ecosystem with Real-time Power & Environmental Intelligence
Craig Compiano, President, Chief Executive Officer, Modius
This session will help data center managers understand the ease and value of capturing comprehensive power, cooling and environmental data across all critical computing locations to improve performance, capacity and availability. The session will illustrate that performance metrics are important to developing a comprehensive measurement scheme, and how these can be used to federate intelligence to other tools in the data center, including asset management, virtualization, and controls systems.
P04: An Alternative to Spot Cooling Solutions That Maximizes Efficiency and Reliability
Nick Gangemi, Regional Sales Manager, Data Aire, Inc.
Increasing heat densities and cooling costs have given rise to a number of proposed solutions being offered to data center managers. Some do a good job solving part of the problem but none offer a comprehensive solution. Unity Cooling by Data Aire maintains the highest level of reliability and availability while maximizing energy efficiency of the entire cooling system. By dynamically following the IT cooling load we are able to provide real-time cooling consumption detail while maintaining exact thermal control based on the actual IT cooling demand.
P05: Simulate Airflow and Temperature to Meet Your Cooling Challenges
Suhas V. Patankar, President, TileFlow
You can now create a computer simulation of the entire airflow and temperature distribution to identify and overcome cooling problems. The simulation shows how to save energy and create a "Green" data center. The software product, TileFlow, allows you to model your data center and calculates air velocities and temperatures. TileFlow is delightfully easy to use, runs very fast, and produces useful plots. This presentation will include a live demonstration of the capabilities of TileFlow, show a spectacular display of the results, and thus convey the power of simulation.
P06: Containment Readiness
Carl Cottuli, Vice President of Product Development & Services, Wright Line
Current data center industry practice isolates hot exhaust air from cold supply air. There are three primary methods to accomplish an effective isolation and containment strategy – hot aisle containment, cold aisle containment and rack-based heat containment. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. How can the data center manager make an educated decision? Perform an assessment that will identify cooling infrastructure capabilities and site deficiencies that inhibit optimum results. This session will explore your options.
P07: Who is Killing Who? Not So Smart Data Center Decisions
Carrie Higbie, Global Director Data Center Solutions and Services, Siemon
The decision-making process can make or break any number of departments from facilities and networking to servers and security. By first reviewing case studies and standards for every data center component, you'll have a better grasp on how decisions can positively or negatively impact every discipline in the data center ecosystem. Though tomorrow's faster networking requirements are based on moves made today, decisions must be well-founded and thought out, keeping every department in mind.
P08: Factory Wired vs. Field Wired Continuous Infrastructure Systems: The Model T vs. Rolls Royce
Martin Olsen, Vice President, Global Channels and Business Development, Active Power
Data center and infrastructure containerization is similar to Henry Ford's Model T, a standardized, repeatable product with little to no defects. This session will highlight the performance and economic benefits behind a system that is pre-assembled and factory tested offsite. Included will be a discussion of a recent study by Mass. based consulting firm MTechnologies, Inc., which identified up to 1200 times the disparity in anticipated defect rates in a field wired system (conventional brick and mortar facility) compared to a system that is factory wired.
P09: Data Center Maintenance Management Software – Case Study Examples of Improved Maintenance Management
Dave Cole, Manager, Data Center Maintenance Management & Education Services, PTS Data Center Solutions
This presentation will discuss computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) and present DCMMS, an innovative software application from PTS Data Center Solutions that was specifically designed for managing data center maintenance. The software was released in spring 2010 and the presentation will review, in case study format, current client use of the solution including live examples of client use, management of assets and parts, tracking of maintenance schedules, costs, recurring product problems and issues related to effective and efficient preventative maintenance management in the data center.
P10: Multistack Keeps Your Data Center Online
Mike Clatworthy, Worldwide Sales and Distribution Director, Multistack
Data centers have clearly defined critical cooling needs. Multistack has over 20 years experience supporting the extreme redundancy needs of data centers. The Multistack modular concept allows you to match the number of chillers running with the demands of your facility and provide exceptional redundancy at the same time. There is a reason why Multistack air-cooled and water-cooled modular chillers protect data in more than 175 U.S. embassies worldwide, and this session will provide the details.
P11: Introducing the Newest Innovation in Thermal Management from the LOK Family of Solutions
Lars Strong, Senior Engineer, Upsite Technologies
The innovators of the original, industry-defining KoldLok raised floor grommet are revolutionizing thermal management technology with the introduction of the next generation of elegantly engineered sealing solutions. Learn how to achieve maximum efficiency and safety in your data center environment with the Lok Family of Solutions, delivering superior performance, quick payback and long term energy cost savings.
P12: Best Practices for Complete Wire-Free Instrumentation of Your Data Center
Mitch Medford, CEO of RF Code
With the move toward a greener data center, environmental dynamics have taken center stage. Real time monitoring is one of the key tools data center managers use to get the macro- and micro information they need to provide the most comprehensive environmental protection possible. This session looks at how to instrument your data center using affordable, easy-to-deploy wire-free solutions to provide the most comprehensive monitoring possible for a greener, more efficient data center.
P13: Data Center Infrastructure Management Strategies for Optimizing Performance and Cost
Tracy Yarbrough, Director of Product Marketing, Aperture – Avocent
The data center has become the "nerve center" of business. To meet the needs of today's complex data centers and ensure infrastructure and applications function optimally, a single, cohesive strategy for analyzing and managing energy, capital resources and processes in the data center is vital. This session examines key areas – monitoring and control, managing physical assets and resources, and managing people and processes – where organizations need to focus in order to unite facilities and IT, create a unified view of resources, gain insight into data center operations, and optimize complex physical infrastructures.
P14: Solutions for Achieving Efficiency without Compromise
Matt Kightlinger, Solutions Manager, Emerson Network Power – Liebert
Discover how to achieve efficiency without compromise with the latest data center power, cooling and monitoring solutions that capitalize on infrastructure management, eco availability, high density and flexible capacity strategies to balance uptime and efficiency. See how innovative aisle containment, row-based cooling, transformer-based power and flexible rack designs can cut data center design and deployment time, reduce operating costs and enhance management and planning success, all while maintaining—or improving—data center availability.
P15: Airflow Utilization (AUE) Improves Cooling and Energy Utilization (PUE)
Tom Weiss, Sr. Vice President, Triad by NxGen, LLC and Gary Meyer, Founder, Triad by NxGen, LLC
By managing to an AUE of ten or lower, data center managers can reduce cooling energy utilization by up to forty percent. "Data center managers can save four percent in energy costs for every degree of upward change in the set point," according to Mark Monroe, the director of sustainable computing at Sun Microsystems (JAVA). Come hear how Triad's Airflow Utilization Efficiency (AUE) proves how airflow, efficiently used, can cool servers in a very cost effective way.