JouleX is a proud Gold Sponsor of Cisco Expo 2012 at O2 World Berlin. Since O2World Berlin is a customer, and utilitizes the JouleX Energy Manager platform, we will be monitoring, analyzing and controlling the energy consumption of the venue through facility management integration and also monitoring the IT equipment. We invite you to visit us in Lounge 207 to see JouleX Energy Manager in action.
In addition to ongoing demonstrations and Q&A in Lounge 207, our team will be presenting these topics on the Unified Data Center and Borderless Network – Connecting the Cloud Securely tracks:
- May 2 at 2:30PM: Increasing Data Center Capacity through Cisco UCS, Nexus and the JouleX Energy Manager
- May 3 at 1:00PM: Reducing Energy Consumption from the Core to the Edge with JouleX and Cisco Energy Wise
We look forward to seeing you there and discussing how you can leverage JouleX with your Cisco infrastructure to gain efficiencies and savings!
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Happy Friday! We're happy to share that the third in our series on Facilities & IT was published this week. You can see that here: Facilities and IT: The Similarities.
You can find the first two articles here Energy Management: Building a Bridge Between Facilities and IT and here Facilities and IT: Learning to Speak the Language.
Since Sunday is Earth Day, most of the articles coming out around sustainable business are very Earth Day focused this week. Here are a few that we found useful or interesting.
- 10 Ways for Executives to Green Their Business "In honor of Earth Day, here are 10 ways that executive women can leverage their influence to make a difference."
- Game Consoles Waste over $1B Worth of Electricity Per Year "Analysts at Carnegie Mellon University report that game consoles are wasting power at record levels: 10.8 terawatt-hours, by their estimate, costing U.S. homeowners some $1.24 billion a year."
- Greenpeace's Clean Cloud Push "In its trademark smashmouth style, Greenpeace this week took cloud computing companies to task for using dirty energy -- and then came under fire itself over its methods and assertions. "
- High Speed Rail Isn't the Most Efficient Way to Cut Carbon Emissions "The California High Speed Rail Authority claims that by 2030, if the train ran entirely on renewable energy, then it would start reducing the state’s carbon emissions by about 5.4 million metric tons per year. That would mean the rail network would cut California’s emissions at a cost of, at the very low end, $250 per ton of carbon dioxide over the ensuing 50 years, given the system’s current price tag"
- Northeast States Bucking Carbon Emissions Trend "Study finds that cap-and-trade and other clean energy policies have helped Northeastern states cut CO2 emissions faster than the rest of the nation."
- Business Roundtable: Create, Grow, Sustain 2012 Report "now in its fifth year, features narratives from 126 CEOs on how their companies are leading the way with solutions to make the U.S. economy more sustainable while also driving economic growth and job creation."
We hope you have a Great Weekend and a VERY Green Earth Day!
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JouleX is proud to participate at today's Green IT Summit in Herndon, VA. JouleX Technical Director Scott Paisley is delivering a presentation this morning on the benefits of employing enterprise energy management solutions. JouleX has also been named a finalist for its Energy Management award.
If you are in the area, please drop by and say hello to Scott and to our Federal Director, Tom Ebert. They are demonstrating a host of new features in the JouleX Energy Manager platform. The event is showcasing great solutions and speakers from across the industry and we are proud to participate.
The event is hosted by the Green IT Council. The Green IT Council is a non-profit initiative started by leading experts in the IT Industry. The purpose of the Green IT Council is to educate IT professionals, managers, and government on the need for eco-friendly technology. The council works with leading experts to determine a standard for Eco-friendly technology, and the true environmental impact. It recognizes and awards companies showing a forward thinking view of technology and its environmental impact. www.greenITcouncil.org
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This is the third in our series on brokering energy management collaboration between the Facilities and IT departments. You can see the first article here: Energy Management: Building a Bridge between Facilities and IT. The second article can be found here: Facilities and IT: Learning to Speak the Language.
We have covered the differences in both the focus areas and the terminology barriers between Facilities and IT. Now it’s time to take a look at the similarities between the two departments and the collaboration needed to successfully implement an enterprise-wide energy management solution. As with all other collaborative relationships, it is easiest to build a team effort on common ground.
Both Facilities and IT provide critical services to the rest of the organization and, although providing very different resources, each department works in a similar way. Often times, projects developed in other departments do not involve IT as an important part of the implementation until the last minute, leaving them scrambling for resources in the 11th hour. Along the same vein, Facilities is only involved by IT when they run out of available power and the situation is critical. With data centers running out of space and power at a rapid rate, energy management has become a growing challenge for IT departments.
Because energy management solutions run on the network, Facilities may see it as an IT product. Because Facilities realize the budgetary relief of energy management, IT may view it as a Facilities product. However, it’s important to remember that energy management is not department specific. From facilities management devices ( HVAC and lighting) on the Facilities’ side, and computing devices (PCs, monitors, switches, routers, servers, VoIP phones, printers) on the IT side, enterprise energy management spans the entire organization.
Ensuring there is enough capacity to meet the demands of the IT organization for years to come is an effort that must be undertaken by both departments, as a team. Because managing energy efficiency is critical to IT’s ability to maintain SLAs, as well as Facilities’ ability to plan for and deliver sufficient power to the enterprise as a whole, neither department can afford to pass up the opportunity to collaborate in the implementation of an enterprise energy solution.
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JouleX is proud to participate in this year's Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum at the Georgia Institute of Technology, themed Energy and Security: Global Challenges, Local Opportunities. The Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum brings together noted academic, government, and private sector experts on technology, public policy, and international affairs to address issues of immediate importance to the nation.
We are excited to see the issue of energy being addressed by this group and proud that JouleX president and CEO, Thomas Noonan, was asked to contribute to the discussion.
Open to the public, the Policy Forum was developed from former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn’s vision of increasing understanding among policymakers, academic researchers, technologists, and citizens. Senator Nunn is a Distinguished Professor at The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech.
The Policy Forum is designed to connect the academic and policymaking communities to craft effective and creative responses to critical challenges confronting the United States in the twenty-first century. Transcending disciplinary boundaries and engaging scholars, practitioners, students, and interested citizens, the Policy Forum offers a significant venue for policy-relevant research and dialogue. Insights and findings produced at the forum are shared with policymakers and the broader public through congressional testimony, circulation of proceedings, policy papers, journal articles, and educational television and Internet broadcasts.
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With Earth Day approaching, the news and blog worlds are abuzz with articles about green energy, sustainable business, and ways to reduce your carbon footprint. Here are some of the most interesting articles we found, and the articles you may have missed on the JouleX blog!
From the JouleX Green IT Blog:
Other great articles worth a read:
- Pro-Business, Pro-Environment - Article by UNEP Climate hero and endurance athlete Charles Scott
- Reducing All Energy Use Can Have an Impact at the Gas Pump - Gas prices are expected to breach four dollars per gallon this week and residents could see some relief through better energy management in general, according to experts.
- Green IT Projects Struggle for Green Light - IT admins charged with cutting energy costs find it easier to buy greener gear than to get high-ROI green initiatives approved.
- When it Comes to Energy Efficiency, Knowledge = Power Reduction - A new White House initiative underscores the notion that more consumers would reduce their electricity consumption, if it was easier to track in real time.
- Beyond the Hour: Earth Hour City Challenge For A Low Carbon Economy- Founded in Sweden to celebrate Earth Hour 2011, the Earth Hour City Challenge initiative has been created to celebrate cities that are taking amazing steps forward in creating a greener, cleaner and more sustainable city to live and inspiring other cities to do the same.
Founded in Sweden to celebrate Earth Hour 2011, the Earth Hour City Challenge initiative has been created to celebrate cities that are taking amazing steps forward in creating a greener, cleaner and more sustainable city to live and inspiring other cities to do the same.
Source: Ecopreneurist (http://s.tt/18kka)
Founded in Sweden to celebrate Earth Hour 2011, the Earth Hour City Challenge initiative has been created to celebrate cities that are taking amazing steps forward in creating a greener, cleaner and more sustainable city to live and inspiring other cities to do the same.
Source: Ecopreneurist (http://s.tt/18kka)
- Gartner: 10 Key IT Trends for 2012 - Energy Efficiency and Monitoring is up to #3 on the list, from #7 last year.
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Founded in Sweden to celebrate Earth Hour 2011, the Earth Hour City Challenge initiative has been created to celebrate cities that are taking amazing steps forward in creating a greener, cleaner and more sustainable city to live and inspiring other cities to do the same.
Source: Ecopreneurist (http://s.tt/18kka)
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To say that the JouleX team is passionate about what we do is huge understatement. Our engineers eat, sleep, and breathe developing a first-in-class product line that provide unrivaled benefits to our customers. In fact, the only people who value the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) platform more than we do are our customers.
We recently had the opportunity to work with Project Performance Corporation (PPC) to document their implementation and success in using JEM to visualize, monitor, and control the energy usage in their data centers. PPC was able to achieve real benefits from JEM within hours of installation.
We're pleased to be able to offer our readers a free download of the resulting case study: Project Performance Corporation Reduces Data Center Energy, Costs, and Carbon Using the JouleX Energy Manager.
Once you've had a chance to read the case study, feel free to contact our team through the contact page, or by email at sales@joulex.net.
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This is the second in our series on brokering energy management collaboration between the Facilities and IT departments. You can see the first article here: Energy Management: Building a Bridge between Facilities and IT.
Though each of these departments has a different perspective on energy (facilities ensuring that costs are kept as low as possible, while still delivering the necessary amount of power to the company; IT delivering ever increasing computing capabilities to the business, while also maintaining service level agreements) they are not as incompatible as they appear on the surface. Bridging the gap between Facilities and IT begins with understanding that each speaks a different language.
While the term "Control Points" may be alien to the IT department, the IT equivalent "IP Addresses" is just as unfamiliar to the Facilities team. We believe that learning to speak the native language to the department being addressed will go a long way toward building a collaborative atmosphere between the two departments.
By simply understanding the vernacular, Facilities and IT teams can more easily collaborate and advance energy management initiatives for the organization. Below is a reference table to help Facilities and IT teams find common ground and start a meaningful conversation.
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Term
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Facilities
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IT
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Transport
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Serial Interfaces RS242, 422, 485, etc
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Ethernet
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Control Systems
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Building Mgmt, Facilities Mgmt
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Systems Mgmt, Network Mgmt
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Device References
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Control Points
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IP Addresses
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Protocols
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BACnet, Modbus and dozens of other open and proprietary protocols
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TCP/IP
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Environment
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Hundreds that are more manually managed
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Thousands of devices typically automated
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One area of focus for the Facilities department that doesn't really have a corresponding IT term is Plug Load. Simply put, this is the amount of energy pulled from any electrical outlet in a building. In enterprise buildings, the plug load is typically utilized 40-60% of the entire energy usage and the remaining percentage is used by the building for lighting, and HVAC, etc. Of the plug load, 60-80% is utilized by IT devices.
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Building Type
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Facilities
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Plug Load
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Office
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60%
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40%
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Data Center
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40%
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60%
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By learning to understand the terms and primary concerns of each team, both Facilities and IT will have the basic building blocks to understand each other's roles and begin a dialogue to identify energy savings opportunities within the organization.
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