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Managing and Controlling the IT Power Bill
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*This course is offered both as a public and on-site course.
Duration: 2 DaysPrice: Public Sessions: $1195.
The cost of power and cooling the data center and communications closets is escalating. Gartner predicts that by 2009, power and cooling costs will be second to salaries in the IT budget. This seminar does not try to solve the climate change problems. It is focused directly on the energy conservation solutions now available and their impact on the enterprise bottom line.
IT and communications managers, project managers, facilities planning staff, network architects, procurement specialists, resellers and system integrators, enterprise financial specialists.
Why is energy consumption a big issue for IT
The trends in power production and charges
How to analyze where power is consumed
How IT equipment affects the cooling systems
Through exercises, how to calculate power and cooling requirments
What power is consumed by desktop and network devices
The issues of data center power planning
How the communication closet is becoming a significant power consumer
That Power over Ethernet (PoE) will continue to expand and force IT to be a power utility
How to plan for backup power
What vendors are doing to mitigate the power consumption problem
The Rising Cost of Power
Overall energy consumption
Inflationary trends
Where does IT fit?
The Green movement
Power Trends
Government reports
IT analyst's predictions
Consumption predictions
Where You Are is What You Pay
What's in a watt?
Demand vs. consumption rates
How location affects the energy bill
Locating rate information
Determining your power rates
Where is the Power Going in IT?
The data center
Networks
LAN closets
Desktop PCs and IP phones
Cooling
UPS
How Microchips Affect Your Energy Bill
Trends in microchip technology
Speed makes a big difference
Smaller systems, bigger problems
Power Consumption at the Desktop
Looking at the PC and peripherals
The thin client
IP phones
EXERCISE – Estimating the desktop and office power requirements
LAN/Edge Switches and the Closet
Chassis power consumption range
LAN port consumption range
Power over Ethernet (PoE) today, IEEE 802.3af
Class 2 and 3 devices
PoE tomorrow, IEEE 802.3at
What new devices connect to PoE?
Edge and Core Routers
Chassis power consumption range
WIC and NIC cards
Security Devices
Firewalls
Intrusion Detection Systems
Intrusion Prevention Systems
Security Auditing devices
EXERCISE – Estimating network equipment power consumption
The Data Center
Servers
Server density
Virtualization
Storage
UPS and Backup Power
Determining the backup requirements
UPS battery systems
What capacity?
DC powered network devices
Issues in the closet
Diesel vs. gas generators
Cooling the Technology
How air conditioning works
Air flow vs. temperature
What is a hot spot?
Cooling affects reliability
EXERCISE – Calculating the Cooling Requirements
Measuring Your Consumption
What to measure
Where to measure
Reading your meter and power bill
Measurement tools
Comparing IT Vendor's Products
IP phones
PCs and peripherals
Network devices
Data center technologies
EXERCISE – Working with an energy efficiency calculator
Working Out the ROI and TCO
Buy poorly now and pay later
What goes into the ROI
Using the ROI to make decisions
What goes into the TCO
Calculating the TCO
What Does the Future Hold?
The next three years of energy bills
What are the chips designers doing to help
How are the system vendors delivering energy efficient products
Save on travel, tuition and course development costs and focus on the specific challenges faced by your organization.
For a free, no-obligation proposal, contact Rod Marckese:
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Phone: 800/227-1234 or 630/986-1432, ext. 109
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What Attendees Had to Say:
“...a well-informed and interesting instructor. I find his knowledge
far exceeds what I have come to expect from most instructors.”
—Michael Connolly, Implementation Technician, Fidelity Investments
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