Archive for December, 2009
ASHRAE/DOE Data Center Energy Efficiency Workshop
Posted by computerrooms in overview on December 30th, 2009
The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engiennrs (ASHRAE) in collaboration with the Department of Energy offers a full day workshop focusing on opportunities for improving energy efficiency in data-com facilities, The workshop supports the DOE’s vision to create guidelines for continuous improvement by inspiring data center owners to take action now to begin reducing energy. With each workshop, ASHRAE provides high quality, authoritative, and credible technical resources. Each attendee will receive copies of all presentation slides, CD with all presentation slides in color,one free ASHRAE data-com book, 50% discount coupon for purchase of other ASHRAE data-com books.
OMS in Your Data Center LLC is proud to be the sponsor for this workshop. Thanks to the DOE, ASHRAE, NStar, and the Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Partnership for their support and interest in offering this workshop in Massachusetts on March 3, 2010 for the Data Center Industry. All interested in attending this workshop should go to www.ComputerRooms.com and under the “contact” tab enter your name, e-mail, WORKSHOP under subject, and a message to indicate an interest to attend or your request for information – or call.
Seating for this first of its kind workshop in Massachusetts is limited. Plan to make reservations early.
Pledge your Data Center to become more Green
Posted by computerrooms in federal programs on December 28th, 2009

Tell the Energy Secretary about your Green plans
Join forces with OMS in Your Data Center, LLC by pledging to improve the energy efficiency in your data center by 30% over the next ten years. This voluntary program is akin to the Save Energy Now LEADER Program launched by the Department of Energy in December 2009.
This commitment to energy efficiency not only reduces greenhouse gas emissions, it shows the entire data center industry and the Information Technology business community your interest to leverage energy efficiencies in the data center which can secure employment, improve budget performance, become more competitive, and reduce the carbon footprint of your data center.
The Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Cathy Zoi has set the standard by announcing the DOE Save Energy Now LEADERSHIP Program this month (12/2009). Now I send this challenge to every data center manager and CIO to follow suit – Save Energy now.
This is a voluntary program through OMS in Your Data Center, LLC. Go to www.ComputerRooms.comand select the ‘contact’ tab, provide your name, E-mail, and enter a subject of ‘Save Energy Now Pledge’, then click ‘other’. Under ‘your message’ provide your company information and commentary on your pledge to reduce the energy intensity of your data center over the next 10 years by 30%. Please provide adequate contact information for tracking and reporting. Pledge each data center location separately.
Every time we complete 100 new data center pledges, a list of the participating company names and the state in which they reside will be published. Also, the list will be sent to the Secretary of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the DOE proclaiming the data center industry is taking seriously the need for energy efficiency and our commitment and pledge for reducing green house gas emissions.
Go Green / Save Green
Posted by computerrooms in overview on December 15th, 2009
elcome to ComputerRooms.com – an online forum for presenting and discussing Best Practices for today’s corporate data center professionals.

Greening the data center can actually reduce your budget
Do you have “green fatigue”? I hope not, because in reality the so-called Green Initiative is the most positive development for the data center industry in over thirty years. This author – along with the help from the team at OMS In Your Datacenter, LLC, who are the sponsors of this online resource – will bring you reports directly from the trenches to help you “Go Green and Save Green” by embracing the latest Data Center Best Practices that we encounter and share with you within this forum.
Our team has over 30 years experience in the management of the data center which includes implementing and validating best practices as well as the design of infrastructure and facilities. We hope you, as a data center professional and colleague, return often to this forum to share the latest green research that can actually reduce your budget while [cue the heavenly choir] saving the planet. We welcome your comments, feedback, and best practice contributions to this forum in the coming months.

