We Are in the Midst of a Paradigm Shift: To Be Successful inThis New Era Requires a New MindsetFor a few years now, we have discussed the need of every company to be a technologycompany. Leaders of industrial and manufacturing pioneers in our country like Ford and GEhave come forward to declare their strategy shifting to focus on technology, and the reasonsare clear. Cisco’s recent report shows that mobile users are growing 2X faster than theglobal population and that video will account for 75% of all mobile traffic by 2020.

This month features Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest, speaking in­depth about this paradigm shift inbusiness and how the way in which we deliver services to consumers in changing. To becompetitive in this changing landscape, all businesses have to shift the way in which theystructure their teams, create solutions, and delivery products to market.

Todd Boucher Principal

Factors that Can Prevent Data Center Outages

Is Your Data Center Prepared to Lose $8,851 Per Minute?

The Ponemon Institute recently released their latest edition of the Cost of Data CenterOutages Report. The report, first developed in 2010, audits and tracks data center outages inNorth America and quantifies the value those downtimes have on the correspondingbusiness. During the downtime audits, the Ponemon Institute captures both direct andindirect cost data related to the downtime which includes:

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March 2016 | Vol. 2, Issue 3

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Leading Edge Design Group is a critical infrastructurespecialist with vendor­neutral solutions for DataCenter, LED Lighting, and Information andCommunications Technology projects. Founded in2007, Leading Edge Design Group helps organizationsdesign, build, and maintain systems that are reliable,scalable, and energy efficient. For more information,please visit www.ledesigngroup.com or follow us ontwitter @ledesigngroup.

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Practical Lessons Learned from ImplementingIntelligent Lighting Controls

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Time Management is Dead; In Our Day The TrueStruggle is Focus Management

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In Case You Missed It Facilities Management

8 Habits of Top Lighting DesignersValue of Motion Sensors in Public RestroomsHow A Shift To LED Lighting is Saving Sports FacilitiesMillionsRensselaer Engineering Center Trials Solid State Lightingin Hospital RoomJP Morgan and Currant Launch World's Largest LEDUpgradeUS Solar Market Sets New Record

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Bitcoin Mining Boom Prompts Utility to Seek Rate HikeGoogle Scores A Couple of Big Cloud Wins

Lighting Rebates and Implications for DesignLights

Consortium Controls Standards

As the administrator of the Qualified Product List (QPL), the DesignLights Consortium (DLC)determines which LED lighting products will qualify for incentives from your local utilitycompany. When the DLC makes changes, we listen.

The DLC recently closed public comment on the second draft of their Network LightingControl System Specification. This was an important step for the DLC because the draftspecification will ultimately become the basis for a Qualified Product List related toNetworked Lighting Control Systems. This is a significant change, because to date, mostutility companies have looked at projects with Networked Lighting Controls Systems undertheir "custom incentives" program. Custom incentives have given utility companies the abilityto evaluate the savings projections of an LED lighting and intelligent lighting controls projecton a case­by­case basis and to produce substantial rebates as a result.

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What 5G Means for You Lithium­Ion UPS

Verizon to Pull Out of Public Cloud How to Improve Reliability in Data Centers with Cogen

PlantsNetflix Completes Move to AWS Cloud

Average Cloud User Leverages Six Different Clouds:Reports

Inside Intel’s phenomenal effort to end its use of conflictminerals

Why Microsoft's private Azure cloud will fail A Call for More Cloud Computing Transparency

GE Quits CFLs, Nichia and Everlight, Philips and WAC Apple's €850 million Irish data centre is on hold

Big Data Projects on the Rise DOE Announces $18M for Solar Energy Storage & Grid

Resiliency Cloud Wars are Heating Up

Cloud Underwater? Microsoft Tests Submarine DataCenter

Equinix Mulling Purchase of CenturyLink and VerizonData Centers

NFL CIO: Super Bowl 50 Tech Was A Game­Changer

Transforming Old Industries into Data Businesses — Tony Fadell, CEO Nest

The Industrialist’s Dilemma — Session 3

Given his lengthy experiences in both large and small companies, and drawing upon on his career successes and failures, Tony Fadell of Nest was our thirdguest on January 21, 2016 in The Industrialist’s Dilemma course.

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Cisco Finds Global Mobile Users Growing 2X Faster Than GlobalPopulation

These and many other insights are from Cisco Systems’ (NASDAQ: CSCO) Cisco Visual Networking Index™ (VNI)

Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2015 to 2020). Cisco’s methodology includes independent analyst forecasts and

real­world mobile data usage studies BASED ON Cisco’s internal assessments and projections of mobile application

adoption, minutes of use and transmission speeds. Key enablers such as mobile broadband speed and device

computing power are also factored into Cisco Mobile VNI projections and findings. For a detailed explanation of the

methodology, please see page 37 of the Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update,

2015–2020 White Paper (PDF, no opt­in, 39 pp). The online summary of the white paper is here.

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