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Living on the (IT) Edge: Schneider Electric at HPE Discover 2018

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We’re here at HPE Discover 2018 , proudly sponsoring the event and enjoying a jam-packed few days in Las Vegas. The data center industry has experienced tremendous disruption in the last decade. The fourth Industrial Revolution, with its IT/OT convergence, the proliferation of IoT, and insatiable demand for digital connectivity, is creating the opportunity to push the envelope of performance beyond the obvious and create new business value. And there’s no bigger opportunity right now than at the edge. At the same time, these new paradigms are also driving more complexity: companies today are trying to manage a combination of environments, from large centralized data centers on-premises or in the cloud, regional edge data centers, to local edge data centers. We have more data centers, intertwined across more locations, and with more data, than ever before. All of this adds up to promising opportunities on the horizon for our customers – but an equally daunting number of new challenges...

“Diversity is On” at Schneider Electric

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Written by Guest Blogger, Jesse Gutierrez We have often heard, “Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance.” At Schneider Electric we ask our employees to dance. Diversity and Inclusion is part of our heritage and our future. We want you all to be a part of it. So, why is D&I so important? Research shows D&I leads to positive business impacts via recruitment, retention, engagement, customer orientation, etc. D&I improves innovation and customer orientation x 2, employee engagement x 3 and reduces turnover intention by 2 (IBM Workforce Institute, 2013). Aside from this, D&I also makes a team 152% more likely to understand a client, when sharing their ethnicity. In other words, this acceptance of diversity and support of inclusion leads to empathy for our teams and for the customers we support and serve. In September of 2017, Schneider Electric’s Chicago Grid office launched a Diversity and Inclusion Business Resource Group (BRG) and t...