Green IT at Interop

Green IT initiatives will significantly reduce your operating costs in addition to benefitting the environment. Green solutions start with conservation and efficiency in every part of the data center: power systems, servers, storage and cooling systems.

Conference: One of 17 tracks will teach you how to squeeze greater efficiency and improve your bottom line.
Green IT Track: A Guide to Data Center Conservation Green Data Center: The IT Industry’s Energy Efficiency Initiative "Green" Storage Virtualization: The Best Initiative to Alleviate the Power Crisis in the Data Center Deploying a Green IP-Telephony Network Learn more...

Free Sessions and Events: All attendees can take advantage of free green IT-related sessions and events throughout the week.

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Tuesday, April 29
12:15 pm–1:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions The "Greening" of the Data Center - Sponsored by APC (Location: Mandalay Bay L) Data centers are viewed as "not green" because they appear to be unnecessarily consuming energy, water, and other resources. There are many actions to reverse the trend of the rapidly growing consumption of energy and materials in data centers. This presentation provides quantitative examples of new methods for reducing energy consumption by power and cooling systems. Speaker - Domenic Alcaro, Director of Schneider Electric Critical Power and Cooling Services, APC, A Schneider Electric Company
4:15 pm–5:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions How to Not Be a Power Expert, but Act Like One - Sponsored by Eaton (Location: Mandalay Bay L) Gain visibility into your power and data center systems to remove waste and increase efficiency. This session will provide you with a checklist of methods to assist you in making and managing high efficiency and Green choices for your data center, from the utility entering your building, through your network closet and data center, without an engineering degree. Speaker - Chris Loeffler, Eaton Corporation Speaker - Jim Thompson, Eaton
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Wednesday, April 30
10:15 am–11:00 am	Sponsor Sessions Maximizing Your Virtualization Payoff: There's More Than You Think - Sponsored by APC (Location: Reef F ) Virtualization can increase efficiency and reduce operating cost by eliminating low-performance or low-efficiency servers. This presentation will focus on how new power and cooling technologies and effective data center planning and design, including management systems, are saving additional electrical costs, sometimes even more than the original savings from virtualization. Speaker - Domenic Alcaro, Director of Schneider Electric Critical Power and Cooling Services, APC, A Schneider Electric Company
11:15 am–12:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions Free Cooling - Take It to the Bank - Sponsored by Chatsworth Products (Location: Mandalay Bay L) Data Center electricity will soon cost more than the data center. Anywhere from 25%-50% of that energy cost is for cooling. This session will explain airflow management and containment techniques resulting in access to condenser-free cooling for thousands of additional hours per year with resultant cooling cost savings from 50-90%. Speaker - Fernando Reyna, RCDD, Field Applications Engineer, Chatsworth Products, Inc. Fernando Reyna, Field Applications Engineer for Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI), has been with the company over 5 years, and possesses over 14 years of technical experience in the voice and data industry. Mr. Reyna provides technical advice and service on CPI Product applications and acts as technical liaison between key end users (Fortune 500 level companies), company product managers, engineers and new product development teams. In addition, he regularly presents seminars focusing on data center cooling and the economic benefits of using passive cooling technology to solve thermal management issues. Building the Eco-Efficient Data Center: The Fine Line Between Serving Business Goals and Meeting Resource Constraints - Sponsored by Force10 Networks (Location: Reef F ) Power costs are increasing to as much as 25% of budgets while technologies like virtualization, network automation and 10 GbE, are proliferating. Yet, it's unclear how these technologies impact power consumption. This session will explore how enterprises can leverage new technologies to contain spiraling power costs while serving business goals. Speaker - Stephen Garrison, Vice President of Marketing, Force 10 Networks
12:15 pm–1:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions WATTS UP? Your Energy Bill - If You Don't Have a Handle on Your Data Network's Overall Energy Impact - Sponsored by Nortel (Location: Reef F ) Fully understanding your data networks energy impact is a critical first step to empowering you to take action for a Greener IT environment. This session will introduce a new Energy Efficiency Calculator that can help customers model the energy impact of existing or planned Data Center or Converged (VoIP) Campus LAN network deployments. Speaker - Steve Given, Enterprise Marketing, Nortel
3:00 pm–4:15 pm	Sponsor Sessions Higher Density, Converged Data Centers - GREEN is the New Black - Sponsored by Ixia (Location: Surf F) As enterprises add more complex multi-play applications - video, VoIP, streaming media, web conferencing, etc., - the increased traffic load is driving them to purchase high-speed 10 GbE equipment for their data centers. 10 GbE, however, stresses network capacity and can add significant operating costs from higher power consumption and cooling costs. This session discusses how enterprises can better deploy 10GbE with a lower cost of ownership for both equipment and the data center and will outline a vision for testing Green. RECEPTION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING.
4:15 pm–5:00 pm	Sponsor Sessions Going Green in the Data Center or Going Going Gone! - Sponsored by CommScope (Location: Reef F ) Will you have enough energy capacity to power and cool your critical high-density equipment or will you be the one they call when the datacenter goes dark? Never fear, the industry's energy consciousness has evolved and help is on the way. Come listen and learn who's involved and about the bright horizon ahead. Speaker - Mike Barnick, Business Development Mgr, CommScope, Inc.
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