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Mark your calendars! October 9-11 2012 The Green Data Center Conference and Exhibition holds it’s annual Bay Area installment. Register today and save!

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About The Green Data Center Conference and Exhibition

Optimize your facility through best practices in data center efficiency innovation, techniques and equipment. Discover the cost saving benefits of the green data center movement.

A full spectrum of data center design, building and management will be covered throughout this three day interactive conference experience. Drive data center ROI through your “green” infrastructure investment and strategy!

Who Should Attend

Attendees at the Green Data Center are decision makers from corporate, non-profit and government agencies. Delegate titles will include:

  • Chief Information and Technology Officers
  • Chief Information Security Officers
  • VP of Technology
  • IT Director and Manager
  • Infrastructure Manager
  • Network and Communication Engineers
  • Data Center/ Facilities Manager
  • Architects and Building Manager
  • Risk Management Executives
  • Business Development and Strategy Executives
  • Financial Planners/ Executives
  • Product and Purchasing Managers
  • Strategy Directors
  • Server, Storage, and Application Administrator
  • Designers and Developers
  • Facilities Engineers
  • Application Engineers
  • Server Consolidation
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Hardware Migration Experts
  • Three 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

    Highlights and Topics covered include:

  • Green IT: Innovations in design and efficiency
  • System metering, metrics and measurements
  • Network storage and big data in the data center
  • Data center management perspective: Managing a “green” facility
  • Site selection, utility rebates and economics
  • Financing your efficiency efforts
  • Outsourcing and virtualization cost analysis
  • GDcon News:

    Green IT Webcasts from BrightTalk
    Posted 05\14\2012 by Ben Zvaifler
    A BrightTALK
    Call for Speakers: GDCON London, Bay Area and Beyond
    Posted 04\10\2012 by Ben Zvaifler
    The green Data Center Conference has completed two successful installments in 2012 and is looking ahead to the remainder of our 2012 events. With Dallas and San Diego now behind us we have turned our focus towards our annual London location and our Bay Area show, this year held at the Santa Clara Convention Center. If you think you
    GDCON Dallas Underway!
    Posted 03\28\2012 by Ben Zvaifler
    GDCON DFW is underway. After a long day of intensive workshops the main conference has begun. The opening keynote Ben Stewart of Terremark, a Verizon Company kicked things off this morning. Keep track with everything going on over the next two days by following @gsmionline on twitter, and use the hashtags #GDCON and #GDCDallas to
    New Speakers Added and Final Agenda Set For GDCON Dallas March 27-29
    Posted 03\13\2012 by Ben Zvaifler
    GDCON Dallas is only two weeks away and the final agenda is set! We have added some exciting new speakers in the last couple of weeks. Among the distinguished group we are proud to have Mike Higgins SVP Data Center Services at Internap joining us as our morning keynote on the final conference day. Mr. Higgin’s will be delivering a
    GDCON DFW Hightlights Ben Stewart of Terremark as Keynote
    Posted 02\14\2012 by Ben Zvaifler
    The Green Data Center Conference and Exhibition will be holding it’s first ever Lone Star State installment on March 27-29, 2012. Among the featured speakers and case studies involved, GDCON has highlighted Ben Stewart SVP of Facilities Engineering at Terremark as the opening Keynote. Mr. Stewart’s expertise runs across the
    Photos From GDCON San Diego
    Posted 02\13\2012 by Ben Zvaifler
    Check out some of the great photos taken at GDCON San Diego: Green Data Center Conference & Exhibition | San Diego, CA Photos compliments of Kate Bauer To check out the next Green Data Center Conference program and speakers, or to register your seat, please click
    GDCON San Diego is a Wrap. On to the Lone Star State!
    Posted 02\09\2012 by Ben Zvaifler
    For some it was a learning experience, for others a networking opportunity and for everyone it was a good time. Last week’s installment of GDCON San Diego offered top industry case studies and expert analysis on some of the most pressing issues facing the “green” data center movement today. KC Mares, “Mr. Low PUE,” and