CANCELLED (will reschedule)
Presenter: Rob Belyk, Technical Systems Supervisor
Potash Corporation
Title: PotashCorp’s Data Center Reorganization Project
Date: Tuesday October 18, 2011
Venue: Delta Regina, 1919 Saskatchewan Drive, Lombardy Room
RVSP Date: Friday, October 14, 2011
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CIPS Members |
$25 |
Non-Member |
$30 |
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CIPS Student Member |
$20 |
Student Non-Member |
$25 |
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Corporate Table (8) |
$250 |
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No shows and late cancellations* will be invoiced GST and Service fees are charged at registration.
Registration: https://www.picatic.com/ticket/event885572
Presentation Overview:
The PotashCorp’s Technical System, IT team embarked on an ambitious project to completely tear down and reorganize the Saskatoon based Data Center The project was almost a year in the planning, with the outage being a full 4 days. The project mainly addressed limited room available for new equipment, but there were also the following areas that needed to be dealt with:
- Power and Cooling : The UPS capacity had been reached and there was an unbalanced power distribution. There were air flow restrictions from excess and legacy cables
- Cable management and problem diagnosis had become difficult.
- Racks were a mismatch of equipment categories with some obsolete equipment
Rob will review the project stages from planning to implementation, as well show a time lapsed video of the implementation weekend.
Speaker Biography:
Rob Belyk has 28 years IT experience, 25 in Technical Systems. His primary responsibilities over that time has been support of the mainframe environment and the evolution into Unix systems. Currently Rob is the supervisor of "Large Systems" Technical Systems group at PotashCorp.
Agenda
11:30 am Registration
12:00 noon Lunch
12:20 pm Presentation and Questions
1:15 pm Adjournment
Menu
Fresh Baked Dinner Rolls and Butter
Seasonal Greens with House Dressing
Grilled Chicken with Sundried Tomato Sauce
Chocolate Mousse
Freshly Brewed Regular and Decaffeinated Coffee & Specialty & Herbal Teas
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