General Facilities Management

Data Center commissioning helps contractors, operators, engineers and facilities managers validate designs, installations, total system performance and even LEED compliance. Innovative new technology now makes it possible to identify potential issues during data center commissioning – before power, generation, power quality and chiller infrastructure become big problems  that result in downtime, lost revenue, added costs and damaged reputations. This session will lead attendees through a successful data center commission and explore the innovative new solutions available.

You can’t know where you are going without understanding where you are. Leveraging guidelines from the leading sources of data center standards today, including the Green Grid’s Data Center Maturity Model, US Department of Energy, US EPA Energy Star Rating, and the EU Code of Conduct, this session will educate attendees on how to utilize these new benchmarking tools for best-in-class data center energy efficiency and sustainability performance. This session will stimulate data center managers to make improvements to efficiency performance without hampering their mission critical priorities.

This high energy presentation examines multiple recent survey data concerning data center migration, trends, site selection and operating costs. The speaker provides a high level overview of these trends, and relates them to activities within your own data center.

Mitigating risk to business continuity is a primary objective for all data center decision makers.  This educational session focuses on the keys to developing a comprehensive Data Center location strategy that minimizes risks while supporting fundamental Data Center operating requirements.

Flexibility and scalability of the cabling infrastructure allow quick and easy changes with little to no impact on the day-to-day operation of the data center. This presentation will provide a thorough overview of data center networking protocols, including fiber type and performance requirements. The physical infrastructure discussion will cover standards, how to design a scalable infrastructure, and determining the fiber counts. The deployment portion of the presentation will address choosing infrastructure components and writing a data center request for proposal and procurement. Finally, the installation segment of the presentation will review polarity methods, testing and documentation, and labeling.

In this case study Harley-Davidson Motor Company will explain how they currently design, build, and manage their international data center locations.  In sites ranging from Bawal India to Sao Paulo Brazil see how Harley gets these sites up and running and maintain operations.  Harley-Davidson Motor Company will also discuss its process for monitoring and mitigating incidents at these sites from its US headquarters.  Learn of the issues Harley ran into during these projects and how your international growth plans can benefit from these lessons learned.