Posted by Ida Davidson on Wed, Feb 22, 2012 @ 12:01 AM
JouleX Energy Manager Adds New Features to Address the Needs
of Large, Multi-national Enterprises
ATLANTA — Feb. 22, 2012 — JouleX, a leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, today announced the general availability of version 3.0 of its award-winning JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) platform . Responding to global demand from large multi-national, and multi-language distributed enterprises, JouleX Energy Manager now adds a more scalable, centralized reporting and management layer to its architecture; dashboard enhancements and new reports; and threshold alerting and auto response, among the newest features and functions.
Available for the JouleX PC, distributed office, Cisco EnergyWise and data center product lines, JEM is the first network-based, agentless energy management system that measures the energy consumption and utilization of all network-connected devices and systems to provide visibility into power usage across the enterprise.
“We are seeing more and more multi-national companies rolling out energy management solutions across their global enterprises as they have been satisfied with the results and successes they’re having with an initial phase in one specific location,” said Janet Lin, senior manager at Verdantix. “As a result, global enterprises are demanding more depth and breadth to their energy management solutions, allowing them to seamlessly scale to and support multiple locations around world.”
The JEM 3.0 release highlights include:
Centralized Reporting and Scalability
- Architecture enhancements provide for single instance installations as well as for distributed deployments across multiple locations, creating a single repository of data that allows for centralized and localized reporting;
- The JEM platform now scales to support one million devices.
Dashboard Enhancements and New Reports
- New embeddable widgets, such as Heat Maps, Energy Geo Maps, Data Center Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), Centralized Server Statistics and Health Status, and Server Resource Charts, can be used exported to external websites, corporate intranets and sustainability leaderboards to share real time progress against corporate sustainability initiatives with customers and employees;
- Improved screen layouts make viewing the dashboard and devices easier by moving from two columns to three and adding a wide-screen mode;
- Reports are now available in six languages―English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese―and can be scheduled to be sent automatically.
- All-new reports for:
- Sustainable procurement include Model Analysis and Model Replacement;
- Data centers include PUE, Under-utilized Servers, Idle Analysis, Hourly Consumption Analysis, Cost Analysis and Summary Reports; and
- Distributed offices include Business Hours/Non-business Hours Comparison, Consumption Analysis, On/Off Analysis and Devices On At Night/During Weekends.
Threshold Alerting and Auto Response
- Users can define thresholds based on power, utilization, temperature and other indicators, and JEM can automatically send notifications or carry out automated actions;
- New notification architecture triggers notifications based on policies or with the Alerts Application.
“Energy is often the largest unmanaged expense in most organizations, and global enterprises are starting to recognize that energy management is global problem that must be addressed,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO at JouleX. “This 3.0 release of the JouleX Energy Manager platform delivers on the requirements of our global customers who have implemented our solutions across their enterprises and want enterprise-level reporting for hundreds of thousands of devices across their highly distributed offices and data centers worldwide. Additionally, we have begun our implementation of predictive analytics, thereby empowering customers to anticipate, alert, and take automated actions around energy-related events.”
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Posted by Ida Davidson on Mon, Jan 30, 2012 @ 05:37 AM
Technology Innovator Will Monitor Power Usage for Cisco Live Network and Connected Devices And Share Best Practices for Enterprise Energy Management
ATLANTA — Jan. 30, 2012 — JouleX, a leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, today announced a host of activities planned for the company’s participation at Cisco Live London, January 30 to February 3, 2012, at the ICC London ExCel. In addition to showcasing its JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise solution during scheduled training sessions and presentations, the company will also provide a real-time, in-booth live demonstration of the technology by monitoring the energy consumption of the Cisco Live “World of Solutions” network components and connected devices.
“Cisco Live provides the perfect forum for us to showcase how the JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise can deliver energy management solutions to help companies around the world drive efficiency and reduce costs from the core to the edge,” said Josef Brunner, JouleX co-founder and chief architect. “It’s one thing to tell someone about all the features and functions, but it’s another when they actually see how our network-based, agentless technology works—and then can put it in perspective as it relates to their organization’s energy and sustainability needs.”
At the G7 booth, JouleX will showcase its award-winning JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) technology monitoring the Cisco Live World of Solutions network infrastructure, including network switches, wireless access points, Voice over IP phones, and other Cisco EnergyWise-enabled devices. Visitors to the booth will be able to see the monitoring, analysis and control in action. Additionally, Cisco Live attendees will have the opportunity to guess the network’s daily energy consumption for prizes.
More notable JouleX activities during Cisco Live London 2012 include:
- Presentations every 30 minutes at the JouleX stand, G7, with guest speakers from NG Bailey, a leading U.K. building services firm, to discuss carbon laws and the evolution of the energy market in the United Kingdom.
- At the World of Solutions, JEM will be demonstrated in the EnergyWise and UPoE Booth, showcasing EnergyWise’s integration with Universal-Power-Over-Ethernet (UPoE) devices such as virtual desktop environments, telepresence infrastructure, phones, and building management systems.
- Participation in the Technical Lab (TECCRS-1961) “Introduction to TrustSec, Medianet and EnergyWise,” on Monday, January 30. During this session (from 16:00-18:00), attendees will see how JEM works with EnergyWise to add energy awareness to the network and allow operators to monitor and control consumption of infrastructure and attached devices to reduce costs.
- JouleX Chief Architect and Co-founder Josef Brunner will deliver a 30-minute session (BRKGS-2004) “Reducing Energy Consumption from the Core to the Edge: The JouleX and Cisco EnergyWise Solution” on Tuesday, January 31, at 3:15 PM.
- Cisco Senior Technical Leader John Parello will host a 90-minute session (BRKSPG-2401) “Cisco EnergyWise Fundamentals: The Network as the Platform for Energy Management,” on Friday, February 3 at 9:00 AM and Cisco Technical Marketing Engineer Emmanuel Tychon will offer a 90-minute session (BRKNMS-2006) “Manage and Optimize IT Energy Usage with Cisco EnergyWise,” on Tuesday, January 31 , at 11:15 AM—both featuring live demonstrations of JEM.
Cisco EnergyWise extends energy monitoring and management from the network core to the edge. JouleX helps visualize this solution across every device connected to the network—taking energy management beyond the switch ports and traditional PCs, to the entire IT infrastructure and data centers. JouleX for EnergyWise supports Cisco advanced features such as a deep-sleep VoIP function, power capping for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), and support for Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Plus and Virtual Desktop infrastructure. It also provides monitoring, analysis and control for Cisco EnergyWise-enabled devices and systems—with no client-side agents or hardware meters required.
For the latest information on JouleX activities at Cisco Live, please follow the company blog at http://www.joulex.net/Green_IT_Blog, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/JouleX-Inc/197923563591757 and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/joulexnet.
About JouleX
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM is the first network-based energy management system that works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Munich, and Kassel, Germany and throughout the United States. For more information, please visit www.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
© 2012 JouleX is a registered trademark of JouleX, Inc. JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) and Load-Adaptive Computing are trademarks of JouleX, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
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Posted by Ida Davidson on Sat, Jan 28, 2012 @ 08:50 AM
Leader in Enterprise Energy Management Adds 80 New Customers and Increased International Demand for Award-Winning JouleX Energy Manager System
Atlanta, GA - January 25, 2012 - JouleX, a leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, today announced that it achieved significant major milestones in 2011, including its seventh consecutive quarter of quarter-over-quarter revenue that grew at more than 40 percent compounded quarterly growth rate. This also marked a 420 percent increase in revenue over 2010. As companies around the world embrace corporate sustainability initiatives, many are recognizing there is a vast amount of energy wasted it their IT infrastructure during unproductive and idle periods of time. In the midst of this trend, JouleX, added more than 80 new customers utilizing its JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) technology this year, bringing its total customer base to more than 150 and total installations to more than 225 globally.
“Seeing things as they could be rather than as they are is the starting point of our innovation, and 2011 was a year that proved that extraordinary demand can be created by the combination of creativity, innovation and quality,” said Tom Noonan, JouleX president and CEO. “Identifying and reducing energy waste is a growing enterprise problem for our customers. We are fortunate that businesses have demanded a more comprehensive approach to enterprise energy management, well beyond the first generation agent-based PC power management software, making JouleX’s agentless network application approach the preferred solution for comprehensive and scalable enterprise-wide deployments.”
JouleX Energy Manager is the first network-based, agentless energy management system that dynamically measures the energy consumption and utilization of all network-connected devices and systems to provide visibility into power usage across the enterprise and autonomous control policies to help organizations identify and automatically reduce energy waste. Today, JouleX customers are using to technology to reduce energy costs by up to 60 percent.
Significant corporate milestones that have contributed to JouleX’s 2011 success include:
- Secured $17 million in expansion capital to finance the accelerating growth of business around the world;
- Opened six new sales and support operations around the world including New York, Washington DC, Cincinnati; Paris; Tokyo and Shanghai;
- Launched products tailored specifically for organizations’ primary IT energy domains and a fourth purpose-built for Cisco EnergyWise: the JouleX Energy Manager for PCs; JouleX Energy Manager for Distributed Offices; and the JouleX Energy Manager for Data Centers; JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise;
- Signed a global sales, marketing and development agreement with Cisco to provide an energy management system for Cisco EnergyWise;
- Won three industry awards including British Telecom’s Success for the Future Award for Green Economy, Red Herring’s Top 100 CleanTec Award, and was recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor” in Green IT and Sustainability;
- Expanded customer support operations in Atlanta; Kassel, Germany; and Tokyo to support its growing customer base and multi-national customers;
- Added 80 new customers in 13 countries across five continents representing global brands such as Swisscom, Vodafone, Baxter Healthcare, Deakin University, AmeriPride, AMEC, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC);
- JouleX customer, Sparkasse, was awarded a global Green IT award for its implementation of JouleX Energy Manager and reducing energy and carbon emissions across its organization.
Companies such as these are deploying the JEM technology in distributed offices, data centers and facilities to help reduce energy costs by monitoring, analyzing and controlling energy usage of all network-connected devices and systems—without the need for installing client-side agents or hardware meters.
“Because energy has fast become such an expensive operating cost for our university, we wanted to focus on key areas with the biggest potential for energy optimization, such as our IT infrastructure which before acquiring JouleX has not been easily optimized for energy management,” said Jack Suess, vice president of IT and chief information officer for University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “With JouleX Energy Manager, we can now measure the energy consumption and utilization of our entire IT infrastructure. This type of visibility provides us with powerful insight and intelligence that allow us to enact processes and controls to help drive energy efficiency and reduce costs.”
About JouleX
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM is the first network-based energy management system that works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Munich, and Kassel, Germany and throughout the United States. For more information, please visit http://www.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
© 2012 JouleX is a registered trademark of JouleX, Inc. JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) and Load-Adaptive Computing are trademarks of JouleX, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
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Posted by Player Pate on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 @ 04:25 AM
JouleX Works with Cisco to Deliver Energy Management Solution To Drive Efficiency and Reduce Costs from the Core to the Edge
ATLANTA — Oct. 11, 2011 — JouleX, a leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, today announced that the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) solution supports features in Cisco EnergyWise. JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise, available now, will help companies across the world optimize energy usage, drive efficiency and achieve real cost savings. As part of a strategic co-marketing agreement with Cisco, JouleX is providing evaluation copies of JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise to customers at no charge.
Cisco EnergyWise extends energy monitoring and management from the network core to the edge. JouleX helps visualize this solution across every device connected to the network—taking energy management beyond the switch ports and traditional PCs.
JEM for EnergyWise supports Cisco advanced features such as a deep-sleep VoIP function, power capping for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS), and support for Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) Plus and Virtual Desktop infrastructure. It also provides monitoring, analysis and control for Cisco EnergyWise-enabled devices and systems—with no client-side agents or hardware meters required.
JEM for EnergyWise integrates with Cisco EnergyWise’s 10 power levels for configuration, reporting and policies. An installation wizard utilizes existing Cisco EnergyWise credentials to automate and streamline configuration. The solution also includes Cisco EnergyWise-specific reporting to further optimize energy consumption and reduce costs.
JouleX is part of the Cisco Developer Network. The Cisco Developer Network unites Cisco with third-party developers of hardware and software to deliver tested interoperable solutions to mutual customers. As a Registered Developer, JouleX offers a complementary product offering and has started to work with Cisco to meet the needs of mutual customers. More information about JEM for EnergyWise interoperability is available here.
“Cisco EnergyWise allows customers to utilize their existing Cisco Catalyst switches and Integrated Services Routers to drive potentially significant savings in IT energy consumption and meet sustainability mandates,” said Jeff Reed, vice president, Unified Access Business Unit at Cisco. “With a rapidly growing partner ecosystem of over 80 technology partners, customers can easily monitor, report and control the energy usage of devices connected to the network.”
“Both Cisco and JouleX share a commitment to helping companies optimize their energy consumption, and we both recognize the need to measure and manage energy usage across the entire enterprise in order to affect true change,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO at JouleX. “As evidenced by the launch of JouleX Energy Manager for EnergyWise, our work with Cisco brings an end-to-end energy management solution that drives efficiencies and cost savings for organizations worldwide.”
JEM for EnergyWise is available with a free 90-day evaluation period covering up to 250 devices. To download your evaluation copy, please visit our website at: http://www.joulex.net/joulex-energy-manager-for-energywise/.
About JouleX
JouleX is a leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM is the first network-based energy management system that works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Paris, Munich and Kassel, Germany. For more information, please visit www.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
© 2011 JouleX is a registered trademark of JouleX, Inc. JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) is a trademark of JouleX, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
* Interoperability testing is designed to simulate typical customer configurations, and does not replace the need for on-site testing in conjunction with actual implementation.
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Posted by Player Pate on Tue, Sep 20, 2011 @ 04:00 AM
New Features and Functionality Designed to Enhance Device Integration, Sustainable Procurement, Reporting and Configuration
ATLANTA — Sept. 20, 2011 — JouleX, the leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, today announced a significant number of new features and functionality with the availability of its newest version of JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) product suite.
The new enhancements include a number of industry “firsts.” These enhancements make JEM the first enterprise energy management solution to integrate with and support all the largest and latest power management networking vendors including Cisco® EnergyWise, Intel® Data Center Manager and VMware®. JEM will offer full support for the latest Cisco EnergyWise management functions, including EnergyWise-specific reporting. Additionally, enhanced support has been added for advanced power control of servers from Hewlett-Packard®, Dell® and IBM®.
Other highlights of JEM’s expanded capabilities include:
- New device control features allowing for integrated power capping, central processing unit (CPU) performance leveling (for Windows, VMware, Linux), and support for VMware vCenter, and Distributed Power Management (DPM).
- More granular control using power, temperature and utilization metrics to migrate virtual machines and optimize server performance and energy consumption using VMware vMotion.
- Detailed analytics and reporting for sustainable procurement (analysis of device models for energy efficiency, for device replacement planning, and for measuring energy and carbon savings from virtualization projects)
- Virtualization and utilization reporting to identify under- and over-utilized devices. This identifies candidates for upgrading, retiring, and virtualizing.
- Additional device support for rack and floor power distribution units (PDUs) as well as computer room air conditioning (CRAC) and uninterruptable power supply (UPSs).
“We continue to accelerate our technology development in terms of creating actionable energy intelligence for our customers to make quicker decisions, optimize their existing infrastructure, and reduce their operating expenses,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO at JouleX.
Additional features include temperature support, a new configuration wizard that guides users through installation, and enhanced help and diagnostic elements.
“JouleX is emerging as a leading innovator and provider of next generation IT energy management tools – IT energy management 2.0. This consists of integrated tools for energy monitoring and management; power management and control; interoperability with building and systems management systems; asset efficiency management; energy, carbon and financial reporting; simulation and modeling; and impact assessment,” said Andy Lawrence, research director, eco-efficient IT at the 451 Group. “Organizations looking for a comprehensive IT energy management system should consider JouleX Energy Manager.”
JEM is currently available in different packages for distributed office, data center, EnergyWise or PC-only environments.
About JouleX
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM is the first network-based energy management system that works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Munich, and Kassel, Germany. For more information, please visit www.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
© 2011 JouleX is a registered trademark of JouleX, Inc. JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) is a trademark of JouleX, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
Posted by Player Pate on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 @ 08:44 AM
Multi-national Uniform and Linen Supplier Implements JouleX Technology to Drive Energy Efficiency
ATLANTA — August 24, 2011 — To support its ongoing commitment to the environment, AmeriPride Services, Inc., a North American uniform rental service and linen supply company, will be implementing new technology from JouleX, the leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments and facilities. The technology will help drive energy efficiency and reduce power consumption across the company.
“Our commitments to innovation and the environment go hand and hand,” said Joe Jansen, director of Information Services at AmeriPride Services, Inc. “Protecting the environment is a critical part of our ongoing strategic business plan and we’re always looking for innovative technologies and efficiencies that will allow us to support green, sustainable initiatives that will benefit our customers, company and community for the long term.”
AmeriPride will standardize on JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) across the company, starting with solutions for the distributed office and the data center and then expanding to include other facilities. JEM will provide new-found visibility into the energy consumption of devices connected to its network, support for sustainable procurement practices so the company can include energy consumption in its evaluation of future equipment purchases, and ultimately a reduction in energy consumption throughout the organization.
JouleX Energy Manager is the first network-based, agentless energy management system that measures the energy consumption and utilization of all network-connected devices and systems to provide visibility into power usage across the enterprise. Deployed in distributed offices, data centers and facilities, the JEM technology reduces energy costs by monitoring, analyzing and controlling energy usage of all network-connected devices and systems with no client-side agents or hardware meters required.
“AmeriPride represents a terrific example of an industry-leading company that has already made a strong commitment to the environment and constantly looks for innovative and cost-effective solutions to help meet its ‘green’ objectives,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO at JouleX. “Energy is often the largest unmanaged expense in any organization. JouleX is proud to enable AmeriPride with a system that will help reduce the company’s environmental footprint even further as well as improve the bottom line.”
About AmeriPride Services, Inc.
AmeriPride Services was founded in 1889 in Lincoln, Nebraska, and is still owned and actively managed by the founding family. The company has grown into a multi-national organization operating over 150 production facilities and service centers throughout the United States and Canada. Today over 150,000 customers receive AmeriPride service every week and the organization is recognized as one of the five largest uniform rental and linen supply companies in North America. For additional information, please visit www.ameripride.com.
About JouleX
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Paris, Munich and Kassel, Germany. For more information, please visit www.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
© 2011 JouleX is a registered trademark of JouleX, Inc. JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) and Load-Adaptive Computing are trademarks of JouleX, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
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Posted by Player Pate on Mon, Aug 08, 2011 @ 09:14 AM
Companies Will Work Together To Increase Customer Energy Savings Three Fold
ATLANTA, Aug. 8, 2011 -- JouleX, the leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, today announced that it entered into an agreement with Triton Federal Solutions, a Project Performance Corporation (PPC) company, to implement and integrate the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) technology for commercial and federal customers that want to reduce their energy savings three fold. Together, the companies are helping customers, such as the Department of Energy, reduce their economic, environmental and social impacts.
Triton expertly implements JouleX to automatically monitor and control the dynamic energy consumption of all devices across an enterprise and to populate energy and utilization information into a customer's decision-support systems. Triton helps customers interpret the information to make decisions and to take specific actions that make agencies and their data centers more sustainable. Customers can utilize this information for sustainable procurement practices that factor energy consumption into purchasing decisions; to see how and where energy is consumed and wasted; to identify and prioritize energy- and cost-savings opportunities; and to enact measures to reduce their energy consumption. The companies have already begun work within the Department of Energy to measure, manage and evaluate energy usage in its data centers at a granular level.
"Creating improved IT infrastructure efficiencies that lead to significant cost reductions is of growing importance to federal agencies, especially in light of the increased budget pressures they're facing," saidScott Paisley, Americas technical director of JouleX. "Triton's expertise in decision support, made possible by the energy intelligence our solution generates, provides the Department of Energy and other agencies the efficiencies they need to make a dramatic sustainability impact."
The Data Center Energy Profiler, or DC Pro, is a web-based, decision support system designed to help industries worldwide identify how energy is being purchased and consumed by their data centers and what can be done to begin saving energy and money as well as reducing carbon emissions. Developed by PPC, under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Technologies Program (ITP), DC Pro is a good "first step" in identifying excellent opportunities for savings, improving a company's bottom line, and helping reduce the environmental emissions associated with energy production and use. DC Pro uses data center information, including information on the systems that use energy as well as the breakout of dynamic energy consumption that can be provided by JouleX, to create a customized report for each user. The system provides the user with information on current energy use and cost per unit of production; annual available energy graphs and tables; potential annual energy-savings graphs and tables; assessment of the data center's energy usage compared to others on record; and a customized list of next steps that can be automatically implemented. Since its release in June 2008, more than 800 users have identified savings opportunities through the DC Pro system.
"JouleX provides an energy management system that will add tremendous value to our Data Center Energy Profiler customers," said Neil Wright, chief architect and innovation officer for Triton. "JouleX's agentless, network-based architecture provides a unique solution for monitoring, analyzing and controlling energy consumption in the data center. JouleX automates the collection of energy information into DC Pro, streamlining the process of diagnosing energy use in the data center, saving time, increasing accuracy, and providing 'energy-aware' capacity planning and a baseline for measuring progress over time."
To learn more about the JouleX-Triton solution, please download our free white paper.
About Triton Federal Solutions
Triton is a PPC company, formed to help sensitive and classified customers conceive, build, and run their IT systems. Our focus is sustainable IT: strategically driving operational IT costs downward while driving responsible innovation. Triton is part of a multi-disciplinary team providing fully integrated and business-oriented environment, energy, and climate solutions enhanced by state-of-the-art technology for data management and reporting. Triton has the certifications, clearances, and experience necessary to manage complex environmental programs and projects in accordance with best practices and relevant regulations.
About JouleX
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM works withoutthe use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades includingGartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Paris, Munich and Kassel, Germany. For more information, please visitwww.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
© 2011 JouleX is a registered trademark of JouleX, Inc. JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) is a trademark of JouleX, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
Posted by Player Pate on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 @ 05:36 AM
Leading Enterprise Energy Management Technology Innovator Raises Capital to Expand Development and Sales Support Globally
ATLANTA — June 10, 2011 — JouleX, the leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, today announced it received $17 million in investment capital from new investors Sigma Partners, Flybridge Capital Partners and Intel Capital, in addition to existing investors Target Partners and TechOperators. JouleX plans to use the capital to expand its development and sales footprint into growth markets around the world.
“The widespread need for enterprises around the world to better measure and manage energy usage presents an incredible opportunity for JouleX,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO at JouleX. “We are leading the way to provide companies with an innovative energy management system for the entire enterprise that will help them achieve real cost savings and meet sustainability goals. This investment will allow us to accelerate the introduction of our JouleX Energy Manager family of products into regions around the world where optimizing energy usage and driving energy efficiency are mission-critical for conducting business.”
The company’s technology platform, JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), is the first network-based, “agentless” energy management system that measures the energy consumption and utilization of all network-connected devices and systems to provide visibility into power usage across the enterprise. Deployed in distributed offices, data centers and facilities, the JEM technology reduces energy costs by monitoring, analyzing and controlling energy usage of all network-connected devices and systems—no client-side agents or hardware meters required.
“JouleX is the first company to successfully address the gap that has long existed in enterprise energy management,” said John Mandile, managing director at Sigma Partners. “The JouleX team has set a new industry standard in terms of developing an innovative, yet practical and cost-effective solution that focuses on energy waste and reduction within the enterprise and then has the technology acumen to control it. We’re excited to be investing in JouleX to help expand the adoption of the JEM products and support its existing customers and partners.”
JouleX has approximately 100 customers throughout North America and Europe and recently announced the opening of a new office in Tokyo, Japan. The company’s current technology partners include Cisco, Intel, VMware, Juniper Networks, Enterasys and Siemens.
About JouleX
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network-connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and since has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, GE Ecomagination Award, BT Green Economy Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Paris, Munich and Kassel, Germany. For more information, please visit www.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
About Sigma Partners
Founded in 1984, Sigma Partners is a leading early-stage venture capital firm. The Sigma team uses their deep operational experience to provide entrepreneurs with practical strategic counsel through every phase of company growth. With over $2 billion under management and bicoastal offices, Sigma invests in innovative technology startups across the United States. The team is currently investing Sigma Fund 8, a $500 million fund. Market leading companies in which Sigma has invested include Atria, Cascade, Clarify, EqualLogic, Fortify Software, Initiate Systems, Internet Security Systems, KACE Networks, KLA-Tencor, Octel, Responsys, VeriFone, Vermeer and Vignette. For more information, please visit http://www.sigmapartners.com.
About Flybridge Capital Partners
Flybridge Capital Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm whose mission is to assist entrepreneurs in growing innovative, global companies. With $560 million under management, the firm is focused on investing in consumer, energy, healthcare and information technology markets and is led by a team with domain expertise and more than half a century of combined experience in venture capital. For more information, please visit www.flybridge.com.
About Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel's global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide. Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US$10 billion in over 1,140 companies in 49 countries. In that timeframe, 191 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 268 were acquired or participated in a merger. In 2010, Intel Capital invested US$327 million in 119 investments with approximately 44 percent of funds invested outside the United States and Canada. For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages, visit www.intelcapital.com.
About Target Partners
With $225 million under management, Target Partners is one of the leading early-stage venture capital funds in Germany. The firm invests in start-up and early stage companies and supports them during their build-out and expansion phases. With many years of experience as managers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, the team at Target Partners supports entrepreneurs in developing and marketing products and services, building organizations, raising money and taking companies public in Europe and the United States. For more details: www.targetpartners.de
About TechOperators
TechOperators is an early-stage venture capital firm founded on the premise that proven operators make the best partners for technology entrepreneurs. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the firm is led by a team of partners with recent operational experience in all phases of company growth and is focused on innovative solutions in software, Internet services, cloud computing, security, infrastructure, and mobile computing. For more information, visit www.techoperators.com.
© 2011 JouleX is a registered trademark of JouleX, Inc. JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) and Load-Adaptive Computing are trademarks of JouleX, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
Posted by Player Pate on Wed, May 25, 2011 @ 03:57 PM
Enterprise Energy Management Solutions Provider To Support Earthquake Relief Efforts While Helping Japanese Companies Meet New Power Consumption Regulations
As JouleX, the leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, continues to extend its global reach, the company announces today the opening of a new office in Tokyo, Japan.
The company, through its agentless JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) technology, will offer a support solution for the power shortage situation in Japan that resulted from the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake, providing the country’s enterprises with a total energy management system to visualize power usage requirements and enabling them to use energy based on optimal amount and cost. Additionally, JouleX K.K. will also donate 30 percent of its profits from the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012, to the Japanese Red Cross relief efforts for the earthquake victims.
As IT technology’s importance in the Japanese infrastructure has risen, so, too, has its power consumption. It has become an urgent priority for enterprises to grasp and strategically manage their total energy consumption due to the setting of carbon emission targets required by the Kyoto Protocol and the issuance of the amended Energy Conservation Law. In addition, the Japanese government is requiring a 15 percent decrease in power consumption as a measure to combat the domestic electricity shortage this summer caused by the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake. There is serious concern that the stoppage of the Hamaoka nuclear power plant and postponement of restarts at other nuclear power plants will cause nation-wide power shortages.
“It is a terribly unfortunate sequence of events that is negatively impacting the energy infrastructure in Japan,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO at JouleX. “Because of our track record in Europe and North America, we feel confident that we can provide companies throughout Japan with easy-to-implement, cost-effective energy management solutions to help them negotiate the new landscape of power consumption in their country. But, we didn’t want our efforts to stop there. As part of what we feel is our bigger corporate responsibility, we are also making a donation to support local earthquake relief efforts.”
Ja Hong Lin has been named vice president in charge of the company’s Asia-Pacific operations and president and CEO of JouleX K.K., a subsidiary of JouleX. Lin has almost 30 years of IT and computer software industry experience. Lin was the founder and CEO of Internet Security Systems, K.K. (a subsidiary of Internet Security Systems) and managed the company’s Asia-Pacific operations. He has held senior positions at Dun and Bradstreet Software Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Ashisuto K.K. Tokyo and, most recently, with IBM. Lin serves on the board of directors of a number of privately held technology firms.
JouleX is already finding a strong demand for its enterprise energy management solutions in the country.
“While we were contemplating how we could contribute to the recovery efforts from the East Japan earthquake, we decided to work with JouleX to introduce its revolutionary solution that could help alleviate our recent energy crisis,” said Mitsunobu Yoneda, CEO, LAC Holdings Inc. “As a total IT solution provider, we are very pleased to be able contribute to the society at large. We are following through on our corporate vision of being a company that supports the society’s infrastructure, by becoming the first distributor in Japan of the JouleX Energy Manager technology and offering it to the market. We are also very excited to be able to provide a solution for the energy consumption problem caused by the increasing number of IT devices being used.”
About JouleX
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and is privately held with capital investments from Target Partners and TechOperators. JouleX has been distinguished with recent awards and accolades including Gartner Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability, BT Green Economy, GE Ecomagination Award, Success for Future Award and Clean Tech Media Award. The company is headquartered in Atlanta with worldwide offices located in Tokyo, Paris, Munich and Kassel, Germany. For more information, please visit www.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
Posted by Player Pate on Mon, May 23, 2011 @ 10:06 AM
Recognizes Enterprise Energy Management Solutions Provider As Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing
JouleX, the leading innovator in enterprise energy management systems for data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities, today announced it has been named a “Cool Vendor” in the “Cool Vendors in Green IT and Sustainability, 2011”[1] report by Gartner, Inc. This report highlights companies that develop “technologies and services that enable organizations to improve agility and business performance by pursuing sustainability strategies.”
According to Gartner, “There has been a shift away from tools that singularly consider the reporting or analysis of carbon toward technologies that visualize and more efficiently manage energy, and provide more holistic analysis of sustainable performance and asset management. Midsize to large organizations should be developing a more integrated approach to energy management across all major energy-consuming classes of assets.”[2]
The company’s flagship solution, JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), is the first network-based, “agentless” energy management system that measures the energy consumption and utilization of all network-connected devices and systems to provide visibility into power usage across the enterprise.
“We consider our inclusion in the Cool Vendor report by Gartner confirmation of our mission to enable enterprises to automate energy management and drive energy efficiency from the core to the edge of their networks,” said Tom Noonan, president and CEO at JouleX. “Companies are struggling to understand their energy consumption—and waste—as they look to minimize the effect of rising energy costs, trim operating expenses, optimize resources and reduce their carbon footprints. We will continue to innovate and evolve our product to address these issues and to solve specific energy management challenges in data centers, distributed office environments, and facilities.”
A complimentary copy of the full report may be accessed at http://www.joulex.net/cool-vendor/.
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.
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.
About JouleX
JouleX is the leading innovator in sustainable energy management systems for the enterprise. Its flagship solution, the JouleX Energy Manager (JEM), provides the Global 2000 and government agencies with the ability to monitor, analyze and control energy usage for all network connected devices and systems across the enterprise, including in distributed offices, data centers and facilities. Importantly, JEM works without the use of software agents, dramatically reducing installation time and removing the maintenance burden associated with similar technologies. JEM decreases energy costs by up to 60 percent while ensuring availability and provides robust reporting that enables compliance with emerging carbon monitoring requirements.
JouleX was founded in 2009 and is privately held with capital investments from Target Partners and TechOperators. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with European offices located in Paris, Munich and Kassel, Germany. For more information, please visit www.joulex.net, call (404) 567-4445 or send an email to info@joulex.net.
© 2010 JouleX is a registered trademark of JouleX, Inc. JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) and Load-Adaptive Computing are trademarks of JouleX, Inc. All other brands and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder.
[1] Gartner, Inc., “Cool Vendors in Green IT and Sustainability, 2011” by Simon Mingay, Stephen Stokes and Milind Govekar, April 15, 2011.