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hello
it's a great pleasure to be with you
digitally for the innovation day
and thank you for your time at schneider
electric
we are proud to lead the digital
transformation of energy management and
automation
for our customers we power and digitize
the economy
and we base this on our firm belief that
power
and digital together create the
foundation of life
education progress and performance
data centers are the engine which
enables an all electric
and an all digital world in response to
today's digital lifestyle
the electrical footprint of global data
centers is growing
over the next few minutes we will talk
about how data centers are enabling
the digitization of buildings and
industry
as well as how we are using iot and
software to make data centers more
sustainable
my name is pankard sharma and i have the
privilege
and pleasure of leading the secure part
division of schnite electric
in our division we provide power and
cooling solutions
for data centers hit and
non-it applications our focus is
ensuring our customers critical network
systems
and processes are highly available and
resilient we take the lead in data
centers
to deliver schneider electric's full
portfolio
here is a quick look at schneider
electric and what we do
we provide proudly provide energy and
automation
digital solutions for efficiency and
sustainability
for our customers around the world while
continuing our strong commitment to
innovation we are a well-balanced
company
globally as you can see from these
numbers
and our executive management team which
is strategically placed in geographical
hubs
closer to our customers and employees
and to give you some quick statistics
for how digital our business is
almost 50 percent of our revenues come
from digitization
which is connected products software
services and more
at schneider electric we believe access
to energy
and digital is a basic human right
we empower everyone to make the most of
their energy and resources
ensuring what we call life is on
because we work in over 100 countries
we know that life is on when energy is
on
and when you have the right access to
energy
and in the 21st century this also means
having access to digital
all this creates a passport for decent
life
which is access to education economic
inclusion
and progress for all this reality has
taken on
new importance in the current
environment
while for many of us digital access has
been critical to our work
for quite some time as social distancing
has unfolded in many communities
digital access took on an even greater
role
in keeping us connected socially
for entertainment and for distance
learning
through data centers we are empowering
all by enabling their
digital journey the opportunity we have
in front of us for let's say the next 20
years
is to design a new electric and digital
world
that is better than and the one we have
experienced
to date we believe that the movement
towards a non-electric world
and an old digital world is the key
enabler
to achieve more sustainable more
available
and a more resilient building and
industrial
process and what we know is that
data centers and the hybrid ide
environment
is at the center of this energy and
digital transformation
data centers and i.t are the fundamental
enablers of this
so these are really exciting times
a lot of analysts talk about the
explosive growth of data
and you see this in every presentation
so we won't let you down
here are some of these numbers and while
we don't need to go
too deeply here let's agree we know
there is a lot of data being produced
and wherever there is data generated
there is going to be i.t
to process to connect and to store it
all
perhaps what's most interesting is it
finding its way into the ot world
the world of industrial process control
and buildings
are all merging because i t is the
common platform
this it and ot convergence will be
discussed further
during our program today
the data center architecture being used
today to enable the all-electric world
is hybrid meaning data centers of
different sizes
are being deployed in a variety of
environments
to optimize processing and content
delivery
here is a simplified view of the new
computing
ecosystem you see large
centralized data centers which have
traditionally
been the workhorse for applications and
then
you have the regional edge which is
basically the remnants of
enterprise data centers whether it's
on-premise or inner colo
and what we are seeing now is the
emergence of a
local edge these are effectively
yesterday's server rooms or wiring
closets
which are now being thought of as more
mission critical than they were in the
past
the local edge form will change
depending on where it is located
be it in industrial setting or the top
of a building
telco or within a retail location
while the form may change based on the
environment in which it is located
what we do know is it needs to be
managed and considered
to raise the availability of the whole
network
throughout the day we will discuss more
about the edge applications
and their specific requirements
the digitization of businesses is
driving the need for more data centers
our goal is to make data centers as
sustainable and carbon friendly
as it is possible here you'll see the
track we are on in terms of energy
consumption
in the data centers we the industry
has done a pretty good job with the
large data centers
but as edge data centers proliferate
we have a concern in short the energy
projected by
to be consumed by i.t is more than the
society will allow
and we propose a solution to this edge
energy
challenge and that's coming up shortly
when kevin brown talks about strategy
talk
in his session now whether you're
talking edge
or large data centers we believe to
realize maximum energy efficiency and
performance
we basically need three things first
a broad portfolio that enables us to
have a
depth of understanding across each area
and we can develop the most efficient
connected offers
secondly because we have this deep
portfolio
we can integrate solutions that work
well together
in unique and in different ways
and over the last few years we spend a
lot of time
addressing our integrated software and
digital services
to give visibility to the operations of
the hybrid environment
ecostruxure is our iot enabled
open and interoperable system
architecture
which delivers enhanced value around
reliability
efficiency sustainability and
connectivity for our customers
we have leveraged advancements in iot
mobility sensing cloud
analytics and cyber security
technologies
to deliver innovation at every level
from connected products
to edge control to applications
analytics
and services we are not only doing this
in data centers but
across schneider electric when we look
at where we are today
and the opportunity we have we see a
world where efficiency can be catalyzed
by four integrations shown here
this is a bigger story we like to share
with our customers
impacting all our end markets
now in the interest of your time i'm
going to walk through
how each of these integrations applies
specifically
to the data center and the it industries
starting with the first one with the
integration of energy and
automation in the context of data
centers
energy and automation we view the data
centers
having three major architecture blocks
the building which is the hvac the power
which is our electrical distribution and
the i.t
room what we have been working on is
breaking down the silos between the
energy consumption
in each and automating across them
is where we are going to find the future
efficiency gains
now i think we've done a good job in the
industry
making the building system more
efficient the i.t
and powertrain more efficient but the
future
is in automating power which is
automating power
i.t and building and getting them to
work together
and this is where we are currently the
silos can be merged
by organizational complications because
these
still exist more on this topic coming in
our
panel discussion later
the second integration is digital and
iot from
endpoint to the cloud which is not a new
data
or not a new idea to the it industry
but we can see this trend hitting all
different segments
even now we are in the early days of
using ai
artificial intelligence and analytics to
improve the performance of data centers
there remains a large opportunity in
front of us
to leverage cloud technologies to
improve the efficiency
and performance of the hybrid
environment
that's why we created ecostruxure and
have been working over the last several
years to integrate systems and to get
data into the cloud by moving the data
to the cloud
and using software and analytics we can
provide actionable intelligence
and make the data center more predictive
and responsive
moreover the scalability of cloud
technology
enables us to process far larger amounts
of data
than we could actually even imagine
doing in the past
the third integration is along the
entire life cycle which is from design
to build operate and maintain
now in the context of data centers we
are focused on connecting
our solutions to our life cycle
what that means is we don't just
participate in new builds
nor are we only focused on opex
we provide a complete portfolio of
capabilities
around that life cycle so that no matter
what phase
an environment may be in we can
demonstrate
value now let's look at the fourth
integration which is moving from side by
side
to an integrated company management
most of the companies in the world are
managed side by side
and most of these sites are already
connected
you reach your real efficiency and
leverage your scale when you connect all
your facilities
and data centers together now suddenly
you get a
better picture of what you consume
across your entire company
you benchmark your sites enabling you to
better
balance between your lowest and highest
performing sites
increasing the competitiveness and
efficiency of your
entire company to go further not only do
we benchmark
against ourselves but with data in the
cloud
and then we can benchmark our companies
with other similar companies
so in closing i'd like to leave you
with a final few thoughts data centers
and i t
are the fundamental enablers for this
digital and energy transition
to a new electric world at schneider
we are aggressively working to use
ecostruxure
and leveraging cloud technologies to
make the hybrid data center
ecosystem as efficient and as
sustainable as possible
and lastly we will achieve
sustainability and efficiency
by addressing not only opex
but the full operate maintain service
life cycle to illustrate this further
i'd like to introduce you to the eco
data center
a co-location facility leveraging
ecostruxure to reach an ambition of 1.15
poe
enjoy this short video and i thank you
again for spending time with us today
thank you and have a good day ahead
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the nordic countries are perfect for
locating data centers
the electrical grid is very reliable and
the energy is generated by 100
hydroelectric and wind power my name is
mike swanfeld
and i'm the chief technological officer
of echo data center
we are a provider of colocation and hpc
services we have a high focus on
sustainability and security
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eco-data center will achieve climate
positivity by reusing our waste heat
in a low grade system meaning that we
don't introduce heat pumps to increase
the temperature
we will reuse the heat to feed
a pellet factory producing biofuel and
by this we will
compensate for electricity that we use
in our data center
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by having our equipment connected to
echostructure mv switch gear ups crawl
units
empty set breakers galaxy vx for upss
we bring all of that into the
infrastructure platform
where we're also using it advisor to
plan our capacity for the customer
when we are building data centers we
realize that we are part
of the community we are connected to
the local grid we are connected to the
local district heating network
we want to make sure that we give
something back to
the community as well
with the products coming from schneider
electric we expect to achieve a pue of
1.15
combining that with using hydroelectric
power
will make sure that we are one of the
most sustainable data centers
in the nordics and hopefully in the
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world
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