| Tuesday, April 29 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
 Next Generation Data Centers: The Vision, the Value and Getting There (Location: Lagoon D) How do you get to the Next Generation Data Center? This session will examine the critical steps including how to focus on people, process, technology and facilities, how to sell the value to the business, and how to manage the transition to the next-generation data. Taking a phased approach, the next-generation data center is an evolution, not a revolution. This session will show you how to manage expectations, measure value achievements and how to identify the critical success factors. Moderator - Rick Clark, Principal, Deloitte Consulting Rick is a Client Service Partner and leader of Deloitte?s Platform Architecture & Infrastructure Services (PA&I) Group in the West and National leader for Deloitte?s Documentum ECM Service offering. He has more than 23 years experience in large-scale information technology related disciplines, including Data Center services, ECM deployments/Collaboration, IT consolidation, systems architecture, design, development, test and deployment, high volume / high availability on-line Transaction Processing, Database Management Systems, Enterprise Systems Management, Enterprise Storage Solutions, e-Business Architectures and program management. His enterprise-wide I.T. skills include IT assessment, strategy, architecture design, implementation and project management of heterogeneous computing infrastructures.
Speaker - Ahmed Abdelhalim, Director - Product Management & Marketing, High-End & Service Provider Systems BU, Foundry Networks Ahmed Abdelhalim is the director of product management and marketing for high-end & service provider systems at Foundry Networks. His main responsibilities include the analysis of cutting-edge technology trends, and assessing their impact on the networking infrastructure as well as the larger information systems world. As part of his role, he is also responsible for driving Foundry?s flagship networking equipment including the NetIron XMR multi-service backbone routers, NetIron MLX Metro routers, and the BigIron RX high performance switches. He brings over 15 years of experience in high-end networking and high performance computing. His main interests include large-scale networking, service convergence, QoS, Carrier Ethernet, WAN, next generation networks (NGNs), IPv6, and MPLS.
Speaker - Brad Mitchell, Senior Lead, Deloitte Consulting LLP Senior Lead for Deloitte Consulting with extensive experience which includes 25 years of business and IT operations in the Energy / Oil & Gas, Communications, and Aerospace & Defense industries. He has extensive Management Consulting experience in data centers, storage, servers, and high availability / disaster recovery for large back office, web and e-commerce projects. His projects have included strategic and operational assessments, architecture design, enterprise implementations, large-scale systems integration and operations management for numerous global and domestic Fortune 100 clients.
Speaker - Darin Briskman, Systems Architect, IBM Dr. Darin Briskman is a Certified Systems Architect and works as an Executive Information Technology Solutions Architect for IBM. He has been involved in the analysis, design, architecture, articulation, implementation, and management of IT systems since 1989, working with NASA, Boeing, Washington Mutual, Zurich Financial / Farmers Insurance, Diamond Shamrock, Kohl's Stores, Cisco Systems, Intel Corp., Nordstrom, Costco, T-Mobile, Western Digital, Visa International, Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Nike, Spirit AeroSystems, Warner Bros., Amazon.com, and many others. Darin is one of IBM's leaders on virtualization, data center optimization, and complex systems.
Speaker - Dick Sullivan, Director, Enterprise Solutions Marketing, EMC Dick has more than twenty years of IT experience including Enterprise Systems, Consulting, Technology Education, Services and Marketing. He is an eight year veteran of EMC, responsible for Marketing Enterprise Storage Solutions, and Data Center Energy Efficiency. He has devoted considerable time with customers in North America, Asia and EMEA. He has presented on Data Center Energy Efficiency at a number of industry events, including the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus, The National Conference on Data Center Infrastructure, the Technology CEO Council and the United Nations IT Infrastructure Conference.
Speaker - Stelio D'Alo, Marketing, HP Stelio D?Alo is a senior marketing manager for the Business Service Automation solution from HP Software. His background encompasses more than 20 years of industry experience in the fields of data center automation, enterprise software and telecommunications systems in Canada, Europe and the United States. Prior to joining HP, Stelio has held sales, marketing and product management leadership roles companies including IBM, Rational Software and several successful start-up software companies. Stelio has presented at numerous events worldwide, and is currently focused on working with leading organizations that are automating their data center operations with solutions including HP Network Automation, HP Server Automation and HP Operations Orchestration software.
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
Conference Sessions
Virtualization Beyond Consolidation: Driving Down OPEX, Not Just CAPEX (Location: Lagoon D) Although virtualization has existed for a few years now, users tend to fall into two camps: Those who have already implemented virtualization projects and those who hesitate because the value is unclear. The fact is that the benefits of virtualization represent a lot more than the simple consolidation of servers. Companies are seeing extraordinary operational expense benefits, such as simpler management, power and thermal control, high availability and disaster recovery. This session will look at virtualization best practices and the shortest path to deriving the greatest benefits from virtualization technologies, new operational practices and greater agility.
Speaker - Paul Prince, Director, CTO Enterprise Products, Dell Paul Prince brings more than 20 years of computer industry experience to his current role as Director of Enterprise Technologies, within Dell?s Office of the CTO. In this position, Mr. Prince is responsible for leading Dell?s initiatives on virtualization, as well as directing the company?s Client and Server Architecture teams, and overseeing development of the core technologies associated with those platforms. Paul Prince holds a bachelor of science degree in physics from Abilene Christian University, and a master of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah.
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| 2:00 pm–3:15 pm |
Conference Sessions
A Guide to Data Center Conservation (Location: Lagoon D) What can I do, put solar panels on the roof? Many data-center managers would like to "go green," but they don't know where to start. This session looks at the data center, identifying areas of waste and inefficiency. Often, the simplest and cheapest solutions are the most effective. An inefficient data center can waste 250kW to 300kW of energy from the generator room, lighting, environmentals, security system or fire-suppression system. These losses are not core to your operations, they don't support the servers or keep them running, don't keep them cool, don't process data and don't process storage. They just waste energy. Green starts with conservation. This session will provide practical and low cost advice to help you save energy and money.
Speaker - Jack Pouchet, Director, Energy Initiatives, Green Grid/Emerson Network Power Jack Pouchet - Bio Jack Pouchet, BA, MBA Business Administration, Director Energy Initiatives for Emerson Network Power / Liebert is based in Southern California and works closely with major OEMs in the server market, large data center users, and leading mission critical engineering firms to help define, architect, and create opportunities for advanced power and cooling technologies that improve day-to-day operational efficiencies. Jack brings over twenty years of related OEM power supply, power generation, distribution, and power product sales and marketing experience to Emerson Network Power giving him a unique end-to-end perspective of the entire AC and DC power path. An active member of several industry and sustainability associations including The Green Grid and the Union of Concerned Scientists, Jack is frequently engaged with Federal and State agencies in research and legislation centered on alternative / renewable energy as well as energy efficiency including support of the EPA in their report to Congress on data center operations under H.R. 5646. As a scientist/inventor Jack has corporate IP and patent submittals in place for alternative/renewable energy components, systems, and architectures specifically addressing the IT, networking, data center, and electric utility markets.
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| 3:45 pm–4:45 pm |
Conference Sessions
Green Data Center: The IT Industry's Energy Efficiency Initiative (Location: Lagoon D) In this presentation we will discuss the findings of a recent study from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories about the billions of dollars spent annually in energy costs to power servers, cooling and auxiliary infrastructure equipment. This session also will outline issues relating to energy efficient technology and environmental stewardship in the data center.
Speaker - Larry Vertal, Senior Strategist, AMD Lawrence Vertal brings more than 20 years of operational management, strategic relations, corporate governance, and marketing experience to his role as Senior Strategist for AMD. In this role, Mr. Vertal is responsible for both the strategy and execution of selected corporate and commercial initiatives. Mr. Vertal has more than two decades of operational management, strategic relations, corporate governance and marketing experience with technology companies. His range of success spans from startups to Fortune 100 corporations. He has served on the board of directors of The Green Grid consortium since its founding. Mr. Vertal was named by InformationWeek as one of the 15 Innovators & Influencers for 2008. Prior to joining AMD, Mr. Vertal was vice president of marketing for Conita Technologies. While at AST Research he was responsible for the multiprocessor systems business and served as worldwide representative of the executive office. At MAI Systems, Mr. Vertal oversaw development and marketing of four generations of parallel processing systems. Vertal was also the founder of Condor Data and a founding partner of Apollo Enterprise Solutions, LLC Mr. Vertal holds a bachelors degree in Bacteriology with a minor in Philosophy from California State University, Los Angeles followed by graduate research in Chemistry focused on paramagnetic resonance.
| | Wednesday, April 30 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
Is Your Data Center Most Effective or Most Efficient? Shouldn't It Be Both? (Location: Lagoon D) The data center is the center of the IT universe. It is the primary source for computing cycles, storage capacity, business applications, and information of all forms. This central positioning also causes the data center to be a target - for budget overruns, user blame, power shortages, security breaches, and worst of all, business shortfalls. This session will offer a prescriptive approach to help ensure your data center delivers on its business promise, and makes the most cost-effective and efficient use of data center resources - from networks to servers to storage to power.
Speaker - Doug Gourlay, Senior Director, Data Center Solutions Group, Cisco Doug Gourlay has been a leader in the creation of Cisco® development, investment, and architectural strategies combining emerging technologies with core infrastructure. As Senior Director for Data Center Solutions, Doug defines and executes Cisco?s global marketing strategy for data center solutions, products and technologies, including storage and application networking, data center switching, high-performance computing, and WAN optimization. Under his leadership the data center solutions segment has grown from a nascent business to a multi-billion-dollar global concern.
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| 2:00 pm–3:15 pm |
Conference Sessions
Virtualization: The Best Initiative to Alleviate the Power Crisis in the Data Center (Location: Lagoon D) With average CPU utilization hovering in the single digits, most data centers are spending thousands of dollars to power systems that are idle. This session outlines how organizations can use virtualization to significantly increase utilization and reduce power consumption through consolidation and dynamic resource and power management. You may not control a power plant or national policy, but you control your data center. This session shows you how you can make a positive impact on the environment, while cutting costs for your company.
Speaker - Jake Seitz, Enterprise Architecture Group, The First American Corporation
Speaker - John Gilmartin, Product Marketing Manager, VMware
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| 3:45 pm–4:45 pm |
Conference Sessions
Best Practices in Data Center Standardization (Location: Lagoon D) Standardizing your data center can yield significant cost savings and enable new levels of reliability and scalability. But undertaking such a substantial process can be overwhelming. This session reflects the experience in standardizing a network of five data centers through a "best of breed" initiative of selecting the best tools and systems for each data center process. The end result is a "lights dim" standard that allows data centers to operate with fewer people, even while overall operations are improved. In the new, virtualized operating model, any administrator can operate any system in any data center.
Speaker - Carl Cottuli, VP Customer Projects, APC As Vice President of the Datacenter Science group, he has the responsibility for setting and communicating the corporate position for new trends in datacenter technology. Carl comes to the Science Center from APC's Global Service Organization where he was the architect for the management and organization of sales and service completion from installation through the life of the product at a global level. This team of engineers assists the company in ensuring availability in the area of network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI). He has over twenty years experience in the electrical design and installation industry and holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and has a background in integrated circuit manufacturing industry.
Speaker - David Leonard, CTO, Infocrossing, Inc., a Wipro Company As Chief Technology Officer of Infocrossing, (IFOX on the NASDAQ), Dave Leonard oversees operations for a network of five world-class data centers located in New Jersey, Georgia, Nebraska, Arizona and California. Infocrossing specializes in Information Technology Outsourcing for Mainframe, Open Systems (Unix, Linux, Windows) and AS400 systems as well as Network Management. Infocrossing also has business units that specialize in BPO Services to the Healthcare Industry and Enterprise Application Services for JD Edwards and Peoplesoft technologies. Leonard?s group is responsible for technology direction, incorporation of new technology into Infocrossing?s operations, and Corporate Strategy with regard to new products and partnerships.
| | Thursday, May 1 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
Power Trends on Their Way to Your Data Center (Location: Lagoon D) The forces shaping data-center change are clear: 96 percent of data centers will run out of capacity by 2011, data-center energy use is at an all-time high and so are availability demands. This presentation will share the top power protection, distribution and management trends surrounding those issues and share benchmarks from some of the most critical data centers in the world. You'll learn the latest thinking on power-system energy efficiency, an emerging approach to high-density power distribution, and new ways to grow your power-protection capacity without sacrificing availability.
Speaker - James Hall, IT Market Develpment Manager, Emerson Network Power Jim Hall leads strategic outreach to IT professionals regarding Liebert AC power, precision cooling and monitoring. Jim has more than two decades of leadership experience in marketing, engineering, and operations management in the power industry. He is a member of the Boards of Directors for the Blade Systems Alliance and AFCOM Central Ohio Chapter. Before Liebert, Jim held technical marketing and product management positions with Marconi; a large power protection solutions provider; and Antec, a leading brand of high performance computer components. Jim is a graduate of General Electric?s Manufacturing Management Program and Raytheon?s Advanced Management Program. He holds a bachelor?s degree in business administration from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from the University of Illinois.
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
Conference Sessions
Free Cooling: Economizers in Data Centers (Location: Lagoon D) Wouldn't it be great if you could cool your data center for free? Economizer systems are a recognized best practice within data-center environments, with the ultimate goal of providing "free cooling" by leveraging the ambient air temperature outside of the facility. Economizers balance both temperature and humidity, thus reducing energy costs and the use of cooling equipment. This session will look at both air-side and water-side economizers, comparing and contrasting both techniques and providing perspective on the best options based on weather and air quality conditions in different locations.
Speaker - David R. Pickut, P.E., Vice President IBX Operations Engineering, Equinix, Inc. Dave Pickut is Vice President ? IBX Operations Engineering for Equinix, Inc., where he is responsible for engineering design and operation of 35 internet collocation data centers located in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to joining Equinix, Dave held vice president positions with a Tier 1 ISP and an IT products/services company, with responsibilities for data center operations and business management. Dave?s engineering experience encompasses both consulting services and product design related to mission-critical data center power, cooling, and security. Dave received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, is a registered professional engineer, and is a member of the IEEE and NFPA.
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