Equinix: Executive Summary

Every financial decision made by J.B. Hunt relates directly to how value is added to the customer and how it will increase the ability to provide higher returns to stockholders. These are the primary goals of the company and what J.B. Hunt looks to accomplish when developing their operating strategy. Their strategy is primarily based on “utilizing an integrated, multimodal approach to provide capacity-oriented solutions centered on delivering customer value and industry-leading service” (10-k, 3). J.B. Hunt has also included a regular analysis of their resources over their fiscal period in order to determine where additional capital should be invested. Since there is a greater concern regarding energy-efficiency and being environmentally friendly, J.B. Hunt has taken steps to add a more environmentally friendly aspect to their strategy as well. They are currently researching ways to minimize carbon emissions and improve fuel efficiency without substantially increasing their costs by becoming an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

In 2007, Canada’s industries saved 2.1 billion U.S. dollars of energy costs (2007). All these numbers show Canada’s efforts in general public utilities.

Xcel Energy is a leading electric and natural gas utility. Xcel Energy is an end to end provider of electricity. Electricity is provided from generation, to high voltage transmission, to distribution, to customer’s homes and businesses. Xcel Energy provides energy-related products and services to 3.3 million electric and 1.8 million natural gas customers. With regulated operations in eight states; Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin, revenues are more than $9 billion annually for the employer of 12,000. A commitment to the environment is vital to the core business practices of Xcel Energy. This strong environment focus

In 2014, Hewlett Packard’s (HP’s) headquarters in Palo Alto, California partnered with SolarCity, a clean renewable energy solar provider, to outfit their headquarters with over 4,000 solar panels (Canales, 2014, para. 1). HP, a 75-year plus veteran of international technologies, understands the importance of creating and investing in sustainable solutions throughout its value chain. HP states: “We set bold targets to lead the IT sector. We are committed to sourcing 50% renewable electricity for our operations by 2025 and reducing operational greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% compared to 2015,” (“Living Progress,” 2017, para. 5). This commitment is not limited by HP to their products and services, but extends to, literally, their work environment. A small, but significant step to demonstrating this belief, is their project of installing solar panels over the heads of their top decision makers. “… [The] 1 megawatt system… is expected to offset more than 20 percent of HP’s current power usage onsite… [the] installation is expected to help HP reduce its utility power costs by approximately one million dollars over the next two decades,” (Canales, 2014, para. 1). To a company that earned a net income of 3.1 million in 2016 (“Cash Flow,” 2017) one

Over the course of his career, he has held positions as a Respiratory Department Director, Product Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Marketing Director, VP of Sales and Strategic Accounts Director.

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Equinix has its own objectives on striving to be one of the leading companies in the IT industry which are to secure, connect and light up the economy based on computing technologies. Equinix aims to build, design the architecture and run the data centres with high level of effective energy principle and unending goal by using renewable energy.

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According to the case study written by Jurek, Bras, Guldberg, D’Arcy, Oh, and Biller, energy costs were steadily rising and were predicted to continue this trend going into the future. At the same time, utility companies were beginning to implement Smart Grid technologies to increase the efficiency of energy distribution. One resulting program to emerge from

There were several key points to be taken away from this paper. The top concerns for business in the oil and gas industry include data security, sunken investment in legacy systems and concern around the clouds ability to offer computational power to handle intensive data storage and computations such as 3D rendering, which is still typically performed on local machines. Perrons & Hems articulate that businesses in the oil and gas industry tend to migrate straight to private and hybrid cloud types to reduce these key concerns. The paper also shows

There are five business leadership roles that will be filled by executives with deep operational experience. The Iron Ore business will be retained by Jimmy Wilson. Peter Beaven take the role of President, Copper which let him have responsibilities for the assets under the former Base Metals business. The President of Enery Coal- Dean Dalla Valle would be responsible for the coal assets, and consolidating the businesses of Metallurgical and Engery Coal. Daniel Malchuck will take the role of President, Minerals Exploration to assume the responsibility for the businesses of Aluminium, Maganese and Nikel businesses. Following Mike Yeager’s retirement on 1 July 2013, Tim Cutt- President, Diamonds and Specialty Products will return to be the President of the Petroleum business. Tim used to be the leader of production activies in Petroleum before joining the Diamonds and Speacialty Products business.

By taking the position as Raj Bhatt, Business Development manager of GE Canada, I am comfortable and confident that energy efficiency is an attractive industry and business opportunity. What makes Raj Bhatt believe that the Energy Efficiency projects will be successful in Canada is that the project helps not only the ESCo, which conducts the performance-based contracting, but also the customers, who are more aware of the benefits of Energy Efficiency project. The Energy Efficiency project will optimize the energy usage, including conservation, use of efficient equipment and off peak usage. Even though the project has required intensive initial capital investment and long payback period, it will

This career episode is about my job responsibilities as a Junior Electrical Data Analyst at American Power Conversion by Schneider Electric. Schneider Electric is a French company which specializes in electrical, automation and energy management. I am employed by Schneider Electric Philippines on October 14, 2014 up to the present. I am currently based in Schneider Electric Philippines Cavite Plant. Schneider Electric in Rosario, Cavite is situated in an economic zone with other international companies within the vicinity. The Schneider Electric Cavite plant manufactures Uninterruptable Power Supplies and Cooling Units for Data Centers. Although I was under the American Power Conversion by Schneider Electric which mostly caters UPSs, racks and cooling units for data centers, I was assigned to the Energy, Partner and Industry division of Schneider Electric which caters Medium Voltage, Low Voltage and Automation products.