Webinar: Data Center Liquid Cooling: So Many Options, But What’s Right for Me? by BizClik Media

About This Webinar

Air cooling in data centers is being replaced by liquid cooling.
This is due to two major factors:

1. High performance computing (HPC) and unprecedented chip density create more heat than air cooling can handle.

2. Enterprises are investing in new sustainability initiatives to reduce data center carbon footprints and water consumption.

There are a number of liquid cooling methods, and deciding which is best for your particular use case can be challenging.

In this webinar, experts from LiquidStack, Iceotope, Switch Datacenters and AMD reveal how different liquid cooling approaches work, and the benefits and total costs for different options.

Agenda

The many use cases for liquid cooling
How different liquid cooling methods are deployed in the data center
Types of fluid they use
How they reject heat
Maintenance and operations considerations
How to choose the solution that’s right for you

Joe Capes

CEO & Co-founder at LiquidStack

Prior to holding this role, Mr. Capes was Global Director of Cooling Offer Development for Schneider Electric’s Cloud & Service Provider segment, providing tailored solutions for the world’s largest data center owners and operators. He has held various senior-level management positions in sales, marketing, product management and business development for Schneider Electric spanning 19 years of service with the company. During that period, Joe globalized Schneider Electric’s data center cooling business in Europe, Asia and Latin America which helped lead to the company’s success as a top manufacturer of mission-critical cooling equipment.

He is an accomplished entrepreneur and start-up company executive with extensive M&A experience. Joe was Vice-President of Sales & Marketing for Premium Power and was responsible for the commercialization of ground-breaking advanced battery power systems used in telecoms, utility and renewable energy applications. Mr. Capes was also co-founder and General Manager of Coolcentric, a company which provides high efficiency liquid cooling solutions for data centers and high-performance computing applications. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University and is named as an inventor in several patents related to data center cooling technologies.

David Craig

CEO at Iceotope

Having worked his way up through Unisys and IBM in global procurement roles, David was hired to lead the commercial integration of Prudential Assurance and Scottish Amicable. Moving on from the merger to turnaround a leading British refrigeration company and start a consultancy which he sold three years later to Amey. He was invited to join (by its unhappy investors) a late 90's tech boom disaster which became Scotland's third largest software company. David has done a few turnarounds since but now primarily leads Iceotope and a life sciences business.

Edgar van Essen

Managing Director at Switch Data Centers

Edgar has a long track record of international leadership in digital IT infrastructure companies across EMEA. During his career, which started at AT&T /Bell Labs /Lucent Technologies , he has always been at the forefront of technological innovation, leading the implementation and EMEA market acceptance of new technologies like IoT, Fiber to the Home and other digital infrastructure by challenging classic business models, evangelizing & lobbying as well as strategic cooperation with forward looking customers. Three years ago Edgar entered the datacenter sector as MD for Switch Datacenters, a respected and renowned local datacenter operator in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In these three years Edgar helped the founder Gregor Snip turning the company to change from a retail colocation DC into a successful sustainable wholesale DC operator and developer in Amsterdam, with a portfolio of of 150MW new datacenters under development in Amsterdam, the largest DC market in mainland Europe and one of the most demanding markets when it comes to sustainability demands for DC operators and as such a leading market for the industry.

Driven by curiosity, customer needs and with a sharp eye for strategic societal changes, he encourages change and structural growth with a long term positive impact for all stakeholders.
Edgar holds a Master Degree in Business from the Rijks Universiteit of Groningen , the Netherlands, is married and father of three girls.

Paul Artman

Technical Director, System Design Engineer at AMD

Paul Artman is a System Design Engineer in the Data Center and Embedded Solutions Business Group at AMD. In this role, Paul is involved in server hardware design and with a focus on industry changes in approaches to hardware design and deployment. Prior to his current position at AMD, Paul was a hardware architect at Lenovo. Paul has 20 years of experience in thermal, power, and hardware packaging at AMD, Lenovo, Dell, and HPE. Paul Artman is based in Cary, NC.

Scott Birch

Chief Content Officer at BizClik Media Group

Scott is a creative media professional with 25 years of diverse international experience in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has edited daily, weekly, monthly and annual print titles, ranging from daily newspapers to glossy celebrity magazines, niche B2B magazines and luxury lifestyle publications. An early adopter of digital – creating web content since 1996 – he has also created digital app magazines, smartphone apps and overseen online strategy and social strategy. He has also worked in television, both behind and in front of the camera, and in public relations roles providing creative content and reputation management.