Workshop: Thursday 11th February, 2010

5.00pm - 8:00pm WORKSHOP A: Optimising Your Energy Saving Potential by Increasing Energy Efficiency and Reducing Costs

Did you know your data centre operates 8760 hours a year? We know you can’t just turn it off, but what if you could make it more environmentally friendly, or even better, use less money? Facilitated by Glenn Allan, this interactive workshop will look at how you can measure the energy efficiency of data centres and how you can piece together each aspect of your centre to provide maximum energy and cost savings. If energy efficiency is to be fully utilitised, it requires an end-to-end, integrated view of your data centre, including the building, energy efficiency, asset management, capacity management, technology architecture, support services, energy sources and operations. Glenn will highlight possible areas for cost effective improvements to your data centre.

During a time when organisations are becoming ever more reliant on IT, it is essential to future proof now to ensure sustainability; this workshop will give you the tools and metrics to take away and learn how to start:

5.00pm Implementing a green framework into your organisation: How to get it working within your organisation
5.20pm Ensuring your data centre has the flexibility to become and remain efficient
5.40pm Understanding how to manage and monitor your output: A self assessment approach
6.00pm Discussing what your business needs to gain from going green and what you can realistically deliver
6.20pm Afternoon Tea
6.50pm Providing tools to take back and actively drive green IT throughout your data centre
7.10pm Emphasising how IT can reduce energy use in a growing market
7.30pm Implementing long term energy efficiency programs: building your energy efficient centre from the ground up
8.00pm Close of workshop

About your Facilitator

Glenn Allan Infrastructure Transformation, Manager Data Centre & Green IT NAB

Glenn has over 20 year experience in Technology ranging from Operations, System Automation, Service management and Data Centre strategy. He is an ITIL Expert V3 and has managed Nab’s customers in Australia and NZ. He has been involved in creating and now executing nabs Data Centre strategy. As Nab drives to it Carbon Neutral target in 2010 the importance of Technology’s role has been establishing in making Carbon targets. Glenn role is in how to maintaining & sustaining Green IT and how technology change can play its part in driving down and organisation’s footprint. Doing all this in an environment through economic downturns and planning for recoveries and taking on new services makes Data Centre management a challenge we are all familiar with.

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