Strategies for Reducing Data Center Costs
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Published on: 09/01/2008
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Overview
Reducing data center costs is always a top priority, and it can also undoubtedly be your most challenging task when dealing with continuing technology upgrades and requirements. In our second session, speaker Kenneth G. Brill, Founder and Executive Director of The Uptime Institute explores several strategies for reducing data center costs. Kenneth will discuss the impact of IT reliability decisions on energy consumption to simplify your cost concerns and help you set achievable energy reduction goals. Topics covered in this session include:

• Determining organizational "greenness" maturity within your data center
• Building a process for improving your data center costs
• Best practices for measuring the progress of your green data center

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