Our 2010 sponsors:

• February
• Sponsor: The Siemon Company
• Presenter: Carrie Higbie - Global Director for Data Center Solutions and Services
• Description: 
  "The Changing Face of the Data Center" Today's data centers have evolved more by need rather than planning. With 40/100G and green issues looming, there are better ways to design a data center. This presentation will consider budgets from all the varied departments for an end to end decision for today's speeds and tomorrow's needs.
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• March
• Sponsor: Avocent, is a leader in advancing digital, embedded, wireless and mobile technologies
• Presenter: Patrick McConaughy, a 10 year veteran specializing in data centers
• Description: 
  Centralized Management - Take command of all your IT assets from a single screen
  
  • Gain insight into power, cooling, and space issues in your data center
  • Learn why using spreadsheets is not the best way to track your equipment
  Power Management - Tame the hungry beast, enable more green initiatives
  
  • Monitor energy consumption, costs and trends across all levels within the data center and remote locations
  • Understand the effect of proposed changes on power and cooling capacities
  • Validate energy saving strategies
  Capacity Management – Understand what equipment you have and what it’s doing
  
  • Visualize proposed changes
  • Take the guess work out of moves, adds, and changes
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• June
• Sponsor: SGI & Capital Data
• Presenter: John Piech, of SGI
• Description: 
  SGI is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding technology challenges by delivering: high performance computing, servers, storage, data center and cloud computing solutions and professional services. SGI is a leader in HPC and data management. They develop, market and sell a broad line of low-cost, mid-range and high-end scale-out and scale-up servers and data storage solutions, infrastructure products designed-to-order as well as differentiating software. SGI enables enterprises to meet their computing and storage requirements at a lower total cost of ownership and provides them greater flexibility and scalability.
  
  SGI and Capital Data invite you to attend this seminar focused on practical ideas and actions to help organizations take a realistic view of cloud technology. Join us as we help you separate fact from fiction and assist in defining your real “cloud” strategy.
  
  
  • Cloud Computing: The processor does make a difference. Efficient systems for large scale cloud environments.
  • Cloud Storage: How does it work? Security, compliance and continuity considerations for cloud computing.
  • Decreasing Energy Costs: Programs that work. Moving workload in and out of the cloud, seamlessly.
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Our 2011 sponsors: