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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