Institute podcasts are interactive and educational tools that cover the latest findings from special projects and from our series of professional knowledge events concerned with the future of high performance IT equipment, energy efficiency, and data center sustainability.
Available Podcasts
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 percent annually in 2006 and 2007. This far exceeds the EPA's prediction of 9 percent 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 Standford 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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