What is IMaaS?
Fast moving change requires an agile response. Not something that the traditionally conservative data center sector has often been able to boast about. The act of building or upgrading infrastructure...
View ArticleDemystifying Artificial Intelligence for Data Centers
Not long ago artificial intelligence (AI) and associated technologies always seemed futuristic, but today there is no shortage of companies offering AI solutions and claiming business benefits from the...
View ArticleKicking 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleEcoStruxure™ IT Transforming Data Center Management for Smarter Data Centers
Schneider Electric’s recent Innovation Summit, held in Hong Kong, provided an ideal stage to talk about the company’s direction and solutions with customers and market influencers including journalists...
View ArticleHow IoT Technology Can Help Optimize Data Center Operations
The pace of change in the colocation market continues to accelerate, and it is absolutely critical that we all adopt new technologies to help us keep pace with this change. Software is the only choice...
View ArticleWhat’s Unique about DMaaS?
While the branding of EcoStruxureTM IT is a relatively new announcement, Schneider Electric’s cloud-based services based on DCIM software, were launched during 2016. However, Data Center...
View ArticleNow, An Architecture that Helps Data Centers Better Manage IoT-related...
The proliferation of data center sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) are now emerging as mainstream data center trends. However, both of these trends took a long time to evolve. For many years,...
View ArticleData is the New Oil, Driving Data Center Growth, Opportunity and Efficiency
At the recent Schneider Electric International Colo Club meeting in London I had an interesting conversation with one of our customers who noted that we’re raising a generation of kids who will find it...
View ArticleNorway’s Olympic Gold Provides Winning Data Center Management Approach
As the 2018 Winter Olympics came to a close in PyeongChang in South Korea, one of the biggest success stories was that of Norway’s men’s downhill skiers. They became global news not only by topping the...
View ArticleSchneider Electric CTO Lays Out Solutions to Help Colocation Providers Deal...
As CTO for the IT Division, Schneider Electric’s Kevin Brown is charged with infusing innovation into all the products and services Schneider Electric delivers to its customers. So, it’s always a treat...
View ArticleData Center Operations Optimized Like a Race Car Team
Over the course of visiting some of the more than 100 data centers Schneider Electric manages, I’m continually struck by this idea: running an effective data center operations team involves many of the...
View Article3 Market Observations from Innovation Summit Paris: Edge Data Centers,...
Spending time with customers at this month’s Schneider Electric Innovation Summit in Paris made three things clear: Edge data centers are a big priority for enterprise and colocation providers, the...
View ArticleCondition-based Maintenance is a MUST for Electrical Distribution Infrastructure
The electrical distribution infrastructure is the foundation through which power is safely delivered to industrial processes around the globe. This vital power distribution infrastructure operations...
View ArticleSchneider Electric’s AI-Assisted Advising and Implementation to Accelerate...
Multi-million-dollar investment into AI and machine learning technology drives next-generation digitally-enabled services Enables a more holistic, future-oriented approach to energy and resource...
View ArticleHow Artificial Intelligence helps companies become more sustainable
Some time ago, I wrote a blog about how sustainability and digitization go hand-in-hand. I mentioned the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help us make smarter decisions that rely... Read more »...
View Article50% and Growing! Hyatt Regency Mexico City Reduces Maintenance Contracts Costs
Smart buildings produce valuable information. It’s time to start using it. If you follow technology trends at all, you know that digital transformation is sweeping across industries, from consumer...
View ArticleLeveraging the Industrial Internet of Things for commercial real estate
Darren Lovelock is Managing Director at Lloret Group, a Master-level BMS EcoXpert™. As early as 1968, factories began to implement sensors to better monitor production processes, a simple precursor...
View ArticleAI at scale. First 100 days as Chief AI Officer
Late last year, I began a new phase of my career as the Chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer at Schneider Electric. Starting any new job is exhilarating and serving in... Read more » The post AI...
View ArticleBusiness transformation towards sustainability: Embracing AI at scale
At a time of complex, competing business priorities, most progressive and responsible organizations agree on two things. Firstly, to ensure our collective future, we all have a responsibility to act......
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