Data Center Seminars & Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

SCTE SEMI Forum

SCTE's Smart Energy Management Initiative (SEMI) Forum is part of SCTE's ongoing effort to drive meaningful and substantive applications of technology that lead to improved energy management and the reduction of energy consumption and expense. These one-day events attract cable engineering executives and individuals who have a vested interest in smart energy management. The forums provide an increased awareness of concrete solutions to our industry's energy management challenges and new options that exist for greater efficiency in every area of cable network operations through general sessions, specialized sessions, and networking opportunities.

New for 2012 the SCTE SEMI Forum will be open to all SCTE Members and non-members interested in improving energy management and reducing energy consumption and expenses.

Expanded Event! Register Today! All attendees must be pre-registered by March 9. No onsite registration will be available.

Http://www.scte.org/semiforum

Please check back soon for more information and other upcoming events.

PAST EVENTS

SCTE Cable-Tec EXPO '11

WES invites you to join us at the SCTE Green Pavilion. The SCTE Green Pavilion at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo® will focus on the highest priorities for energy management based on the work of SCTE's Smart Energy Management Initiative (SEMI). With the expansion of the SCTE SEMI mission, this year's green pavilion will not only highlight the practical business of energy conservation but also highlight network availability focused on the cable telecommunications industry, November 15-17, 2011 at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia.

SCTE Cable-Tec Expo®: Green Pavilion

WES: Green Pavilion

Power Quality & Reliability Conference – March 17-20, 2009

WES invites you to join us at two educational sessions that we will be presenting at the Power Quality & Reliability Conference, co-located with the Electric West Show, March 17-20, 2009 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Session W 14: POWER QUALITY MONITORING 1 

Wednesday, 03/18/2009 1:00PM - 4:30PM, Room N 239

“PQ Monitoring”

Chair: John H. Johnson, Power Quality Engineer – Mission Critical Design Group, Worldwide Environmental Services

Power Quality Monitoring is high on the list of critical tasks for managers of Mission Critical Facilities.  How this data is collected and what is done with it once it is in hand are key elements in the success of an effective PQ program.  This session will enlighten the attendee in some of the newest technologies available and offer some case studies of on-going PQ Monitoring Programs.

Session F 7: DATA CENTERS

Friday, 03/20/2009 8:30AM -12:00PM, Room N 237

“Power Quality and Data Centers”

Speaker: John H. Johnson, Power Quality Engineer – Mission Critical Design Group, Worldwide Environmental Services

Data Centers present a unique challenge to the Facilities Manager and PQ Engineer.  The criticality of the power supplied to the operating IT systems and the profiles of those loads and their resultant effect on that power forces us to balance resources.  Add to that the myriad of ‘solutions’ offered by a myriad of vendors and the plot thickens.

For scheduling/location updates and further information regarding other events at the conference, please visit www.electricshow.com and click on “POWER QUALITY CONFERENCE”.

Data Center World Conference - Spring 2009

WES invites you to join us at a keynote educational session that we will be presenting at the Spring 09 Data Center World Conference, March 8-12, 2009 at the Paris Hotel and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Presentation FG08: Hot Aisle/Cold Aisle: Dangers and Myths
Wednesday, 03/11/2009 10:30am Champagne Ballroom-1
Thursday, 03/12/2009 08:30am Champagne Ballroom-1

Chair: Eric Williamson, President, Worldwide Environmental Services
Presenter: Mark Welsko, P.E., Director Mission Critical Design, Worldwide Environmental Services

Since the coining of the phrase 'hot aisle/cold aisle', this cooling distribution methodology has been almost universally accepted as the cooling strategy of choice for many data centers. But is there a dark side to this strategy? In this session, we take a close look at hot aisle/cold aisle cooling, and explore some of the pitfalls of this often misunderstood approach to cooling and the often ignored dangers of a rigid deployment of this cooling stratagem. This session provides thoughtful insight into how air distribution should be balanced when a down flow plenum air delivery system is utilized in a data center, and discusses alternate cooling strategies attendees should be aware of.

For scheduling/location updates and further information regarding other events at the conference, please visit www.datacenterworld.com

SUN Microsystems CEC 2008  -  November 9 through November 14

Over 2000 Sun Partners and employees gathered at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas for the Customer Engineering Conference 2008.  This opportunity allowed the top customer facing engineers from Sun and their global partners to:

       Learn about Sun's strategy and vision from top executives

       Share technical knowledge and best practices

       Develop networks and meet colleagues

       Set milestones towards technical accreditation/certification

08 & 09-NOV

WES Partner Training Session
WES is a Sun Global Service Delivery Partner providing Assessment, Design & Support services as part of the Sun Eco Services Suite, and for the Sun Modular Datacenter. With over 25 years experience, and 12 years as a Sun Partner, WES can help any customer meet their efficiency and availability goals.

This training Session will focus on:
1. Sun Eco Services Suite
2. Mission Critical Design Services for Datacenter
3. Sun Modular Datacenter

09 & 11-NOV

WES Partner Exhibit - Vendome Ballroom - Booth #402

WES will be participating in the CEC Pavilion with information on Services associated with the Sun Eco Services Suite and the Sun Modular Datacenter.

Sun ECO Innovation Initiative Seminar
September 10, 2008
Dipoli Conference Center
Otakaari 24
Espoo, FINLAND

http://fi.sun.com/sunnews/events/2008/eco_seminar/index.jsp

Sun's new Eco-Innovation Initiative is a simpler way to develop IT's  efficiency, reduce costs and lower the environmental impact. The Eco Innovation Initiative seminar will explain how you can make your data center more efficient and environmentally friendly!

Meet Eric Williamson at 11:30 and join us for the
following information session:

Go Green While Improving Availability
Eric Williamson, President, Worldwide Environmental Services, WES

Balance efficiency with availability in your data center. Using real-life case studies, learn how WES solutions can help you fine tune your facility to maximize energy efficiency, reduce your carbon footprint and operating expenses while maintaining a high availability environment. Whether designing for a new space or operating an existing space, this session will provide indispensable information.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. Americas Sales Meeting
Americas Sales Meeting FY09
August 4, 2008 - August 7, 2008
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center
Washington, DC
www.sunasm.com

The WES Table will be located in the Partner Pavilion area with attention on Tuesday August 5th from 7:00pm-10:00pm and on Wednesday August 6th from 12:00pm-1:30pm.

Join the WES management team to learn more about the the various Sun Services supplied through partner Worldwide Environmental Services (WES).

You can also join WES at the Partner Pavilion networking breakfast on Wednesday August 6th from 07:00am - 08:00am.

SunExpo08
April 10, 2008
Sheraton
Stockholm
http://se.sun.com/sunnews/events/sunexpo/

Meet Eric Williamson at 10:50 and join us for the
following product information session:

Go Green While Improving Availability
Eric Williamson, President, Worldwide Environmental Services, WES

Balance efficiency with availability in your data center. Using real-life case studies, learn how WES solutions can help you fine tune your facility to maximize energy efficiency, reduce your carbon footprint and operating expenses while maintaining a high availability environment. Whether designing for a new space or operating an existing space, this session will provide indispensable information.

Data Center World Expo
The Conference for Data Center Professionals
March 30 - April 3, 2008
The MGM Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
www.datacenterworld.com

Visit WES at Booth 662 at the Data Center World Expo and join us for the
following product information session:

P22: Go Green While Improving Availability
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
09:15 - 10:15
Room S210
Eric Williamson, President, Worldwide Environmental Services, WES
Mark Welsko, P.E., Director, Mission Critical Design, Worldwide Environmental Services, WES
Balance efficiency with availability in your data center. Using real-life case studies, learn how WES solutions can help you fine tune your facility to maximize energy efficiency, reduce your carbon footprint and operating expenses while maintaining a high availability environment. Whether designing for a new space or operating an existing space, this session will provide indispensable information.

Sun Immersion Week FY08
February 26 - 27, 2008
Q Center
St. Charles, Illinois

Immersion Week FY08 is Sun's annual training event. The conference offers attendees (Sun and Partners) a week of intense knowledge and content gathering. They'll hear about Sun's latest technologies and the important business propositions in which Sun has made investments for the future.

Who Attends?
Immersion Week FY08 is attended by approximately 1000 staff from the US, Canadian and Latin American organizations as well as select staff from some of our Partners. Engagement Architects, Solution Architects and Technology Specialists will be in attendance.

This year, Immersion Week FY08 will be from February 24-29th outside of Chicago, IL at the Q Center. The Partner Pavilion will be open on Tuesday, February 26th for the first wave of participants and on Wednesday February 27th for the second wave of participants from 7:00 to 9:30 pm each night.

WES is hosting a booth in the Partner Pavilion
When: Feb 26th & Feb 27th (Partner Pavilion)
Who: Eric Williamson & John Teague

Come and meet Eric Williamson & John Teague, and learn more about Sun's ECO Services Suite, delivered globally by WES. We can share some customer successes and answer any questions that you might have about the ECO service offerings.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. Americas Sales Meeting
Located at Table 28 on Tuesday in the Amazon Ballroom from 7:00 to 10:00PM

Americas Sales Meeting FY08
July 30 - August 3, 2007
Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, NV
www.sunasm.com

Data Center World Expo
The Conference for Data Center Professionals
March 25-29, 2007
The MGM Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
www.datacenterworld.com

Visit WES at Booth 126 at the Data Center World Expo and join us for the following seminars:

Data Center World Spring 2007 Educational Tracks: Data Center Best Practices
BP03: Maintaining Best Practices Throughout Relocation
Eric Williamson, President, Worldwide Environmental Services, WES
Mark Welsko, P.E., Director, Mission Critical Design, Worldwide Environmental Services, WES
In the midst of a major data center move there are frequently so many things screaming for attention that it is easy to ignore issues that don’t seem to be immediate emergencies. But contamination control, thermal maintenance, and configuration planning are all critical areas that cannot be ignored without consequence. A move or major renovation can be a complicated and difficult proposition, but it is also an opportunity to correct many of the sins of the past. This presentation will provide information on often overlooked controls and procedures that should be part of any major move or construction project in a data center.
www.datacenterworld.com/conference-details/sessions/best-practices.aspx

Data Center World Spring 2007 Product Information Session
P02: Intelligent Design & Support Decisions for High Availability Computer Facilities
Eric Williamson, President, Worldwide Environmental Services (WES)
Learn how to optimize what you have and plan for the future. The challenge of keeping pace with changes in computer technology and the data center infrastructure is daunting, and choosing the right solution from the traditional and newly engineered approaches available can be very difficult and confusing. Through a full life-cycle suite of services, WES can provide the intelligent design and support necessary to get the most out of your new or existing facility.
www.datacenterworld.com/conference-details/sessions/
product_information_sessions.aspx

Data Centre Solutions Event - Docklands 2006
14th & 15th June, 2006
Sunborn Yacht Hotel, Royal Victoria Dock, Docklands, London, UK
Raritan and Unite Technology Partnership™ join forces to organise the exclusive Data Centre Management Solutions Conference 2006 Raritan UK Ltd and Unite Technology Partnership™ leading providers of solutions for managing IT equipment and mission-critical applications and services which help to securely control and manage computers, servers, and other IT devices that organisations rely on, today announced an exclusive event about Data Centre Management Solutions, being held at the Sunborn Yacht Hotel, Royal Victoria Dock (Excel), Docklands, London, E16 1SL on 14th & 15th June 2006. WES is a Unite Technology Partnership™ member.

For more information, please visit the Unite Technology Partnership™ website: Data Centre Solutions Event - Docklands 2006

Data Center World
The Conference for Data Center Professionals
April 17-21, 2005
The Rio Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

Data Center World 2005 Educational Tracks: Data Center Facilities

F05: Hardware Reliability: Back-to-Basics
Eric Williamson, President, Worldwide Environmental Services John Teague, Engagement Manager, Worldwide Environmental Services As technology evolves and hardware heat densities increase, the industry struggles to engineer new solutions to address these changes. Often times, the response to correcting environmental issues in the data center is an expensive, over-engineered solution that often does not address the actual underlying problems. This presentation focuses on a back-to-basics approach to correct data center air-conditioning problems using proven, but often missed, techniques developed from real-world experience in thousands of data centers worldwide. The specific areas covered include temperature and relative humidity, hardware airflow and physical configuration, as well as a discussion of some of the external factors that affect a data center’s ability to maintain design conditions. The seminar’s focus on improving the environment without necessarily incurring additional costs makes it a useful tool in helping the members of a facility’s support team develop a comprehensive approach to maintaining high availability.

www.afcom.com

Seminars presented by Rittal Corporation, Powerware and WES. For more information, visit the Rittal web site at www.rittal-corp.com.

“Best practices,” “mission critical” and “cost effective” are commonly used terms dominating data center design. But more importantly, how is it successfully applied and put into practice? The Data Center Design Seminar brings together industry leaders in their respective fields to provide the latest instruction in the design of physical plant infrastructure within the data facility.

The Data Center Design Seminar is directed toward the end user community across all vertical markets including financial services, manufacturing, education, security, health care, retail and distribution. The series will also prove useful to the engineering, design and consultant community, providing non–proprietary, real world solutions for data center design.

Registration fee:
$35 per person
$25 for three or more people with the same company

Earn 3 BICSI Credits

October 14, 2004 - New York, NY
Renaissance New York Hotel
Times Square
Two Times Square
714 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10036

September 21, 2004 - Washington D.C.
Holiday Inn Select Bethesda
8120 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone 301-652-2000

August 10, 2004 - Raleigh / Durham North Carolina
Durham - Marriott
Research Triangle Park
Salons A and B
4700 Guardian Drive
Durham, NC 27703

August 11, 2004 -Charlotte North Carolina
Charlotte Suites Hotel
Florence I and II
2800 Coliseum Centre Drive
Charlotte, NC 28217

August 12, 2004 - Atlanta Georgia
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Riviera Room
265 Peachtree Center Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30303

August 17, 2004 - Houston Texas
Double Tree Hotel Post Oak
2001 Post Oak Boulevard
Houston, Texas

August 18, 2004 - Dallas Texas
Embassy Suites Hotel Outdoor World
DFW International Airport
2401 Bass Pro Drive
Dallas, Texas 76051