California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE)

CCSE Facility and Seminar Series

This past week I had the honor of delivering a keynote presentation in San Diego at the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) as part of their continuing education and community outreach and education, workshop and seminar series. The theme of the well attended event was Next Generation Data Center Solutions of which my talk centered around leveraging Green and Virtual Data Centers for enabling efficiencey and effectiveness. In addition to my keynote, included a panel discussion that I moderated with representatives of the events sponsor Compucom, along with their special guests APC, HP, Intel and VMware.

The CCSE has a focus around Climate Change, Energy Efficienecey, Green Buildings, Renewable Energy, Transportation, Home and Business. Their services and focus includes awareness and outreach, education programs, library and tools, consultant and associated services. Speaking of their library, there is even a signed copy of my book The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC) now at the CCSE library that can be checked out along with their other resources.

The CCSE staff and facilities were fantastic with hosts Mike Bigelow (an energy engineer) and Marlene King (program manager) orchestrating a great event.

If you are in the San Diego area, check out the CCSE located at 8690 Balboa Ave., Suite 100. They have a great library, cool demonstrations and tools that you can check out to assist with optimization IT data centers from an energy efficicinecy standpoint. Learn more about the CCSE here.

Following are some relevant links to the keynote along with panel discussion from the CCSE event:

• EPA Server and Storage Workshop Feb 2, 2010
• EPA Energy Star for Data Center Storage Update
• Acadia VCE: VMware + Cisco + EMC = Virtual Computing Environment
• Did HP respond to EMC and Cisco VCE with Microsoft HyperV bundle?
• Should Everything Be Virtualized?
• Server and Storage Virtualization – Life beyond Consolidation
• Saving Money with Green IT: Time To Invest In Information Factories
• Closing the Green Gap
• Shifting from energy avoidance to energy efficiency
• Green Storage is Alive and Well
• Saving Money with Green IT: Time To Invest In Information Factories
• Justifying Green IT and Home Hardware Upgrades with EnergyStar
• EPA Energy Star for Data Center Storage Update
• Is MAID Storage Dead? I Dont Think So!
• SSD and Storage System Performance
• Building a Habitat for Technology
• PUE, Are you Managing Power, Energy or Productivity?
• Metrics and measurement for management insight
• The Changing Dynamic of the Data Center

Follow these links to view additional videos or podcasts, tips, articles, books, reports and events.

Cheers
gs

Greg Schulz – Author The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
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