Climate Savers Computing Initiative and the United States Environmental Protection Agency are offering a free “educational webinar designed to raise awareness of the benefits and savings associated with enterprise power management” on Monday March 30th, 2009 from 12 to 2pm ET. They market the webinar to Chief Information Officers; Vice Presidents of Infrastructure and Operations; Network Administrators; Desktop Administrators; or Energy, Sustainability, and Facility Managers, for the two-hour session. The webinar will focus on

• Opportunities to eliminate energy waste and save money/carbon
• Implementation obstacles and how to overcome them
• Best practices from companies who have already successfully implemented power management

According to their website, “[a]ll attendees of the IT Power Management Summit will receive a free copy of the Forrester Research report titled ‘How Much Money Are Your Idle PCs Wasting?’” To register click here.

Agenda:

IT Energy Waste: A Summary of Financial, Operational and Environmental Impacts

• Speakers: Pat Tiernan, executive director of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative Benefits of Enterprise-Wide IT Power Management

• Speakers: Steve Ryan, program manager of the ENERGY STAR Low Carbon IT Campaign, and Stephen Berard, Microsoft

Traditional Barriers to Deploying Enterprise-Wide IT Power Management

• Speaker: Doug Washburn, analyst at Forrester Research

Solutions: Best Practices for Overcoming Barriers, Reducing Energy Costs and Delivering IT Value

• Overview of current best practices for automating sleep and wake capabilities on computer networks, including free/open source solutions. Speaker: Doug Washburn, analyst at Forrester

• Real-world implementation case studies, demonstrating a wide variety of IT power management challenges and solutions and resulting benefits. Speakers: Mike Walker, president of Beacon Consultants; David Korn, principal of The Cadmus Group; Chris Mayor, director of systems architecture at Verizon Services Organization; and Jim Osteen, assistant director of IT, and Marco Sanchez, network administrator at the City of Miami

Call to Action: Suggested Next Steps and Resources

• Speakers: Steve Ryan, program manager, ENERGY STAR Low Carbon IT Campaign, and Pat Tiernan, executive director of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative

Q&A: Ask Our Panel of Experts

Technical panel: Stephen Berard, Microsoft and Thomas Bolioli, consultant for Terra Novum, LLC

Sponsors: The Climate Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, Energy Star, National Resources Defense Council, Green Computing Impact Organization

- Eric Wilson