(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — International consulting firm BroadGroup (www.broadgroup.com) announced on Thursday that its 4th Annual Power and Cooling for Data Centres (www.datacentres.com/pac), will feature an extensive panel of international experts to address the latest assessment of cost and energy consumption facing all data centers.
First announced in July, the conference will be held at America Square Conference Centre in London, UK on October 23, and will be opened by Catalina McGregor, founder and chair of the CIO / CTO Council Green ICT Delivery Group.
This year’s theme will focus on the use of innovation to reduce cost and energy consumption, and increase efficiency in data centers.
The one-day event will showcase a range of new solutions emerging to reduce costs. Data center solutions with less dense systems lead to less restricted airflow, lower cost per system and higher operating temperatures, resulting in increased free cooling.
BroadGroup will also give out a free copy of its new report Power and Cooling Innovations to conference attendees.
Roy Zeighami, principal cooling/energy architect of business critical systems division at Hewlett Packard will address on design for low power density for IT equipment in his presentation.
The conference will also feature a new panel, chaired by Marion Howard-Healy, senior consultant at BroadGroup which will assess natural solutions.
Howard-Healy will be joined by Maurice Julian, data center manager of HP’s Wynyard data center, Burton Hamner, co-founder and president of Hydrovolts, Greg Mason, data center specialist at Atlantis Resources, Rennie Dalrymple, partner of Bruce Shaw Partnership and Donal Mac Nioclais, commercial development at Aquamarine Power.
Other expert speakers include Bernard Lecanu, member of European Commission Green IT Group, Alex Rabbetts, managing director of Migration Solutions, Rod Evans, managing director of SGI, John Berendzen, LEED AP of Fox Architects, Joe Polastre, CTO of Sentilla, Dr Ian F Bitterlin, CTO of Prism Power, Kate Craig-Wood, managing director of Memset, Miles Gray, hardware platform architect of Department of Health Informatics Directorate, Michalis Grigoratos, senior design and sustainability consultant at Halcrow Yolles, Zahl Limbuwala, chairman of Data Centre Specialist Group, Ashley R Davis, managing director of JPMorgan, Mike Manos, senior VP of Digital Realty, Lex Coors, director of engineering at Interxion HQ, Mees Lodder, director of Kyoto Cooling, Andrew Mercer, CEO of 20Degrees, Mark Acton, data center optimisation of EMEA lead at Dell, Roland Broch, business development at Datacenter Star Audit, eco – Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft e.V.
“Power is at the forefront of data center design, location and cost,” says Steve Wallage, managing director of BroadGroup Consulting who will provide a review of the market at the conference. “The annual forum brings tremendous focus to these critical issues, reviews the very latest ideas and knowledge, and provides in one intensive day direct takeaways for users and managers.”
The Power and Cooling annual event is attended by IT executives around the world, with almost half of them being C level and senior executives and about one-third of attendees comprising of operations, data center managers and engineers.
There are still advance ticket discounts are available until October 21.
