Equipment Protection Magazine

8:30am - 9:15am - Keynote
A Practical Guide to Avoiding Disaster in Mission-Critical Facilities
For years, technology dependent organizations have focused a tremendous amount of resources on disaster recovery, and rightfully so. After all, in some industries the cost of downtime in a mission-critical facility can exceed millions of dollars per minute. Additionally, complying with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, SAS70 and HIPAA adds extra pressure to eliminate downtime completely. What many don’t realize is that natural disasters and terrorism only account for 14% of all data center outages. The remaining 86% of the causes of disruption are preventable.

This presentation will discuss important considerations including:
• Current Data Center Trends & Challenges (Power & Cooling Compliance, Quantifying the Cost of Downtime and Balancing Budget w/Resiliency)
• Defining What is a Disaster When Discussing Mission-Critical Facilities
• Risk Exposure in the Data Center
• Four (4) Categories of Failures Leading to Disaster (Design Failures, Catastrophic Failures
• Compounding Failures and Human-Error Failures
• How to Improve Resiliency & Continuity (Internal Controls & Safety, Proactive Maintenance
• Documentation & Training|
• Action Items Moving Forward

Bill Straughn, Senior Services Specialist - Lee Technologies

9:15am - 10:00am
Energy Efficiency Design Criteria for UPS Systems
Large data centers primarily use double conversion UPS to protect the critical loads. This double conversion technology consumes 5 percent to 10 percent of the power provided to the data center loads. This energy loss is converted to heat that requires additional energy for cooling. With the increasing cost of electrical power in data centers and other mission critical facilities, this presentation will provide attendees with recommendations on design, application and operating techniques to optimize the energy efficiency of double conversion UPS in large data centers and other mission critical facilities.

Issues Experienced:
• Loss of facility revenues
• Eliminate Over-sizing a UPS to compensate for efficiency losses
•Reduce BTUs in mission critical facilities using double conversion UPS systems
• Eliminate Over-sizing a Emergency Generators to compensate for Power Factor and THD

Attendees will learn:
• 6-Pulse vs. 12-Pulse rectifier influence on UPS efficiencies
• Selecting a UPS system for existing and future loads
• Reducing UPS THD with Zig-Zag transformers and 5th/11th harmonic filters

Brad Thrash, UPS Product Manager, N.A. - GE Power Quality

10:00 - 10:30 am - Networking Break

10:30 - 11:10 am
Advances in Passive Cooling Technology
As power densities in electronics systems increase, cooling technologies are trending away from natural convection toward forced convection including fans, pump liquid and spray technologies. Learn about what is driving this trend, and how to avoid the reliability issues associated with these active systems through new natural convection technologies. Mission critical systems including telecom base station, repeater, and embedded applications will be discussed as real world case studies.

George Meyer, vice president of the Americas and Europe and Development Director - Celsia Technologies

11:15 am - 11:45am
Remote DC Power Distribution System Maximizes Network Uptime and Protects Infrastructure Hardware
CIO and CTO executives are under pressure to maintain unimpeded operation of their Network Infrastructure equipment. Factors that can affect these systems include an interruption in the supply of AC power, unintended circuit breaker trips and system lock up as well as the amount of heat created in the system without having proper ventilation. To help solve this problem Spectrum Power Management Systems will speak about new power distribution and circuit protection technologies to allow users to cycle or reset power from anywhere, at anytime. These new designs maximize network uptime and provide circuit protection to valuable client network equipment.

Len Marsala – Director of Marketing, Power Management Systems Group - Spectrum Power Management Systems

11:45 am - 1:00 pm - Lunch

1:00 pm - 1:40 pm
Smart Vibration Switches
Abnormal operating conditions in rotating machinery can lead to costly failures. A problem as simple as dirt buildup on fan blades can result in huge centrifugal forces that are transmitted to the bearings, resulting in inefficient operation and premature failure. These damaging forces, however, generate vibrations on the machinery that if monitored, can provide sufficient warning so that corrective action can be taken before catastrophic failure occurs. Vibration switches are often used to monitor vibration and shutdown equipment before damage can occur. Recent innovations in vibration switch technology provide more reliable protection in a compact, hermetically sealed, field programmable design.

Dr. George Zusman Ph.D., Director of Product Development, IMI Sensors/PCB Piezotronics

1:45 pm - 2:20 pm
15 Minutes of Fame, or Infamy? Advances in Reliable Back-up Power Protection
Data center and facility reliance on battery-based UPS systems is falling out of favor with the advent of more reliable forms of back-up power. Batteries are cheap, but spotty reliability, frequent maintenance and replacement, safety concerns, expensive HVAC requirements, fire hazards, spill containment, personnel safety hazards, excessive space demands and environmental impact leave a lot to be desired. Flywheel power protection systems has now reached true commercial viability, solving the problems challenging enterprises everyday. The latest generation flywheel systems “harden” battery arrays by protecting them from more than 98% of all utility power issues. Some data centers and facilities have tossed out their battery headaches altogether, using flywheels to directly bridge to generators. This presentation provides examples from a leading IT facility such as Strataspace – a 570,000-square-foot remote data center that is 60 feet underground and one of the most secure sites in the world, as well as hospital, broadcast and military facilities that are reaping the benefits of this very reliable and environmentally green technology.

Mike Lasky, Director of Sales - Pentadyne Power Corp

2:25 pm- 3:05 pm
Liquid Cooling: A Next Generation Data Center Strategy
With heat loads of 20-25 kW projected for individual data center enclosures, heat removal and dissipation are critical for ensuring optimization of network component operations and performance. As the IT market continues to focus on maximizing the capacity of active components per enclosure, traditional air-cooled server cabinets often cannot support escalating heat loads. New solutions are required. Enclosure-based liquid-cooling solutions represent next-generation cooling strategies, offering more effective heat transfer and removal from high-density installations.

This presentation will discuss liquid-cooling systems currently available. A review of enclosure and facility heat loads and current climate-control solutions will lead into a discussion of options available for extreme density installations. End user and facility issues will be addressed followed by application-based solutions for the most stringent criteria.

Herb Villa, Field Technical Manager (Datacomm Group) - Rittal Corp

3:05 pm - 3:45 pm - Networking Break

3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Backup Power for Today’s Power Hungry Facilities
Today’s facilities feature a mix of server farms, data centers, IT devices and telecommunication systems that have an insatiable appetite for continuous power. While no down time is acceptable, industrial grade UPS systems are designed to provide 99.9999% reliability. Most large UPS installations are fully redundant in failsafe configurations to ensure uptime of operations during prolonged outages. Paralleled systems provide increased reliability, redundancy, availability, expandability and multiple delivery paths. Current advances in UPS and power monitoring now offer facility and IT managers comprehensive control and management of their power infrastructure. This presentation will discuss the problems that constantly plague today’s operations, and offer advanced solutions on how facility and IT managers can improve power availability and mitigate risks of costly system downtime through scalable and upgradeable power.

John Goosseff, three-phase marketing manager - MGE UPS Systems

4:25 pm - 5:05 pm
Analysis of Composite Non-Metallic Enclosure Cabinets for the Industrial Datacom and Telecom Markets
This presentation and analysis will focus on composites materials for use in electrical and electronic enclosure cabinet applications in corrosive and tough industrial and processing environments. Applications such as this require round the clock operations where unexpected shutdowns due to enclosure failure can be costly and time consuming. A comparison of composites to traditional carbon and stainless steel alternatives will be discussed in reference to their performance and cost structures. Additional analysis will encompass EMI/RFI shielding of composite non-metallic materials and the various methods with which the shielding is applied and associated test results. Lastly, we will discuss advancements in composite material technologies for use in industrial environments.

Mike Jackson, Product Marketing Manager - Stahlin Enclosures

5:05 pm - 6:00 pm - Cocktail Reception

November 7th, 2007 - Day 2 Conference Program

7:30 am - 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:30 am - 9:15 am - Platinum Keynote
Greening of the Data Center
Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This presentation explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.

Steve Carlini, Business Segment Director, 3-Phase UPS - APC-MGE

9:15 am - 10:00 am
In Pursuit of Continuous Availability: Managing the Entire IT Infrastructure
This presentation will demonstrate the importance of taking a holistic, end-to-end view of critical processes in pursuit of continuous availability. It will include: designing and managing for availability; patch management strategies; security concerns; in-house vs. outsourced managed services for maintaining infrastructure and data integrity; and disaster recovery implementation considerations.

Sri Sridharan, Vice President, Solutions Services Group - Stratus Technologies

10:00 am - 10:30 am - Networking Break

10:30am - 11:10 am - The Most Predictable 15 Minutes of Power and Cooling Your Data Center Will Ever See
This presentation will discuss the lack of predictability and reliability in backup runtime solutions that has become the de facto standard in mission critical facilities. Another aspect of a power outage, rarely discussed, is the unavailability of cooling which can prove to be lethal as temperature rises at various and unpredictable rates during a power outage.

The presenter will review the impact on overall data center performance from a reliability, cost and maintenance standpoint and highlight the available replacements for chemical batteries. Attendees will garner a better understanding of the application of Thermal and Compressed Air Storage (TACAS) using a hybrid of proven and highly reliable flywheel technology with tested and tried compressed air storage in a data center facility. The level of predictability and reliability from a large electromechanical system far exceeds that of chemical batteries. In addition, this presentation will show how the cold air byproduct of the compressed air system is used to mitigate potentially disastrous thermal runaways.

Real world data points and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) will be used to show the impact during a power outage. The presenter will conclude with a review of improvements in reliability and total cost of ownership using TACAS.

Martin Olsen, Director, Product Management and Development - Active Power

11:15 am - 11:45 am
Seismic vibration and MIL-STD vibration testing: Lessons Learned
Learn from two case studies dealing with seismic and MIL-STD vibration testing. The first will be lessons learned on extrapolating the results of testing on a given cabinet configuration to another cabinet configuration. The second will discuss MIL STD vibration testing with customer supplied isolators.

Ken Robertson, Engineering Manager - Optima EPS, An Elma Company

11:45 am - 1:00 pm - Lunch

1:00 pm - 1:40 pm - Battery Monitoring –It’s Time Has Come
The presenter will talk about strategies for improving management visibility into a key component of Data Center uptime; that is your UPS, switchgear and generator set batteries. He will look in detail at the information you can get back from permanently wired stand-by power (or UPS) battery monitoring systems including a case study of a Data Center total power outage. He will also discuss in detail what you can expect to achieve with automated information in comparison to periodic, human, maintenance reports.

David Brown, CEO - NDSL, Inc.

1:45 pm - 2:20 pm
Energy and Efficiency Initiative
You can’t seem to turn on a television, pick up a newspaper, or glance through a magazine today and not see a “green story.” In the past, these stories were solely the topic of individuals or environmental organization. This is no longer the case as companies, both large and small, are realizing the benefits of becoming “green”, which includes improved financial, operational and environmental positioning. In this informative presentation, you will learn that rising energy costs, shrinking IT budgets, system availability risks, aging data center technologies, and improving the public image are just a few of the reasons why corporations are looking for data center improvements. To address these needs, we will highlight IBM’s “Five Step Plan” for energy efficiency and these areas are: Diagnose, get the facts to understand your energy use and opportunities for improvement; Build, plan, build, and upgrade to energy efficient data centers; Virtualize, Implement virtualization and other innovative technologies; Cool, use innovative cooling solutions; and Manage and Measure, seize control with energy management software. At the conclusion, you will understand the challenges companies are facing today and the specific steps you can take to improve your energy consumption in the data center.

Brad Brech, Distinguished Engineer: Software Architecture & Strategy -IBM

2:25 pm - 3:05 pm
Eliminating Battery Failure- Two New Leading Indicators of Battery Health – A Case Study
This case study will show real field test data showing Electrochemical (sulfation and dryout) measurements of batteries vs. standard electrical test (impedance, voltage, etc.) and compare the results, review industry literature and discuss the implications for lowering downtime risk, achieving Zero down time for mission critical backup battery applications, while lowering maintenance costs. This technology has been adopted by a number of leading companies in the telecommunication and the utility areas.

Dr. Kurt Sallous, CTO - World Energy Labs

3:10 pm - 3:45 pm
The Benefits of a UL1283 Listed Power Quality Filter Optimized for Surge Suppression
MOV (Metal Oxide Varistor) technology, UL Listed under UL1449 for safety has been widely used for powerline surge suppression for over 30 years. A new Power Quality Filter technology, UL Listed under UL 1283 for safety has been developed which overcomes the reliability, safety, and performance problems associated with this aging MOV technology.

J. Rudy Harford, chief engineer of Zero Surge Inc. will outline the history, design procedures and test results for this new technology which operates effectively over a very wide voltage range while totally eliminating danger from surge voltage and the associated noise.

Rudy Harford, Chief Engineer - Zero Surge Inc.