Upcoming Event:
Hello IEEE Members and Friends
We look forward to having you join us for the following dinner presentation.
Please note the new location!
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Dinner: 6:00pm
Presentation: 7:00pm
Location: Biltmore Hotel, 2151 Laurelwood Road, Santa Clara, 95054, 408-346-4718
RSVP: James Alvers,
(925)463-7115
Cost: $25.00 IEEE members, $30.00 nonmembers, $10.00 students
Title
Implementing Data Center Energy Efficiency
Speaker
Rick Hofstetter, PowerLogic Business Development Specialist, Schneider Electric
Abstract
Electrical power usage has not been a typical design criterion for data centers until recently. This has been true despite the fact that the electrical costs over the life of a data center may exceed the costs of the electrical power system including the UPS and may exceed the costs of the IT equipment.
Electricity costs are an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers.
It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network critical physical infrastructure and through design of the IT architecture. This presentation will start with a discussion some of the drivers for the growth of the data center industry and then proceed to discuss where the energy goes in a typical data center. Then it will discuss some of the technologies and architectures available to implement energy efficient data centers. The presentation will discuss UPS’s, aisle architectures, scalability, power distribution design as well as other topics for energy efficiency.
About the Speaker
Jim Hoyt is a principal owner of Harold Wells Associates in San Ramon, California and has been with them since 1981. Harold Wells Associates is a manufacturers'' representative firm who is celebrating their 50th anniversary next year. At HWA, Jim has been involved in the design, application and sales of critical electrical products such as UPS systems, automatic transfer switches, paralleling generator switchgear, variable frequency drives and harmonic current mitigation products.