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How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project |
Tuition: $1695 (Non-Institute Members) / $1495 (Institute Members)
2008 Dates and Locations*:
• June 12-13, Colorado Springs, Colorado (Register Online)
• October 30-31, Dallas, Texas (Register Online)
>>Download the How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project Agenda
The issues facing a data center project owner are evolving so rapidly that even those who completed a data center project five years ago are not aware of the current issues surrounding sophistication and complexity (i.e. density, cost, continuous availability, and Sustainability†).
This interactive seminar and practical tutorial illustrates the most successful approaches used to get a new data center project approved and off to an optimal start with the “right” budget. As with many once-in-a-career projects, the most serious pitfalls occur in the very beginning before management knows enough to clearly define the project’s life cycle objectives. As a result, many multimillion-dollar data centers recently built, or currently in design or construction, have insufficient capabilities to achieve a fifteen-year useful life. In fact, most of these data centers will become functionally obsolete within the next five years.
Members of the seminar faculty have conceptualized and managed billions of dollars in major renovations and new data center or critical facility projects and know how to define and justify a project’s life cycle objectives. The first lesson learned from their collective wisdom is to understand management’s expectations as well as the needs of the business before the project’s schedule and budget are set.
Attendees Will Take Home:
- A game plan to receive buy-in across the organization
- The ability to develop and then articulate data center program strategy and requirements
- Approaches on how to prevent your data center from prematurely becoming functionally obsolete
- Confidence to claim and maintain ownership of your own project
- An action list of items to implement on your return to the office
- Methods to match your business needs to the Tier level and other key criteria
*Please note: The How to Plan, Justify, and Manage a Major Data Center Project Seminar is open to data center owners and operators only. Architects and consultants are welcome provided they attend with a client.
†Sustainability is the capability of a facility
to deliver its performance objective over an extended period of time.
Considerations include ease of operation, maintenance, and expansion.
Sustainable sites have the ability to adapt and respond to the business
requirements over the long term.
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