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What is the Green Data Center Conference and Exhibition?

The Green Data Center Conference and Exhibition seeks to provide strategic information for data center professionals looking to optimize their facility through increased energy efficiency and innovative data center design trends. Industry experts, interactive workshops and case study presentations will be used to demonstrate the cost saving benefits of “greening” your facility. A full scope of Data Center operations will be covered, from retrofitting existing technologies to building a next generation facility from the ground up. Attendees will be provided with actionable solutions that will drive the ROI on your infrastructure investment.

Green IT: Innovations in Design and Efficiency

Network storage and big data management

System metrics and Measurements

Cloud computing: Impact on data center technology and operations

Management strategies

Financing your efficiency efforts

Outsourcing and Virtualization cost analysis

Learn how “Greening” your facility can maximize ROI:

Ensure your facility is up to the most recent trends and standards in data center efficiency

Join in on the efficiency discussion with experts in the industry

Analyze the future of data center design

Network with cross discipline executives from IT, business development, and sustainability sectors

Acquire first hand knowledge from case study presentations of the newest and most innovative facilities

Bring cost cutting strategies back to your organization, implement and save!

Conference Themes:

Power and Cooling Efficiencies Driving the green data center movement, and central in any efficiency discussion is power and cooling systems. Whether designing and building out a critical facility or upgrading your legacy system data center managers must be up to date with all available power and cooling options. Sessions within this conference theme will look at techniques and technologies that will maximize your PUE and get you on the path toward efficiency and cost savings

DC Design Innovation Innovation is a central theme of the green data center conference and will be represented as such. The Design Innovation conference theme will analyze both new and existing technologies that can be implemented to optimize your facilities performance. Topics addressed within the Design Innovation stream will include storage efficiency, virtualization, modular and container rollouts and much more

Management and Operational Strategies While DC design and equipment tends to get the most scrutiny in the green data center arena, the importance of management, metrics and measurements cannot be ignored. With presentations from the Green Grid and case studies from industry DC managers, the Data Center Management and Operations track will consist of key strategies that even the most advanced data center manager can learn from

Green Data Center Conference Video & Interviews

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GDCON San Diego 2012 Wrap Up 2:38 GDCON San Diego is a wrap! Check out what attendees had to say about the conference!

Chris Page of Yahoo! at the Green Data Center Conference San Diego 2012 45:40 Christina Page, Global Director of Energy & Sustainability Strategy, addresses the question "Are We Green Yet?" for the data center industry.

Dean Nelson of eBay at GDCON San Francisco 2011 48:50 Dean Nelson, Sr. Director of Global Data Center Strategy, Architecture & Operations,eBay, Inc. discusses the future of the data center industry.

Mark Aggar of Microsoft at GDCON SF 43:41 Green Data Center Conference San Francisco. Mark Aggar, Senior Director, Environmental Technology Strategy.