Jan 26 / By Patrick Donovan Modern DCIM’s Role in Helping to Ensure CIO Success It is widely reported[1],[2] that the role of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) is experiencing a sea change. IT is now at the center of business strategy as digital technologies power and sustain the global… Read Article »
Jul 22 / By Patrick Donovan Choosing Better DCIM Tools for Edge Computing and other Distributed, Hybrid IT Environments I think it’s safe to say that most businesses that used to own and operate centralized data centers now have physical IT infrastructure assets widely distributed on premise, at colocation providers, and increasingly at the… Read Article »
Jun 14 / By Patrick Donovan 4 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Edge Computing Incidents of cyber-attacks against IT networks are intensifying globally. The recent spate of ransomware attacks on the American oil pipeline system and the global meat supply chain highlights both the vulnerabilities that exist in our… Read Article »
Jun 10 / By Patrick Donovan Remote Monitoring and Service Dispatch for Edge Computing Goes Digital Remote monitoring services for edge computing infrastructure devices have been around for years. You paid the UPS vendor to look from afar for battery self-test failures and other faults. A failed unit would send a… Read Article »
Mar 02 / By Patrick Donovan Three BIG Tips on Using DCIM to Manage Edge Computing Sites The lack of staff or “lights out” nature of many local IT and mobile edge computing (MEC) sites makes operations & maintenance of the supporting IT infrastructure a challenge. This struggle worsens as the number… Read Article »
Oct 11 / By Patrick Donovan Successful Edge Computing Deployments in the New World of “Compute Everywhere” It was not long ago when there was a pervasive feeling that everything was moving to the Cloud, an unstoppable, inevitable flow of on-premise IT capacity towards huge, highly centralized service provider data centers. But… Read Article »
May 28 / By Patrick Donovan Edge computing Integrated Ecosystem – “It Takes a Village” to Deploy & Manage IT at the Edge Configuring, deploying, and maintaining the supporting infrastructure for IT equipment is tough enough. Doing all of this for multiple, geographically-dispersed sites without local trained staff makes it even harder. How can you ease the burden,… Read Article »
Feb 06 / By Patrick Donovan NRF 2019: 4 Thoughts on Edge Computing Infrastructure in the Retail Sector The National Retail Federation’s 2019 conference at the Javits Center in NYC is the largest retail tradeshow in the U.S. with over 37,000 attendees, 1,500 participating retail chains, and more than 600 technology exhibitors. “Brick… Read Article »