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Ready for the DCIM Cloud?
I was recently at CeBIT in Hannover, one of the leading IT events in EMEA (have a look at the infographic here http://www.cebit.de/en/news-trends/after-show-report/our-performance-in-figures/). If...
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Universities studying up on building data analytics
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the nation’s higher education institutions spend $14 billion annually on energy consumption—an expense that continues to rise while their budgets shrink....
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Energy Data Maximizing The Power Of The Cloud
Internet connectivity and cloud computing have significantly changed what is expected of a traditional smart building system. The application of analytics to the vast quantities of “big data” that can...
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Share More to Get More; Game Changing Collaboration
I’m sorry if I bored you with this kind of analogy before, but I am a cyclist and we tend to be a bit evangelical about our sport. You might think that cycle racing is a self-centered sport where the...
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Survey Documents How DCIM Helps Companies Solve Data Center Challenges – and...
The majority of data center professionals choose Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software to improve visibility, management and capacity planning and to identify problems that threaten...
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4 Options to Consider When Incorporating Building Analytics into Your Facility
Facility Managers… I bet that you’re familiar with this old adage: do more with less. Shrinking budgets and demand on limited resources make it difficult to keep up with the rising demand for building...
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A Practical Guide to Building Analytics for Facility Managers
As mentioned in my first blog post in this series, best-in-class data analytics complement your building management system (BMS) dashboards. They take a critical next step by interpreting the data...
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Digitalization Helping Colos Meet the Challenges of Technology
The colocation market is in something of a state of flux as increased demand for outsourced services is producing two effects: Firstly, the growing market size is now being addressed by increased...
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5 Interview Questions for Your Next Building Software Vendor
I concluded my last blog post by detailing the benefits a managed software as a service (MSaaS) solution delivers to facility managers. To quickly reiterate, MSaaS combines software as a service (SaaS)...
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Forming a Strategy to Deal with Big Data from the Internet of Things
When personal computers first came out they had no internal storage. The operating system was on a floppy disc that you needed to load; it was called a boot disk. The next step in the process was to...
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Kicking Kafka out of Data Center Operations
My colleague tells me that he was at a conference in Europe and the speaker was relating how his company had been undertaking this big overhaul of its systems. It was going to cost a fortune, but had...
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How DCIM Fits in Every Data Center
In any walk of life, you don’t want to take a sledge hammer to crack a nut, or as my colleagues in some parts of Europe say, shoot sparrows with a cannon. We’re wired up not to take drastic approaches...
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Couple Manages Work Life Balance Working Together
For information on how you can contribute to the Life at Schneider Electric Blog, click here When Danny Byrd, a marketing analyst for Schneider Electric in Raleigh, North Carolina, began his career, he...
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Mining the “gemba” from big data – the answers are simpler than you think
“People who can’t understand numbers are useless. The gemba* where numbers are not visible is also bad. However, people who only look at the numbers are the worst of all.” – Taiichi Ohno, father of...
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The IIoT Success Formula: Leverage software to convert new workplace...
Several years ago, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) era launched with a big bang. Much talk was generated regarding how the industry would be forever changed. Although the speculation was...
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How Cloud, IoT and Digital Services have Driven the Development of DCIM as a...
There’s no doubt that Cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital services are some of the hotter topics today. Add in big data and analytics, machine to machine (M2M) data and artificial...
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Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink…
The data center industry is sitting on a massive resource which could enable huge financial savings I’ve taken the title for this blog from a famous old English poem, “The Rime (sic) of the Ancient...
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We’re Being Lean. How Did We Do Today?
It seems to be a standard part of the process when we make almost any online or offline transaction these days. The merchant wants your feedback about what they got right, what they got wrong and,...
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To Thrive in the IoT Era, Colocation Providers Must Drink Their Share of IoT...
IT companies for years have talked – or even bragged – about how they “eat their own dog food,” meaning they use the products they make. Personally I never liked that analogy, as it doesn’t sound too...
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How Advanced Analytics and Predictive Simulation Help Data Centers Enhance...
According to the Uptime Institute (an independent division of the research company 451 Group), “the market for Data Center Management Systems, of which Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)...
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