How to Create the Energy Efficient Datacenter: The Role of Modularity in Design & Deployment

Mar 13, 2009

2:00 p.m. Eastern/11:00 a.m. Pacific (60 Minutes)

Event Details

Dean Nelson - Director, Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services - Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Michael Krieger - Market Expert - Ziff Davis Enterprise
No two IT organizations are exactly the same. Virtually all of them – and the clients they serve – have dramatically different requirements that impact how that datacenter is designed. Datacenters that serve cross-functional organizations including engineering, services, sales, operations and IT must take the ever-changing needs of each of these constituent groups into account when they are built and as the organization grows and matures.

On the surface, datacenters supporting these disparate organizations may appear dramatically different: Some look like a computer hardware lab, others like a lights-out server farm. Some have a steady stream of employees coming and going, others are accessed remotely and can be anywhere in the world. Most are in buildings, but many are housed in enhanced shipping containers.

But when you dig deeper, all datacenters have similar underlying infrastructure elements including physical design, power, cooling, and connectivity.

Join our expert panel from Sun Microsystems at this educational eSeminar and learn how to create a state of the art enterprise datacenter by combining best of breed modules to yield performance and efficiency across the board. This in-depth technical event is created for architects in the IT industry by Sun's engineering community and offers best practices that are widely in use today.

As an attendee at this event you will learn:
- How to architect your datacenter in modular, energy efficient building blocks.
- The best way to define power and cooling requirements including use of containers
- Methodology for balancing racks vs. square feet, and accommodating connectivity and equipment access.
- How to optimize space and power while working within the cooling envelope
- Why a flexible pod-based design can offer the best power distribution and modular busways
- When to use different cooling including spot, closely-coupled, in-row with hot aisle containment, overhead spot cooling and options for the future.
- How to create the best cable design for your datacenter
If you are involved in datacenter design for your organization, this best practices webcast can put you ahead of the curve – so register now and bring your questions for our panel to address during the live Q&A following the presentation.

A quick eSeminar survey will pop out at the end of the eSeminar. Completion of this survey will enter you for a chance to win an iPod Nano (valued at $149), compliments of Sun Microsystems.
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