Anyone looking for a nice example of how to put together a great Corporate Sustainability Report should check out the one just released by JouleX customer, Danske Bank Group. Danske Bank is the largest bank in Denmark and one of the leading financial enterprises in northern europe. In its 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report lists its sustainability goals and its progress against them. For example, the company set an ambitious goal of reducing their electricity consumption 20%, from 2009 levels, by 2014. Danske Bank not only met that goal two years early, they beat the goal and then raised it to 30%!
from the report:
"In 2012, we began implementing a new online system for monitoring electricity consumption from IT equipment called JouleX. The system allows us to reduce energy consumption by monitoring, analysing and controlling how much energy we use in our IT equipment – from laptops and printers to servers and wireless access routers– when they are connected to a network.
Preliminary tests of the system in 2011 showed tremendous savings potential, and once fully implemented, the system will allow us to become better at monitoring and identifying areas where we can reduce emissions."
Danske Bank Group
Corporate Responsibility Report 2012
We commend Danske Bank on clearly defining their sustainability goals and measuring progress against them. JouleX is excited to be working with them to continue to exceed their electricity reduction goals and document their success for years to come.
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In a press release last week, Verdantix announced the release of its report: Green Quadrant Energy Management Software (Global) 2013. Our team is excited to share that JouleX Energy Manager was among the Top Enterprise Class energy management software platforms in the industry. We're glad that we continue to be one of the few companies that Verdantix recognizes as an enterprise wide solution.
JouleX's success is built on our ability to address to the needs and expectations of the industry that we serve. We continue to attribute the recognition that JouleX receives to our incredible team of developers, whose hard work and dedication continue to propel our company forward; and to our customers.
From the Press Release:
“The global energy management software market is poised for growth in 2013” according to Alisdair McDougall, Verdantix Analyst and author of the report. “Two-thirds of the customer panel expect their annual spend on energy management software to increase during the next three years as they implement new solutions, expand existing deployments and increase the breadth of functionality in use. Successful software suppliers will develop functionality that maps to the specific requirements of energy domains, a strategy pursued by JouleX for data centers, SAP in manufacturing, Siemens for retail chains, IHS for asset intensive sectors and Verisae in grocery retail. Product strategies offering a standard set of functionality for all industries have universally failed and have resulted in some suppliers exiting the market.”
From the Vertantix Report:
“JouleX demonstrates value to firms through proof-of-concept solutions. JouleX has over 170 customers and has built a strong customer base within the telecommunications sector with customers including Deutsche Telekom, Swisscom, Orange and Vodafone. As a result of its long-standing partnership with Cisco, JEM for EnergyWise is available as a free option for Cisco’s smaller LAN switches (see Verdantix Cisco And JouleX Target IT Facilities Energy Management). JouleX currently has over 200 pilot and proof-of-concept solutions installed with firms not yet paying for the service.”
“JouleX achieved high scores for data centre and ICT energy data capture (2.6) with best-in-class scores for integration with data centre and ICT equipment and management systems, commercial and retail building energy data capture (2.5), master data management (2.4) and data architecture and scalability (2.0).”
“JouleX and Schneider Electric provided the most extensive list of partners including consulting, systems integrators and technology firms achieving best-in-class scores (3.0) for the size and quality of their partner network.”
“Firms looking to better manage building portfolios containing a high density of ICT equipment or data centres should also consider JouleX for its deep domain expertise and experience.”
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The JouleX team is gearing up for another amazing year! As always, we'll be joining our Strategic Partner, Cisco, at CiscoLive London 2013.
We would love to demonstrate the newest features of JouleX Energy Manager for you at either our Gold Exhibitors booth (G2) or in the Cisco EnergyWise and UPOE Partner Pavilion (EW1).
In addition to our booths that will be staffed for the entire event, our very own Josef Brunner will be conducting a Breakout Session.
Session Title: Reducing Energy Consumption and Costs from the Core to the Edge with JouleX and Cisco
Description: This presentation will discuss the merits of reducing energy consumption, energy costs, and carbon emissions by leveraging the Cisco EnergyWise-JouleX solution. JouleX provides management for Cisco EnergyWise and allows customers to leverage their Cisco gear to monitor, analyze and control energy consumption for all network-connected devices across the enterprise, from the core to the edge of their networks. We will showcase case studies where the customers were able to reduce their annual energy costs by millions of Euros.
Speaker: Josef Brunner Chief Architect & Co-founder JouleX
Schedule: Thursday, 31 January 11:00 - 11:30 at the Gold Pavillion
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This is a fantastic time to be a JouleXer! We had a great time at Cisco Expo in Berlin and then Uptime Institute a couple of weeks ago, and we just launched the JouleX-Ready Partner Program. Now we're gearing up for an AMAZING Cisco Live US from June 10-14.
While we're all over here, preparing for Cisco Live US, we'll leave these videos and articles for you to enjoy!
VIDEOS:
ARTICLES:
- Let's Turn Emissions into Something Useful
- EU Carbon Emissions Rise, End Multi-year Decline - "Greenhouse gases from the European Union rose more than 2 percent in 2010 when a cold winter and a rebound in many economies drove up energy use, breaking a multi-year pattern of emissions declines.'
- Logica Cuts Carbon Footprint with Managed Printing - Down to ‘just’ 133 tonnes in 2011
- Blurring Communications Lines between IT and Facilities - "Sharing across silos means the cloud team should explain how their technology is helping consolidate and better utilize the existing data center. The IT and facilities teams should outline how better server technologies will reduce cooling costs. With server technologies continuing to advance and as cloud computing gains a bigger foothold on the industry, facilities management professionals must be kept in the loop of what other departments are doing. Good communication practices will help an organization stay fresh and aware of what is happening inside of their data center."
We hope you have an incredible weekend! Visit us at at Booth 1746 at Cisco Live US, and check out the Cisco EnergyWise Pavilion at Booth 2776.
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JouleX is proud to announce it has joined the Green IT - BB Network. The network connects decision-makers from business, academia and politics to share information on strategies to reduce IT energy usage. Together, the members of the network develop innovative green techniques and technologies for both IT and communication equipment. JouleX joins this group of prestigious companies that includes Microsoft, HP & Axel Springer.
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JouleX is proud to announce that is has joined forces with Cisco and has become a Registered Cisco Developer. As a member of the Cisco Developer Network, JouleX is provided more open access to Cisco technologies as well as expanded and enhanced resources to help support every phase of the JouleX development and business cycles. The partnership also provides JouleX with better Cisco-related development systems and processes, and clear paths for access to resources and advancement.
To learn more about other JouleX partnerships, click here.
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