This Webinar is a panel Discussion, moderated by Mark Acton (independent Consultant) and feature Industry Experts Venessa Moffat (RiT Tech), Simon Browne (JLL), Eddie Kilbane (Dataplex Group) and Ofer Lior, (Intel).

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Outline of the Panel Discussion:

“The ongoing edge deployment trend is resulting in the creation of business critical sites that are both remote and generally not staffed. The current difficulties with travel and site access pose similar challenges to more traditional sites. This panel of Experts will discuss “How do we monitor, manage and maintain these sites to ensure continued availability and reliability?”

Areas that were discussed:

• Edge deployment and the growing dependency on remote sites that are not manned yet potentially business critical
• Dark Data Centres
• The requirement to manage increasingly complex, geographically diverse, hybrid digital infrastructure
• How can these sites remain reliable and available without onsite staff?
• How should site visits and essential maintenance be manged and performed?
• Should we be introducing new operational models that better suit remote, dark site management?
• How do we collate the information we need to manage multiple unmanned remote sites to achieve operational and economic objectives?
• Yet we need to have this accuracy and confidence in the data to properly support the business and the economics of operating a data centre
• How do we achieve this dream?
• What is tools are there or are being developed to assist those challenged with managing datacentres and other Critical Infrastructure?
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This Webinar is a panel Discussion, moderated by David  McAuley, (BitPower) and features Industry Experts Liam Ryan (Eirgrid),  Dermot McArdle (ESB), Damien Gaynor (Echelon Data Centres) and Dr Lisa Ryan, (The School of Economics, UCD).

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The success of Ireland in attracting Data Centres, coupled with the size of the country means Ireland’s Energy sector is having to develop to meet the challenges faster than many other countries, particularly for large energy users.

This Panel Experts will discuss “The Irish Energy Challenge – Fulfilling Data Centre Power Requirements, in a Renewable Age.”

Areas to be discussed include:

• Data Centre Growth in the Country
• Power demand in Ireland – Now and in the Future
• Impact of DataCentre Clusters and Local Power Demand
• Government Policy
• Growth of Sustainable/Renewable Energy
• Data Centres as an active player in the Energy Sector
• Demand Response and Independent Onsite Generation
• Should Data Centres be viewed as Value Adding processors of locally sourced renewable energy.
• The Economic Impact of Data Centres and the Energy Market

This panel discussion features representatives from: Carbon3IT, CATALYST Project, Codema, Qarnot, Asperitas, Dutch Data Center Association, ECO Cooling and Telia Finland.

Abstract: 

With the EU stating that “Data Centres, can, and should be carbon neutral by 2030” is there the possibility of using the waste heat more efficiently? This expert panel will discuss the potential, the engineering, the enabling infrastructure, the technical skills required and the costs and benefits of waste heat reuse, especially for smaller edge sites and whether the wide scale adoption of innovative technologies such as immersed cooling, tip the industry towards the edge!

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Presentation Summary:

Today’s enterprise data centre must handle more requirements than ever before, with the IT infrastructure connecting distributed ecosystems of employees, partners, and suppliers.

With this complexity comes the need for technology and services to ensure high availability and optimal performance of the IT delivery infrastructure.

For resource-strapped IT organisations, managing these complex IT environments can present significant challenges. IT managers are focusing on driving strategic technology transformations that can directly affect bottom-line revenue rather than manage legacy IT assets.

Recent research from IDC has indicated that IT leaders are increasingly relying more heavily on IT support providers that can help improve their IT operations, while also meeting the ever-increasing demand for IT performance.

This webinar, hosted together with IDC, will seek to explore and highlight what IT organisations should look for in a support partner, while addressing steps to take if managing multiple support providers becomes just as challenging as managing the IT infrastructure themselves.

Key takeaways of the webinar for attendees, are;

1. Learn how increasingly complicated IT infrastructures are driving the need for new and different types of outsourced support

2. Understand the latest trends in how companies are evaluating support providers

3. Learn how DMSO (a new IT services model) can manage much of the heavy lifting, allowing IT leaders to focus more on the big picture of their IT operations

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Abstract: This webinar/presentation explores challenges, considerations and insights for Data Centre Infrastructure and Operations leaders engaged in the formulation of strategies.

Learning Points:

• Insights to data centre power and energy usage
• CAPEX and OPEX considerations for data centre decision makers
• Key infrastructure and operational observations
• Formulating a data centre energy strategy

Speaker name, job title and company:

Andrew Dobson, Head of Global Sales, Hanley Energy

Speaker Bio:

Currently Head of Global Sales at Hanley Energy, a role focused on leading a multi-country sales team to delivery high-value technical solutions to a hyperscale and industrial manufacturing client base.

A core component of Andrew’s role is unlocking business value for clients by combining the technical, operational and consultative capabilities of Hanley Energy during engagements.

With over 20 years client management and engagement experience, Andrew brings a wealth of product and technology monetization insights from his roles in global telecommunications giants such as British Telecom, Ericsson and Telefonica.

Abstract:

Sprawling data centre hardware, an inefficient IT environment with multiple IT suppliers and increased IT costs can be hard to manage, maintain and control.  This Park Place Technologies webinar will explore how these challenges can be overcome with a multitude of services within the concept of DMSO (Discover, Monitor, Support and Optimize). DMSO can help you regain control of your IT environment by giving you visibility of your whole hardware environment, ensuring your IT environment is performing as it should be by driving business and IT efficiency, and reduce your support costs by 30-40%.

Key takeaways of the webinar for attendees:

1. Learn how new market tools and services can help manage complicated IT infrastructures
2. Explore how greater visibility of your IT environment can help drive IT performance and efficiency
3. See how your data centre hardware support costs can be reduced by 30-40% including shifting CapEx to OpEx spend
4. Find out about DMSO and how it can help your organisation regain control of your IT

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Abstract:

DCIM promised the earth but has failed to deliver. It stands accused of wasting time and money and making false promises.

From reorganising the letters to creating new acronyms, DCIM has faced lots of controversy on how it just doesn’t do what is says on the tin.

Will DCIM end up in the bin through no fault of its own or will perceptions be effectively changed.

As a community should we say ‘Out with the old and in with new?’
Or are those promises just not necessary and the demand just was not there in the first place.

We’re here to accept the challenge to stand as the accused on behalf of DCIM and face a Chief Inquisitor in order to defend a DCIM that has now turned over a new leaf.

3 Accused will stand in the dock on behalf of DCIM to answer the questions of a Chief Inquisitor

The defendant on behalf of the accused, Mark Acton will present the case for the defence. A case on why the market was just not listening to the customers’ needs and how RiT Tech has made DCIM proud.

Learning Points:

1. Why data centres risk the opportunity for growth without DCIM
2. Wise data centre operators need one central infrastructure management tool
3. Why XpedITe is different and changing perceptions
4. How IT infrastructure management and facilities management can integrate with ease and complete clarity
5. Having a bit of fun

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What will be discussed:

Variable speed solutions bring substantial improvements to data center energy performance, allowing to save on average 20 to 60% of energy used in cooling. At the same time, it is important to be careful when selecting variable speed technology, since it significantly impacts data center power network reliability. Join the session to discover what ABB, one of the top technology leaders, offers for increased data center cooling efficiency without compromising on power quality and how else variable speed drives can help benefit data centers.

– What are the risks for a data center power network if not paying enough attention to variable speed solutions for cooling
– Why PUE doesn’t tell the whole story about how effectively the energy is used by a data center
– Benefits of active front end drives for cooling applications speed control

Key Learning Points:

– Select the equipment based on its efficiency at the data center actual operating points and not its peak load.
– Specify variable speed technology for cooling considering its power quality performance to avoid data center operation instability and excessive capex and opex.
– Active front end drive technology ensures power quality for better data center resilience and substantially improves capex and opex.

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Abstract:

Data centres and IT facilities are extremely concerned about data loss and downtime and take many precautions to protect themselves. This is especially true for timeframes when facilities may be understaffed and potential problems cannot be spotted, such as we’ve seen due to recent COVID-19 staffing concerns. 30% of all data loss stems from unexpected environmental issues that are often overlooked and need to be monitored to prevent damage or downtime. This presentation will discuss how installing proactive environment monitors and sensors will help to alert data centre staff and tenants to potential environmental issues that can be addressed before they result in costly downtime.

LEARNING POINTS

• Help prevent downtime & data loss
• Compile reports to view environment changes over time
• Affordable, easy to install and use
• Protect against causes of downtime not monitored by traditional hardware and software
• Monitors and sensors are customizable for any facility size, budget, or application

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The lack of information and transparency in the Data Centre market plays a crucial role in the resistance of the sectors growth, understanding, and subsequent errors. With perceptions varying from person to person about what a Data Centre is and how this determines the capacity is a prime example of how little we know about the market.

Verification of facility infrastructure, capacity, performance, and other non-performance related attributes and data acquisition in our market is direly needed.

Existing standards bodies and research houses currently provide data collection methods, verifying facility infrastructure and performance. However, that’s not enough. Could this be due to measuring performance or non-performance attributes are taken as a snapshot instead of over its lifespan? The sheer number of different standards also causes some friction – which one to adopt, for what reason and the vast costs associated with them are only but a few issues that stand in the way of better designs, builds or operating a Data Centres. The entire process of adopting accreditation is complicated!

Is there a way to harness their strengths under one central platform that we can all use to our advantage?

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This webinar is brought to you by the global leaders in intelligent energy management, GridBeyond. Denver Blemings, Regional Director and Irish Energy Market Specialist, will present to you the ways that data centre businesses, like yours, can use energy management as a gateway to enhanced revenues and savings, whilst optimising uptime. Within this presentation, you will learn:

• How to uncover flexibility in your energy use without impacting operations
• How the energy markets are changing and what that means for you
• Where the opportunities lie for businesses like yours
• What new technology is available and how it works
• How much your business could both earn and save through the energy markets

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A panel discussion by industry experts and gas engine specialists focussing on the merits of on-site electricity generation for Data Centres. Innovative system design and hybrid energy solutions can ensure maximum efficiency, control costs and lower emissions for Irish Data Centres.

• Energy Reliability – Electricity Grid, Natural Gas Grid & onsite generation as energy insurance
• Enabling Green – Grid Support; Flexible Generation – Controlling electricity costs
• Speed to market or Connection time challenges – Energy Bridging solutions
• Carbon or GHG regulation Outlook/Change/Challenges
• Future H2 solutions & Natural Gas grid – including renewable gas

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Designing for Safety & Reliability (DFSR) is focused on protecting workers and operational integrity while creating a cost-effective inspection and maintenance program. Through the use of Reliability Technologies, the need for constant fixing of things that aren’t broken is replaced with the ability to continuously monitor and inspect critical assets. This requires fewer staff to focus on each asset and allows a higher number of inspections, increased data sets to analyze performance and condition, and a clearer ability to plan any necessary repairs.

Most programs fail at the outset because they are too difficult of a process. By creating a simple system that can be followed and replicated, the chances for long-term success increase and the program can continue regardless of staff changes or scaling of business.

Companies that Design For Safety & Reliability operate at a safer and more efficient level than those that don’t. Providing the ability for technicians to run their inspection rounds on their own, in a closed-panel environment that would provide an increased level of safety from arc flash, electrocution, etc., DFSR also decreases the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for each asset.

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Achieving Ireland’s targets to decarbonise will be challenging.

With the data centre sector booming in Ireland now is the time for the industry to play its part in Ireland’s drive to a low carbon future.

In this Webinar we will explore the following and their role in the journey to a low carbon future:

• Renewable Power Purchase Agreements (PPA).
• On-site generation such as Solar PV technologies.
• The role of back-up generation and UPS battery systems to provide flexibility
• Waste heat management

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What will be discussed?

With the power demand from data centres predicted to account for nearly 30% of Ireland’s electricity consumption by 2030, Ireland’s grid operator has warned that the country may not have enough power to meet this growing demand.

Whilst it is hoped that the energy deficit will ultimately be addressed through the procurement of new, sustainable electricity generation, some data centre operators are already experiencing delays in grid connection or limitations on supply.

Faced with these challenges, hiring an on-site distributed energy solutions can play a role in bridging this energy gap and supporting Irelands data centre expansion.

This webinar explores how short-term onsite gas power generation and battery storage can work in parallel with the grid, or for standalone, continuous power applications to bridge the current energy gap.

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Did you know that air quality is an important function to helping to protect your datacentre. Air quality can affect server downtime, server condition and even the energy consumption in your datacentre. Join this webinar to learn how choosing the right clean air solutions can reduce operational downtime, reduce energy costs and protect servers from corrosive elements.

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Construction Product Regulation (CPR) is a regulation issued by the European Union with the purpose of regulating the limits of fire resistance and dangerous substances in the materials used in construction.

Today’s Datacentres must be safe places for the people who work in, efficient with the power consumption, and reliable with the stored information. If we focus on the Datacentres power distribution; We can find that electrical components, like cables, keep interconnecting independent rooms & server spaces, supplying energy to almost every IT Device, and in case of fire, breaking the data redundancy & being extremely vulnerable to propagate the fire all over the server rooms; Causing big losses on the devices & stored data.

In this Webinar we will introduce the CPR norm, and we will talk about the categories and the classifications depending on the fire performance of the products. We will also show how to get the necessary classification for each kind of installation or facility. Then we will get a deeper focus on the CPR Applied in the Data Center Industry; the parts & applications, and how to find the right certification for each application.

Top Cable was one of the first European Manufacturing Companies to implement the CPR Regulation the electrical portfolio, testing & assuring the fire properties of their products.

The training will be 100% technical based, and you will be able to apply & understand the norm. Stuart Beckett, Top Cable’s UK Sales Manager, has more than 10-year Experience in the Cable Sector, and the approach of the UK & Irish Market. Arnau Homedes, Market Manager of Top Cable, has also more than 10-year experience in the cable technology industry, applying & implementing the CPR to Data Center, Wind farms, Solar etc.. projects.

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What will be discussed?

How can you combat the increasing risk of grid-constraints, flexible Maximum Import Capacity (MIC), supply disruption and price volatility?  How do you turnaround the financial risk of MIC for commercial advantage?

What role can hydrogen, district heating and gas play in powering your data centre more reliably, sustainably, and cost effectively?

By 2029, EirGrid has forecast that Ireland’s data centres could account for 27pc of all electricity demand, which is expected to increase by more than 300% over the next 5 years.

Data Centre operators must find new sustainable energy solutions to meet their mission critical power requirements and support continued growth of the sector while also assisting Ireland’s carbon reduction targets.

Put your questions to our panel of experts, who will explore new opportunities to exploit modular microgrids – using on-site generation technologies and strategies. The panel will also share their experience of being involved in the first solution of its kind and provide insight into new opportunities to future-proof your secure data centre energy demand for competitive, flexible, and environmental advantage.

Topics for discussion:

• The role of natural gas, renewable gas and hydrogen in tackling the triple challenge of energy resilience, cost and carbon reduction
• Exploiting low and zero carbon on-site generation and storage opportunities to future proof your sustainable energy needs with modular micro grids
• Utilising real time reporting to monitor the grid, on site generation and storage from a carbon and cost perspective
• Sharing our experience in successful planning and development of onsite solutions

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What will be discussed?

When we talk about the security of data centres, physical security often takes a back seat to cyber security. With the rise in our reliance on data, Data Centres are becoming an increasingly vital part of critical infrastructure around the world, meaning they need protecting in line with Critical National Infrastructure requirements.

Our panel will be covering:

• The threats and the potential damage caused by a physical security breach
• The benefits to having a secure data centre
• What a secure data centre involves
• What people need to consider when implementing solutions

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In this training we will be able to learn & understand the main cable codes & specifications in the Data Center Projects. We will cover:

• • Introduction to the Data Center Power Distribution.
  • Cable Design & Construction.
  • Cable Norms & Specifications in EU.
  • Data Center Cable Map.
  • What do the Codes mean?
  • Important Facts when choosing cables on a DC.
  • Practical Case: From the Code to the Cable.

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