Electric Utilities White Papers

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: 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: 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: 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: 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

CASE STUDY: Serving 53 million customers, the assets owned and managed by E.ON presented an attack surface so large they could no longer defend it affectively. E.ON partnered with Ionix, and used their Ecosystem Security platform to pre-emptively act on vulnerabilities. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 12 Jan 2024 | Published: 13 Jan 2024

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This article in our Royal Holloway Security Series provides a short introduction to Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 02 Sep 2016

CASE STUDY: Schneider Electric transformed its IT infrastructure to increase the company's business agility, gain greater control over IT costs, and support the growing use of mobile devices, cloud computing and IaaS. Learn how.

Posted: 17 Jan 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the different types of meters and their applications/benefits in certain situations.

Posted: 28 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

CASE STUDY: Read this case study of Mid-Carolina Electric Cooperative, Inc. to learn how replacing its old document imaging system with a new low-maintenance full-featured document management, imaging and workflow suite improved allowed for better information sharing and document availability, faster customer service and increased productivity.

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | Published: 02 Aug 2010

EBOOK: The North American Electric Reliability Corporation's regulations aim to protect the nation's vulnerable critical infrastructure. Read this E-Book to find out what responsible entities need to do to comply with the NERC.

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper makes the business case for utility storage, the delivery of IT resources as a service (similar to a water or electric company), and introduces an infrastructure solution designed to leverage this principle and improve an organization's journey to the cloud. Read on to learn about this emerging technology and its benefits.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

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

CASE STUDY: Business resilience is crucial. Using a hybrid cloud platform and trusted solutions boosts efficiency and security. Rushmore Electric reduced backup time to 6 hours; USC restores VMs in under 10 minutes with 96% deduplication; Miami Dolphins achieve <20 minute RTOs/RPOs. Adopt a flexible, integrated approach. See case studies.

Posted: 05 Mar 2024 | Published: 05 Mar 2024

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 whitepaper covers the basics on standby generators and systems to prepare your IT staff for any prolonged utility power outages.

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 | Published: 24 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This six-page Buyer’s Guide to Green IT helps CIOs and senior IT professionals to identify the issues around going green and explains the pros and cons of using third-party facilities to run IT services.

Posted: 29 Nov 2012 | Published: 26 Jan 2011

EZINE: The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

EBOOK: SearchSecurity.com presents a comprehensive guide to NERC compliance. Our experts cover all the angles in order to help your efforts in meeting compliance with the information security standards established by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation.

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 | Published: 24 Sep 2010

EBOOK: The emergence of Software as a Service-based applications has enabled organizations to get new applications up and running quickly and cheaply, saving resources for mission-critical tasks.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Discover in this white paper how Panduit is poised to meet the challenges of the growing broadband market, offering space savings, rapid deployment, and peace of mind that the installation will perform as expected.

Posted: 22 Apr 2023 | Published: 22 Apr 2023

EGUIDE: Access this expert e-guide that examines the most cost-effective data center technologies that will improve energy efficiency to reduce IT infrastructure costs or adhere to environmental regulations.

Posted: 24 Jan 2013 | Published: 24 Jan 2013

EGUIDE: While maintenance is tedious, forgoing maintenance usually causes much more tedious and compliance related issues. Duke Energy learned this the hard way. Read this tip guide to learn how this Charlotte, N.C. - based electric and retail gas utility company, effectively managed their software upgrade in the perils of compliance risks.

Posted: 28 Sep 2011 | Published: 28 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Here are the ways utility companies are enhancing worker productivity and increasing efficiencies with mobile solutions.

Posted: 17 Oct 2016 | Published: 17 Oct 2016

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn about different data center expansion options. Discover the pros and cons of colocation, cloud computing and IT outsourcing and determine which model is best for your organization.

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 | Published: 02 Mar 2010

EBOOK: To find out how your organization can improve both the accuracy of your sustainability tracking in the data center and the utility of your ESG reports, download this essential guide to environmental sustainability metrics.

Posted: 12 Mar 2024 | Published: 12 Mar 2024

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

VIDEO: This case study explores the relationship between an organization and an infrastructure provider to maintain their super computers. Learn how that by maintaining their super computers, one provider is helping to maintain their data center and renewable resources and together improving the quality of life.

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 | Premiered: 01 Jul 2014