Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Data Center Efficiency Resources: Seminars, Webinars & Tutorials

My Inbox today had a number of really great resources to help get started with assessing and increasing data center efficiency.

First, two seminars from the Uptime Institute:

How to Apply the Four Metrics to Achieve Data Center Greenness Online Seminar
The seminar presents your executives a model for understanding data center energy consumption and points the way to strategies that can effectively curb it. It will demonstrate how a green tune-up can yield up to 50% savings. Most important, it will present four metrics for measuring data center greenness that can help your organization benchmark and control its energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Dates and Registration
Revolutionizing Data Center Energy Efficiency
The Revolutionizing Data Center Energy Efficiency Seminar will prepare your executive team to improve bottom-line performance, avert costly and unnecessary data center expansions or builds, improve whole-data center utilization, and contain CapEx, OpEx, energy consumption, and green house gas emissions. Dates and Registration
Next, I received a newsletter from the U.S. Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program (ITP). It was chock-full of great info and reports, as well as a few resources open to all. Two resources of interest included:

Save Energy Now - Data Center Assessments Offered at No Cost
There's still time to apply for a 2008 Save Energy Now energy assessment of your facility to discover new and cost-effective ways to save energy. To date, U.S. manufacturing facilities have identified energy cost savings of more than $807 million through Save Energy Now.

Webinar to Highlight Save Energy Now Resources for Utilities
If you're with a utility, then on August 20, 2008, a Webinar entitled "Exploring Options for Keeping Industrial Customers Competitive" will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. MDT. This is the first in a series of energy management Webinars sponsored by ITP, Western Area Power Administration, and American Public Power Association. Register Here.
DOE's ITP program also listed a number of other upcoming events.

Subscribe to this DOE newsletter -- this is one of those rare occasions where the US government is really taking the lead in creating and distributing useful information and resources.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

webinar is one of the nice thing to do when conducting seminars or meetings especially when your participant came from different places...

mrktg said...

Those who do not commit themselves to attending the big one are then contacted by professional telephone sales people and given the complete sales presentation between the time of the free seminars for marketing and the date of the real thing, which and experienced telephone sales people - you can count on closing about 30 to 35% of those who attend your free seminars.