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Romonet is a UK-based, privately held company, headquartered in Croydon, UK that develops, and licenses software and services to help businesses 'maximize their investment in data centers and associated technology'.〔(Romonet website, retrieved 3 Sept 2015 )〕 It claims to be the first software on the market to accurately predict total cost of ownership (TCO) and properly model energy flow. They began by creating a term called 'Data Center Predictive Modeling' (DCPM) which "Rather than collecting real-time data, they predict data center configuration and architecture." 〔(Zen Kishimoto. Zen and the Art of Data Center Greening (and Energy Efficiency). Blog 6 July 2011 )〕 Romonet Inc was launched in 2011 〔(Datacenterknowledge.com 'Romonet using blueprints to predict performance', 29 June 2011 )〕 to bring the product to the US market. == History == Romonet was founded in 2006 by Zahl Limbuwala and Liam Newcombe initially to answer the question of how much data centers really cost to operate. Newcombe made this statement concerning IT cost, "The business is effectively prevented from managing operating costs or understanding the contribution to profitability." 〔(Romonet website, Romonet University, 'How the corporate data center has become a cost black hole', pg5, para. 2 )〕 In 2009 they collaborated to release an open source engine with the British Computer Society’s (Data Centre Specialist Group ).〔(www.katescomment.com, 'BCS Data Centre Cost and Energy Simulator Beta Released', 28 May 2009 )〕 Though the simulator was at an early stage, it was able to predict cost and power usage.〔(Ibid. )〕 On 24 June 2011 Romonet opened two new offices in the United States, a US HQ in San Francisco and an office in the iconic Empire State Building in New York.〔(Romonet website, News, 'Romonet expands operations to the US with East and West Coast offices' 24 June 2011 )〕 2009 - Partnered with British Computer Society and released a Beta of a Cost and Energy simulator〔(Katescomment.com 'BCS Data Centre Cost & Energy Simulator Beta Released', 28 May 2009 )〕 2009 June - Romonet & C-Net to partner to provide training on the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres.〔(Joint Research Council, European Codes of Conduct for ICT, EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres )〕 2009 Nov - Romonet board appoints Rick Skett, former Intel exec and 30-year veteran as Chairman of the board. 2010 Nov - Romonet Launches Romonet Software Suite – the first ever software to predict energy use and cost over the entire lifecycle of a data center 〔(datacenterdynamics website, 'UK company Romonet launches innovative simulation tool' 8 November 2010 )〕 2010 Nov - Computer Weekly featured a review of Romonet Software Suite 〔(Computer Weekly, 'IT cloud decisions use flawed metrics', 8 November 2010 )〕 2011 Feb - Arup utilizes Romonet Software Suite to provide visibility into their data center 〔(Information Age, 'The model data centre', 28 Feb 2011 )〕 2011 Feb - Romonet announced Syska Hennessy Group and Skanska USA as official channel partners 2011 May - Zahl Limbuwala gives keynote speech at Google Data Center Efficiency event in Zurich 〔(datacenterknowledge.com, 'Most Users Resist Warmer Data Centers', 25 May 2011 )〕 2011 June - Launch of Romonet Inc. in the United States〔(Romonet website, Announcements, 'Romonet expands operations to the US with East and West Coast offices', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2011 June - Skanska partners with Romonet to design efficient Data Centers 〔(Skanska US website 'Skanska has some 'swede' datacenter tricks up its sleeves, retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2011 Oct - Romonet board appointed Michael J Fister, former Intel senior exec and CEO of Cadence, as director and member of the board 〔(The Whir, 'Data Center Tools Firm Romonet Names Board Member', 7 October 2011 )〕 2011 Oct - Romonet Software Suite 'Highly Commended' in the prestigious (Institute for Engineering and Technology Innovation Awards ) for 2011 〔(Romonet website, News, 'Romonet 'Highly Commended' at IET Innovation Awards 2011', retrieved 26 April 2013 )〕 2011 Nov - Launches V2.0 of its DCPM software, Romonet Software Suite, which incorporates significant extra enhancements including ability to model using Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) data 〔(IT World, News, 'Romonet adds more smarts to its data center predictive modeling software', 30 November 2011 )〕 2011 Dec - Romonet CTO, Liam Newcombe, wins 'Outstanding Contribution to the Industry' Award at DatacenterDynamics Datacenter Leaders Awards 2011〔(datacenterdynamics.com, 'Industry leaders recognized at awards', 16 December 2011 )〕 2012 March - Romonet shortlisted for (Red Herring ) Europe 100 Award〔(Red Herring.com 'Red Herring Europe 2012 Finalists', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2012 April - Romonet wins (Red Herring ) Europe 100 Award〔(Red Herring.com 'Europe 2012 Top 100', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2012 July - Romonet partners with Red Engineering Design〔(Datacentres.com, 'Red Engineering partners with Romonet to deliver advanced data centre modelling services', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2012 Sep - Romonet partners with CS&I who specialize in critical systems which are typically associated with data center, hospital and financial trading facilities 〔(datacenterdynamics.com, News, 'Romonet partners with engineering firm CS&I', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2012 Nov - Launches Romonet Portal - a SaaS type product that is 'designed specifically to address the business and financial management needs of those that own and operate data centers.' 〔(Ark Data Centres website, News 'Uniquely bringing together engineering, operations and finance', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2012 Nov - Romonet partners with JCA Engineering 〔(The Engineer, News 'Romonet forms partnership with JCA Engineering', retrieved 2 September 2015 )〕 2012 Dec - Romonet's Principal Mission Critical Engineer, Dr. Ehsaan Farsimadan, wins 'Young Mission Critical Engineer of the Year' at DatacenterDynamics Datacenter Leaders Awards 2012〔(Datacenterdynamics.com, THE DATACENTERDYNAMICS EMEA AWARDS: OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION WINNER, retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2013 March - (Compass Datacenters ) announces that Romonet software will be part of Compass' Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform〔(Datacenterdynamics.com, News, 'Compass makes Romonet part of standard data center package', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕〔(compassdatacenters.com, News, Press Releases, 'Compass and Romonet Partner to Simplify Data Center Capacity Planning and TCO Calculation' retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2013 April - i3 Solutions Group and Romonet partner 'to bring first lifecycle TCO analysis to enterprise data center operators' 〔(Datacenterdynamics.com, News, 'I3 Solutions and Romonet dig down into data center costs' retrieved 26 April 2013 )〕〔(i3solutionsgroup.com, News, retrieved 26 April 2013 )〕 2013 July - Launches Portal 2.0 - the latest version of its SaaS type product〔(Infotech Spotlight, 'i3 and Romonet Partner to Offer TCO Analysis to Enterprise Data Center Operators', retrieved 12 July 2013 )〕〔(V3.co.uk, News, 'Romonet Portal 2.0 update helps firms analyse and predict IT infrastructure performance', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2013 Sep - Nominated with Ark Datacentres for 'Data Centre Project of the Year' at British Computer Society UK IT Industry Awards〔(Ark Datacentres website, News, 'Ark named as finalist in the UK IT Industry Awards', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2013 Nov - Announces that in partnership with Canara (formerly Intellibatt) it is now able to provide a fully managed remote monitoring service for data centers.〔('Romonet And Canara Launch Fully Managed Remote Monitoring Service For Data Centers', Breaking News\Power, retrieved 22 Nov 2013 )〕〔('Managed remote monitoring partnership', Home\Design & Facilities Management\News, retrieved 22 Nov 2013 )〕 2014 Apr - Romonet CEO presents at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the subject 'Data Centers - From a Cottage Industry to an Industrial and Information Age Revolution'〔(lbl.gov website\News\Events retrieved 18 Jun 2014 )〕 2014 May - Romonet wins an inaugural Uptime Institute Brill Award (Product Services category) in conjunction with Compass Datacenters 〔(Uptime Institute website, Brill Awards, retrieved 25 Feb 2015 )〕 2014 Oct - Romonet CEO publishes a controversial blog 'An open letter to data center investors' which gains considerable comment and feedback.〔(LinkedIn, Pulse, Zahl Limbuwala, retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2015 Mar - Romonet updates capabilities of Operations Portal, its SaaS product 〔(Dtatacenterdynamics.com, Design & Strategy, 'Romonet updates data center modelling software', retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 2015 Mar - Romonet partners with Vapor.io, 'the world’s first hyper collapsed and truly data defined data center solution' - 〔(Vapor.io website, Company, Technology Partners, retrieved 2 Sep 2015 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Romonet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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