The
Silicon Valley Leadership Group held its 2nd Data Center Energy
Summit on October 15, 2009, at the NetApp corporate offices in
California. Organizers reported more than 400 attendees at the
event.
Deborah Grove, principal at Grove
Associates played a background role in the Summit, participating in
the leadership team that has met since January to bring the case
studies to completion and created the public relations strategy for
the SVLG Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit. She also covered the
event forMission
Critical.
KC Mares of Megawatt
Consulting and co-chair of this event said, “Worldwide, we spend
$23 billion as an industry on data center industry annually. Last
year’s pilots resulted in an average of 56 percent ROI for end
users. Our goal is to chop away at those huge numbers with our case
studies.”
Zen Kishimoto, PhD principal
analyst, Green IT at AltaTera Research Network edited the case
studies presented at the event. He said, “Like the last year, we
had a lot of participation and many excellent results. We have fewer
completed case studies than last year but will have several
additional ones coming soon. One of the studies that attracted my
attention was done by Power Assure. It proved the reduction of power
consumption by IT gear can be achieved via hardware refresh and
dynamic power management.”
A second pilot
conducted at an Intel data center appeared to be the first attempt to
link the condition of IT gear to the building management system
In addition, Joe Miller, Net App’s site
operations manager in Raleigh-Durham, NC, presented a case history.
Other presenters discussed energy-efficiency projects conducted at
Oracle, Stanford, and Pixar.