Jul 13 / By Gordon Lord A Bit of UPS Maintenance Helps Classrooms Ensure Reliability of Internet Connections In my last post, I tried to make the case that, given how important online resources are to schools, they should invest in a UPS to keep the IT equipment that supplies their Internet connections… Read Article »
Jul 11 / By Gordon Lord Keeping the 21st Century Classroom Online Requires Power Protection, Racks and Enclosures If you work in a classroom, you have more than likely been having lots of discussions about technology over the last few years. Maybe it’s about beefing up the wireless infrastructure, getting a higher-speed Internet… Read Article »
Jul 10 / By Gordon Lord As K-12 Schools Continue to Go Online, Attention to IT Infrastructure is a Must With each passing academic year, technology is playing a larger and larger role in education, as teachers and administrators seek to improve teaching and learning by making effective use of the latest computing devices and… Read Article »
Jun 08 / By Gordon Lord Calling all K-12 Schools in the United States: Enter the $10,000 APC Server Room Makeover Contest We’ve all seen them, server rooms in schools that, how do I put this nicely… are a disaster. Maybe it’s servers, routers and switches sitting on desks or stacked directly on top of one another,… Read Article »
Feb 28 / By Gordon Lord 5 Considerations for Maximizing the Life of Your UPS Batteries We often get asked: How long will my UPS battery last? Well, it depends. No battery lasts forever. And battery life can be maximized by operating your uninterruptible power supply under recommended conditions (check your… Read Article »
Feb 01 / By Gordon Lord Before Bringing Technology to the K-12 Classroom, Consider the State of Your UPSs This 2016 post from blog.se.com still rings incredibly true! Schools all over the United States in particular are upgrading their wireless infrastructures with the aid of Federal funding. APC by Schneider Electric has recommendations for… Read Article »
Jan 18 / By Gordon Lord Get Up to Speed on E-rate and Save Big on K-12 School Technology Projects A colleague of mine recently asked an IT reseller who focused on the K-12 market how helpful the E-rate program was to her. To my colleague’s amazement, the reseller had no idea what E-rate was…. Read Article »
Oct 31 / By Gordon Lord Save your customers from a “zombified” workplace…protect their UPS investment! Your customers’ uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) have just one job: to provide a steady supply of power. But improperly maintained and aging UPSs can fail—damaging and destroying their equipment and putting data and critical applications… Read Article »