• How efficient today's servers are and how to pick the right one including power consumption in the buying process.
• Learn where the "hot spots"are to monitor energy consumption in your data center and what should you expect to find.
• A review and critique of current ideas (virtualization, modified air flow, power monitoring, power management, energy star for servers.)
• A first draft data center powe.r
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Whether you must overcome a power and cooling crisis in your data center or merely save the planet, server virtualization can dramatically reduce your energy consumption in the data center. Learn how VMware Infrastructure can go beyond server consolidation to address these issues with innovative virtualization technology that offers unprecedented flexibility and agility in managing your IT infrastructure.
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No one ever asks why some servers are on 24x7 – even when many sit idle much of the day (consuming as much as 50% of their fully-loaded power) wasting your power. Active power management is available that intelligently identifies idle and/or low-priority servers, and gracefully tailors their power status, compute capacity and/or shifts entire compute loads.  Organizations with existing efficient or consolidated hardware also benefit, since efficient operation complements efficient equipment.  With Active power management, you’ll save massive power while pleasing both IT Operations and Facilities staffs.
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• Data Center Real Estate Pricing Analysis
• Direct Control of Data Center Vs. Colocation
• Site Selection Process
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Data Center’s Critical Power Systems are a well known single point of failure.  This session will thoroughly review the requirements and solutions currently in practice, weighing the advantages and disadvantages.  Particular focus will be paid to the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) energy storage types – inertial flywheels, chemical batteries, etc.  Additionally, the session will compare Automatic and Static Transfer Switch applications for real world lessons learned.   
Finally, Key Performance Indicators for monitoring these Critical Power Systems will be suggested.  Recommended for anyone who specifies, maintains, or manages the operations side of the data center business.

Everywhere you turn marketing is telling you their products can save your data center's power and cooling by using virtualization technologies, but your data center is still overheating and out of power? Why? Their products *can* save you power and cooling. So what gives? Aha! There's a catch! Business culture precludes us from reducing IT spending from quarter to quarter to reap those power and cooling rewards. Business computing demand continues to fuel the heat inside the data centers of today. This must attend presentation will cover the barriers and pitfalls of virtualization.

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• The process underway for protecting a major US banking data center from accidental and malevolent incidents. Incidents that have increasing likelihoods of occurring.
• The threats, solution architecture, and key features of the data center’s incident threat protection system will be highlighted.
• Discussion will include recent incidents, outcomes and highlight means of protection against serious airborne chemical releases that impact and potentially destroy data server functionality.
• Time allowing, a newer threat and recent analysis will be introduced describing attacks on data servers using microwave weapons, covertly operated adjacent to a data center perimeter.
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With the high cost of data center floor space and current advances in technology, denser cabinets that require more power and cooling continues to be the trend. This presentation will discuss these trends and explore the different power solutions available today. These solutions will include the advantages and disadvantages of using, 120 V power, 208 V power, 208 V 3-Phase 30A power and 208 V 3-Phase 60 A power and how these choices affect costs, cooling effectiveness and billing. Also discussed is remote power and environmental monitoring and device management, remote reboot, current metering, “orderly” shut down of servers, load shedding and redundancy.
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Few users fully understand Emergency Power Off controls (better known as EPO controls) installed in their environment. Even fewer are prepared in the event the EPO is activated either intentionally or unintentionally.

EPO controls, if not managed properly, can introduce a significant liability to your Business Continuity introducing the potential for unplanned power outages.

This presentation will describe the hidden liability associated with EPO controls.

Participants will learn:

• Why EPO controls can jeopardize your Business Continuity

• Examples of unplanned shutdowns due to EPO controls

• Fundamental EPO design concepts

• Valuable steps you can take to mitigate risks due to EPO controls

• How to minimize downtime in the event your EPO controls are activated
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This presentation will examine new wireless technologies used in various building systems that have been commercialized in the past few years. The presentation will outline their benefits and how they are being used to solve problems and challenges.  Additionally, the presentation will cover a discussion of the different wireless standards that exist today and take a look at what the future holds.
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The network has become a mission critical aspect of today’s organization.  It is responsible for far more than just enabling the applications that drive business operations.  Today’s network infrastructures have become complex extensions of business operations that must adapt to rapid growth, data intensive applications, security threats, and new technologies that push the edge of the network.  It is crucial that today’s network architects stay abreast of the latest technologies and understand how to build secure, reliable, and scalable networks to achieve the full potential of their networking investment.  As a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and application traffic management solutions, Foundry Networks is uniquely positioned to help organizations evaluate, manage, and deploy their network infrastructure. 
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Business drivers within local, city, state, and businesses that are pushing video deployment beyond the traditional closed proprietary coaxial technology have existed since 1939. We will explore how video is now a data stream that needs to be shared amongst many departments of the first responder community. A case study will be offered around a city that had buildings environments and a city wide deployment of surveillance appliances.
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Today’s modern data centers are exploding in complexity with blades, virtualization and seemingly endless demands for computing power. The number of man hours that data center managers must spend monitoring and configuring key applications, systems and hardware—as well as an ever expanding array of “edge” devices ranging from IP PBXs to HVAC controls grows daily. New technology such as NetFlow and sFlow, automated topology mapping and SNMP V3 for secure communication promises to increase information while reducing risk – are you ready? Whether you are burdened by repetitive and time-consuming manual administration or looking to be updated on what’s new - this session will explore new best practice approaches that data center and network managers can use to reduce downtime, lower management costs and ensure alignment with the business.

Participants will learn:

• The business and technical challenges involved in monitoring applications and services across a diverse array of architectures, applications, systems and devices

• How data center managers can leverage automation to slash administrative time and keep up with the pace of IT changes required to support business innovation

• Real world lessons learned from data center managers who have “been there, done that”
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The Critical Facilities Round Table invites you to join us today as we kick off the formation of our CFRT Think Tank.  This new committee will act as a "virtual" working group to develop recommendations to EPA and DOE for their upcoming publication "Guidelines for Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency".  

At our last membership meeting, CFRT reached an agreement with Andrew Fanara, Director US EPA EnergyStar Program, to provide recommendations for Server and Data Center equipment specifications, systems design guidelines, and operating procedures related to energy efficiency and green technologies.  The committee will be lead by bay area Data Center owners and operators with the participation of selected vendors and consultants. 

Contact the CFRT Founders at 415-748-0515 or bmyatt@eypmcf.com with any questions, or visit www.cfroundtable.org for more information about our group.

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