Conference

A Guide to Lowering Your ICT Carbon from Data Centre to Desktop

8 September 2010

The University is recognised as a sector leader in environmental management, being placed in the top 5 universities on the People and Planet Green League over the last 3 years, shortlisted for two Datacenter Dynamics awards in 2009 and Finalist in the Green Gown awards 2010.

The conference came about because of the University’s JISC-sponsored project to Reduce and Re-Use Energy in Institutional Data Centres (RARE-IDC).

From the start the RARE-IDC project sought to incorporate low carbon sustainable solutions but also further establish the University as a national leader in sustainable ICT.

The grant funding from JISC has a number of dissemination objectives to achieve:

To identify, evaluate and disseminate transferable good practice models in respect of the above.
To work with the JISC community to share the experiences and approaches to assist other institutions to meet their goals.
To provide a detailed guide for other institutions to follow to achieve the same levels of cooling, power and waste heat management efficiency.
To collaborate generally with other green computing projects and specifically with the other institutions involved with the 'environmental sustainability' strand.

The conference was held at the University's Fielder Centre on the 8 September 2010.

Paint IT Conference programme

Welcome address - Professor Di Martin, CIO University of Hertfordshire Introduction
Keynote: 'Shared services': increased energy efficiency via consolidation in larger facilities - Dr Ian Bitterlin, Chief Technology Officer, Prism Power Ltd.
A Best Practice Guide to Greening the Micro Data Centre - Steve Phipps, Data Centres Manager, University of Hertfordshire.
Useful Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance - Katherine O'Brien, Environmental Coordinator, University of Hertfordshire.
The Cost of Data Centre Ownership - Pete Sands, Lead Data Centre Design Consultant, Future-Tech SCI
'When Should I Do My Bit' (Workshop) - Howard Noble, Principle Investigator, Oxford University
Providing a Green Benchmark - Steve Phipps, Data Centres Manager, University of Hertfordshire
What CRC means for HE/FE/Public Sector and what to do about it - Mark Johnson, Consultant, AEA Group
Panel discussion on 'How can ICT be used to improve sustainability, and what contribution is it currently making and can continue to make in the future?' - Chair: Professor Andrew Starr, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Communities, University of Hertfordshire
Concluding speech - Richard Smeeton, Chief Technology Officer, University of Hertfordshire