Microsoft Power and Utilities Blog
The Microsoft in Power & Utilities blog discusses the emerging technological and economic challenges facing the global Utility industry and how Utilities can innovate through a strategy based on devices and services to transform and grow their business
Leveraging the Cloud Takes IT Support to the Post-Nick Burns Era
Most information age workers have had an experience worth telling about their company’s on-site...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/16/2013
How Microsoft Quietly Built the City of the Future
Helping to modernize the world’s infrastructure has been a key focus for us at Microsoft. Whether...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/15/2013
How Windows Azure is Helping Manage Solar Energy Generation in Japan
Continuing our series of postings on how the cloud is gaining momentum is in...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/09/2013
Schneider Electric unveils their cloud based “Orbit” mobile inspection solution
We have written numerous times in this blog on how Microsoft partners are releasing Cloud based...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/05/2013
Zpryme Forecasts Cloud Future for Utilities; Microsoft’s Flexibility Stands Ready
Following on our recent blog about our hesitation years ago to introduce the “Utility in the Cloud”...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/04/2013
Bill Gates Paraphrases Mark Twain’s “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”
It seems to us that Microsoft is a favorite target of many in the media and the software...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/27/2013
Mainstream Renewable Power Using Microsoft for Complex Business Project Management
We’ve written in the past here and here about the unique business model of Mainstream Renewable...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/25/2013
Free Webcast: How Anglian Water is driving a step change in utilization of structured and unstructured data to enable greater efficiency within core business processes
We would like to invite everyone to join us for a free Webcast on how Anglian Water is...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/18/2013
Microsoft Global Utilities Virtual Summit
We're opening worlds. Today and tomorrow. Find out how by joining us at the Microsoft Global...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/25/2013
Microsoft Recognized as Preferred Choice of Vendors, Best in Class for Cloud
A few years ago we were working on the questions to our annual utility survey and this question came...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/25/2013
Microsoft Utility Partners OSIsoft and Schneider Electric Take Up the Integration Challenge
Utilities that choose to use Microsoft products know that there is an underlying strength to our...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/04/2013
Join Microsoft at DistribuTECH 2013
The annual DistribuTECH show, hosted by our good friends at Pennwell, has become one of the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/15/2013
Reflecting on the past and looking to the future
The December holidays provide an opportunity to reflect on the past and look to the future and for...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/14/2013
Another Windows Store Industry Application: OpenText
In early 2012, Microsoft put our Windows Store out on the web to help our customers find, try and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/10/2013
Windows 8: So Simple
From Portugal, we at Microsoft have this very cute video of a young boy demonstrating Windows...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 12/21/2012
A Day in the Utility Life: OpenText, SAP and SharePoint Work together for Enterprise Asset Management
To set your expectations, the video we’re going to blog about doesn’t have any daredevils exiting...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/28/2012
Solving Wind Intermittency Using Microsoft Technologies
The problem of renewables’ intermittency has long been the Achilles’s heel of wind power. The wind...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/26/2012
Managing the Utility Information Explosion Using Cloud-based Offerings from OpenText in Windows 8
We often talk about the data tsunami that results from the creation of data points from smart...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/25/2012
Utility IT Departments Take the Driver Seat for Cloud Services
We read with interest a short opinion piece in CIO Asia the other day, titled “Microsoft’s Cloud...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/21/2012
Surface's Electrifying Debut!
October 26 was our big launch date for Windows 8 and Surface computers. The commercials have...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 11/12/2012
Windows 8: Ready for Utilities
The Wall Street Journal’s iconic technology reviewer Walter Mossberg predicts that the Windows 8...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/29/2012
Managing Content, the Microsoft Partner Way
Utilitis produce incredible amounts of new information each day. There are memos within...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 10/21/2012
Orchestrated Movements, Safety Tracking A Part of Our Partner Offerings
We came across this stunning video of a utility line worker being lifted by a helicopter onto live...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/22/2012
SQL Server 2012 Passes Another Benchmarking Test for Utility Application
The mission-critical reliability concerns of utilities require them to seek continuing assurance...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 09/09/2012
Another Partner looks to the Cloud: Telvent/Schneider Electric to Leverage Microsoft Azure
Telvent to Leverage Microsoft Azure Our first blog post about the use of cloud computing in the...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 06/05/2012
When Security Isn’t the Last Consideration: How Microsoft’s Security Development Structures Apply to the Real-World with our Partner Itron
Successful criminals know that all security systems have weak points and they set about the ‘job’ of...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/25/2012
OpenText Benchmark Trial for SQL Server 2012 Passes with Flying Colors
Knowledge management in complex utility organizations has become the sine qua non for continuing...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/22/2012
OpenText Takes Solution to the Cloud
Just a couple of years many were nervous about talking too much about the cloud and its great...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/03/2012
Japan, A True Nation Class Laboratory
Late last year Jon and I traveled to Japan and met with a number of Utilities. A major...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 05/03/2012
CyberSecurity Performance Questioned; New Collaboration Agreement Seeks to Address
Two releases on the wire today might catch your attention regarding cybersecurity for the grid....
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/30/2012
Ferranti Computer Systems Dives into Big Data
Big data is all the rage these days and rightly so. The industry is steadily coming to appreciate...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 04/13/2012
Smart Grid Cyber Security Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance
Having attended several Power Industry Events as well and many recent utility user group meetings,...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/22/2012
More detail on “Improving Carbon Footprint Management and Reporting with Better Analytics”
Here’s a good article from ZDNet that provides more detail on our partnership with CarbonSystems....
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/15/2012
The Power of Kinect for Industry
The sales for Kinect have been amazing with over 18 million sold in the past year and we were...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/11/2012
Chinese Energy Utility Builds BI Solution to Improve Information Sharing and Efficiency and OSIsoft Gives Customers Self-Service Business Analytics Tools for Real-Time Data Using
Following up on my last blog: “Releasing SQL Server 2012 to Help Customers Manage “Any Data, Any...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/10/2012
Releasing SQL Server 2012 to Help Customers Manage “Any Data, Any Size, Anywhere”
Throughout the Power & Utilities value chain we see data being generated faster than ever...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 03/07/2012
Cool Company: Switch Automation provides a cloud based platform for automation and energy management in homes, apartments and commercial buildings
DistribuTECH is always a great event as there is probably no place on earth where you get to see so...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/22/2012
Improving Equipment Performance with Predictive Diagnostic Software
It’s no news that solutions for monitoring and providing early warning of equipment failure in...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/15/2012
Leveraging Big Data to improve Plant and Asset Performance
One of the keys to improving plant and asset performance is having the right information at your...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 02/08/2012
OpenText Brings Business Process Solutions to Windows Azure
We have written many times about our cloud momentum and how we have bet the company on the cloud and...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/24/2012
Smart Grid Implementations Rises 25 Percent in the past year - but that’s not the full story
We just released our third Worldwide Utility Industry Survey for 2012 at the DistribuTECH Conference...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/24/2012
Join us at DistribuTECH for “Creating a Real Impact for Our Partners and Customers with Microsoft SQL Server”
Microsoft Is Creating a Real Impact for Our Partners and Customers with Microsoft SQL Server...
Author: MSPowerUtilities Date: 01/20/2012