When it comes to our customer’s distributed hybrid IT infrastructure and what they prioritize, we know monitoring and visibility are critical, and cybersecurity could not be more crucial. How do we know? We have been listening to our customer’s concerns. In the past 18 months,... The post Tackling the Dual IT Infrastructure Priorities of Visibility and Cybersecurity with EcoStruxure IT’s Secure NMC System appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

Today, industrial companies face unprecedented challenges. Manpower Group recently reported that 75% of companies in the industrial sector are currently experiencing a talent shortage. Supply chain problems, an increasingly competitive market landscape, rapidly changing customer demand, and the need to increase quality, productivity, and overall efficiency... The post Margo: The new open standard initiative for interoperability at the edge of industrial automation appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

Every time I attend an IT industry event, it seems like everyone wants to chat about Green IT and sustainability. They’re eager, sometimes even excited, to get their company on the right path immediately. But they have no idea how to start. It reminds me... The post Resolutions, Yoga and Green IT: The Top 5 Pitfalls of Sustainability appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

In 2003, Michael Lewis unveiled Moneyball to the world —a book explaining the strategy used by savvy Major League Baseball teams to shift from traditional scouting to a more analytical approach for assembling a competitive team. As a zealous basketball fan and college student then,... The post Pitching Efficiency: From the Ballpark to the Server Rack – The Moneyball Analogy for Data Center Mastery appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

In the discussion about data center planning in deploying workloads on-premise versus the cloud, there comes a time when a third option emerges as an optimal choice – prefabricated modular data centers. The modular data center compresses the time invested in planning and building a... The post On-premise vs cloud? How a prefabricated modular data center can solve the debate appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

On the surface, the data center and the energies and chemicals industry could not be more different. Data centers require a very clean and controlled white space environment, while oil and gas companies operate in the harshest outdoor environments. Yet, these industries find themselves facing similar pain... The post How energy and chemical companies, electric utilities and data center providers can partner for a sustainable future appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

I recently presented on how CIOs can leverage data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software, and our EcoStruxure IT offer to comply with new sustainability reporting requirements and one statistic in the presentation stayed with me long after I had stopped talking. Gartner reports that 80% of... The post EcoStruxure IT Evolves DCIM with Model Based, Automated Sustainability Metric Reporting at the Click of a Button appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

A critical success factor in a data center strategy is proper planning. Data center decisions shouldn’t be reactive but thoughtful of the longer-term implications for the business. Deciding whether to place data center workloads in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge requires an assessment... The post On-premise vs. cloud: Navigating the data center workload dilemma appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

I highlighted the European Union’s Energy Efficiency Directive and its impact on CIOs, data centre owners, and operator in my last blog. This directive is part of a growing web of sustainability regulations facing the data centre industry, which I will focus on here. In the... The post Beyond the EU EED – Sustainability Regulations Impacting the Data Centre IT Infrastructure of CIOs appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more

The vision of a data center with countless rows of equipment racks inside four walls presents an incomplete picture of today’s distributed environments. The modern data center spreads far beyond those walls to include hundreds or thousands of connected sites that either depend on one... The post Three key approaches to optimize edge computing sites appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog ..read more