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Red-Hot Green Computing
Tuesday 2nd October 2007
6.00pm - 8.00pm
(Doors open 5.30pm for a light buffet and refreshments)
Technium CAST
Parc Menai, Bangor
Guest speaker: John Easton, Senior Consultant, IBM
According to some studies, ICT equipment accounts for two percent of global CO2 emissions - as much as the airline industry!
Whether you accept the environmental arguments or not, future growth in data processing needs will exacerbate the existing problem around IT power requirements. Many businesses are already
unable to grow because they are unable to get more power into their premises. Like it or not, the future will require that computing becomes more energy efficient and plays its part in reducing its CO2
footprint.
In this event, John Easton will look at the way that IT energy-efficiency can be implemented at all levels from the chip to the organisation and demonstrate how a number of companies are addressing
this challenge to effect dramatic reductions in their power requirements and hence CO2 footprints.
About the speaker
John is currently leading a worldwide emerging technologies team within IBM's Systems and Technology Group. He has several roles competing for his time; all of which revolve around advising
organisations on how best to exploit new technologies to address new business challenges. John has been working for IBM for 20 years in a variety of technical roles. He worked in Distributed
Systems Development in Austin prior to the launch of the RS6000 and holds several patents in the areas of security and systems software. Prior to taking his current role he was the European
technical leader for Grid Computing. In this role he both led customer grid deployments as well as represented IBM at a number of EU-wide research projects and standards bodies. Before this he was
the worldwide technical support leader for Unix mission-critical systems and part of the development team designing and writing IBM's clustering and high availability products.
The event forms part of the ITWales Software Developer programme and is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government and the British Computer Society.
Booking for this event is now closed
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