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“Excellent. The seminar probably paid for itself within the first 90 minutes.”

– Tom Ostler

"I was pleased with the seminar. Very informative. This gave me some good ideas and means to approach my management.”
– Gary Parnell

“I believe the seminar did an excellent job of meeting its primary objective and should provide valuable tools for computer center managers to plan and improve conditions in their rooms.”
– James Kulick

“This was easily one of the more valuable seminars I’ve attended.”
– Aaron Andersen

“[The seminar] gave me a number of means to bring to the table in justifying the project. Pitt is an excellent presenter who has excellent knowledge on all subjects.”
– Hank Schwan

“I learned new concepts. Verified some prior knowledge as correct and dispelled some incorrect myths I had embraced.”
– Paul Pindell

“I’m taking some great things back with me. I am excited to ask the questions to get our meeting started.”
– Roberta Combs

“Very innovative and helpful. Changed my perspective and approach.”
– Tom Ahern

“This has been a great experience to understand the basics and core best practices for cooling our data centers. I’ve been able to immediately see a number of the issues that we have been and will be experiencing in the future.”
– Confidential

“To the point! All needed information was directly delivered to the participants in order to achieve their new datacenter project.”
– Mohamad Dabliz

“Excellent! Dr. Bob did a great job. Kept the material interesting.”
– Confidential

“I believe this [seminar] has provided me with the information and sources for information so that I can justify the needed work at my site.”
– Buddy Matthews

“I’ve been through four datacenter builds and three expansions. I learned things that were not discussed during any of the seven projects.”
– Confidential

“I gained a great overall appreciation for planning data centers issues which was one of my main objectives. Second, I now know what is causing problems in my small data centers and will be able to resolve some problems that have been a big mystery.”
– Eric Lundberg

“Fantastic seminar. I found the information applied not only to IT projects, but to any project. I came to learn about IT and left with so much more.”
– Chris Button

“Overall, I feel more confident going forward dealing with our facilities group. I’m already interacting with them but sometimes I feel my questions are ‘stupid’.”
– Tina Field

“Excellent… provided much insight on senior management topics that I would not have addressed. Business impact of each down incident. Relating the importance of infrastructure to business strategies.”
– Michael Rimmer

“Gave me a lot of ideas and examples to approach management in an organized fashion.”
– Joe Miles

“This seminar is full of practical information that I can take back and use to justify our next project.”
– Roger Hayes

“Many seminars have tried to do [networking], but this was truly achieved. I think mostly by the dinner, breakfast and frequent breaks after each topic change.”
– Confidential

“This seminar has given me tools to argue for more funding to accomplish my goals.”
– Confidential

“This concept of networking is one of the most productive things that the seminar produces. It helps to achieve the seminar’s goals.”
– Confidential

“Great information and data. Now I have tools to influence others to change. Seems like all data centers have similar problems. ‘Looks good’ doesn’t always work like it was perceived.”
– Lee Nichols

“The seminar enabled me to gain the ‘50,000 foot view’ (basic principles) and instruction in immediate measures (practical approaches) that can be applied. Nice job!”
– Confidential

“I was very impressed with the information and the knowledge of the presenters on how to properly cool a data center.”
– Benny Ridge

“Interactive communication was both spirited and informative. Many of the attendees seem to be experiencing similar issues – looking forward to Uptime for answers.”
– Confidential

“[Networking] goal was achieved. I made good contacts. It was better than counseling! Good to know that I’m not alone”
– Confidential

“The networking portion alone is worth the time of this seminar”
– Confidential

“I now have more understanding on how to better utilize cooling in respect to the deployment of our hardware.”
– Karl Zager

“[While networking] it was interesting to observe different views of the same problem.”
– Dennis McKenna

“Now I am aware of the knowledge I/we are missing. In principle it’s easy, as long as you understand.”
– R.M. Lodder

“Great info. I learned many things I didn’t know.”
– Mike Lewis

“Very well, there was significant dialogue amongst the group which has tremendous value.”
– Tad Davies

 

 
 

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