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Institute podcasts are interactive educational broadcasts on the latest findings from special projects and from our series of professional knowledge events on the future of high performance IT equipment, energy efficiency, and data center sustainability.
2009 Green Enterprise IT Award Finalist Podcasts
2009 Symposium Underwriter Podcasts
- BigFix
Kimber Spradlin, BigFix Senior Manager of Systems and Security solutions, discusses the benefits of improved visibility into the data center that results from BigFix systems and security technology.
- Ellipitcal Mobile Solutions
Simon Rohrich, Technology Evangelist for Elliptical Mobile Solutions, discusses the efficiencies, savings, and advantages of Elliptical's mobile data center units.
- Modius
Don Klein, Modius V.P. of Marketing and Business Development, and Greg Bush, Sybase Chief Operations Engineer, discuss the benefits and efficiencies achieved by Sybase though an installation of Modius monitoring technology.
- Stulz-ATS
Joerg Dessler, Stulz VP of Engineering and production, discusses the efficiency advantages of under-floor pressure control and electrically commutated fans.
An Uptime Institute-Facilitated Discussion on the Roles That Energy Czars Can Make
Wachovia SVP of Corporate Properties, Bob Cashner, and Mass Mutual Assistant VP of Facility Operations, Sean Anderson, discuss their roles, the contributions that energy czars can make, and the savings that can result.
Christine Ervin and Deborah Grove Discuss the Development of the LEED Green Building Standards
In this podcast, discover the background on the development of the LEED green building standards, what might be coming regarding the greening of existing buildings and data centers, and the real meaning of the data center industry's consumption of 1.5% of energy produced in the U.S.
Neil Rasmussen and Deborah Grove Discuss the Real Issue Confronting Data Centers Today
Neil Rasmussen, Chief Innovation Officer of APC, talks to Deb Grove about the meaning of APC's purchase by Schnieder and how the real issue confronting data centers today is complexity and reliance on designs and ideas that are no longer relevant.
Larry Quinlan and Bruce Taylor Discuss How Energy Cost and Efficiency is Only One of a Hundred Priorities on a CIO's List
Deloitte CIO, Larry Quinlan, talks to Symposium Executive Produce Bruce Taylor, about Deloitte's unique approach to green IT and what's really on the CIO's mind.
Lauralee Martin and Deborah Grove Discuss How Data Center Efficiency and Operations Should be Integrated
Lauralee Martin, CFO of global real estate giant Jones Lang Lasalle, talks about how data center efficiency and operations should be integrated in to a company's overall real estate strategy. She also reviews the impact of the economic downturn on the decision to expand or build new data centers.
Philip Morris and Deborah Grove Discuss Real Efficiencies in the Data Center and Beyond
This far-ranging discussion will help you how understand cost-efficiencies, innovation-efficiencies, product-efficiencies, and process efficiencies can substantially reduce your carbon footprint.
Mark Ascolese, EDSA Chairman and CEO, and Deborah Grove Discuss the Difference Power Analytics Can Make
Mark Ascolese discusses with Deb Grove the difference that power analytics can make in both data center design phase and operations. He indicates significant savings that can be achieved in both cases.
Ian Seaton and Fred Mapp Discuss What's Really Happening in the Data Center
Fred Mapp, Symposium Lean Track Chairperson, and Ian Seaton, Technology Manager for Chatsworth, discuss the challenges now facing data center managers and operators.
Amy Wohl and Deborah Grove Discuss Enterprise IT in the Current Economic Crisis
Deborah Grove and Amy Wohl, President of Wohl Associates, economist, and expert on IT trends and SaaS discuss the likely impact of the current economic crisis on IT.
Ken Brill Discussing the Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency Report Update
This update uses a different background to reach the same Findings, Drivers, Recommendations, and Goal as in the original McKinsey Report.
Dr. Marc Smith On Social Media and High Density Computing
The Internet is an example of Social Media.
Collaborating with Your Ecosystem to Solve Data Center Energy Issues
This video explores the collaboration of organizations who together designed pilots to measure and increase data center energy efficiency.
Ken Brill Discusses What Truly Constitutes Green IT
In this vodcast, Ken Brill talks about what constitutes Green IT and how greenness equates to bottom line profitability.
Ken Brill and Mark Monroe Discuss Virtualization and Eco-sustainability Strategies
Symposium Research Underwriter Sun Microsystems uses buckets to improve
virtualization both internally and externally with clients.
Can Moore's Law Efficiencies Apply to the Whole-System Data Center?
In this Podcast, Microsoft's chief of data centers, Mike Manos, explains what Microsoft is doing in its new state-of-the-art data centers to scale up Moore's Law from the chip-level to the 500,000 sq. ft. data center level.
Findings on Data Center Energy Consumption Growth may already exceed EPA’s prediction through 2010
New Uptime Institute research shows data center energy consumption in the top third of sites researched grew 20-30% annually in 2006 and 2007. This far exceeds the EPA's prediction of 9% growth from 2006 to 2010.
Bridging the Facilities/IT Communication Gap
Tony Ulichnie talks about how ITIL can improve communications between facilities and IT and he discusses his upcoming webinar.
Charrette Track One: AC vs. DC for Powering IT Hardware | Richard Schlosser
The primary objective this track was to define a best-in-class distribution topology that addresses the availability objectives with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).
Charrette Track Two: Challenging Computer Room Cooling Assumptions | Robert "Dr. Bob" Sullivan, Ph.D.
Delegates separated into three working groups and tackled temperature/humidity ranges, free cooling configurations, and cooling best practices.
Charrette Track Three: Green Data Center Management Practices | W. Pitt Turner, IV, PE
Delegates started to define the standards for green data centers. They vetted Institute-proposed green data center metrics in respective roundtables.
Uptime Institute Interview with Dr. Jonathan Koomey
Dr. Jonathan Koomey, consulting professor at Stanford University's Civil and Environmental Engineering school, and project scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, sat down with the Institute to talk about his upcoming reasearch into data center energy efficiency and the problems facing large corporations.
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