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More News from Mission Critical 
The new year continues to bring new developments at Mission Critical.
Among the most important:
• Mission Critical and
Power Management Concepts announced an agreement to make available a full-scale on-line education program
• Rob Aldrich, senior manager and Principal, Cisco Energy Efficient Data Center Solutions, joined
 Mission Critical
's Editorial Advisory Board. Rob recently joined Cisco after spending 10 years in facilities design, deployment, and management. Rob has architected the power and cooling design for more than 20 enterprise class data centers in North America and the Asia Pacific region.
• Mission Critical
finalized details of three important webinars with speakers drawn from across the data center community. Industry sponsors include Eaton, APC-MGE, and Degree Controls. Register for all these free webinars by clicking
here.
• Finally, we announced our support for a wide variety of industry events and organizations working to make improvements in data center efficiency and reliability. In many cases, we are participating as media sponsors. Feel free to visit our website or read further down in this newsletter for details about these many events and organizations, including:
The Green Grid, CFRT, Data Center Dynamics,
Data Center World, The Uptime Institute's Symposium 2008,
7x24Exchange, Climate Savers, and
APPA.
Finally, our participation in these events signals our desire to work with everyone in the field, and our efforts to create a strong editorial board is an indication of our wishes to include a broad perspective of viewpoints in our editorial products. I want to invite you, our readers, to feel that your input is valued. Please feel free to contact me any time to talk about the industry, technologies, or just the challenges of running a data center.
Kevin Heslin,
The Editor
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Data Center Dynamics Announces NYC Lineup
Data Center Dynamics
announced that it would hold its 6th Annual New York event on March 4th at the Hilton New York. The New York conference has always been the group's largest event in the U.S. This year, more than 1000 professionals are expected to attend.
The Data Center Dynamics Conference & Expo has quickly established itself as New York's largest gathering of professionals involved in the design, build, and operational management of 24/7 mission critical IT facilities from the datacenter to the LAN closet. The systems, applications, operational requirements, and infrastructure technologies coming online are transforming the modern datacenter facility. From soaring energy costs and demands to reduce carbon emissions, the impact of blade servers, the role of virtualization, grids and utility computing, the inherent rising thermal management
problems, requests for more power per rack, and the need for advanced automation and management tools, the pressure on data center operators to do more with less sees no sign of abating. This year's multi-track one-day conference program will update time-conscious data center professionals with the latest strategies and thinking on how to overcome the next big challenges to face the U.S. data center industry.
Visit
Data Center Dynamics to download research conducted at its 2007 New York event.
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Discounted Registration Available for Niagara Summit
The 2008 Niagara Summit
will be held May 4-6 at the Saddlebrook Resort in West Chapel, FL. Event organizers have arranged an early registration discount for professionals who register by January 31, 2008.
The Niagara Summit is the largest gathering of industry professionals and practitioners deploying automation solutions built around open, interoperability, integration, and connectivity. At the Niagara Summit, attendee’s network, exchange ideas, discover the latest technology solutions that are delivering:
• Performance efficiencies
• Lower operational costs
• Reduced Energy Costs
• Real-time control and manageability
• Increases in building value
• And more
For further information, visit 2008 Niagara Summit
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The Green Grid Announces Technical Forum Speakers
The Green Grid
announced the speaker lineup for the upcoming First Annual Green Grid Technical Forum, which will be held on February 5-6, 2008 at the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco, CA. The Green Grid Technical Forum is designed to provide members and interested individuals from the IT community with a forum to explore solutions to the challenges posed by escalating data center power and cooling costs. The theme for this year’s forum is “Get Connected: Assess Today for Efficiency Tomorrow.”
Renato Crocetti from ADP and Jim Miller from Enterprise Rent-A-Car will deliver the opening keynotes. Other speakers include Roger Schmidt from ASHRAE, Paul Scheihing from the DOE, Andrew Fanara from the EPA, Brian Peters from ITI, Susan Andrews from NYSERDA, and Mark Bramfitt from PG&E, who will join members of The Green Grid board of directors and technical committee for a series of interactive presentations and panel discussions.
The Green Grid Technical Forum sessions include:
· Building Rating/Codes/ASHRAE
· Global Perspective in Energy Efficiency
· Rating Systems for Data Centers
· The Green Grid Data Center Metrics
· Utility Incentive/Rebate Initiatives
Sessions at The Green Grid Technical Forum will reveal initial results from The Green Grid’s recent studies into current data center practices, discuss The Green Grid’s recommended metrics along with worldwide policy activities, and explore the foundation being developed by the consortium upon which all recommendations will be based moving forward. The Green Grid will also host discussions with leading industry policy-makers from around the world.
Register for
The Green Grid Technical Forum
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How Green Is My Data Center? The Critical Facilities Round Table (CFRT), Cisco Systems, and Alliance Partners VMWARE, KOVARUS,
APC/MGE, and EYP Mission Critical Facilities
will be hosting a session entitled "Planning and Designing the Next Generation Data Center." John Tuccillo, director of The Green Grid
, will moderate this 2-1/2 session, to be held February 7th at the Fairmont Hotel San Jose. The round table discussion is intended to provide broad based information and a set of specific tools that will assist data center IT and Facilities Executives with the development of Green Strategies for their data center operations. Space is limited.
Click to obtain registration forms.
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News Briefs The Oregon-based Climate Savers Computing Initiative
announced a collaboration with the state of Oregon to spur the deployment of more energy-efficient computers and servers in Oregon state offices and agencies. Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski also encouraged Oregon businesses to join the state in pledging their support for the Initiative.
Ed Donelan, owner of Telecom Infrastructure Corp, an award-winning Information Transport Solutions (ITS) corporation, has been elected president of
BICSI. Donelan has completed a leadership role as President-Elect for 2 years and was inaugurated at the winter conference in Orlando on January 15th, 2008, for an additional 2-year term as president.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. announced the signing of two major leases totaling approximately 210,500 square feet at projects in Santa Clara, CA, and Dublin, Ireland.
The
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) announced that it would build a new $60 million, 20,000 square foot raised-floor supercomputing center in Cheyenne in 2010. NCAR is building the center in partnership with the University of
Wyoming, the State of Wyoming, the Cheyenne–Laramie County Corporation
for Economic Development, the Wyoming Business Council, and CU-Boulder.
Active Power, Inc. announced the deployment of a 600 kVA CleanSource UPS system at a U.S. military facility. The flywheel-based UPS system protects the facility from power sags, fluctuations and outages, ensuring continuous uptime 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
FuelCell Energy, Inc. released an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report showing positive operating results for one of the company’s Direct FuelCell (DFC) units. The power plant is installed at the
State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse, New York.
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New Technologies
Caterpillar Power Generation Systems (CPGS) developed the 16CM43, the most efficient 16-cylinder engine in its class. Generating up to 14.4 MW of power, the 16CM43 features an advanced design that results in a long operating life, simplified maintenance, high
efficiency and low emissions. With increased power density and high reliability, the fuel- flexible 16CM43 is ideal for prime, standby, distributed generation, and peaking. Easy to maintain with integrated subsystems that reduce sealing surfaces, the 16CM43 features a long-stroke design that operates at lower engine speeds. As a result, component life is increased, while maintenance costs are decreased. The 16CM43 also offers low operational costs with the lowest brake-specific fuel consumption (BSFC) in its reduced lube-oil consumption and greater time between overhaul (TBO).
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Schneider Electric
released its newest model of the Square D AccuSine PCS Active Harmonic Filter (AHF). The AHF provides the simplest and most effective means to mitigate harmonics, reduce process-related voltage fluctuations, and improve electrical equipment operating life and distribution system capacity. The new model includes the Telemecanique Magelis XBT-G 3.8-in. graphical touchscreen terminal, a small and compact HMI terminal that is powerful enough to support high-end HMI applications to cater to customer needs. The compact, yet highly visible 320 x 240 pixel Magelis XBT-GT touch screen supports multiple languages and font sizes. It integrates Ethernet, can
be connected on Uni-Telway/Modbus, Modbus TCP/IP, and includes an alarm function with fault logging for better traceability.
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Schaefer, Inc.'s
C/B 2700 Series of 3U DC/
DC and AC/DC converter modules and battery chargers uses industrial-grade components and provides a high
density, space-saving solution for applications in industries such as
railway controls and communications equipment (onboard and trackside),
military applications, oil/gas processing, fuel cell applications,
transportation, telecommunication systems, process control systems,
and power stations
. The C/B 2700 Series topology delivers up to 600 W at any input from
18 Vdc to 380 Vdc, with six input range choices. Ac input options are
single-phase 115 Vac or 230 Vac, as well as a three-phase
input of three by
200 Vac.
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