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ABSTRACT:
Overview:
As one of today’s IT professionals, you may have noticed your job is changing! You need to take a more active role in managing your company’s IT’s energy consumption. You may have started your energy efficiency initiative in the data center, but consider the energy draws of your distributed IT assets. These assets in aggregate consume MORE energy. But, great news! Utilities and governments around the world are incentivizing energy efficient behaviors!
Join this Podcast, presented by PC Connection, featuring guest speakers Doug Washburn, Forrester Research Analyst, and co-presenter John Skinner, Intel’s Director of Marketing, Eco-Technology, as they discuss the scope of energy-efficient computing, and how new incentives can be leveraged to accelerate the ROI of your technology investments.
Join this Podcast to:
- Understand the economics of energy efficiency
- How to leverage incentive programs that may be offered by your electricity provider to maximize ROI
- Learn more about the Intel’s efficient technology and roadmap
- Coordinate tactics to reduce data center AND PC energy consumption
- Tips on how to eliminate energy waste in servers and data centers
- Leveraging smart network-management tools and mobile PC technologies
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Speakers
Doug Washburn
Analyst, Forrester Research
Doug serves IT Infrastructure & Operations professionals, focusing on green IT, green business, and IT leadership skills. His research helps IT executives successfully approach green IT, determine strategy, and then move from green IT awareness to action. Previously at Forrester, Doug was the global council manager and senior advisor for the Forrester Leadership Boards IT Infrastructure & Operations Council, a best practice community for senior IT executives in $1 billion-plus organizations.
John Skinner
Director of Marketing, Eco-Technology, Intel Corp.
John Skinner is the Director of Marketing for Eco-Technology at Intel Corporation. John is an alternate Member of the CSCI Board of Directors, and co-chairs (together with Google) the CSCI Marketing Committee. In this role, John brings together representatives from organizations as diverse as Intel, AMD, Microsoft, Google, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Sun, Fujistu, Super Micro, Intuit, CSC, and the World Wildlife Fund, to collectively address the common challenge of IT energy efficiency.
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