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 Energy Manager provides visibility into energy and utilization that people never see
Our Solutions Architect, David Prantl, was kind enough to share some of the reporting screen captures from the JouleX Energy Manager monitoring of the recent Cisco Live US event which were on display at the JouleX booth as well as in the Cisco Network Operations Center. The speed and efficiency with which this solution is deployed may just be another day at the office for our engineers, but it never fails to impress me.
In just a little over an hour, and from a single instance of JouleX Energy Manager, we were able to automatically discover and begin monitoring the real time energy consumption of all devices connected to the Cisco network from these four locations: San Diego Conference Center, the World of Solutions, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina, and Hilton San Diego Bayfront. Because Cisco EnergyWise was enabled on the switches, we were able to attain 100% accuracy in energy measurement across a wide variety of devices.The image below is the fully customizable Overview page from JouleX Energy Manager, showing information for all four locations we monitored throughout the event.
We were able to show the specific energy usage of each individual device being monitored as well as its utilization percentage all in real time.
We received a lot of great questions and really positive feedback throughout the event, about JouleX Energy Manager’s visibility, speed of implementation, ease of use, and capabilities.
To find out how JouleX Energy Manager can change the way you view your enterprise’s energy usage in mere hours, contact us today.
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Now that we’re all home, and still basking in the excitement and energy of the Cisco Live US event, let us take a moment and say Thank You. Not only do we appreciate Cisco’s commitment to hosting an informative and quality solutions focused show, but we enjoyed meeting and sharing great ideas with all of the attendees that came out. With more than 17,000 live attendees at the show and more than 125,000 virtual attendees, there are a lot of you to thank!
Thank you also to Matt Laherty, Cisco EnergyWise creator; John Parello, EnergyWise Architect; and Luis Suau, owner and operator of the Cisco Innervated Building Lab, for allowing our JouleX Energy Manager to play a role in the energy management discussions during your breakout sessions throughout the event.
Here is a brief recap of the articles surrounding Cisco Live US, in case you missed them.
Next week, we’ll be sharing some really cool screen shots of JouleX Energy Manager monitoring the event’s energy usage. Not only did we monitor and display real time energy usage statistics of the event at the NOC, but we were also able to monitor the energy of some of the surrounding hotels.
Did we see you at Cisco Live US? Did you catch our demo? We’d love to hear your thoughts on the show!
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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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The energy at Cisco Live is amazing. We are having great conversations with attendees about how they can leverage their Cisco infrastructure to reduce energy costs across their campus, data center and facilities environments. We love the feedback customers and attendees are giving us about the latest release of the JouleX Energy Manager.
The excitement around the energy management capabilities JouleX has created for Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches, UCS servers, IP phones, access points, and VDI infrastructure caught the attention of Cisco CEO John Chambers. Chambers came by our booth to see JouleX in action and catch up with JouleX CEO Tom Noonan.
We appreciate the commitment by Cisco leadership to drive energy management from the core to the edge of the network and JouleX is proud to offer a management platform to help customers leverage this innovation to drive efficiency and reduce energy costs.
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Our team is having a great time meeting all of you, and hearing your feedback, at Cisco Live US in San Diego this week. We've gotten some great pictures of the event so far, and our booth (1746) sure is packed!
Check out our Chief Architect & Co-founder, Josef Bruner, using JouleX Energy Manager on his iPad to demonstrate our NuLED lights! NuLED is one of our new JouleX-Ready Partners.
Here is our Solutions Architect, David Prantl, pointing out some of the great features displayed on the main NOC (network operation center) big screen, as we monitor the energy consumption of the entire event. In addition to the Cisco Live US venue, we are also monitoring the energy consumption of the connected hotels, including the Marriott.
We not only read the energy consumption of all switches, access points, and phones; but also the servers and video surveillance cameras.
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With Cisco Live US starting in just a few days, we wanted to dust off and re-share a video and an interview we did last year with Matt Laherty, one of the creators of Cisco EnergyWise.
Here is an excerpt from the interview:
1. Cisco launched EnergyWise in January 2009. What was the “Aha!” moment you had when you came up with the concept for EnergyWise?
There really wasn’t an “aha” moment. I’d been working at Cisco since 2000 and I worked on service provider platforms, routers that had power issues in central offices. We had to rethink how we designed power supplies and also how we addressed cooling. So, power has been at the forefront of a lot of the work I’ve done my entire time at Cisco.
In 2003/2004, I was working on the Catalyst 4500 Series, and we did the Power over Ethernet (PoE) launch. We spent a lot of time with customers talking about how to rewire wiring closets to produce enough electricity to run the PoE switch and I realized we needed a better strategy for managing energy on our platforms. This really evolved from a lot of different discussions but, it wasn’t until a little over four years ago that I was in a role that I could work with an engineering team that we could build some answers to those problems. That produced what we call EnergyWise today.
I think the biggest “aha” moment, or the closest thing to it, maybe 5 or 6 years ago thinking about how Cisco could help customers solve their energy challenges. We have a motto of “changing the way the world lives, works, plays, and learns.” Somebody has to dream up what that means and what those solutions look like. When I looked around Cisco, I realized a lot of us were working in our product silos and we weren’t thinking about the big ways to use the network. Some people were, but at one point I realized we need to start using the network to control energy or at least provide visibility to all of these systems within a facility, that the network is the unifying component, that it would be up to the network to help breakdown those barriers and move the solutions along.
Click here to read the full interview.
See you next week!
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JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) helps Cisco customers realize the full power of Cisco EnergyWise, in order to reduce energy costs and consumption across their organizations. Beyond Cisco EnergyWise, JEM enables you get the most from your other Cisco investments, by supporting advanced features such as IP phones (deep sleep feature), Unified Computing System (UCS) (Load Adaptive Computing™ feature) and support for uPoE & Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).
The most direct benefits of JEM to Cisco customers are here:
- 30-60% energy savings in the campus and data center
- 3-6 month ROI
- Support cost take-out initiatives!
- Support corporate sustainability initiatives
- Gain efficiency, agility and energy capacity in the data center
For a look at just how JEM provides these benefits, we've provided a list of Cisco offerings for which JouleX enhances the value:
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Cisco Offering
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How JouleX Adds Value
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EnergyWise-enabled switches and routers
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Lower your energy costs by reducing energy consumption through a full management system for all devices connected to Cisco EnergyWise-enabled switches and routers. Monitor, analyze and control energy down to the individual device level and report the savings in terms of costs, carbon and energy.
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Unified Computing and Servers (UCS)
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Reduce the energy consumption of your UCS by matching server utilization with energy consumption, capping and performance leveling the power to reduce energy waste.
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Integrated Services Routers (ISR)
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Save on energy costs of campus devices and systems by deploying JouleX with the UCS Express blade on the ISR.
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uPoE Switches
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Reduce the energy cost and consumption of uPoE switches by monitoring, analyzing and controlling the energy of these devices.
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Nexus Switches
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Gain unprecedented visibility into the energy consumption of your data center environment including their Cisco Nexus switches.
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
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Monitor, analyze and control the energy consumption of your VDI environment to reduce costs and report on savings.
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IP Phones
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Further reduce the operating costs for IP Phones along with all other IP-connected devices in the enterprise. JouleX supports the deep sleep feature and provides full reporting to demonstrate savings.
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Cius and mobile apps
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Leverage Cisco Cius and other mobile devices (smart phones) to manage the energy consumption of their campus networks or personal work stations with JouleX mobile apps.
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Building Management Systems
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Extend Cisco EnergyWise to Building Management Systems such as those from Schneider and Johnson Controls and lighting systems from NuLEDS. JouleX provides a single enterprise energy management system for facilities (building management systems, lighting, etc ) as well as IT in the campus and data center.
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Reference Architecture
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Consolidate Cisco energy efficiency initiatives through a single management platform that spans the network, which is becoming the energy management backbone, by leveraging the Cisco EnergyWise protocol, and supporting the data center (UCS and VDI). It even extends to facilities through Building Management Systems.
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Advanced Services
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Gain true energy efficiency across the enterprise and data center through Cisco Advanced Services. Cisco Advanced Services uses JouleX in its customer engagements for enterprise, campus or data center energy efficiency projects.
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For more information, or to get a live demonstration of everything the JouleX Energy Manager can do, join us at Cisco Live US in San Diego next week, June 10-14. We'll be giving demos at the JouleX Booth: Booth 1746, and will be featured in the Cisco EnergyWise Pavilion at Booth 2776.
We look forward to talking with you soon!
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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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