Our crew snapped a couple of pictures at the first day of Cisco Live London yesterday.
They're turning people on to the powerful capabilities of the JouleX Energy Manager and Cisco EnergyWise partnership, and having a great time doing it.
(Chatting with an attendee)
(The JouleX Energy Manager Dashboard)
We're looking forward to all the great stories from the show! If you're at Cisco Live London, stop by Booth G7 and say hello. The JouleX team would love to meet you.
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Cisco recently announced the 10,000th customer milestone for its UCS (Unified Computing System) offering, the fastest growing x86 blade server on the market. Cisco attributes this success to the increase in “data center happiness” caused by its blade server. One major source of data center happiness, brought about by the Cisco UCS, is its low consumption. Since reducing energy is our passion at JouleX, we thought we should show some other cool tricks you can implement by pairing the Cisco UCS with the JouleX Energy Manager (another fan favorite) to raise the mood level in your data center to pure ecstasy.
The JouleX Energy Manager brings unprecedented visibility into the energy savings realized by upgrading to Cisco UCS, solidifying your original business case, as well as the ongoing benefits of having this visibility, coupled with analysis of other energy, utilization, and temperature metrics. Greater still, is the ability to granularly control the amount of energy it uses to lower costs even further, while maintaining your services levels and reliability metrics.
It’s easy to understand that collapsing 25 end-of-life machines into a single UCS blade server will save power. The challenge is determining just how much power is the UCS actually saving. Moreover, how do you calculate the actual impact on operations costs in years to come?
Consider the HP Compaq Proliant 1850R: If you retire 25 Proliant 1850Rs and replace those with 1 Cisco UCS B200 series Blade Server, your estimated energy savings will be about $10,100 per year*. This does not include cooling, heat, or maintenance costs. Assuming a PUE of 2.0, the total energy savings will be close to be $20,200 per year*.
*at $.12 per kwh
JouleX Energy Manager provides potential for additional energy savings for Cisco UCS, through Power Capping. While modern servers are MUCH more energy efficient than 5, 10 or even 2 years ago, there is still waste of energy in allowing a server to scale to maximum performance. In order to quickly achieve this performance level, the power usage levels are geared toward maximum performance, not minimum needed to do the job efficiently and without impacting SLAs. JouleX Energy Manager helps to address that.
With Power Capping, you can:
- Lower power consumption levels during low peak/off hours
- Ensure power does not exceed a pre-set amount, to deal with challenges unique to the data center:
- Address demand response by lowering energy power consumption, when you are out of power or need to free up energy to power something else on
- You lose a chiller and the server room is heating up:
- Shut down unnecessary servers
- Power cap critical servers
- JouleX Energy Manager will provide the capability to turn off specified machines and send an alert if the temperature reaches designated levels or critical power loads
- Match data center energy use to server productivity ensuring THE most efficient data center not only from IT resources, but also from the amount of energy needed to run those IT resources.
Choosing Cisco UCS or any of our other server partners such as Dell and HP, is a step toward lowering energy costs and improving data center efficiency. Implementing JouleX Energy Manager as your energy management platform is the next logical step in making sure you can not only visualize the real savings numbers, but take control of the energy usage in your data center and put it to work in the most effective way possible.
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One of the most compelling reasons for installing JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise is the reporting capability. JEM for EnergyWise provides both a comprehensive overview, and detailed reporting to help you demonstrate savings in a number of customizable ways that are meaningful to your enterprise, such as by location or business unit.
Some of our most popular reports are:
Average Time per Day: Shows total time spent in each EnergyWise level per day, based on all devices in chosen segment and date range. The shown value is the total over time, per day, of all devices in chosen segment.
Note: This report does not provide today's data.
Time Spent in Level: Represents the total time of all devices spent in each EnergyWise level.
Average Consumption per Day: Shows total consumption in each EnergyWise level per day, broken down by devices in chosen segment and date range. The shown value is the total consumption, per day, of all devices in chosen segment.
Note: This report does not provide today's data.
Consumption: Represents the total energy consumption of all devices spent in each EnergyWise level.
Power Demand: Visualizes the relative power demand broken down to each EnergyWise level. Each bar represents an hour/day (depends on date range).
Get better insight to a level by clicking its label in legend.
To learn about JouleX Energy Manager reporting and how to customize reports for your company, check out our Reports documentation here.
Don't forget to stop by our booth at Cisco Live London January 31-Feb3, 2012! We'll be in Booth G7.
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JouleX startet deutsche Webseite
Das gesamte JouleX Team freut sich außerordentlich seinen Kunden und Partnern nun auch eine deutsche Version unserer Webseite zur Verfügung stellen zu können. Wie viele unserer Leser schon wissen, startete die JouleX Erfolgsgeschichte in Deutschland, wo JouleX mittlerweile Büros in München, Kassel und Hamburg unterhält. Das macht uns umso stolzer unseren Heimatmarkt jetzt auch in deutscher Sprache adressieren und bedienen zu können. Um zur deutschen Version unseres Internetauftritts zu gelangen, klicken Sie einfach auf die deutsche Flagge am rechten, oberen Rand unserer Webseite. Go JouleX!
JouleX Proudly Launches Website in German
JouleX is thrilled to now provide our website content in German. As you may know, we were founded in Germany and maintain a large presence there with sales and development offices in Hamburg, Kassel and Munich. We are excited to serve this market now in its native tongue. To visit the German language section of our website, simply visit JouleX.net and click the German flag in the top right corner of any page. Go JouleX!
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We’re proud to announce Team JouleX will be participating in Cisco Live London, January 31-February 2, 2012. Stop by Booth G7 to speak with one of our crew, see JEM for EnergyWise in action, and learn how JouleX Energy Manager can empower your enterprise to become energy efficient as well as track and report the results of your efforts.
If you don’t want to wait until Cisco Live London, we encourage you to download your free 90 Day Trial of JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise today. The JouleX team is really excited about the number of customers worldwide who are now enjoying the ability to monitor, measure, and control their enterprise energy loads with JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise.
We are receiving great customer feedback regarding the progress being made in energy cost reduction, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility, through JEM for EnergyWise. One client was so happy with the trial that they upgraded to the full version within 7 days of installation. Try it yourself today, and see what is so amazing about JouleX Energy Manager.
Have questions or want more information? Visit our Contact page and send a message to one of our team members.
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Since this is a light week for most people, we decided to save the Friday Roundup for today instead. These are the articles we found interesting enough in the last week or two to share with our readers. I hope you find them as interesting as we did.
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In partnership with JouleX, A Clean Future has released a new whitepaper titled Profitable Steps in Enterprise-Wise Energy and Carbon Management. This whitepaper addresses carbon and energy reduction challenges and solutions for the entire enterprise, including its complete supply chain.
Here are a couple of excerpts from the whitepaper:
Cost Pressures can be addressed with a low carbon business model, as provn by pioneers that reported to CDP:
"... Energy represents a significant operational expense for companies and provides a key opportunity to reduce cost and increase operational effectiveness, while at the same time addressing resource scarcity. Even basic energy and carbon management will display exactly where those opportunities exist within a company's operational and value chains."
And
"A key technology that provides and innovative solution to modern enterprise energy management has been introduced by JouleX, a leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise, which was founded in 2009. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the ability to monitor, analyze, and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across an enterprise, including in distributed offices, data center, and facilities."
We encourage you to download and read the full whitepaper Profitable Steps in Enterprise-Wise Energy and Carbon Management.
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Cisco recently released its Corporate Social Responsibility Report for 2011. In it, Cisco shares the results of its sustainability efforts in the following areas: Governance & Ethics, Value Chain, People (employees), Socety, and Environment. As Cisco has emphasized for some time, energy management was one key area.
We encourage you to read the report, on the Cisco CSR 2011 page. While you’re there, make sure to watch the video A Global View on Energy Management with Jon Parello, a senior technical leader in the Ethernet Switching and Technology Group and the lead architect and co-inventor for Cisco EnergyWise, which is a crucial part of Cisco´s Green initiatives. JouleX is proud to be a featured solution in showcasing the power of Cisco EnergyWise, as seen in the video.
What we find most impressive about Cisco’s commitment to sustainability is that it encompasses everything they do. From the products they sell, to their corporate culture as a whole, Cisco is dedicated to promoting the same sustainable values internally that they encourage their customers to embrace through products like Cisco EnergyWise.
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In a press release this morning, Verdantix announced the release of its report: Green Quadrant Energy Management Software (Global) 2011. JouleX is excited that our energy management platform, JouleX Energy Manager, was among the Top 15 in the industry.
Energy management has so often been evaluated in silos within an organization, we're glad to be one of the few that Verdantix recognizes as an enterprise wide solution. It's great to be recognized for our ability to address to the needs and expectations of the industry that we serve.
JouleX attributes the recognition we’ve received to our amazing team of developers, whose hard work and dedication is unparallelled; and to our customers, whose feedback and good will have certainly contributed to our success.
From the Press Release:
The report “provides an authoritative benchmark of fifteen enterprise-scale applications. These were selected for analysis from a global scan which identified more than 60 energy management applications. Verdantix forecasts the US market for energy software will be worth $558m in 2014 and will reach a 51% compound annual growth rate over the five years from 2010 to 2014.”
“Fast-moving new entrants to the enterprise-scale, energy management software market include C3, Hara, Infor, JouleX and SAP. These software suppliers, many of whom entered this market in the last 3 years, have strong product roadmaps and innovation strategies which bode well for the future.”
From the Vertantix Report:
“JouleX’s Energy Manager application achieved a best-in-class score (3.0) for automated data capture from IT, data centre and telecoms equipment as well as strong scores for commercial building data capture (2.6), manufacturing plant data capture (2.0), IT systems integration (2.2) and security and data audit.”
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