November 10 Forum to Address Data Center Energy Resource Management & Bringing New Technology to Market
What:
North Shore Technology Council’s monthly Sustainability Forum meeting featuring Mike Rowan, Co-Founder and CTO of Viridity Software.
When:
8 a.m., Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Where:
CleanTech InnoVenture Center (4th Floor, 20 Wheeler Street, Lynn, MA 01902)
About Forum:
The Sustainability Forum is a special interest group within the North Shore Technology Council (NSTC). Its active membership is dedicated to the better understanding and promotion of clean-technology and sustainable practices within our region. Monthly meetings typically offer lively discussions and special guests. Visit: http://northshoretechcouncil.blogspot.com/
Cost:
Meetings are free; open to members & prospective members of NSTC.
Background:
Rising energy costs together with more complex IT infrastructures have made data center energy efficiency one of today’s top priorities. Correspondingly, accurate measurement and management of energy consumption and smarter utilization of IT assets presents a “green” data center market that’s forecasted to exceed $40 billion by 2015.
Mike Rowan, a serial entrepreneur with deep technical knowledge and a clear vision for customer-centric product innovations, will speak on the future of data center energy resource management (ERM), as well as his lessons learned from the road in bringing a new technology to market. His talk will include discussion of several of today’s most pressing data center challenges including, the need to reduce power consumption and cooling costs, as well as increase utilization of existing equipment and space. He will also introduce his company, Viridity Software – a young, VC-backed leader in this market, and explain how it is helping data centers to tackle this increasingly business critical challenge.
Speaker bio:
Michael Rowan is Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Viridity Software of Burlington, MA. Previously, he was the creator of the continuous data protection (CDP) technology segment, founding two companies focused on CDP: Revivio (acquired by Symantec), and StorageCom (acquired by Vyant Technologies/Mendocino Software). Rowan was also the founder and CTO of CLAM Associates, a company that developed IBM's open systems high availability product line, which was acquired by Lakeview Technologies. Michael began his career, after attending and working for Purdue University, at the Free Software Foundation.
About Viridity Software
Based in Burlington, MA, Viridity Software is the leader in energy resource management (ERM) solutions. Its EnergyCenter™ data center energy monitoring, measurement and management software provides customers with a cross functional solution for understanding the connection between physical infrastructure, IT equipment and applications. Once these connections are fully understood, actionable strategies are provided so that customers can run more efficient, less expensive, highly optimized, eco-friendly, sustainable data centers. For further information, please visit: www.viridity.com, call: 781-425-2060, or email: info@viridity.com.
About the North Shore Technology Council
The North Shore Technology Council (NSTC) is a volunteer-led, non-profit technology trade association with a mission to build a community for interaction, collaboration, and advancement of technology industries in northeastern Massachusetts. These technology industries include information technology, medical devices, lab equipment, chip manufacturing, biotechnology, nanotechnology, homeland security, sustainability, and defense technology. The NSTC is committed to advancing the growth of these critical industries for the economic health and vibrancy of the region. The council is on the Web at www.nstc.org. Its office is at the Cummings Center, in Beverly, Massachusetts. For more information call 978-335-5234.
About North Shore InnoVentures
North Shore InnoVentures (NSIV) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to supporting technology businesses and the economic growth of the North Shore region. Its leadership team, board of directors and advisory board members bring a wealth of knowledge in a variety of areas including entrepreneurship, experience in the biomedical and cleantech industries as well as economic and business development, venture capital and seed funding, marketing, legal, operational and educational services. Headquartered in Beverly, MA, NSIV operates two business incubator facilities, the Biotech InnoVenture Center in Beverly, MA and the Cleantech InnoVenture Center in Lynn, MA. For more information visit www.nsiv.org.
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For more info:
Email: info@nstc.org
Web: http://northshoretechcouncil.blogspot.com/
Call: John Coulbourn @ 508-277-7356