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Resolving Data Center Concerns through Regional Forum

Feb 23, 2013 |
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Every 3 to 4 months, Asset Vue hosts a regional Data Center Users' Forum (DCUF).  The mission of the DCUF is to provide a commercial free forum where members collaborate on relevant mission-critical issues, new technologies, customer testimonials, and best practices affecting reliability, availability, and lowest cost of operation.  Each forum is a half day committment which is easily divided into three sections: an open forum to discuss the groups "top of mind" concerns, a vendor spotlight, and an End User spotlight.

Last Friday, the DCUF, which includes IT and facilities professionals from multiple industry types, discussed various topics including:  Data Center Infrastructure Management strategies (DCIM), metering and trending, bridging the gap between IT and Facilities, outsourcing vs. keeping everything in-house, industry power trends, passive RFID asset management,  data center management, containment, power outage/root cause analysis.

We concluded the meeting with a presentation on ITIL RCA (Root Cause Analysis) by a nationally recognized speaker and ITIL expert.

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Sean Cotter is President of Asset Vue, bringing 27 years of experience in IT leadership, business development, and entrepreneurship. He leads the company’s strategic direction and team, helping organizations simplify inventory management through RFID and barcode technology, automated data capture, and asset lifecycle tracking.

Sean’s expertise spans RFID and automatic identification technologies, process optimization, data center infrastructure management, and environmental monitoring. Before Asset Vue, he founded and grew an outsourced IT business and later served as Director of IT and CIO at the DVL Group. He has also taught Operations Management as an Adjunct Professor at West Chester University and holds a master’s degree in business from Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business.

His writing draws on this operational and technology experience to explore practical approaches to asset visibility, inventory accuracy, and more efficient IT asset management.

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