Enterprise Servers and Data Centers: Opportunities for Energy Savings Conference

[Jennifer Davis]

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Sun Microsystems Conference Facility, Santa Clara, CA
January 31, 2006, 8:30 a.m. . 5:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception: January 30, 2006, 6:00 . 8:00 p.m.

You're invited to participate in a working session entitled "Conference on 
Enterprise Servers and Data Centers: Opportunities for Energy Savings." 
Participants will discuss current trends in the enterprise server market 
and obstacles to improved data center energy efficiency, and develop 
action plans to overcome these obstacles.
Conference Goals:

To bring together national and international stakeholders to:

     * Highlight the growing energy demands of today's high-density 
enterprise servers and data center facilities,
     * Share ideas on management, technical strategies, and best practices 
for addressing energy consumption in data center facilities, and
     * Collaboratively draft action plans for improving data center 
efficiencies.

Conference Chairperson

Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D . Consulting Professor, Department of Civil and 
Environmental Engineering, Stanford Institute for the Environment and 
Staff Scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Agendas
Day 1, January 31st: Enterprise Servers and Data Centers: Opportunities 
for Energy Savings Sun Microsystems Conference Facility, Santa Clara, CA

Industry leaders and energy efficiency experts will open this meeting by 
discussing trends and challenges in the marketplace. A panel of end users 
will next emphasize their desire for improved efficiencies in data 
centers. The second half of the day promises to identify roadblocks to 
efficiency and drive the group toward solutions with the help of poignant 
case studies and small group working sessions.
Day 2, February 1st: Challenges in Buildings Operations and Management for 
Owners/Operators of Service Provider and Enterprise Datacenters and 
Development of the ENERGY STAR Building Benchmark for Mission Critical 
Facilities AMD Conference Facility, Sunnyvale, CA

Stakeholders with interests in whole building energy performance are also 
encouraged to attend a complementary half-day meeting being held the 
following day, February 1, 2006, that will focus exclusively on the impact 
of enterprise servers and data centers on the design, operation, and 
management of whole buildings.