Roundup: The Uptime Institute Symposium

This week’s Uptime Institute Symposium on Green Enterprise Computing has wrapped up, and several attendees have posted summaries of the key presentations:

• Ken Oestreich from Cassatt has recaps of each of the conference’s three days, including a review of Wednesday’s presentations from the EPA on Energy Star initiatives for the data center, as well as the DOE’s DC-Pro tool. Ken also has summaries of Day One and Day Two of the event.
• Deborah Grove also writes about the EPA programs, including its initiative to gather energy efficiency information from data center operators. Deborah also blogs about a breakfast for women participating in the symposium on day two, and Ken Brill’s keynote.

• Ted Samson from Sustainable IT at InfoWorld blogs about six lessons learned at the symposium. “The real challenge, one shared by the 400-plus attendees at the symposium, remains figuring out how to get from inefficient Point A to efficient Point Green,” Ted writes.
• Dave Ohara from the Green Data Center Blog has recaps of the keynotes from Ken Brill and Microsoft’s Mike Manos, as well as a fun item about a momentary detente in the container wars, as Sun’s Mark Monroe tours the Rackable ICE Cube.

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About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.