WESTERN PA AFCOM CHAPTER
- the leading association of data center management professionals -
The goal of the Western PA Chapter is to enhance member knowledge about Data Center Management related topics through educational presentations, roundtable discussions and peer-to-peer networking opportunities. The group meets quarterly in March, June, September and December. Members reside in Western Pennsylvania and portions of West Virginia and Ohio and are a diverse cross-section of the data center industry. The chapter was formed May 16, 2007.
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Event Calendar:
Join us for our next Western PA AFCOM Chapter Meeting!
Date: Thursday, September 15
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Lunch provided by Donwil)
Place:
| Carnegie Mellon University Room 279, Cyert Hall 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15205 |  |
Topic:
The State of the Data Center
Current
Trends and Future Challenges
Agenda
- DC Virtualization – Compute, storage, Network
- Architectural Aspects
- DC Scalability, Multi-tenancy
- DC Cloud – Industry Status and Update
- Closing
CMU Data Center Tour Following Presentation!
Cloud Computing, Virtualization, and Consolidation are changing the IT infrastructure in the Data Center and placing greater demands on the physical infrastructure. This presentation will review the top trends and challenges your peers are facing as well as share the emerging solutions and best practices that will help you to build, retrofit, and manage your environment holistically and optimally.
Check back again for more 2011 event updates.
Previous Events:
Topic - CDC Data Services, LLC
Topic - Building Blocks for Converged Technologies
Presented By: - Panduit www.panduit.com
Topic - Green Data Centers
Presented By: - IBM www.ibm.com
DCWChapterPresentationSlide.ppt GreenDataCenterWhitePaper.pdf Greendatacenter.pdf
Topic - Best Practices in Power Anomoly Mitigation at PowerLab facility
Presented By: - Eaton www.eaton.com
Topic - How Secure is your Data Center followed by a PNC Park Tour
Presented By: - Joe Crawford of Verizon Business www.verizon.com
Topic - Data Center Virtualization
Presented By: - David Livingston of Versatile Systems, Inc www.versatile.com