Mark your calendar – March 17th – 12 Noon EST.
In late 2007, John Charles, the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila, Director, Server & Network Operations were looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67kVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA and no more power was available from the local utility. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years. CSUEB embarked on an initiative to cut power (and costs) with server and storage virtualization. By the end of 2008, 25 servers had been shut down, 17 NAS devices had been migrated and turned off and 21 new applications that would have required additional servers have been installed. Power consumption had been reduced by 26% and tens of thousands of dollars in electricity costs had been saved.
Attendees of this Peer Incite will:
- Understand how CSUEB mobilized its organization to act to avert a crisis;
- Learn how CSUEB applied best practice in server and storage virtualization with Sun Servers and 3PAR disk arrays respectively;
- Understand key metrics that CSUEB is using to track progress.
- Identify ways to be proactive and avoid a similar crisis.
Pesenting on the call will be: Rich Avila – Director, Server & Network Operations – California State University East Bay (CSUEB)
Moderating will be: David Vellante, Co-founder, The Wikibon Project
Please join us…
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST (9:00am - 10:00am PST)
Access#: 218.486.1300
Bridge: 509215