Schneider Electric appoints Ivan Habovcik as VP for Ireland IT Division

Schneider Electric appointed Ivan Habovcik as Vice President for the IT Division in Ireland.

Ivan will replace Vincent Barro, who has moved to a new role managing the IT Division in Switzerland.

For the past decade Ivan has served Schneider Electric as business development for its Single-Phase UPS business in Central Eastern Europe and Israel, covering a region of fifteen countries and twelve different languages. He has also held roles as Country Manager and Vice President, IT Business for the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Vietnam.

Factors driving the adoption of cloud services in Ireland include the growth and reliability of network speed, service availability; increased virtualisation of both storage and computing power and the resulting lowering of capital costs, particularly to end-users.

However, the very success of cloud computing has seen new issues emerge. Driven by the surge in digital services including the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), data traffic shows no sign of slowing. This trend is leading to Edge Computing, in which smaller, micro data centres are distributed across networks to deliver more reliable compute power and support business service demands. Edge Computing significantly decreases the data volume that must be transferred, the consequent traffic and therefore also reduces cost.

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