Data Centre Energy Efficiency Management - Course

Course Benefit Summary

For CIOs, Managers, IT Professionals, Architects / Solution Consultants, IT Purchasers, Consultants, Energy Managers and Administrators that are tasked with or considering a solution for reducing energy costs and increasing the efficiency of the electrical energy consumed by the data centre. This course provides a jargon free and vendor neutral instruction on the concepts, methods and processes that are integral to implementing a high value business-led energy efficiency management programme for the data centre.

This course enables you to identify the business requirements for the long term management of energy consumption and how it interacts with the practicality of IT service delivery in modern data centres. The aim is to empower delegates with sufficient knowledge that they are able to instigate, manage or contribute to an energy efficiency initiative.

Course Objectives

On completion of the course, you should be able to:

• Understand the business requirements for establishing a strategy for dealing with the management of energy consumption within the data centre.

• Define the main components of the energy efficiency management process.

• Define the key elements and deliverables of a successful energy efficiency management programme.

• Instigate a project to initiate energy efficiency management within your business.

• Contribute to existing initiatives to manage energy consuming assets.

• Understand energy efficiency metrics

• Assist communication between corporate decision makers, business managers, Facilities and IT staff

• Identify the resources necessary to support your company’s corporate governance requirements for energy consumption.

Delegates own contributions, questions and experiences are welcomed and add to these core topics.

Course Description

Data Centre Energy Efficiency Management explains the entire spectrum of what it takes to define and implement a business-led energy efficiency management strategy capable of delivering real benefits to the business of reduced energy costs, increased efficiency, higher IT productivity and meets the strict and increasingly demanding requirements of corporate governance.

Through the ideas presented it explains why the long term management of energy is important and presents the business, technical and logistical problems that exist in achieving these objectives. With the issues defined, the course moves on to discuss methods that could be considered for addressing these problems and how to implement a business-led, but IT-oriented, strategies for managing the power consumption.

The course discusses aspects of energy efficiency in the data centre including an in-depth look at the processes, including interaction with ITIL, technologies and opportunities that exist in this dynamic and emerging field of IT management. The course can empower the delegate to instigate informative discussions with their business counterparts on how to identify and prioritise energy management issues, management information reporting, potential pitfalls of poor energy efficiency management strategy implementation and how to align the energy efficiency activities with corporate business objectives.

Having covered the complete spectrum of tasks required to develop a robust business-led energy efficiency strategy, this course goes on to review the challenges that would need to be addressed for implementing the strategy and its processes into normal business operations.

This course is all about raising the debate on what is necessary to ensure that business objectives are met and corporate governance is maintained for the management and demand for energy throughout all data centre activities.

Who Should Attend

Individuals who need to have an understanding of, or are responsible for managing energy efficiency within the data centre or for ensuring the objectives of corporate governance are achieved.

This can include any member of staff (Administration / Technical, including non-IT / Managerial), Energy Managers, Consultant or Vendor who requires an understanding of what energy efficiency is, its complexities and how a business should construct and implement an energy efficiency strategy. Anyone who needs to be able to communicate effectively with corporate management, IT professionals and to provide or contribute to IT strategies will benefit greatly from this course.

By way of example the course content is targeted for professionals working in the following roles:

Suggested Prerequisites:

There are no formal prerequisites for this course since the course is designed to explain the concepts of implementing and maintaining an energy efficiency initiative to Managers, IT Professionals, Consultants and Administrators.

Continuous Professional Development (CPD):

This course can be considered as a course module suitable for inclusion within your programme of Continuing Professional Development and a certificate of attendance can be requested on request.