Reducing Data Centre Energy Costs and Carbon Footprint - 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 solutions for reducing energy costs, carbon emissions and footprint, and increasing the efficiency of the electrical energy consumed (PUE) by the data centre. This course provides a vendor neutral instruction on the concepts, methods and processes that are integral to delivering lower energy costs, reduced CO2 emissions and carbon footprint for the data centre.

This course gives you with knowledge about energy and carbon management together with an understanding of how the different aspects of data centre technologies inter-operate in consuming energy. This enables you to align your own data centre issues for both short and long term management of energy and how it interacts with the delivery of IT services. The aim is to empower delegates with sufficient knowledge that they are able to instigate, manage or contribute to energy and carbon management initiatives within the data centre.

Course Objectives

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

• Understand the factors affecting data centre energy consumption and carbon footprint.

• Define how energy is consumed and CO2 emissions occur in the data centre.

• Describe how to calculate a carbon footprint.

• Define how key components of data centre architecture contribute to energy consumption.

• Identify how to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions.

• Contribute to existing initiatives to manage energy consumption.

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

• 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

Reducing Data Centre Energy Costs and Carbon Footprint covers the key components of what affects energy consumption and CO2 emissions and what can be done to deliver reduced energy costs and carbon footprints as required by corporate governance.

Through the ideas presented it explains the factors affecting the immediate and long management of energy and presents business, technical and logistical problems that arise from this. With the issues defined, the course moves on to discuss the basic components of energy consumption, CO2 emissions and carbon footprints, before moving on to cover methods suitable for addressing these problems.

The course discusses aspects of energy efficiency in the data centre including a discussion on implementing solutions that address these issues. The course aims to empower delegates to instigate informative discussions with their peers on how to generate management information reporting. It is also aimed at identifying and prioritise energy management issues, potential pitfalls of poor energy efficiency management and how to align energy efficiency activities with corporate business objectives.

This course is all about raising awareness on energy efficiency and its carbon footprint with the objective of enabling delegates to contribute to solutions that meet these objectives.

Who Should Attend

Individuals who need to have an understanding of, or are responsible for managing energy efficiency, reducing CO2 emissions and understanding the carbon footprint within the data centre.

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 and carbon footprint is, its complexities and how an organisation could implement energy efficiency solutions. 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 roles listed.

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

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

Course Topics

The day covers the following topics:

1. An introduction to energy and CO2 emission issues
2. Understanding how energy is consumed in the data centre
3. Energy efficiency processes and the resources required
4. A review of technology inhibitors and enablers
5. Developing methods for reducing energy consumption
6. Planning and implementing an energy efficiency management project
7. Understanding energy efficiency metrics
8. Reviewing compliance