Modius customer, Dave Shroyer of NetApp, will be a featured panelist at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s Annual Data Center Efficiency Summit, taking place today at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose.
Shroyer, a work place resources (WPR) manager with NetApp’s Integration & Technology Group, joins executives from Triton, IBM and Cisco in presenting “From the Killer App to the Chiller Tap: Holistic Management of IT and Facilities.” 
The panel discussed the fact that the management and monitoring of IT and facilities increasingly needs to be done in a coordinated fashion in order to achieve the maximum IT performance and the maximum facilities efficiency. Historically, separate IT management tools have managed IT's killer apps, and separate facilities management tools have managed power and cooling. A new generation of monitoring and management tools is emerging that source data from everywhere in the data center – apps, servers, switches, storage, UPSs, CRAC units, air handlers and chillers – that promise to deliver a holistic approach for managing the data center as an integrated unit.
Shroyer and his colleagues shared their insights on exactly how far away we are from such an ideal end-state, as well as when we will we be able to report data center metrics in terms of billions of SpecWeb per GigaWatt. They discussed their own integration of such tools, how they use them and where these promising data center management software tools are headed.
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