Data Center Dynamics Sydney - Keynote Speech

DCSG Chairman, Zahl Limbuwala will be presenting a keynote speech at this years Data Center Dynamics event in Hong Kong, entitled 'Quantifying Efficiency - How to show the return on investment for energy saving initiatives.'

The recent recommendation of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) for electricity price rises of as much as 62% over the next 3 years combined with reporting requirements under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act indicate that the challenge of monitoring and reducing energy consumption has never been greater.

The ability to gather information to produce relevant energy efficiency metrics and the promise of new metrics for water usage effectiveness will empower data centre managers with the tools required to make important investment decisions.

With the scarcity of capital a fact of life for the data centre industry, upgrades offer opportunities to meet these challenges. Looking forward, scalability and modular solutions offer the potential of a cost-effective route to meet future organisation needs. This will mean data centre expansion objectives are guided by rigorous capacity management and planning.

Against this industry backdrop DatacenterDynamics returns to Sydney to deliver technical papers and case studies on the following topics: