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It’s time to move your supply chain into the realm of super-intelligent. This special report is for anyone looking to enhance their supply chain operations by utilizing the latest in technological advances such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and the Internet of Things (IoT). With smart use of these tools, businesses can anticipate problems and develop solutions before they occur. Forward-thinking leaders are using this disruption to optimize their supply chains and push the quality of their findings to a whole new level. In it, you’ll learn: • The markers of a truly cognitive supply chain • The crucial role of location intelligence in supply chain optimization • The impact increased visibility has on every area of your supply chain, including asset, inventory, fleet and energy management

The needs of your facilities and buildings can vary. IBM TRIRIGA can add value across all dimensions of a building. It can help optimize your space, improve energy usage and maintenance efforts, ensure the success of capital projects, and whip your lease accounting practices into shape. Learn the insights and benefits IBM TRIRIGA can provide you in better optimizing your organization’s space, maintenance efforts, energy usage, and more. Download this demo to learn more about each of these critical areas.

Read how Cheniere is transforming the maintenance of complex assets at the upgraded Sabine Pass facility with IBM Maximo.

It is breathing life into our existing energy resources and creating new opportunities. Better use of data has visible, tangible and immediate results. It is helping energy companies become safer, more reliable and more efficient. This is good for both our wallets and our planet. For more information visit: www.ibm.com/energy or watch our webinar here

Data continues to grow at an astounding pace? As a result, data center space is becoming more scarce, as more arrays are acquired to store all of this data. Along with this data taking up space, it is also utilizing a great deal of power and cooling. In fact, the average data center in the U.S. uses approximately 34,000 kW of electricity each year, costing $180,000 in annual energy costs. As Infinidat set out to revolutionize the storage industry, one of our goals was to help consumers of storage build a more sustainable infrastructure that would be not only better for the environment, but also help them to save money as well. All of our patents come together to form InfiniBox, a storage solution that does just this.

For manufacturers, the transition to Industry 4.0 has meant the accumulation of data, massive data. Indeed, the accumulation, distribution and evaluation of data are driving virtually every decision on the manufacturing plant floor and supply chains shaping those decisions. Given the striking fact that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created over the last two years, it isn’t surprising that more than 60 percent of large companies report having a Chief Data Officer. But what has opened the floodgates to this deluge of information in manufacturing? Ordinary sensors have been transformed into smart sensors with the advent of IoT technologies and are being deployed by manufacturers along every step of the supply chain. Sensors are now detecting everything from when a piece of equipment will need maintenance to controlling energy costs inside factories.

The average computer room today has cooling capacity that is nearly four times the IT heat load. Using data from 45 sites reviewed by Upsite Technologies, this white paper will show how you can calculate, benchmark, interpret, and benefit from a simple and practical metric called the Cooling Capacity Factor (CCF). Calculating the CCF is the quickest and easiest way to determine cooling infrastructure utilization and potential gains to be realized by AFM improvements.

Ensuring the reliability and efficiency of your data center operations requires a strategic partner that is qualified to minimize energy usage, reduce costs, and optimize space utilization, helping you meet critical business initiatives.

For the Smart Homes of this century, the paper gives a few hints on energy management and thereby reducing bills along with an eco-friendly environment.

In the broadening data center cost-saving and energy efficiency discussion, data center physical infrastructure preventive maintenance (PM) is sometimes neglected as an important tool for controlling TCO and downtime. PM is performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring. IT and facilities managers can improve systems uptime through a better understanding of PM best practices.

Building on 25 years of server market leadership, the HPE ProLiant Gen9 portfolio—which includes HPE OneView software for simplified, converged management—offers optimal performance, increased storage, reduced energy consumption, and greater visibility and control across IT environments. Now everyone from enterprises to small and medium businesses (SMBs) can lower the cost of IT services, reduce delivery times, and improve their overall performance to gain a competitive edge. Download this white paper to learn more about the HPE ProLiant Gen9 portfolio.

Today’s data centers are expected to deploy, manage, and report on different tiers of business applications, databases, virtual workloads, home directories, and file sharing simultaneously. They also need to co-locate multiple systems while sharing power and energy. This is true for large as well as small environments. The trend in modern IT is to consolidate as much as possible to minimize cost and maximize efficiency of data centers and branch offices. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is highly efficient, flash-optimized storage engineered for the true convergence of block, file, and object access to help consolidate diverse workloads efficiently. HPE 3PAR OS and converged controllers incorporate multiprotocol support into the heart of the system architecture

The modern workplace is anywhere Complex work. Specialised teams all over the place. They’re in offices, homes, hotels, cars and airports. It could hardly be any more different to the days when people sat in neat rows of desks. That’s the modern reality of business life—it’s happening everywhere at once. Not only that, it’s happening on all kinds of devices, from desktop to mobile. And every generation of worker expects to have its workstyle accommodated. Today, co- workers mingle flexibly in pairs and groups, and those teams thrive on exchanging creative energy. They meet up in spaces designed specifically to encourage the cross-pollination of ideas. Their disruptive new concepts are where the next big growth opportunities are. The modern workplace is one where ongoing innovation is valued above all else. And flexibility extends well beyond four walls. Think about the way you work today and how it has evolved. Chances are it’s no longer 9 ‘til 5. Mobile employees, contract workers, fr

Based on hands-on testing and the verified representations made by Cisco, Miercom confirms that the Catalyst 2960-X and the 2960-XR are highly energy-efficient Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching solutions

This white paper presents IDC’s analysis of the business value organizations are achieving by using Cisco UCS as a platform for SAP HANA and other SAP Business Suite applications. This analysis is based on IDC’s interviews with 12 Cisco UCS customers. These organizations are all relatively large organizations (1,500–85,000 employees), with an average of 25,383 employees. Interviewees represent a variety of industries: natural resources, agriculture, energy, government, automotive, retail, food and beverage, distribution, technology, healthcare, and IT. These organizations are based in the United States, EMEA, Mexico, and Brazil.

Efficiency is the name of the game. But is your IT organization winning or losing? Read more to learn how your IT organization is wasting time and energy protecting data.

Cisco engaged Miercom to conduct a competitive analysis of its Catalyst 2960-X switch versus two comparable Hewlett-Packard switches from the 2920 and 5120 product families. Miercom executed comprehensive hands-on testing and evaluated the performance of some widely deployed features that are critical for reliable functioning of enterprise networks. The test methodology focused on specific areas in which Cisco believed there were key competitive differentiators between the products. Test results validated include throughput, latency, energy efficiency, stacking, LACP load balancing and Quality of Services (QoS) performance. Miercom found that the Cisco Catalyst 2960-X demonstrated superior performances against the competitive switches in the tests featured in this report.

For many of us, the term “smart city” conjures up images of sensors collecting data about everything from traffic patterns to energy use. It’s common for government leaders to think, “That’s not for us. We’re not there yet.” But if your organization is collecting data of any kind, you are in a position to use that data to create a smarter city for your citizens. Download this whitepaper for 10 examples of analytics being used to solve problems or simplify tasks for government organizations.

Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and -XR Series Switches earned the Miercom Certified Green Award for saving over 50% in annual energy operating costs compared to the industry average. The switches were evaluated in accordance with the Miercom Certified Green Testing Methodology. Test results show the benefits of Cisco Catalyst 2960-X and -XR Series Switches.

Ensures IT can drive success in the future AEW Energie can now be confident that it has the IT to support new developments. With energy demands increasing and authorities applying pressure for cleaner energy production, companies such as AEW Energie continue to look for ways to solve those challenges. AEW Energie now has a reliable and efficient IT infrastructure that helps support innovation in the firm’s efforts to find the right solutions and meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.

This IDC white paper examines the IoT imperative for companies in the ENR industry. We highlight IoT scenarios now and in the future, that illustrate how the integration of “things” with data and processes can generate value for ENR companies.

The consumer durables sector continues to evolve. Consumer demand for connected, energy-efficient appliances is driving investment in R&D – even as profitability pressures necessitate new cost-cutting measures. And intensifying vertical and virtual integration means manufacturers need stronger relationships with extended supply chains. Supply chain and sourcing professionals are leading the charge. Learn how a digital strategy enables the transformation needed to excel today.

The consumer durables sector continues to evolve. Consumer demand for connected, energy-efficient appliances is driving investment in R&D – even as profitability pressures necessitate new cost-cutting measures. And intensifying vertical and virtual integration means manufacturers need stronger relationships with extended supply chains. Supply chain and sourcing professionals are leading the charge. Learn how a digital strategy enables the transformation needed to excel today.

The way we produce and consume energy globally is changing. Over the next decade, the energy mix will undergo a significant shift at both a supranational and domestic level as we work towards a cleaner future. By 2030, the offshore wind power market is expected to be worth £30 billion per year. Fast forward to 2050 and the industry is projected to contribute to at least a third of the total global electricity supply. While this is great news for power generation companies, recent research has showed that the costs associated with maintaining wind farms will double between 2015 and 2020. To secure its place in the future energy mix, protecting a wind turbines value and output through effective maintenance will prove critical to achieving a competitive edge. There are steps that can be taken now, to reduce maintenance costs today and keep them lower in the future. Shell Omala S5 Wind 320 – advanced synthetic wind turbine gear oil that can help to ensure your wind turbines work harde

ARM had an immediate need for a flexible provider that was willing to collaborate on a “build-to-suit” energy efficient data center, but also want a long-term partner to consider for future projects in other parts of the world. Find out why they chose Digital Realty.