Topic: Whether you are considering building a new data center or upgrading your existing environment, a lot has changed in the past five years. As businesses have come to consider IT a mission critical asset, the physical security and stability of the data center are more important than ever. Computing power requirements have increased exponentially and have driven the demand for high density power and cooling solutions often running existing facilities completely out of capacity or causing prolonged outages. We will explore many of the existing requirements, illustrate how they are changing and explore some of the solutions that have been put in place to address all of these issues. The presentation will focus on the construction of the BlueLock Indianapolis Data Center that was completed in March 2007 and will address multiple topics including power capacity sizing, thermodynamics, high density computing(blade servers and multi-core processors), hardened facilities, audit standards and physical security.
When: Wednesday July 16th at 6PM
Agenda
• 6:00 – 6:30 Pizza / Social Time
• 6:30 – 6:45 Introduction / Breakout to Sessions
• 6:45 – 8:30 Event: Breakout #1, #2, #3
• 8:30 – 8:45 Q&A / Door Prizes
Directions:
From wherever you are joining us, find Meridian St. (US 31) on the north side - it’s 12 o’clock on the I-465 dial. Go east on 96th St. Parkwood Four is the second entrance on the left if you’re coming from Meridian St. Turn Left into the entrance. At the 4-way stop, turn right. 500 E. 96th St. is the second building on the left. The 1st floor conference room is, well – on the first floor. It’s right next to the MBP Catering café to make it easy to find!
Parking:
Parkwood Four has both covered parking (garage behind the building) and outside parking (in front of the building). Parking is free.
Snacks and Refreshments:
Join us at 6:00PM for pizza and soda, courtesy of Microsoft! Get there on time to enjoy your fair share!
Speaker: Pat O’Day, BlueLock’s chief technology officer, is responsible for engineering, commercializing and making the company’s “infrastructure-as-as-service” virtual cloud computing model a business reality. With more than 20 years of experience as an information technology professional, he defines BlueLock’s services, architects its unique hosted IT environments, spearheads its strategic vendor alliances and oversees service deployment and delivery. Starting his career in network management and systems integration and then transitioning into managed IT services, data center management and disaster recovery, Pat is uniquely qualified to develop and rollout BlueLock’s innovative capacity-on-demand value proposition.