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Energy efficiency in the Enterprise – Chris O’Connor’s Pulse keynote

Chris O’Connor is vice president of Strategy and Market Management for the Tivoli brand within IBM Software Group.

Chris gave a spectacular demo/presentation at Pulse 2009 on energy efficiency in the enterprise.

What set this presentation apart is that Chris gave some great stats (in 2007 data centers consumed 183bn kWh of energy, this cost $15.9bn, and 75% of enterprises have initiatives to reduce energy consumption).

Chris also demo’d some of the hugely effective ways that getting solid realtime metrics around energy utilisation in the enterprise helps reduce consumption, and finally at around 13:45 in the video, Chris tells a fascinating story about how their data center in Austin Texas was suffering from power spikes at 1am every morning, how they identified the cause and solved it.

IBM were good enough to give us a copy of his presentation for posting here.

[Disclosure - IBM paid my travel and expenses to attend Pulse]

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  5. People Over Process » IBM’s Fine-grained Energy Management, a Demo linked to this post on March 4, 2009

    [...] Greenmonk fellas managed to get a copy of the demo Chris O’Connor gave, and it’s worth checking [...]

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  8. People Over Process » STGEvent09 – The First Afternoon linked to this post on December 10, 2009

    [...] if one of them gave in on what they couldn’t do, it’d all add up. On the other hand, the metal to screen energy monitoring scenario from Pulse 2009 is a perfect example – and template – of how STG and Tivoli can share IT Management [...]

  9. STGEvent09 – The First Afternoon | The Apple Tech Blog linked to this post on December 13, 2009

    [...] if one of them gave in on what they couldn’t do, it’d all add up. On the other hand, the metal to screen energy monitoring scenario from Pulse 2009 is a perfect example – and template – of how STG and Tivoli can share IT Management [...]



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