Name: Edge Computing for Digital-First Operations
Start: 2023-06-27T12:00:00Z
End: 2023-06-27T12:00:31.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Schneider Electric's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.

Our mission is to be your digital partner for Sustainability and Efficiency. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, end-point to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centres, infrastructure, and industries.

APC, a flagship brand of Schneider Electric, provides clean battery backup power, surge protection, and IT physical infrastructure, ensuring data is available — whenever and wherever you need it. With APC products that are connected to Schneider Electric ecosystems, we provide a complete portfolio of data centre solutions, software, and services that are sustainable, resilient, hyper-efficient, and adaptive in the cloud and at the edge.


Join us for an insightful session on how the rapid growth and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping data centre design and operations. 
With AI driving the need for redefined data centre architectures, particularly in mechanical design and cooling with a focus on liquid cooling, data centre operators are presented with both challenges and opportunities to reimagine infrastructure. This session will explore the relevant attributes, the challenges, and opportunities linked to this densification, alongside sustainable design strategies to minimize the carbon footprint associated with this paradigm shift.

Don't miss the chance to be part of this conversation and get all your burning questions answered.

Next Data Centre challenges and opportunities: the cooling architecture in the era of AI disruption

Discover how one small change can be the big solution to your IT challenges!

Smart-UPS Ultra provides ultra-high density, On-Line power protection with Lithium-ion batteries for various applications in numerous settings. 

Watch Schneider Electric experts discuss the new solutions that offer more power, more battery life, and more flexibility for your IT environment.

- Our smallest, most advanced UPS gives you up to 3kW of power protection in 1U. That's 2.5x more power than comparable solutions.
- It's also 50% smaller and lighter, capable of remote monitoring, and supports extended runtime options.

Smart-UPS Ultra: More compact, powerful and reliable power protection

Racks and enclosures are the building blocks of every IT environment. As the building blocks of a data centre, IT rack plays an important role to service multiplier generations of IT equipment to maximum the business value.  Rapidly changing business conditions require the IT environment to adapt and adjust faster than ever, and the imperative of uninterrupted uptime now has the corollary demand for efficiency. Whether it’s a network closet, server room, or data centre of any size, IT operations rely on racks and enclosures to support a greater number and variety of applications and devices. The 3rd webinar in our series will cover:

- How Racks & Rack accessories are considered a crucial piece and ensure the highest availability in any of the IT environments.
- How you can provide pinpoint control and monitoring of rack-level power.
- How Rack accessories deliver superior cable management for high-density networking and blade applications

A Beginners Guide to IT Room Physical Infrastructure

Trends & technologies like IoT and its many applications have helped drive an Always On, Always Connected mentality that has completely evolved customer experience standards.  These demands are driving a need for resiliency in local edge environments, meaning compute & storage capacity is now coming back on premise for many applications.

In other words, this highly distributed access layer is now becoming a compute layer – one that is mission-critical to delivering a flawless (or at least acceptable) customer experience.  

There is also a growing culture of employees that demand “always on” technology and cannot tolerate downtime disruption. APC by Schneider Electric has Connected Products making it easy to remotely monitor your customers’ environments with our NEW Smart-UPS with APC™ SmartConnect– the industry’s first cloud-connected UPS!  It gives you insight into your customers' critical power. You'll have the visibility to prevent costly problems — and sustain customer loyalty and enable a more resilient Edge infrastructure.

Introducing Cloud Connected Smart-UPS

Get your additional understanding of the EcoStruXure IT portfolio features and how to feel confident dealing with Cyber Security topics. Watch the webinar on-demand and know more about the strategies for protecting against cyber threats, including physical and network security, access control, patch management, data encryption, compliance, auditing, and monitoring.

EcoStruXure IT Partner TownHall - Cyber Security aspects

As distributed edge environments become more critical, physical security becomes more important. Nobody would leave their data centre wide open for anyone to enter, but that’s exactly how many organisations treat their edge computing sites. Often, they consist of a rack or two of gear in a non-dedicated location, perhaps a janitor’s closet, with little to no physical security. In this 4th and final webinar series, we’ll discuss physical security best practices, including environmental issues such as temperature and humidity monitoring. We’ll also update partners on the physical security features of the latest APC racks and the NetBotz line of security and environmental appliances, cameras and sensors.

Protect Me from Downtime: Customer Demands at the Edge

Edge environments by nature are often in branch or remote offices that have few if any IT staff. As a result, they need remote management capabilities, along with someone to fix problems as they are identified – before they cause disruptions for users. It’s a situation that represents a big opportunity for VAR partners to make the transition to becoming managed service providers (MSPs), performing remote management on behalf of customers. We’ll go through some of the new APC products that enable partners to remotely manage power infrastructure and discuss the Managed Service Program that helps partners develop and monetise managed services.

Fix My Problem Before it Starts: Customer Demands at the Edge

Customers have lots of decisions to make as they feel their way through the changing IT landscape. Which infrastructure and applications should stay on their own premises (if any) and what can they safely move to the cloud? This 2nd webinar in our webinar series is focused on ways partners can help customers answer these sorts of questions and, in the process, become trusted advisors. Trends like IoT are driving a need for resiliency in local edge environments, meaning compute & storage capacity is now coming back on premise for many applications – especially in industries like Healthcare, Retail, Finance, and Education We’ll go over how to use tools suite to analyse customer traffic and help them decide the best home for each application, whether on-premises or in the cloud.

Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Customer Demands at the Edge

Energy volatility is increasingly affecting the service continuity and resilience of data centers. In our webinar, experts will discuss specific challenges faced by data centers across the globe, and strategic solutions to minimize their impact in the short and long term.

Energy Volatility – Challenges and Solutions for Data Centers

Customers and consumers have come to expect and rely on applications that are always available when they want them. We all expect optimal performance. If an application buffers too long or a WebEx session doesn’t open right away, we get edgy (pardon the pun), and irritated. In this environment, latency is the enemy. That reality is driving demand for computing power closer to where the users who need it are located, and fast reliable networks to connect them. In this session, we talked about the role standardised, redundant physical infrastructure plays in enabling companies to quickly deploy reliable edge solutions. It’s the kind of infrastructure that partners can help customers implement in a repeatable fashion to address edge requirements wherever they may be in a distributed environment.

Always on, Always Connected: Customer Demands at the Edge

TradeOff Tools are simple, automated, web-based tools created by Schneider Electric’s Science Center to support specific data centre planning decisions our customers and partners face. They provide a single-screen user interface, where your inputs provide instant results that allow for rapid creation of “what if” scenarios and make tradeoffs during data centre planning.


By tuning in to this webinar, you will hear from our experts:
The science behind these tools.
Demos on some of the tools and how they can be used to;
(1) Justify infrastructure design decisions based on capital cost implications.
(2) Choose whether li-ion batteries makes sense based on TCO, and
(3) Determine if prefabricated solutions make sense over a traditional design for your project.
And more...

Make your data centre planning more efficient with TradeOff Tools

Rapid changes in consumer technology have also created a new speed of retail. Technology upgrades for new payment options and tracking inventory are just two examples of deployments needed to ensure the highest level of customer engagement and satisfaction. How can retailers keep up with technology upgrades and keep it simple?

Keeping up with the speed of retail

Organizations focus on Environmental Responsibility 

Organizations of all sizes are devoting more resources toward sustainability efforts, but some enterprise organizations think (or hope) that their sustainability programs are more advanced than they really are. Join us for this on-demand webinar to discover key findings of a new 451 Research survey and learn:
The main drivers of sustainability
The greatest challenges organizations face when it comes to sustainability
How to find help in your sustainability journey

How do you move forward with your sustainability goals?

Closing the Sustainability Gap

Smart-UPS™ Ultra, the most advanced UPS, gives you up to 3kW of power protection in 1U.

Register to discover how to sell to new customers and in new applications not possible before.

This UPS:

Is ultra-compact: 50% smaller and lighter
Has 2.5x power density
Our first extended runtime lithium-ion UPS for prolonged outages
Can be installed flexibly: rack, tower, wall mount, or under-mount
Use our tools to help you quickly, easily design and configure a Smart-UPS Ultra Solution.

Let us help you explore how one small change can be the big solution to your IT challenges

Unveiling Smart UPS Ultra

Many companies are now reporting on sustainability as a supplement to financial reporting. They are communicating their commitment to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) programs. The data center industry has unique characteristics, such as high energy intensity, rapid growth, large power consumption and water usage that require specialized metrics. Standardizing these metrics will help with adoption, improve benchmarking, and progress sustainability within the industry.

We have created a comprehensive framework for environmental sustainability metrics to share with the industry. It outlines five areas of impact, which include 23 key metrics for data center operators who are in the Beginning, Advanced and Leading stages of their sustainability journey. We also identify the 17 most relevant sustainability frameworks and standards to guide data center operators in target setting, reporting, and certifying.

By joining this webinar, you’ll hear data center sustainability experts from Schneider Electric discuss:
• Incorporating metrics for your business that go beyond energy usage
• Adopting a standard framework of environmental sustainability metrics
• Frameworks and standards to help you begin your reporting process

The Data Center Operator’s Guide to Sustainability Metrics

Watch this webinar to learn how edge compute (distributed IT) installations have become increasingly business critical. Deploying and operating IT at the edge of the network, however, comes with unique challenges. Solving them requires a departure from the traditional means of selecting

Customer Challenges at the Edge

A recent IDC report showed that data center capacity is projected to grow 4.5 percent from 2019 to 2024[1], confirming that the market shows no signs of slowing. With this growth, comes immense pressure to operate these energy intensive facilities as sustainably as possible. Some cloud and colocation operators are publicly affirming their commitments to climate change, by tackling things like greenhouse gas emissions or adopting renewables technologies. But how will they do this?

The effective approach to curb climate change is with digitization and innovation. Cloud and colocation data centers should first consider overall strategies like climate risk or environmental commitments for their business strategies to conceptually drive change. 

By joining this webinar, you’ll hear sustainability experts from Schneider Electric discuss how to:
• enable data center solutions to tackle the climate crisis
• set actionable energy targets for your business
• accelerate action toward your carbon reduction goals and build business resilience

How Colocation Facilities Can Tackle Environmental Impacts with Energy Targets

As data in operations increase at the edge of the network, businesses spend more on digital resources.

In this on-demand webinar, Jennifer Cooke, Research Director at IDC, will share results from research involving over 1000 IT professionals in global enterprises on the edge challenges they face and recommendations on how to future-proof connected operations and edge capabilities. Jamie Bourassa, V.P. of Edge Computing for Schneider Electric, will then share how IT professionals can leverage solutions and expertise to achieve success at the Edge.

You will:

Learn how to build a strategy that includes power and connectivity resources to improve resiliency and security
Understand how remote capabilities can help you monitor and manage edge infrastructure for improved and sustainable operations
Explore how trusted partners and full solution providers can provide the necessary skills for success at the Edge

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