According to Uptime Institute’s Second Annual Data Center Industry Survey, reducing data center energy use is an important concern to an overwhelming majority of data center owners and operators.

Uptime Institute Symposium is the must-see Green IT event of the year. Our keynote presenters are pulled from today’s headlines. Our annual Green Enterprise IT Award Winners provide groundbreaking, repeatable case studies. And Uptime Institute and 451 Research experts provide you with the information and leadership you need to drive Green IT initiatives at your own organization.

Highlights from Symposium’s Green IT sessions below:

-Facebook’s senior data center engineers will discuss details of the social media juggernaut’s Open Compute Project.

-Greenpeace’s Senior IT policy analyst Gary Cook will discuss his organization’s latest report on carbon and cloud computing.

-Deutsche Bank’s chief scientist Andrew Stokes will show how this financial institution’s investment in hyper-efficient operations has paid off.

-Dean Nelson will walk us through eBay’s engineering marvel in the Arizona desert – Project Mercury, a hot-water-cooled data center that operates at temperatures as high as 115 Fahrenheit.

-Winners of the Inaugural Uptime Institute Server Round-Up, AOL, will show you how they decommissioned and recycled 9,484 outdated servers to take home the trophy.

-The Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps, MBA students partnered with companies to drive energy efficiency, will discuss how their projects so far have saved 1 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually and $1billion in net operational costs over the project lifetimes.

This is your last chance to register for the most important Green IT event of the year, featuring leadership sessions from Uptime Institute Founder Ken Brill, The Green Grid and Stanford Professor and energy researcher Jonathan Koomey. Sign up today, and follow Symposium on Twitter at #Uptime12.

Data center modularity is the Special Focus of Uptime Institute Symposium 2012. This year we will feature a unique Modular Data Center Campus within the Santa Clara Convention Center.

The Modular Campus and Exhibition Hall will be open on May 14th and 15th and is available to Symposium Delegates and holders of Free Modular Data Center Campus & Expo passes. Free Modular Data Center Campus & Expo passes also provide access to Symposium content on May 14th, including keynote presentations from eBay, as well as presentations from companies such as Greenpeace and HP; an evening networking reception; and Green Enterprise IT Awards Presentation Ceremonies.

The videos below feature three leading modular data center providers who are presenting at Symposium and exhibiting modular data center campus:

Register today for free access to the modular data center campus.

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For years, the data center industry has braced itself for extreme increases in computing density and the alarming consequences those increases are supposed to bring. But for as often as data center vendors have claimed the sky is falling, such dire predictions may not reflect reality.

The Uptime Institute set out to determine how prevalent high-density data center deployments have become, and surveyed its members in North America and EMEA on the power density in their facilities. The data is in, and it suggests that while high-density server deployments are out there, they are the exception.

Uptime Institute Professional Services VP Vince Renaud and Consultant Matt Mescall will be at Uptime Symposium 2012 to present the findings of the latest Data Center Density Report. They will analyze this year’s report as well as trends from previous years and discuss what it all means for the data center industry.

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There’s no question that the cost and capacity demands of today’s high-density computing environments require a greater level of visibility and control than ever before. And data center infrastructure management, or DCIM, is a critical integrating technology that fills the need for real-time information. But just as data centers are evolving, DCIM technology is evolving even faster. Simple tools with monitoring capabilities are developing into sophisticated control systems, and asset systems are evolving into auto-populating configuration management systems. How much can DCIM do? And where does it go next?

Even once-skeptical organizations are buying into what DCIM has to offer, but face challenges selecting and deploying these tools. As adoption of DCIM technologies continues to grow, organizations struggle with varying vendor pricing models that make comparisons difficult. There are also issues with scalability and integration, as well as the question of DCIM coexisting with legacy systems.

In this session, Andy Lawrence, Research Director at 451 Research, will explain the current capabilities and limitations of DCIM software; explore the emerging IT convergence trend; and offer insight into the leading vendors and available toolsets.

What are the top ten reasons to attend Uptime Institute Symposium 2012: Digital Infrastructure Convergence?

The Uptime Institute Symposium is one of the most influential events on the IT and data center field. This year Uptime Institute will offer groundbreaking new data, new methodologies and process improvements, and new end-user case studies that will deliver immediate business value to our delegates.

Listed below, please find the top ten reasons to join us at Uptime Institute Symposium 2012:

Uptime Institute will unveil new research at this year’s event. Quit guessing, and base your data center decisions on Uptime Institute’s newest data from your peers.

REASON 1: BENCHMARKING RESULTS At Uptime Institute Symposium, we will release the results of the 2012 Data Center Industry Survey so you can benchmark your organization against the latest industry trends, data center designs, and operational best practices.

REASON 2: DATA CENTER DENSITY STUDY We will also be unveiling for the first time, the results of our Annual Data Center Density Study – learn how the predictions by the equipment manufacturers differs from the reality on the computer room floor, and how that should impact your capacity planning going forward.

REASON 3: DOWNTIME DATA In a rare occurrence, Uptime Institute will publicly analyze data from its end-user Network’s Abnormal Incident Reporting database. The session will outline data center failure rates and causes, and offer expert advice on avoiding downtime risks.

Uptime Institute has developed two new tools in recent months to help data center and IT executives manage their Digital Infrastructure resources more effectively.

REASON 4: M&O STAMP The Uptime Institute’s Management and Operations Stamp of Approval provides a score-based assessment of a data center operations team, independent of the site’s design principles. Find out how you can use this assessment to improve your own organization, and to evaluate the operations teams of your third party service providers.

REASON 5: CHARRETTE FINDINGS Earlier this year, Uptime Institute hosted two dozen leading global data center operators at Charrette 2012 to discuss and develop a methodology for evaluating cloud computing, colo and internal data center options when deploying new application workloads. The output of that Charrette, the Uptime Institute FORCSS Methodology will be unveiled for the first time publically at Symposium.

REASON 6: MODULAR CAMPUS For the first time, this year’s Symposium will feature a unique Modular Data Center Campus within the Santa Clara Convention Center. Symposium Delegates and Exposition-registered visitors will have an unprecedented opportunity to actually walk through the leading modular data center designs and make side-by-side comparisons, enabling a better understanding of their respective pros and cons for more effective decision-making. Also, delegates will find the solutions they have been looking for in Symposium’s Exposition Hall.

REASON 7: MODULAR CASE STUDIES Symposium will also feature modular data center deployment case studies from leading enterprise organizations, as well as new research into the economics of modular data center designs versus traditional construction, as well as guidelines for applying Uptime Institute’s Tier Topology to a Modular Campus.

REASON 8: GEIT AWARDS Data center operators from around the globe will attend Symposium and discuss their cutting edge data center designs and retrofits, innovative product deployments, and audacious ideas to reduce data center resource consumption and improve efficiency. Uptime Institute’s Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards program grows stronger each year, and 2012 promises to be bigger and better than ever. We also host the 2011 GEIT Award winners to discuss how their projects are delivering results, twelve months later.

REASON 9: KILLER KEYNOTES EBay’s Dean Nelson will discuss his organization’s hyper-efficient, brand new modular data center deployment, Project Mercury. Deutsche Bank’s Andrew Stokes will demonstrate how a mission critical Manhattan-area data center now operates on 100% free cooling. Greenpeace’s Gary Cook will challenge data center operators to engage with their utility suppliers to reduce fossil-fuel dependence. And noted author Nicholas Carr will share his insight on the commoditization of IT and the current shift from enterprise-owned data centers to utility-supplied, hybrid organizations.

REASON 10: NETWORK Hear from your peers how to avoid costly mistakes in data center planning, design and operation. Testimonials below from last year’s attendees:

“Symposium connects you with your peers across the industry. If I’ve learned anything from Uptime Symposium, it’s that your peers have so much knowledge buried in their minds. Being able to deploy that information – because it is live – into your organization, can save countless dollars.” Mike Wills, Director of Facility Management, BMO Financial Group.

“When you sit down at a table with somebody and start talking to them at Uptime Institute Symposium, you find out that they are leaders in their organizations and the data center industry. That makes every conversation interesting, and every hour that you spend here worthwhile.” Robert McFarlane, Principle Data Center Designer, Shen Milsom Wilke.

Register now to attend Uptime Institute Symposium 2012: Digital Infrastructure Convergence.