Day Two: Thursday 11th February, 2010

Developing and Implementing an Energy Efficient Strategy for your Data Centre

9.00 Welcome Back From The Chair

9.10 Benchmarking Your Energy Consumption Of Your Data Centre

• Monitoring power usage of the data centre in single and multi-vendor environments
• Standardising metrics for IT equipment, infrastructure, and facilities
• Developing definitions for useful work output from IT equipment and data centres as a whole

Brad Williams
Data Centre Manager
WOOLWORTHS

9.50 Examining Infrastructure, Facilities & Cost: A Green Initiative From The DHS VIC

• Digging deep enough to plan your strategy: understanding your infrastructure structure and getting maximum use of it
• Implementing a green IT structure: consolidation and reducing power
• Formulating technical roadways to reduce your carbon footprint
• Adapting new technology to activate your green IT strategy: the environmental impact of the product you purchase
• Discussing the possibility of a green IT strategy for the whole of Victoria
• Making your number one priority to reduce consumption power that the product that you’re replacing is going to be more economical
• Reducing physical devices numbers down by 100 through circulation

Darren Garrett
Manager, Facilities Management - Infrastructure Delivery Services
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES VIC

10.30 Morning Tea & Networking

11.00 Increasing Efficiency And Reducing Power And Air Conditioning: A Data Centre Infrastructure Perspective

• Discussing business continuity and the risk of going green: investigating the challenges faced at Australia Post
• Analysing data facilities and infrastructure at Australia Post: looking at best practice initiatives in place
• Redesigning our computers: changing old servers virtualisation
• Knowing when to replace rather than repair: analysing the business benefits
• Highlighting future possibilities to extract greater efficiencies from your data centre in the future

Alvin Galea
S.T.S. Facility Management
AUSTRALIA POST

11.40 Ensuring Your Data Centre Is Operating Consistently At Optimum Levels

• Stressing the importance of capacity planning
• Implementing a capacity management strategy for applications and infrastructure
• Analysing current limits and testing for anticipated loads
• Measuring usage trends over time: predicting optimum expansion time
• Identifying your organisations overall future ROI on equipment and labour costs

Darrell Nelson
Senior Manager, Technical Data Centre
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE

12.20 PANEL DISCUSSION: Identifying And Understanding The Selection Criteria That IT Executives Should Be Using When Deciding Which Vendors To Work With On The Implementation Of Data Centre IT Solutions

• Analysing what tools, methodology and vendors should you consider when looking outside your organisation for help
• Determining the scope of the vendor market and what they can do for you
• Understanding the problems that you may have as a potential customer in selecting a vendor to work with
• Examining the main risks associated with working with solution providers
• Investigating what processes you can use to narrow down your options
• Beware of the pitfalls: discussing commonly held views or frustrations about the solution providers in our industry

Panelists Include:

2.00 Start Of Power Tables

POWER TABLE E: Minimising the Risk of Data Centre Disaster: Security & Protection

Let’s face it. Accidents and mistakes happen. As the person in charge of your data centre, it’s clear you have a very big responsibility to manage your facilities and staff. This round table will enable you to implement a proactive approach to minimise the risk of faults and disasters happening, and if something was to go wrong, you’ll be fully prepared to tackle any situation to minimise damage and risk. This round table will inform you with better solutions to

• Design, manufacture, install and service your data centre with the necessary fire products and equipment
• Overcome certain scenarios with a comprehensive range of procedures from engineering advice to fire training
• Fire detection products and systems, including; control fire panels, detectors and software

POWER TABLE F: Enabling Data Centers to Pull the Plug on Skyrocketing Power and Cooling Costs

There are four major steps on the road to a flexible data center: Consolidation, standardisation, virtualisation and utility. A company may choose one area, like storage, to start a focus on, some may push towards utility. Virtualisation enables data centers to retain a high level of dependability and scalability whilst still meet service level agreements. This round table will enable you to better run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, boost server utilisation and reduce your capital and operating costs. Your facilitator will provide you with strategies to overcome virtulisation challenges and implications including:

• How to better manage your power consumption within data centers
• Analysing how you can create real efficiencies with your virtual infrastructure
• Expanding your virtual storage: offering multiple separate and isolated virtual SANs from the same pool
• Developing cross-platform server virtualisation program: Allowing you to cluster and partition servers

3.00 Afternoon Tea

POWER TABLE G: Ensuring Business Continuity In The Event of Power Disturbances

No system can insulate your data centre from power troubles as well as a good uninterruptible power supply (UPS). In addition to filtering, enhancing or modifying the utility power, special circuitry and batteries are used to prevent your data centre from losing power during a disruption (blackout) or voltage sag (brownout). We all know the fundamental importance of having an effective UPS system, and we all worry about the possibilities if it doesn’t kick in. But do we know what we can do to minimise the risk of your UPS failing? Or better yet, from your power failing in the first place? This round table will look into:

How efficient is your critical power solution?

• Analysing the real impact to your bottom line by reducing power consumption costs
• Discussing major risks and procedures to put in place in the event of a power outage: protecting your data centre
• Highlighting what aspects to look out for when choosing your UPS: knowing what’s right for your centre

POWER TABLE H: Implementing an Effective Cable Network throughout Your Data Centre for Supreme Network Performance

Without an effective cable network, data centres simply wouldn’t be able to function. Participate in this round table to maximise the potential of this untapped area including:

• Looking at whether there is a specific cable that is preferable for use in data centres
• Analysing the trends towards 6A 10gb/s solutions for higher performance, operational and space savings efficiencies
• Delivering industry leading acoustic and thermal performance in wireline integrated cabinets: Having fewer fans, less power consumption, more space, and more heat dissipation
• Providing maximum network performance and efficiency

4.30 Closing Remarks From Conference Chair

4.40 Close Of Conference

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