Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, has today announced that Arrow Electronics, a global provider of technology products specializing in electronic components, enterprise computing and intelligent solutions for industrial and commercial businesses, has become a new Schneider Electric Elite IT Solutions Provider Partner in Europe.
The unique collaboration will future-proof channel partners’ ability to meet new and cutting-edge, emerging technologies – empowering the channel ecosystem with a full-stack, specialist European distribution model that delivers sustainable end-to-end solutions for on-premises data centers and high-density physical infrastructure systems, artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC) and hybrid-cloud applications.
Further, the collaboration will provide a new generation of channel partners, including MSPs, ISVs, systems integrators, cloud, telco and enterprise organizations, with complete access to Schneider Electric’s industry leading EcoStruxure for Data Centers portfolio, thereby enabling customers to meet imminent regulatory requirements such as the European Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), by utilizing the latest in sustainable, energy efficient and intelligent data center solutions.
“As more organizations begin to embrace emerging technologies such as high-density data centers and GPU-powered computing environments, it’s essential that we diversify our distribution models and empower a new generation of partners with sustainable, energy efficient and turnkey infrastructure solutions,” said James Mealor, Strategic IT Channel Director, Schneider Electric, Europe. “Our new collaboration with Arrow marks an important next step in our journey to help ensure specialist applications are met with a full-stack approach that has sustainability front of mind, and we’re delighted to name them our newest Elite IT Solutions Provider Partner in Europe.”
With the European Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) coming into effect in May 2024, partners, and end-users with an installed data center capacity of 500kW and above must begin to disclose their energy performance data, including power-usage effectiveness (PUE) ratings, temperature settings, waste heat, water, and renewable energy consumption. Software, data analytics and machine learning are integral to ensure more simplified and accurate reporting against the new regulations, and for businesses to meet long-term corporate sustainability requirements.
As part of the new collaboration, Arrow will provide channel partners with improved access to Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure IT software portfolio, including the latest evolution, which includes new model-based, automated sustainability metric reporting features that allow organizations to track, measure and report on specific regulatory reporting requirements at just the click of a button.
By doing so, channel partners can quickly harness the power of data to meet forthcoming regulatory requirements and share the insights with a complete ecosystem of expert partners, leveraging Schneider Electric Sustainability Services to help reduce their carbon footprint, lower energy consumption, and minimize their environmental impact.
For more information about becoming a Schneider Electric Elite IT Solutions Provider Partner, or joining its mySchneider IT Partner Program – visit the website.
