Managing Consolidated Data Centers and Improving Sustainability Performance

7:30am – 8:00am Coffee and Snacks

8:00am – 8:30am

FDCCI Task Force Update

Speaker: Zach Baldwin

The Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) has hit its two year anniversary. We will hear an update from the Task Force.

8:30am – 9:15am

DOE Green IT mission and tools

Speaker: Jake Wooley

Learn how DOE provides the capability for DOE sites and offices to identify, plan and track progress in consolidation and data center improvement efforts, identify energy improvement opportunities in data center and IT system operations, and automatically rollup and report performance in meeting SSPP and FDCCI objectives without the need for constant data calls.

9:15am – 9:45am

Greening as a Service (GaaS)

Speaker: Horace Blackman

Greening as a Service (GaaS) is an information and technology initiative to support IT energy management and greening information management. GaaS provides customers simple and continuous analyses of energy consumption across individual and facility practices. The first phase demonstrated that optimized IT-related energy policies can potentially reduce costs by 50%. GaaS is an example of Performance Architectural Science Systems (PASS) where integrated disciplines facilitate performance goals among disparate organizational groups

9:45am – 10:00am Break

10:00am – 11:45am

How to make your Data Center more Energy-Efficient and Greener

Speaker: Dale Sartor

Developing and applying best practices for saving energy in data centers. As data centers become more energy intensive, there is an increasing need for IT and facilities staff to work together to capture the low hanging fruit as well as the longer term efficiency opportunities. This workshop will cover energy benchmarking and strategies to improve performance.