Data Center Decisions - Build vs. Buy Breakfast Seminar August 3, 2010

This seminar will discuss the most effective ways to evaluate your current Data Center situation, as well as provide answers to some of the questions below.

Jeff Gilmer, a senior partner with Excipio Consulting who has over 30 years of IT experience will discuss the 'Real World' issues surrounding data centers today. Excipio has completed over 400 data center assessments in the last 30 months, for both public and private organizations ranging in size from 350 to over 100,000+ employees. This includes organization such as the states of Minnesota, Washington, Michigan and Pennsylvania, private companies of US Bank, Carlson Companies, MD Anderson, Baxter Labs, Lowes and others.

The discussion will focus on the assessing growth, capacity, consolidation, risk and benefits related to operating your own data center or colocating your equipment with a data center facility. The conversation will focus on the most effective and efficient ways to understand and determine your future Data Center strategic 'Road Map'.

Excipio will discuss some of the real life challenges and solutions such as:

* How do we determine our future Data Center Strategy?
* We always seem to be running out of power or cooling in our Data Center? Is this common?
* Are there advantages to making a long-term commitment to build a Data Center, or would we be better off utilizing a current hosted facility to meet our needs?
* How do I know when we are going to run out of Data Center capacity?
* What are the issues with consolidating servers, storage and other equipment; do I risk cooling and power capacity issues?

Each attendee that joins us will receive a $25 Amazon.com gift certificate.

Register at http://www.visi.com/events.

Official Website: http://www.visi.com/events