Electric Industry White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Learn how an integrated security intelligence platform provides the necessary components to help energy and utilities companies automate compliance and risk management, detect and manage threats, and protect the smart grid from both security breaches and cyber-attacks.

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: The current utilities environment requires companies to decrease costs while increasing the ability to control utility assets. One key challenge is how to take advantage of new technologies to better manage the delivery of service to customers today and into the future. IBM Service Management for the IUN provides a blueprint for getting started.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Greater equipment densities and power demands are driving the need for 3-phase power in the equipment cabinet. This white paper explains 3-phase power, its advantages and the cost savings associated with using it in the data center.

Posted: 04 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores key business event processing capabilities that are helping energy and utilities organizations to manage instrumented and intelligent utility networks detect outages, improve grid security, and prevent fraudulent use of energy.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Explore the four phases of the lifecycle for the upgrade methodology of an on-site delivery model that provides upgrade services to enable one organization to achieve its business objects.

Posted: 10 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: SAS technology has been proven to be the most versatile storage solution in data transfer and high performance. Read this white paper to learn about a solution that renders the necessary performance needed for your client's expanding market requirements.

Posted: 22 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: This study of over 150 Fortune 1000 firms from every major industry or vertical explores issues associated with the lifeblood of today’s enterprises: data. The findings demonstrate the often dramatic impacts that even marginal investments in information technology can have when that technology addresses data quality, usability, and intelligence.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

CASE STUDY: This use case describes how Israel's largest electricity provider utilizes IBM's predictive analytics software to monitor its turbine performance in real time, enabling the company to discover and resolve anomalies before outages occur.

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 | Published: 30 Sep 2013

WHITE PAPER: Smart metering is increasingly being seen as a tool through which regulators and network operators will be able to shape electricity demand patterns in the future.

Posted: 06 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

RESOURCE: Industrial control systems (ICS) are all around us: in water, in gas, and electricity distribution networks, running power plants and critical infrastructure, in production lines and transportation networks, and more.

Posted: 27 Jan 2020 | Published: 27 Jan 2020

EGUIDE: The Netherlands is a fast growing datacentre location, as you can also read in this e-guide, and these constructions are taking up a lot of space and putting pressure on the local electricity grid. Read more about this and more in this e-guide.

Posted: 22 Oct 2019 | Published: 22 Oct 2019

CASE STUDY: The following case study highlights how Schneider Electric unified IT stack observability by working with LogicMonitor. Access the case study to view the full results, and learn how your business could similarly benefit from partnering with LogicMonitor.

Posted: 01 Mar 2023 | Published: 01 Mar 2023

EBOOK: Today’s auto industry has new manufacturers and existing ones taking on the challenge of CASE: Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Electric driving. The next 5 years will be a defining moment as automakers focus on software integration and digitization of vehicles.

Posted: 27 May 2022 | Published: 27 May 2022

CASE STUDY: Access this exclusive case study to discover how one organization in the health industry used a portable air conditioning unit to cool small server rooms to protect network devices without risking electrical damage due to water.

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 22 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Over the years this facility services and specialty construction firm (HVAC, electrical, plumbing and other building systems) has extended their ERP system to 500 employees, helping the company become one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For".

Posted: 06 Jun 2008 | Published: 06 Jun 2008

WEBCAST: This webcast highlights some of the compliance and collaboration challenges facing the extended nuclear ecosystem, describe a potential solution that can aid addressing the challenges, and present several examples of where the solution has been implemented in the nuclear space.

Posted: 27 Mar 2014 | Premiered: May 31, 2013

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines that a data centre design  must meet specific requirements including; site selection, space, available power, air conditioning, load, environmental quality, and risk evaluation, but also the requirements of the electrical power supply system. It is also discusses how necessary it is to consider the cost of service downtime.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide explains the reasons for implementing grounding methods and the problems that can occur if it is done incorrectly. Find out how to design your data center’s power system with key components in mind and how much power to implement in your data center.

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

CASE STUDY: This use case describes how IBM Bromont's engineering team harnesses the power of analytics to automatically identify failure patterns in CPU modules and instantly determine how serious the problem is, providing them with a 150% ROI in year one alone.

Posted: 25 Feb 2015 | Published: 30 May 2014

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Computer Weekly looks at technologies that can help your datacentre become cost and energy efficient in this 11 page Buyer's Guide.

Posted: 15 Mar 2013 | Published: 15 Mar 2013

EZINE: The construction of datacentres in the Netherlands' Amsterdam region has accelerated at such a pace that their demands for electricity are causing concern, prompting city authorities and datacentre operator to open a dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion.

Posted: 26 May 2021 | Published: 10 Jun 2021

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores requirements engineering and its groundbreaking role in product development and engineering for the industrial segment. It discusses the best practices and benefits of requirements engineering, and how automotive manufacturers can overcome today's quality and cost challenges using those best practices.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 31 Mar 2009

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide details 5 IIoT companies that prove the value of internet-connected manufacturing. Learn how IIoT offers these companies benefits like process optimization and costs saving. Additionally, educate yourself on how to choose the right middleware for your mobile-first strategy.

Posted: 09 Sep 2016 | Published: 08 Sep 2016

WHITE PAPER: How can you deploy intelligent solutions that boost efficiency in your business operations and help ensure a safe, secure infrastructure for the future? Read on to learn how modern business process transformation technology can help you maximize business efficiency and effectiveness in a collaborative way to become a resilient utility organization.

Posted: 21 Mar 2023 | Published: 21 Mar 2023

EZINE: Southwest Airlines, General Electric, Telstra and Bell and Howell implemented mobility projects that made their employees' jobs easier. Learn more about the four winners of the Modern Mobility Innovation Awards.

Posted: 10 Jan 2017 | Published: 10 Jan 2017

RESEARCH CONTENT: Energy theft is a critical issue for power system operators and billions of pounds are lost to it every year. This article in our Royal Holloway security series describes a convolutional long short-term memory-based energy theft detection model to identify electricity thieves.

Posted: 26 Apr 2022 | Published: 26 Apr 2022

EBOOK: What are the capabilities of CHERNOVITE’S malware specific to Industrial Control Systems? How can you protect your business from this threat? Explore this e-book to review PIPEDREAM’s deployment scenarios and to unlock defense strategies.

Posted: 25 Oct 2022 | Published: 25 Oct 2022

WHITE PAPER: Find out how a VMware healthcare customer used VMware View, formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

EZINE: In this issue of Network Evolution, we explore how the API industry is helping enterprises seek better ways to improve app performance, reach their audiences, and fulfill business needs. You'll also learn about hyperscale techniques, how to move from leased circuits to a dark fiber network, and more.

Posted: 01 Aug 2017 | Published: 01 Aug 2017

BLOG: Check out this blog post to learn how Service Express is helping business meet sustainability goals with new global secure hybrid cloud solutions.

Posted: 28 Feb 2023 | Published: 28 Feb 2023

WHITE PAPER: Lithium-ion batteries have been the industry standard for data center applications for several decades – so why aren't they used as frequently in single-phase uninterruptable power supplies (UPS)? Inside, read more about the rocky relationship between li-ion batteries and UPS vendors – and how recent advances in battery tech come into play.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 27 Dec 2018