Digitization’s productivity gains depend on clean and reliable electrical power

Jean-Pascal Tricoire,
Chairman & CEO, Schneider Electric

Hong Kong: In one of his keynote addresses at an event, Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman & CEO - Schneider Electric spoke about his company powering the digital economy through its numerous solutions as it lives by the mission of supplying energy to people across the globe.   

Schneider Electric has announced EcoStruxure IT for partners, an open, cloud-based, multi-tenant platform developed for IT solution providers focused on data center and distributed IT sites. This platform is highly secured and is enabled by EcoStruxure’s predictive analytics and will host applications and tools for solution providers to build new, recurring service offerings and business models.

The first EcoStruxure IT application being made available is the monitoring application called EcoStruxure IT Expert. This application enables IT solution providers to deliver a remote monitoring service empowered with real-time data and proactive recommendations, reducing meantime to repair and improving system availability.

By leveraging big data and intelligent benchmarking from distributed IT environments to the data center, EcoStruxure IT Expert provides a faster and easier way to deliver the services and support required by customers as they grow more dependent on their critical IT infrastructure.EcoStruxure IT Expert provides the foundation to give partners visibility into multiple customer sites and develop additional potential revenue streams. 

“In the near future, we will deliver additional functionality and applications within EcoStruxure IT for Partners, offering our partners additional capabilities to remotely access customer sites and increase efficiency and control, reducing the need for onsite visits,” said Jean-Pascal.

As part of Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure architecture, EcoStruxure IT operates on all IoT-enabled physical infrastructure assets like secure power and cooling - including the new Smart-UPS with APC SmartConnect, a cloud-enabled UPS, designed to be fast and cost-effective for deployment in small, distributed environments.

"In the 21st century, where many people still don't have access to reliable energy, our mission is to supply energy. We develop or supply combined solutions of power and digital because they are the source of life. We live in exciting times, at the convergence of IT and power. If you look at the equation of energy in 15 years from now, energy consumption will grow one-fold. Electricity will grow twice the pace, and IT four times."