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Credit to Author: Abby Gabriel| Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:30:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the data center landscape continues to evolve, many data center organizations and colocation service providers are focusing on new ways to improve their speed and agility. Innovations to any data center design<\/a> are helping clients achieve their implementation speed and performance goals. In response to this need for innovation, Schneider Electric has launched several new businesses that are built to address data center trends such as prefab modularity, Open Compute<\/a> architectures, edge computing and new service models. I recently spoke with Jim Simonelli, Senior Vice President of Emerging Businesses at Schneider Electric on this topic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur customers are focused on improving speed of deployment, innovation and quality,\u201d he said. \u00a0\u201cMany of their situations and issues, across the globe, deal with time-to-market. They expect the same type of delivery in North America as they do in India. They want the same type of response anywhere across the globe in terms of speed of designing and building a data center and establishing a service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Simonelli is responsible for managing four new organizations that are recognized as near-independent operating units within Schneider Electric. These \u201cintrapreneurial<\/a>\u201d businesses have the same, clear mission: scale and grow by offering rapid delivery data center solutions so that clients, in turn, can drive their own growth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe need is for digitized, remote service and lights out management of their sites,\u201d said Jim. \u201cFor example, you can\u2019t have people responding reactively to a \u2018replace battery\u2019 event. Operators need to know, in real-time, how assets are performing. No one has the staff to physically visit 100 sites just to check on batteries. They need a predictive management and service model that requires intense visibility into assets. The days of not having devices connected are no longer optional. This holds true for the new data center offers and services we are developing to manage these systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Four Trends That Are Altering Data Center Design<\/h2>\n

The new businesses at Schneider are in place to address the following four trends within the domains of cloud service and edge computing:<\/p>\n