Welcome to the Third Annual DCP Collaboration Session

February 28, 2011

What are the latest issues, concerns, trends and requests from data center owners and operators? Data Center Pulse, a non-profit group of data center owners and operators with a membership spanning 68 countries, will be hosting their annual summit on February 28, 2011. The DCP summit is being held in conjunction with The Green Grid Technical Forum in Santa Clara, CA. It will take place the day prior to the Technical Forum. This 3rd annual working session will focus on creating real time output around top categories on the mind of Data Center users. The output of the summit will be an update to the DCP Top Ten list that will be presented and discussed at The Green Grid Technical Forum. Attendees will select from the list of topics below. The top 3-5 topics will then be focused breakout sessions with presentations that will be recorded and shared through the DCP YouTube Channel. The goal of this summit is to bring the end user community together to collaborate on the challenges they face and then share those findings with the industry. This summit is exclusively for DCP members. To see the requirements to qualify for membership, please see this link.

Please email membership@datacenterpulse.org to be approved and receive the registration password. Please note that the DCP summit is a free event, but you must be a DCP member to attend. Please also note that DCP members receive a 10% discount on the registration fee for The Green Grid Technical Forum - March 1-2. Please email membership@datacenterpulse.org for the discount code.

We look forward to collaborating with our members to continue to influence the industry. Our primary output from this session will be to update the DCP Top 10 and produce summit summary videos of the priority topics selected and led by the DCP attendees. The topics and descriptions are listed below.

Summit Categories

101-TOP 10
102-STACK FRAMEWORK
103-MODULAR DATA CENTER DESIGN
104-HIGH TEMP COMPUTING (AIR/LIQUID)
105-IT ASSET LIFECYCLE & LOGISTICS
106-OPERATIONS CHALLENGES - WHAT KEEPS YOU UP AT NIGHT?
107-RACK DENSITY - THE OPPORTUNITY AND IMPACT
108-THE GREEN GRID DATA CENTER DESIGN GUIDE REVIEW
109-THE GREEN GRID CUE/WUE METRICS
110-THE GREEN GRID ADVISORY COUNCIL SITE SELECTION PAPER REVIEW