Green Issues to Take Centre Stage at Data Centre World 2008



Helping data centre managers to decrease their carbon footprint is one of the key focuses for Data Centre (http://www.datacentreworld.com/) World 2008, taking place on 26th-27th February, in Barbican, London. Visitors to the show can take advantage of the free-to-attend conference programme, which will give advice, recommendations and top tips on how data centres of all sizes can 'go green'. For more information on the show and the conference programme please visit www.datacentreworld.com.

Data Centre (http://www.datacentreworld.com/) World, which is the first and only data centre expo and conference in the UK, has dedicated nearly 15 hours of conference sessions to green issues. Key topics include advancing energy efficiency, managing an energy efficient data centre, cutting data centre power, complying with industry standards as well as server consolidation and virtualisation.

Attendees will be able to learn from and talk to industry experts such as Tony Day, The Green Grid, who will give simple and practical tips on improving energy efficiency through equipment-planning and operational-practices; Mike Walker, IBM, who will explain where and how energy is consumed in the datacentre (http://www.datacentreworld.com/); Craig Parker, BT, who will detail how BT has cut data centre power by 60-70% while lowering costs.

"With energy supplies becoming more and more scarce, power-hungry datacentres are coming under mounting pressure to reduce their carbon footprint and turning to technology and best practice to achieve this," explained Sarah Williams, Event Director, Turret Group, who are organising Data Centre World. "Our show and in particular the conference programme have a definite 'green' flavour, that is designed to help those at every stage of a datacentre development to become more environmentally friendly."

For more information please visit http://www.datacentreworld.com.

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About Turret Group

Turret Group is an established event organiser and trade publisher with over 50years' heritage in organising large scale events. Previous IT events include SmartCard Expo, LinuxWorld Expo, and Data Capture Europe.

www.turretgroup.com

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Green Issues to Take Centre Stage at Data Centre World 2008