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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Webcasting service provider BrightTALK (www.brighttalk.com) announced on Wednesday it will host the Green Data Center Summit (www.brighttalk.com/summit/greendatacenter), an all-day webinar that will explore the benefits of green data center technology.
Held on November 19 at 1:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m., the Green Data Center Summit will feature presentations from data center and virtualization experts from around the globe, who will discuss best practices, tips, and strategies for efficient data centers.
Attendees will learn the benefits of optimized virtualization, innovative cooling strategies, and tips for energy efficiency and measurement. The webcasts will also be immediately recorded and viewable on-demand on brighttalk.com.
The presentations will include "Data Center Energy Efficiency: A Call to Action" from Jim Hearnden, Green Grid member and enterprise technologist at Dell; "Effective Strategies for Green Data Centres" from Mark Monroe, director of sustainable computing at Sun Microsystems; "Architecting the Green Data Centre" from Paul D-Cruz, data centre business transformation at Cisco; "Uncovering the Cost of Unused Servers - $25bn Wasted Each Year" from Andy Hawkins, product manager at 1E; "Data Center Cooling Options Begin with Air & Water" from Don Beaty of ASHRAE; "Case Study: Crisis of Capacity - How we went Green" from Ralph Wescott, data center services manager at Pacific Northwest National Lab; "Optimizing Virtualization for a Greener Data Center"
from Scott Miller, director of virtualization at World Wide Technology; "Green IT: Save Money & the Environment" from Jose Iglesias, VP of global solutions at Symantec; and "Avoiding Data Center Disasters: What you need to know" from Jim Nelson, president of business continuity services and ICOR.
Individuals can access the webinar through the BrightTALK player, which can be embedded into websites and blogs. The webcasts can be accessed live and will remain available on-demand afterward.
BrightTALK offers the technology to webcast events live online, providing an effective business tool for transferring knowledge. Individuals can use BrightTALK to exchange ideas as either a presenter or a viewer with live, interactive access to speakers.
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