Apr 29, 2010
TiEcon is TiE's premier annual event and is the largest
convention in the world dedicated to entrepreneurs.
Four excellent clean tech sessions along with many other
sessions are planned at TiEcon
2010 on May 14th and 15th 2010 in
Santa Clara, CA.
Cleantech
2010: State of the Union Fireside Chat
05/14/2010 - 10:45am - 12:00pm
PowerConnect
- Cleantech - Lighting & LEDs: Energy Efficiency meets
Semiconductors
05/14/2010 - 5:15pm - 6:30pm
Cleantech -
Globalization of Cleantech: Cool Technologies, New Frontiers,
Massive Markets
05/15/2010 - 10:15am - 11:30am
PowerConnect
Lunch Cleantech - Electrifying Transportation: Tour of the
Ecosystem
05/15/2010 - 11:30am - 2:15pm
Like last year, 50 Most Enterprising Startups in 5 Hot
Segments, including clean tech will be announced at TiEcon 2010.
You will also be able to see nominations and vote for your
favorite clean tech startup at http://www.tie50.net/Nominations/
. Voting is open until May 2nd .
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About TiEcon and TiE
TiEcon is TiE's premier annual event and is the largest
convention in the world dedicated to entrepreneurs. TiE is a
global, not-for-profit, non-political, and non-religious
organization dedicated to fostering entrepreneurs across its
international network. Since its founding in 1992, TiE has grown to
become the world's largest organization for entrepreneurs and
professionals, with membership spread across 54 chapters in 13
countries. Membership includes over 1,800 experienced entrepreneurs
and business executives as Charter Members, and over 12,000 global
members.
TiEcon 2010: It's in your
DNA!
Entrepreneurship is in everyone's DNA. But what does it
take to create that revolutionary, eternal success that every
entrepreneur dreams of? It takes is a nuanced dialogue of Defining,
Nurturing and Advancing an idea within the ecosystem of
entrepreneurs, investors, advisors and customers. TiEcon
provides that peerless ecosystem that can launch every
entrepreneur's dream! On May 14th and 15th, TiE Silicon Valley
presents, for the 17th year running, the largest conference in the
world for entrepreneurs: TiEcon 2010. Join over 3,000
participants and engage in rich dialogue with a dynamic group of
entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, industry executives, and
thought leaders over two full days of idea sharing. YOU are
an entrepreneur. Come to TiEcon2010.
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Mar 12, 2009
Computing demand across the
world is growing every moment requiring more and more information
technology (IT) infrastructure that in turn consumes more and more
energy.
The efficiency of IT infrastructure is now at the top of the mind
of business leaders, environmentalists and policy-makers.
On August 2, 2007 the U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR Program submitted a
report to the congress assessing opportunities for energy
efficiency improvements for government and commercial computer
servers and data centers in the United States.
According to this EPA report "The energy used by the
nation's servers and data centers is significant. It is estimated
that this sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in
2006 (1.5 percent of total electricity consumption) for a total
electricity cost of about $4.5 billion. This estimated level of
electricity consumption is more than the electricity consumed by
the nation's color televisions and similar to the amount of
electricity consumed by approximately 5.8 million average U.S.
households (or about five percent of the total housing stock).
Federal servers and data centers alone account for approximately 6
billion kWh (10 percent) of this electricity use, for a total
electricity cost of about $450 million annually.
The energy use of the
nation's servers and data centers in 2006 is estimated to be more
than double the electricity that was consumed for this purpose in
2000. One type of server, the volume server, was responsible for
the majority (68 percent) of the electricity consumed by IT
equipment in data centers in 2006. The energy used by this type of
server more than doubled from 2000 to 2006, which was the largest
increase among different types of servers. The power and cooling
infrastructure that supports IT equipment in data centers also uses
significant energy, accounting for 50 percent of the total
consumption of data centers. Among the different types of data
centers, more than one-third (38 percent) of electricity use is
attributable to the nation's largest (i.e., enterprise-class) and
most rapidly growing data centers. "
The report also
mentions "Under current efficiency trends, national energy
consumption by servers and data centers could nearly double again
in another five years (i.e., by 2011) to more than 100 billion kWh
, representing a $7.4 billion annual electricity cost."
The EPA report considered these estimates
approximate due to limited availability of data on current data
center energy use, but, this clearly highlights the magnitude of
current energy usage and its growing trend in the data centers and
need for datacenter energy-efficiency.
EPA Final Report to Congress - Executive Summary
EPA is currently developing energy star product
specification for enterprise servers. More information on the
current status of the energy star product specification for
enterprise servers can be found at
EPA website.
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