On February 17th, 2009 Data Center Pulse held its first global summit in Santa Clara California, just five short months after starting this new end user datacenter community. The membership, 700 strong, identified seven of the top areas they wanted to address at this summit. The final topics and participants were finalized on the day of the event.
TRACK 101 - The Top Ten
TRACK 102 - Metrics
TRACK 103 - Certification
TRACK 104 - The Power Trip
TRACK 105 - Fanless Servers, Conductive cooling
TRACK 106 - Cloud computing
TRACK 107 - Industry Alignment
Each track was lead by group members. Even in these difficult economic times more than 15% of the membership base participated in person and online, some members traveling from as far away as Chile to participate in this inaugural event.
The goal of the summit was to discuss the topic areas and present the findings to the data center industry, just 36 hours later. We wanted to provide rapid reporting on what we found so the vendors, consultants and other providers can absorb and ultimately work with us to provide the solutions to the challenges we're facing. Summit summary content can be found here.
DAY 1 - Working Session
The leaders were able to collect, discuss, debate, and culminate this into draft presentations. These presentations were then provided to two new Data Center Pulse chapters, one in the Netherlands and another in Bangalore India. These remote regions were able to provide feedback to the track leaders by the following morning.
DAT 2 - Readout
In the early morning, the leaders reviewed, analyzed and integrated the international feedback into their presentations. Then each of them presented their findings to the members who attended the summit. Since each group was focused on a single track, they had not seen any of the other content until then. It was a very dynamic and collaborative session that helped tune the presentations.
Immediately after lunch, we convened the first Data Center Pulse INDUSTRY group meeting. It was attended by close to 100 industry professionals. They heard the presentations and were able to ask questions and provide feedback. It was close to a three hour session with a mountain of content.
DAY 3 - Industry Discussion & Debate
The following day, the track leaders attended the Teladata Technology Convergence conference at the Santa Clara California Convention center. The attendees of this conference had the opportunity to vote on which topic they most wanted to hear about from the Data Center Pulse summit. The selected topic was the Top 10. We assembled the leaders on stage and went through an interactive session with the attendees of the conference.
After the top 10 presentation, the track leaders broke out into smaller rooms, gave their track summary presentation and opened it up for discussion and debate. We received excellent response and input from these audiences.
THE OUTPUT
Below are the presentation videos that were filmed at the DAY 2 Data Center Pulse: INDUSTRY meeting:
Data Center Pulse has a very focused vision. Influence the data center industry through end users. We dove in head first with this Summit and learned a great many things. The biggest is that we have just scratched the surface. Some immediate tasks to be undertaken:
1. Form our Technical Advisor Board to continue to lead these track discussions as well as many others.
2. Create a framework to align with the different industry organizations
As the board reflected back on a whirlwind week, it became clear that there is a thirst for this type of information from both the end user and those creating the products, services and standards. Data Center Pulse is filling a void that has existed for a long time. The goal of this community is sound. Uniting peers will enable the creation of a unified voice that is based on best practices, practical & real implementations that solve problems. Data Center Pulse is made up of the actual people who make buying decisions for the products and services that go into datacenters. Capturing the pulse of that community is incredibly important, but sharing that voice and those needs with the companies that are investing in the solutions is equally important.
We look forward to a frequent and rich dialog as the Data Center Pulse organization continues to influence the Data Center industry. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us at feedback@datacenterpulse.com.
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