WHEN DATA CENTER BECOMES A NECESSITY

• A data center: What does it mean?
• What kind of companies need a data center
• A data center: advantages that you will receive
• Corporate and hosting data centers
• Main and reserve data centers
• Data center role in corporate IT-infrastructure

WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS TO A DATA CENTER

• What differs a “good” data center
• Data center norms, standards and classification
• How to decide what kind of a data center your company needs
• A data center: what is important to preview
• Estimating the costs: balance between price and functionality
• Estimating the critical loads
• Data center reliability
• Data center availability
• Data center Fault tolerance
• Data center uptime and downtime
• Standard and non-standard practices of data centers construction

DATA CENTER ELEMENTS

• A data center: composition and functions
• Elements of the main infrastructure
• Overview of data center support infrastructure
• Data center power supply systems
• Data center cooling systems

DATA CENTER ECONOMY

• Data centers market
• Facts and figures
• How to optimize expenses for a data center construction and maintenance
• A data center construction budget
• A data center maintenance budget
• ROI in data center construction and maintenance projects
• Emerson Network Power initiates a new approach to data centers energy consumption
• Five ways to reduce data center energy consumption by increasing the cooling efficiency
• Improving data center efficiency using virtualization technology

DATA CENTER TECHNOLOGIES

• Problems that data centers are facing and the necessity of innovations
• Server usage virtualization
• Data center services virtualization
• New technologies of climate-control
• Data center ergonomics: new technologies

INNOVATIONS FOR DATA CENTERS FROM VENDORS

• Emerson Network Power
• APC   
• Hewlett-Packard
• IBM   
• Novell
• NetApp
• Cisco
• 3M   
• Knürr AG   
• Хоссер
• AMP NETCONNECT/ Tyco Electronics
• Rittal
• Dell   
• Symantec
• Sun Microsystems

DATA CENTER EXPERTISE AND PLANNING

• Data center construction: preliminary calculations
• Analysis of needs in power and cooling
• Data center project feasibility study and budget
• Data center project risk analysis
• Data center digital modeling
• Data center site selection
• Business continuity and disaster recovery planning
• Data center moving: estimates and planning

DATA CENTER DESIGN

• Data Center design standards and requirements
• Data center architectural and engineering design
• Data center equipment selection criteria
• What is better: overcoming patchwork automation or different vendors simbiosis
• Equipment selection tips   
• Cabling system design
• Engineering infrastructure design
• Dispatching center design
• Network security design
• Data storage systems design
• Access control systems design

DATA CENTER CONSTRUCTION

• Preliminary specifications
• Starting-up and adjustment works
• Putting into operation
• Data migration coordination

DATA CENTER NETWORK AND EQUIPMENT MONITORING

• Dispatching center
• Network monitoring and services management
• Access control
• Engineering infrastructure monitoring

DATA CENTER MANAGEMENT

• Automated data center management system
• Data center outsourcing: pro and contra
• Constraints to data center efficient management
• Organizing management system of data centers network
• How to ensure data center disaster recovery
• How to ensure data center security

DATA CENTER SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE

• How to build the data center maintenance team   
• Data center maintenance typical mistakes
• How to reduce the risk of equipment disasters
• Maintenance of engineering infrastructure
• Testing the data center power supply systems
• Data center cleaning
• Technical support