This topic will be the main agenda item in the 2021 edition of Schneider Electric’s Innovation Day, which will be held virtually on June 17.  The event will bring together more than 40 leaders, practitioners and experts around the world, including Robert Swan, conservationist and polar adventurer; Brian Solis, digital analyst and anthropologist; Rachel Botsman, author and lecturer at Oxford University; Pankaj Sharma, Executive Vice President of Secure Power at Schneider Electric; and Eugene Johannes Siagian, VP Datacenter Ecosystem Solution PT Sigma Cipta Caraka (‘Telkomsigma’).

During the Innovation Day 2021 virtual press conference, Schneider Electric Indonesia & Timor Leste Cluster President Roberto Rossi said that businesses in Asia, including Indonesia, had the opportunity to lead on climate action by applying technology to create efficiencies, with the aim of growing market share sustainably and generating higher long-term business returns.

“Electrification supported by digital management technology has huge potential as a safe, reliable and sustainable clean energy source that can help meet business needs responsibly without compromising the future. At Schneider, sustainability is the core of our business. Our mission is to be a digital partner for sustainability and efficiency. We aim to lead by example within our own operations and ecosystem, and we work to be part of the solution for our customers,” he said, adding that Schneider Electric’s commitment to sustainability received acknowledgement as the number one position on Corporate Knights’ 2021 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations earlier in January.

An internal study by Schneider Electric estimates that the IT industry will consume 8.5 percent of global electricity by 2035, with a large portion coming from data centers. It is also forecasted that by 2025, energy use by the ICT industry will balloon to 20.9 percent of the global total, accounting for 5.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. With this reality in mind, there is an even greater need to ensure environmental sustainability, with many companies closely monitoring their carbon consumption and minimizing their burden on the environment.

Yana Achmad Haikal, Schneider Electric Indonesia & Timor Leste Business Vice President Secure Power, said that as businesses moved towards digitizing their products and services, their success would increasingly depend on reliable and sustainable data centers as well as responsible service providers.

“Businesses will be looking for data center owners to implement more diverse approaches to enable their cloud and edge migrations, will look to data centers to help them build stronger partner ecosystems and will expect more support in their efforts to incorporate as-a-service offerings for their customers,” he said.

In Innovation Day 2021, Schneider Electric will share insights on how data centers of the future accommodate these rising marketplace demands by stepping up performance in four important areas: sustainability, or how data center accommodates a company's complete upstream and downstream supply chain sustainability data; efficiency, the utilization of intelligent sensors, adding more digital services and remote monitoring capabilities to drive more efficient human resources workflows and reduce unanticipated downtime; flexibility, allowing data center owners to pivot and quickly scale up or down as needed to handle the uncertain future like edge data centers; and resilience, by deploying predictive analytics to create savings, prevent downtime and optimize the life expectancy of equipment and defer capital costs.

During the session, Schneider Electric will also introduce two of its latest solutions for the Indonesian market to further strengthen customers’ digital strategy in building a more resilient and sustainable data center.

The first is the EcoStruxure Micro Data Center 43U, which offers the greatest capacity in the company’s commercial and office line of micro data centers and can be remotely monitored with the EcoStruxure IT Software and Digital Services. As the largest and fully equipped model, it eliminates the need for a purpose-built IT room, saving up to 48 percent on CapEx in 20 percent less time. In addition, users can save up to 40 percent in field engineering costs and reduce maintenance costs by 7 percent. The 43U C-Series is designed for IT solution providers, distributors, and alliances as well as IT professionals across vertical segments including banking, financial services, retail, healthcare, government, and education.

Meanwhile, the Galaxy VL is a highly efficient compact UPS that offers up to 99 percent efficiency in its ECOnversion™ mode for a full return on investment within two years (model dependent) for medium and large data centers and commercial and industrial facilities. It is designed to help customers grow while minimizing footprint and cost of ownership through features like Live Swap, a pioneering feature which delivers a touch-safe design throughout the process of adding or replacing the power modules while the UPS is online and fully operational, offering enhanced business continuity and no unscheduled downtime.

Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure architecture is an IoT-enabled solution consisting of connected products; edge control solutions; and apps, analytics software, and services - allowing it to increase operational and energy efficiency. The EcoStruxure provides customers with extensive visibility and control over energy use, empowering them to pursue sustainability goals. Currently, the solution has been deployed in 50 percent of the world’s data centers, helping customers to increase the operational efficiency up to 30 percent and 1.15 PUE for TIER IV design.

“The world faces a tough challenge of combating climate change, and business has a vital role to play in achieving global targets by 2030. Impactful progress requires that commitments to sustainable energy usage need to be deeply ingrained across all aspects of a business. Becoming more sustainable means your company is more likely to adopt innovative solutions to meet its goals,” Roberto concluded.

For more information and free registration, please visit https://www.se.com/id/en/about-us/events/innovation-day.jsp

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