Two years ago, JouleX was named one of the Cool Vendors in Green IT and Sustainability, 2011[1] by the Gartner research analyst firm. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Gartner analysts find that we're STILL COOL!
JouleX is one of only two companies making up the Where Are They Now section, with analyst Simon Mingay providing the analysis. Mingay's analysis provides an overview on why JouleX was named to the Cool Vendors list in 2011, and why we're included in their report for 2013.
JouleX, we believe, was recognized in 2011 for our agentless approach to energy management, and our ability to connect to any IP-connected device, which enables companies to manage energy usage of disparate technology and organizational functions in an integrated way.
According to Gartner, “The energy efficiency of buildings remains a key focus for enterprise sustainability programs and vendor solutions.” It also recommends that CIOs “increase collaborative efforts with facilities managers, energy managers and chief sustainability officers to better exploit technologies that increase bottom-up stakeholder engagement in energy efficiency and sustainability programs."
Quote from JouleX President & CEO, Thomas Noonan:
“We consider JouleX’s inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner an important recognition in the evolution of our JEM technology and that of a maturing market; and one that is placing increased emphasis on the significant cost and carbon benefits of energy management. The increased collaboration between building and energy managers, network administrators, and data center operators has played a significant role in our success, and one that will continue to be of vital importance for those organizations s looking to implement an enterprise-wide approach to energy management.”[2]
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
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Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.
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[1] Cool Vendors in Green IT and Sustainability, 2011
Authors: Simon Mingay, Stephen Stokes, Milind Govekar
Published 15 April 2011
[2] Cool Vendors 2013: Exploiting the Forces That Empower the Individual and Erode IT Control
Authors: Daryl C. Plummer, Michele Cantara
Published 7 May 2013
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JouleX would like to congratulate our Managed Energy Services partner, Dimension Data, on recently being named a leader in Sustainable Technology Services in the annual Green Quadrant® Sustainable Technology Services report by Verdantix. This report highlighted Dimension Data’s best in class IT energy services.
Dimension Data provides Managed Energy Services based on the JouleX Energy Manager platform, a highly scalable network-based energy management platform with a centralized cloud-based architecture. This platform enables Dimension Data to deliver comprehensive, feature-rich cloud-based energy management services to their managed network customers around the globe.
Dimension Data also employs the JouleX Energy Manager for their technology lifecycle assessment and consulting services. By using JouleX technology for comparing the energy efficiency of various types of IT devices operating in a customer's environment, replacement costs, and other important factors, Dimension Data can provide a broad range of projections and product replacement options to best serve their customers’ business needs.
You can read the full announcement by Dimension Data and also get a complimentary copy of the Verdantix report here.
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We would like to take a moment to congratulate the first ever APPA* Sustainability Award recipients. This newly instituted category was created to promote and reward achievement in the increasingly important role of Sustainability in the world of higher education.
JouleX is excited about the work that we do with educational institutions around the world, to help them toward their sustainability and cost reduction goals, and we think it’s great to see recognition institutions are getting it right!
Congratulations to the five universities to receive the 2012 APPA Sustainability Award:
- University of British Columbia - Their UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) was established in 2010.
- The University of California - Irvine – UC Irvine began implementing sustainability practices in 2003, and since then has won recognition for this program with over two dozen awards.
- Emory University – Their Sustainability Initiative was officially begun in 2001, and has grown over the last decade to include energy and water conservation, green building, recycling, and four other defined focus areas.
- American University – With the university president signing a carbon neutrality pledge in 2008, AU has been making great strides toward sustainability ever since and is one of the first schools in the nation to have achieved a STARS Gold rating (between 65 and 80 points) with a score of 69.90 in 2011.
- University of Prince Edward Island – UPEI established an Office of Sustainability and Energy Management in 2007 that “works to coordinate sustainable practices and projects on campus that touches on all aspects of campus life”.
If you’re ready to take your institution’s sustainability initiatives beyond switching CFL light bulbs, you’re ready to see what JouleX Energy Manager can do for you. Contact us today to learn how we can help you save costs and gain efficiencies around your university or college campus.
*APPA, now simply identified by its former initials, was originally known as Association of Superintendents of Buildings and Grounds in 1914, but the name of the organization has changed over the decades to reflect evolution of both the organization and the institutions it serves. The APPA has also been known as Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges, The Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers.
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IBM SmartCamp, an exclusive global program bringing together entrepreneurs, investors and experienced mentors who want to build a Smarter Planet, announced this morning that JouleX is the SmartCamp KickStart Munich winner!
At the first ever IBM SmartCamp KickStart held in Germany, early stage companies in the field of Big Data and Business Analytics presented their business ideas. JouleX is proud to accept the SmartCamp KickStart award, and are looking forward to going to market with IBM.
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JouleX is proud to be named a finalist for the IBM SmartCamp KickStart Award. IBM created the award to highlight innovative companies in the area of big data and business intelligence.
IBM nominated JouleX for leveraging big data in order to create business intelligence by aggregating and correlating the energy information from all IP-enabled devices to provide unprecedented visibility into the energy consumption and utilization of those devices throughout the distributed office, data center and facilities environments. JouleX takes this a step further by applying advanced analytics to identify energy, cost, and carbon savings opportunities and a management platform to implement policies to realize this savings. IBM will help the winner with go-to-market and selling efforts.
JouleX founders Josef Brunner and Rene Seeber will be participating in the June 27 event. Please join us if you are in the Munich area. Tickets are available through IBM at ibm.com/de/events/smartcamp-kickstart-munich.
You can read the entire IBM press release translated in English or the original in German.
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We recently announced JouleX’s inclusion in the Computerworld Honors Program. Knowing that the stated mission of this long standing program is “A Search for New Heroes”, this recognition is both humbling and exhilarating for all of us here at JouleX.While we would stop short of calling ourselves heroes, we do look forward to continuing our groundbreaking work in Enterprise Energy Management.
Our president and CEO, Tom Noonan, shared his thoughts about the award: “At JouleX, we are proud to play a vital role in providing organizations around the world with the visibility and analysis required to help them control their energy management across the enterprise and, ultimately, decrease energy consumption, support corporate sustainability initiatives, and reduce overall operating expenses. To have our JouleX Energy Manager technology recognized by The Computerworld Honors Program further validates both the business and environmental value we bring to the marketplace.”
Our congratulations go out to all of the other recognized Laureates and our heartfelt thanks go out to all of the judges at The Computerworld Honors Program.
From the Computerworld Honors Program press release:
“For over two decades, The Computerworld Honors Program has recognized individuals and organizations that create and use information technology to promote and advance public welfare, contribute to the greater good of society and change the world for the better.”
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JouleX congratulates banking customer Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw for winning this year’s Green IT Best Practices award!
At the Green IT Summit, held by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin, Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw was awarded the Green IT Best Practices award for its sustainability initiatives to address energy and cost inefficiencies of its Self Service devices (ATM machines, statement printers).
Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw has 150 bank branches, 174 ATM machines, and 170 statement printers. With no visibility or reporting capabilities, Sparkasse was challenged by the inability to prove success or failure of their energy saving initiatives. They sought a solution that could capture the energy consumption of the entire IT network, while adhering to strict security requirements that disallowed software installation or hardware meters on individual end devices.
JouleX is thrilled to be part of the solution to these challenges, and part of the overall Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw sustainability initiative. As a direct result of the JouleX implementation, over the course of 400 days, Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw has realized a savings of 40 MWh reduction in energy consumption from:
- 50-80% for the ATMs and Statement Printers
- 67% for Windows PCs
- 33% for servers
- Additional electricity savings on cooling, due to less heat generated by devices
Additionally, they found savings in terms of
- 24.5 tons reduction of CO2 emissions
- Extended life of power managed devices
- Reduction in maintenance operations costs
The JouleX Team commends Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw for their accomplishments achieved through their sustainability initiatives. Most of all, we are proud to be part of their solution.
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JouleX is proud to share that the Red Herring editorial team as has named JouleX as a finalist for the 2011 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award in the CleanTech category. The finalists selected represent “the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across North America.” To make it into the finalist circle, we were evaluated on a number of quantitative and qualitative criteria, including financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and disruption into our respective industry. We met with the members from the nomination committee a while back to share with all of this, and received great response to what we have accomplished in a little over a year and the impact we are making in helping companies meet their sustainability and energy cost reduction goals .
"This year was very rewarding," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "The global economic situation has abated and there are many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products. We had a very difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Now we're faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring North America. We know that the 2011 crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to make an impact."
As part of the decision process, our CEO Tom Noonan will be giving a live presentation at the Red Herring North America Forum in Hollywood, California, taking place June 13-15 where the winners will be announced at a special awards dinner on June 15. We are proud and honored of this accomplishment.
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JouleX is proud to be the inaugural recipient of the BT Green Economy Award for its enterprise energy management solution, JouleX Energy Manager. BT presented JouleX with the award during last week’s Success for Future Awards gala in Munich. The Success for Future Awards honor projects that promote sustainability and economic success in the world of tomorrow. JouleX is proud to support this initiative and is honored to have been chosen by the 17-member jury.
"Acting sustainably is a matter for all of us and has been a key part of BT's business strategy for the last 20 years. In initiating the Success for Future Award, we want to show that there are lots of fine examples of companies where sustainability and business success go hand in hand. The JouleX solution was a big hit with the jury and I am very pleased that we are able to award the BT Green Economy Award to a company which is a real game-changer in the area of sustainability and energy efficiency. We hope that the prize will also encourage other organizations and companies to get more closely involved with pioneering solutions,” explains BT Germany CEO Karsten Lereuth.
JouleX was chosen for pioneering a whole new approach to enterprise energy efficiency management. The company is dedicated to helping its enterprise clients optimize energy management and realize significant cost savings in the data center, distributed office, facilities and in their PC environments.
“The award shows that there is more and more interest in topics such as green IT and deploying sustainable solutions, from both the general public and from business organizations. An increasing number of companies are recognizing that protecting the environment and being successful in business are no longer incompatible – on the contrary, cutting rising energy consumption and effectively reducing costs requires ecological innovation,” explained JouleX co-founder and chief architect, Josef Brunner.
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JouleX is proud to be nominated for BT’s inaugural Success for Future Award. This first year award will be given to the project that best promotes sustainability and economic success in the world of tomorrow. JouleX is pioneering a whole new approach to enterprise energy efficiency management and is a top contender for the award. JouleX is proud to support this initiative as it is dedicated to helping its enterprise clients optimize energy management and realize significant cost savings in the data center, distributed enterprise and in their PC environments. Winners will be announced in April 2011 in Munich.
To cast your vote for JouleX and learn more about the award, visit
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