You’ve Got the Power: How to Improve Efficiencies & Drive Down Energy Costs
Owen McKee,Country Manager UK and Ireland , Avocent
With over ten years experience in the IT industry, Owen is responsible for sales operations within the UK and Ireland, with a particular focus on the development of relationships with Avocent partners.
He previously held a similar role at Cyclades, before it was acquired by Avocent in March 2006. At Cyclades, Owen was instrumental in positioning the company as one of the major players in the UK’s infrastructure solutions market. Prior to joining Cyclades, he oversaw strategic global accounts for Fujitsu and IBM at Scantech UK Ltd
Session Synopsis
Energy costs are spiralling out of control, claiming more and more of the IT budget leaving less and less for the IT equipment and management tools necessary to support the business.
IT needs to be in a more strategic and less reactive mode to ensure support for future business growth without a negative impact to the budget. The advanced machines in today’s data centres may be higher performance, but it often costs more to power them. IT equipment manufacturers are working to develop more energy-efficient servers, but in the meantime there are easy steps IT managers can incorporate into their data centre power management strategies to improve efficiencies and reduce power expenses, from desktops to data centres. This presentation will offer strategies for measuring energy consumption, calculating power costs, plus how to use the resulting data to save time and money.
In this session delegates will learn how to calculate energy consumption costs real-time and over time, and best practices for changing the way IT infrastructure is managed to utilise less energy while still supporting critical business requirements.
Session date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 12:45pm
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