Peter Panfil will deliver Keynote Address Meeting the Data Center Power and Cooling Challenge


Douglas Gourlay will deliver the Day 2 Keynote Address the Human Network- The next wave of the Internet (Web 2.0)

Day 1
Monday
June 11, 2007

Session 1-

Opening Lunch
Keynote address
12:30-1:45pm

Session 2
TechUniversity


2:00-3:00pm

Session 3
TechUniversity


3:15-4:15pm

Session 4
 TechUniversity


4:30-5:30pm

Session 5 Special Event
Wine Tasting Reception
5:30-8:00pm

Exhibit Hall

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Wine Tasting Reception

Room A
Power Track

Meeting the Data Center Power and Cooling Challenge

Peter Panfil

Ensuring Power Redundancy Across Network Tiers

Driving Network Resiliency in Data Centers and Computer Rooms

Employing Adaptive Power to Optimize Availability and Flexibility in Computer Rooms

Room B
Cooling Track

Best Design Practices for Cooling Data Centers: Focus on Blade Servers

Meeting the Washington State and City of Seattle Energy Code

Employing Adaptive Cooling to Optimize Server Reliability, Flexibility and Total Cost of Ownership

Room C
Monitoring, Services &
Alternative Power Track

Using Proactive Battery Monitoring to Reduce Downtime Risk

Getting the Most Out of Your UPS Battery System (Enersys)

Understanding What's Important and What's Nonsense in TVSS

Room D
IT &
Data Center Track

Access Floors in Data Center Environments (Access Floor Corp)

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Cisco Systems (Part 1)

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Cisco Systems (Part 2)

Day 2
Tuesday
June 12, 2007

Session 6- Breakfast to 7:00am
 
7:45-8:45am

Session 7
TechUniversity

9:00-10:00am

Session 8
 TechUniversity

10:15-11:15am

Session 9
 TechUniversity

11:30-12:30pm

Session 10
Lunch IT Keynote
12:00-1:45pm

Exhibit Hall

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Room A
Power Track

High-Density Power Distribution and Branch Circuit Monitoring

Managing Critical Data Center Needs Within the Rack

Employing Adaptive Power to Optimize Availability and Flexibility in Computer Rooms

Mission-Critical System & Load Efficiencies

The Human Network - The next wave of the Internet (Web 2.0) will drive productivity through Collaboration. Data, Voice, Video and Mobility
Douglas Gourlay,Cisco Systems

Room B
Cooling Track

Best Design Practices for Cooling Data Centers: Focus on Blade Servers

Employing Adaptive Cooling to Optimize Server Reliability, Flexibility and Total Cost of Ownership

Advances in Floor-Mount Cooling Technologies

Meeting the Washington State and City of Seattle Energy Code

Room C
Monitoring, Services &
Alternative Power Track

Using Proactive Battery Monitoring to Reduce Downtime Risk

The evolution of enterprise remote monitoring in designing a comprehensive service program

Evaluating the Attributes of Flywheel Clean Energy Storage Systems (Pentadyne Power Systems)

Bringing DC-Powered Reliability to Evolving Networks

Room D
IT &
Data Center Track

Understanding What's Important and What's Nonsense in TVSS

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Cisco Systems (Part 1)

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Cisco Systems (Part 2)

Driving Resiliency for Network Closets and Edge-of-Network Apps

Day 2
Tuesday
June 12, 2007

Session 11- TechUniversity

2:00-3:00pm

Session 12
TechUniversity

3:15-4:15pm

Session 13
 TechUniversity

4:30-5:30pm

Session 14
 TechUniversity

5:45-6:45pm

Session 15 Special Event
Reception
6:30-9:00pm

Exhibit Hall

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Room A
Power Track

Power Transfer Technologies and Applications- What you should know about ATS's

ATS Part 2- Mastering Power Control Systems for Facility Load Distribution

Building Flexibility into Rack-Mount Power

Driving Network Resiliency in Data Centers and Computer Rooms

Room B
Cooling Track

Best Design Practices for Cooling Data Centers: Focus on Blade Servers

Employing Adaptive Cooling to Optimize Server Reliability, Flexibility and Total Cost of Ownership

Advances in Floor-Mount Cooling Technologies

Meeting the Washington State and City of Seattle Energy Code

Room C
Monitoring, Services &
Alternative Power Track

Leveraging proactive battery monitoring and remote service delivery to ensure system availability

Employing Adaptive Monitoring in the Dual-Bus Data Center

The evolution of enterprise remote monitoring in designing a comprehensive service program

Getting the Most Out of Your UPS Battery System (Enersys)

Room D
IT &
Data Center Track

Fire Protection and Extinguishing Systems for Critical Facilities

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Cisco Systems (Part 1)

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Cisco Systems (Part 2)

Bringing DC-Powered Reliability to Evolving Networks

Day 3
Wednesday
June 13, 2007

Session 16- Breakfast 7:30am
 
8:00-9:00am

Session 17
TechUniversity

9:15-10:15am

Session 18
 TechUniversity

10:30-11:30am

Session 19
 TechUniversity

11:45-12:45pm

Session 20
Lunch/Drawing Close
12:00-2:00pm

Exhibit Hall

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Tradeshow

Room A
Power Track

High-Density Power Distribution and Branch Circuit Monitoring

Managing Critical Data Center Needs Within the Rack

Employing Adaptive Power to Optimize Availability and Flexibility in Computer Rooms

Mission-Critical System & Load Efficiencies

Room B
Cooling Track

Best Design Practices for Cooling Data Centers: Focus on Blade Servers

Employing Adaptive Cooling to Optimize Server Reliability, Flexibility and Total Cost of Ownership

Advances in Floor-Mount Cooling Technologies

Meeting the Washington State and City of Seattle Energy Code

Room C
Monitoring, Services &
Alternative Power Track

Using Proactive Battery Monitoring to Reduce Downtime Risk

Bringing DC-Powered Reliability to Evolving Networks

Evaluating the Attributes of Flywheel Clean Energy Storage Systems (Pentadyne Power Systems)

Powering Converged Networks

Room D
IT &
Data Center Track

Access Floors in Data Center Environments (Access Floor Corp)

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Cisco Systems (Part 1)

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Cisco Systems (Part 2)

Driving Resiliency for Network Closets and Edge-of-Network Apps

TechUniversity Session Topics:

Description

AC Power, DC Power, Racks & Cabinets

Ensuring Power Redundancy Across Network Tiers

Many of today’s Data Centers are inadequately designed for managing higher power densities. In many cases, the electrical infrastructure is undersized, from the utility to the rack. Design your power distribution for high availability, reliability, adaptability and eliminating single points of failure in a constantly changing power distribution environment.

High-Density Power Distribution and Branch Circuit Monitoring

Careful management of main power and branch power in panel boards is a key requirement in today's business-critical environments. The critical information in medium and large Data Centers can easily be associated with hundreds of thousands of potential monitored points. Gain knowledge of some of the practical implementation examples and monitoring best practices to collect, record and report on data from the Liebert Distribution Monitor.

Managing Critical Data Center Needs Within the Rack

High-speed servers and network switches are driving power management, cooling, and monitoring to the rack level. This has transformed the humble IT equipment rack into a strategic asset that can play a valuable role in enabling operational flexibility and availability. Discover trends that are driving change within the rack, including changing densities, increased use of multi-corded devices, and blade server deployments. Learn about strategies and tools for achieving visibility and deployment of power and cooling management within the rack, and look at managed power distribution, unique cable management solutions, & advanced system monitoring.

Employing Adaptive Power to Optimize Availability and Flexibility in Computer Rooms

The ever-changing and expanding Computer Room presents many challenges that IT managers are tackling today. Explore technologies and architectures that allow the UPS system to adapt to the changing power and availability requirements of the Computer Room.

Building Flexibility into Rack-Mount Power

IT and facility managers must balance power system flexibility, reliability, and total system cost from initial deployment through business growth cycles. Explore methods and approaches to solving power availability issues for changing requirements in Network Closets and small Computer Rooms.

Mastering Power Control Systems for Facility Load Distribution

n a post 9/11 and hurricane environment, business concerns about vulnerability of Power Grid continues to grow. The increasing demand for critical power is evolving, requiring solutions that ensure high availability, reliability and continuity of power. Such requirements demand more back-up power utilizing on-site generator paralleling systems incorporating digital controls and modular power transfer technologies. This presentation discusses those strategies for facilities requiring 24x7 operation.

Understanding What's Important and What's Nonsense in TVSS

Although standards that govern TVSS are improving, there is still confusion and frustration surrounding TVSS ratings. This presentation will address TVSS operation and applications with a focus on TVSS ratings. Learn useful information for developing standards-driven applications and conducting evaluations.

Powering Converged Networks

Voice, video, and data are converging to form one mission-critical network. At the same time, many critical node devices are being powered over the same network cable using Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology. Gain an understanding of the power and cooling infrastructure issues related to the deployment of converged networks, and learn about new and emerging applications.

Bringing DC-Powered Reliability to Evolving Networks

As the Telephony and Information Age merge into a unified network of voice, video, and data, DC Power solutions for powering rapidly-changing networks are taking on different functions, shapes and applications. Learn how these networks and back-up power solutions have evolved, and which direction they are headed. Gain an understanding of how features, voltages, applications and locations of DC Power solutions will be deployed in these rapidly-evolving networks.

Power Transfer Technologies and Applications- What you should know about ATS's

Critical Facilities have variety of loads requiring different types of transfer applications to switch between normal and emergency power source in case of an outage. The presentation addresses issues about transferring motor loads, distance of transfer device from loads, single vs. multiple transfer switch, types of transfer technologies and their applications, etc.

Incorporating Power Transfer Switch Technology in regions impacted by power outages

In a post 9/11 and natural storm environments, business concerns about vulnerability of Power Grid continues to grow. The increasing demand for critical power is evolving, requiring solutions that ensure high availability, reliability and continuity of power. Such requirements demand more back-up power utilizing on-site generator paralleling systems incorporating digital controls and modular power transfer technologies. This presentation discusses those strategies for facilities requiring 24x7 operation.v

TechUniversity Session Topics:

Description:

Cooling

Best Design Practices for Cooling Data Centers: Focus on Blade Servers

Data Center cooling designs continue to grow in complexity, with blades servers creating heat densities too high for yesterday’s cooling designs. Learn about the best cooling design practices required to handle the higher heat density Data Centers, especially with the addition of blade servers. Review techniques that were once considered as optional, but are now requirements for future designs.

Employing Adaptive Cooling to Optimize Server Reliability, Flexibility and Total Cost of Ownership

The cooling requirements of the Data Center are changing to a non-homogeneous mix of low, medium and high density racks. Learn about new best practices to maximize the server reliability while providing the flexibility required for handling unpredictable changes and minimizing your total cost of ownership.

Advances in Floor-Mount Cooling Technologies

When designing the ultimate Data Center cooling unit, many technologies can be employed within the cooling cabinet. Many times implementing new technologies results in trade-offs between competing parameters. See a comparison of blower, compressor, and heat exchanger technologies, and learn about how parameters such as performance, efficiency, reliability, flexibility and serviceability are impacted.

Meeting the Washington State and City of Seattle Energy Code

The Pacific Northwest’s Energy Initiatives to reduce energy costs in buildings has created a unique challenge for precision air conditioning systems that have been designed to cool critical IT loads. Hear about the latest product innovations that Liebert is introducing to include airside economizers across small to large capacity systems.

Monitoring & Services

Using Proactive Battery Monitoring to Reduce Downtime Risk

Battery monitoring systems based upon the resistance method allow performance criteria for battery strings to be analyzed regularly by automated equipment. Learn about capabilities and features of the Alber battery monitoring system. Get information updates based on actual field conversions and new installations.

Employing Adaptive Monitoring in the Dual-Bus Data Center

As a critical system grows and the demand for availability increases, the overarching monitoring system must also scale and increase its capability. Discover how a power system can extend from a Tier 2 solution to a Tier 4 (high-nines availability) and how the monitoring systems and processes can evolve to support the needs of a Tier 4 Data Center.

Employing Best Practices in Battery Service Management To Ensure UPS System Integrity

Battery maintenance is often an afterthought to the UPS maintenance program. In reality, the majority of all load losses are due to insufficient battery capacity or battery failure. Learn about the most common reasons for battery failure and what can be done through maintenance programs, to remain proactive instead of reactive. Explore ohmic measurements in relation to system capacity and how design and redundancy of the system ensure proper operation.

Meeting Today’s Security Challenges in Enterprise Remote Monitoring

The enterprise has long received benefits from remote monitoring. Even so, the uptake of remote device support has been inhibited by critical factors affecting its secure and efficient delivery. Managers are challenged with delivering the right combination of secure connectivity, and the ability to refine access controls well enough, at an economical cost. Explore how Internet technologies hold substantial promise for remote device support delivery, while saving costs and reducing impact on provider and customer networks.

Information Technology

Driving Network Resiliency in Data Centers and Computer Rooms

As computer technology evolves, the demands placed on the resiliency of Data Centers and Computer Rooms increase. Power and cooling infrastructures must be adaptable for emerging technologies. Learn more about adaptable power and cooling architectures that will allow critical spaces to grow as new, emerging technologies become available.

Driving Resiliency for Network Closets and Edge-of-Network Apps

As more business functions and processes become network-enabled, the reliability of the network infrastructure that supports them becomes a higher priority. Adaptive infrastructure solutions help maximize your system availability and ensure resiliency in your enterprise.

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Part 1

The Fourth Utility: Driving Intelligent Building Designs Part 2

Convergence of technologies is driving change in how real estate is configured to support distributed mission-critical operations and leverage critical infrastructure. The Fourth Utility, which is ubiquitous IP, enables building owners and managers to simplify the management and control over critical systems, provides platforms for enhanced services for occupants, and increases localized control over personal subsystems. Explore the benefits of the Fourth Utility, and the mission-critical infrastructure required to provide the network support.

Partner

Access Floors in Data Center Environments (Access Floor Corp)

Learn how Access Floor Corp’s Raised Floor Technology Platform is designed to facilitate the service distribution changes demanded by today's ever-changing technologies, and the increasing heat density needs of today’s mission critical facilities. Get the latest details on selecting appropriate floor finishes, air distribution, air flow panels, and aluminum die-cast grates which feature 56% unobstructed open area. Further technical information on determining structural performance requirements, floor heights limitations, fire protection, grounding, and zinc whiskers is covered.

Getting the Most Out of Your UPS Battery SystemCharacteristics of High Reliability UPS Battery Design
 (Enersys)

This presentation will help the user identify and implement procedures and processes that will help them get the best performance from their UPS battery systems. It addresses essential elements of installation and maintenance practices to provide the user the tools to achieve the highest reliability and operational life from their UPS battery systems.

Evaluating the Attributes of Flywheel Clean Energy Storage Systems (Pentadyne Power Systems)

A flywheel system is essentially a dynamic battery that stores energy mechanically in the form of kinetic energy by spinning a mass about an axis. Flywheel technologies have emerged as alternative energy storage to either replace or complement traditional lead acid batteries used in transitioning the critical load to the stand-by emergency genset in the event of a utility outage. Gain knowledge of the technology advances made with this clean energy storage solution and view some case study results.

The Human Network - The next wave of the Internet (Web 2.0) will drive productivity through Collaboration. Data, Voice, Video and Mobility
Cisco Systems

Description coming soon.

Mission-Critical System & Load Efficiencies

Mission-critical facility loads require the highest possible electrical distribution system reliability and system-load compatibility. Facility stakeholders are now focused on system and load efficiencies. The application of ultra-efficient, 480:240V transformers can significantly reduce the ‘penalty losses’ associated with current system designs.

Fire Protection and Extinguishing Systems for Critical Facilities

Understanding Code required fire protection, NFPA[1] Standards Recommendations and Industry Practices before selecting the fire protection best suited to your critical facility.