| Tuesday, May 19 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
 Key Skill Sets for the Data Center Manager of the FutureData center managers be warned—the business's insatiable demand for IT services, coupled with out-of-space and power concerns, rising energy prices and increased outsourcing, will require skills beyond technical versatility. Forecasting, project management and vendor management will all become necessary skills for future data center managers. To better manage their own career and develop up-and-coming staff, this session will discuss the evolving role of the data center manager, drivers for change, as well identify key skill sets necessary for success into the future. Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations , Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Speaker - Tim McLaine, Global Functional Manager - Data Center Services, Perot Systems Tim McLaine is group director of Data Center Services for Perot Systems. He is responsible for data center facilities, operations, support services, storage, data compliance, capacity planning, disaster recovery and business continuity worldwide. He provides operational support, strategic direction, evaluation of emerging technologies, and strategic technology guidance to customers.
Experience
Tim is a 30-year veteran leader in the technology services industry, and a 20 year veteran of Perot Systems. He has spent his career in technical and leadership roles, including Director of Infrastructure Solutions supporting individual clients within the Transportation, Telecommunications and Financial Services industries. He also served as the director of North American Operations.
Qualifications
Prior to joining Perot Systems, Tim worked at EDS for over 10 years. He has earned a BS in Accounting.
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| 2:45 pm–3:45 pm |
Conference Sessions
Forecasting: How to Determine What Your Next-Generation Data Center RequiresThere is a lot of buzz—and uncertainty—around the next-generation data center. What will it look like? When will it arrive? Will it even exist? Data center managers should take matters into their own hands by forecasting their future requirements for growth, reliability, flexibility and resiliency. Empowered with this information, data center managers can then make the next generation data center conform to their needs, as opposed to the other way around. This session will identify best practices to accurately forecast future data center requirements that data center managers should employ to effectively plan for the next-generation data center.
Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations , Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Speaker - Jim Smith, CTO, Digital Realty Trust Jim Smith is the Chief Technology Officer at Digital Realty Trust where he oversees datacenter development, the company's efficiency and green strategy, and power procurement and energy management. In the past three years, Mr. Smith and the Digital Realty Trust team have delivered more than 75 MW of UPS capacity on over 40 datacenter projects in North America and Europe. This portfolio includes the industry's first LEED Gold certified datacenter. Mr. Smith was recently named one of the top 25 CTO's of 2008 by InfoWorld Magazine and holds a Jim a BSc in Chemistry from Fort Lewis College and an MBA from the London Business School.
Speaker - John Bennett, Worldwide Director, Data Center Transformation Solutions, Hewlett Packard John Bennett is worldwide director for Data Center Transformation solutions for the Technology Solutions Group at HP. Bennett is focused on helping customers transform their data centers into strategic assets that support business growth and innovation. His team helps customers adapt new infrastructure, modernize applications and implement service management practices. Bennett has been with HP for nearly 30 years, with a career ranging from engineering through product management, product marketing and program management. He has a bachelor of science in mathematics and a master of science in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., as well as an MBA from Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
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| 4:00 pm–5:00 pm |
Conference Sessions
Green IT Outside Of the Data Center: PCs, Office Peripherals and BeyondWhile the data center often receives much of the Green IT spotlight, tremendous value is being left on the table by overlooking PCs and office peripherals. In fact, The Climate Group estimates that PCs and related peripherals consume close to three times the amount of energy and related CO2 emissions as the data center. This does include the green value from collaboration tools such as video conferencing, virtual meeting and work-from-home technologies. To help IT professionals expand their scope of Green IT, this session will introduce greening strategies beyond the data center.
Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations , Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Speaker - Greg Kovich, Director of Education Practice, Alcatel Lucent Greg Kovich brings 20 years of experience in information technology to his position as Senior Account Director at Alcatel-Lucent. In this role, Mr. Kovich serves as a business development specialist for the higher education and K-12 market in North America, working closely with education customers to more closely align Alcatel-Lucent's product portfolio to their needs. Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies, Mr. Kovich was the Product Marketing Manager in Alcatel's Enterprise Solutions division. Greg Kovich holds a bachelor of arts degree in accounting from Indiana University.
| | Wednesday, May 20 |
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| 10:15 am–11:15 am |
Conference Sessions
Technologies that Data Center Managers Can't Live WithoutThe business demands reliable, flexible and resilient IT services. Data center managers rely on a combination of technologies - from blade servers, thermal modeling and intelligent protocol data units (PDU), to data center monitoring, automation and capacity planning tools - to meet these expectations. So what technologies are essential to managing your data center? This interactive session will reveal hardware, software and facilities technologies that data center managers can't live without.
Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations , Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Speaker - Jim Simmonelli, CTO, APC by Schneider Electric Jim Simonelli is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of APC. Jim is responsible for technology direction, product platform roadmaps and system architectures devoted to Power, Cooling, Rack and infrastructure management software. Prior to his role as CTO, Jim held multiple executive engineering positions with APC including Vice President, System and Platform Architecture and Vice President Solutions Delivery Group. Jim is a frequent speaker at power electronics and information technology conferences. Jim received his BSEE and MSEE degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and holds 8 US patents.
Speaker - Stephen Elliot, Vice President of Strategy , CA Stephen Elliot is VP of Strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit. Prior to CA, Mr. Elliot was Research Director for IDC's Enterprise Systems Management Software Service and Industry Insights' IT Management Service. His primary focus was research, analysis, and strategy advisory on enterprise management markets and the impact of emerging and evolving technologies on IT organizations. Mr. Elliot is quoted regularly in the trade and business press, and is a frequent presenter at business and technology conferences around the world. In 2005, he was named "Analyst of the Year" by IDC customers.
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| 11:30 am–12:30 pm |
Conference Sessions
Should You Own Your Next Data Center? When your current data center facility has reached its capacity, will you maintain ownership—or turn the reigns over to someone else? How will you make this decision? From collocation to cloud computing, it is no longer necessary for IT shops to own and operate data center facilities to offer critical data center services. This session will evaluate the various forms of data center ownership to help data center managers determine their ownership strategy into the future.
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| 2:00 pm–3:00 pm |
Conference Sessions
The Green Data Center: Your Playbook of Eco-Strategies for Today and Tomorrow The green data center strategy is to maximize current facility, infrastructure and IT investments, coupled with energy conservation tactics. Unfortunately, data centers are not static and the business's insatiable demand for IT services will eventually force you to buy new - whether it be it a new server or storage array, or a new chiller or entire facility. To maximize the green data center's value, this session will present data center managers with strategies to generate both eco and economic benefits today and into the future.
Moderator - Doug Washburn, Analyst, Infrastructure & Operations , Forrester Research Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, primarily focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations. In this role, Doug regularly advised clients on Green IT strategy and practices. Additionally, Doug was also an advisor on the Forrester Leadership Boards Enterprise Architecture Council. Prior to Forrester, Doug was a VP of strategy and business development for Red Oxygen, a wireless communications startup, and living and working in Australia and France. In addition, Doug co-created CU Networks, a computer networking and servicing startup serving the students of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Doug holds a B.S. in finance from University of Colorado at Boulder and was awarded the Undergraduate Certificate in Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Speaker - Brad Minnis, CPP, Director of Environmental, Health, Safety & Security , Juniper Networks, Inc. Brad Minnis is responsible for the development, implementation, operation and management of Juniper's worldwide EHS programs. His leadership emphasizes prevention and early intervention and programs under his guidance have received recognition and awards from organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency. Minnis has been with Juniper since 2001; his 25 years of international security and EHS experience includes similar senior positions at 3Com and National Semiconductor. Before becoming an EHS professional, Minnis served 10 years in the U.S. Navy. He holds certificates in Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health from University of Connecticut, and continues studies in these areas.
Speaker - William Kosik, Principal, Green IT Lead, HP Critical Facilities Services, delivered by EYP Bill Kosik is the Energy and Sustainability Director at HP Critical Facilities Services, delivered by EYP MCF. He assists in the development of the upcoming LEED for Data Centers standard, and is the primary author of the Energy and Atmosphere credit requirements. In addition, he provides technical assistance to the Green Grid's committee that is responsible for developing the forthcoming data center energy use rating scheme. He is also the co-developer of the upcoming ASHRAE publication, Green Tips for Data Centers. Bill is also a published author and expert on research, simulation and application of data center energy efficiency techniques.
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| 3:15 pm–4:15 pm |
Conference Sessions
Retrofitting Today's Data Center for Better Capacity and EfficiencyWhile data centers are expected to last approximately 25 to 30 years, you need to periodically refresh your environmental gear for better capacity. Why? Modern hardware, such as blade servers, is continually demanding more power and cooling capacity—likely beyond your current capabilities. But before you start making capital improvements, have you squeezed all the efficiency out of your existing equipment? This session will identify efficiency tactics that data center managers can employ today to defer major data center facility investments.
Speaker - Jack Pouchet, Director, Energy Initiatives, Emerson Power Network 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 patents pending for alternative/renewable energy components, systems, and architectures specifically addressing the IT, networking, data center, and electric utility markets.
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