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Author: Patrick Donovan

Patrick Donovan is a Senior Research Analyst for the Data Center Science Center at Schneider Electric. He has over 20 years of experience developing and supporting critical power and cooling systems for Schneider Electric’s IT Business unit including several award-winning power protection, efficiency and availability solutions. An author of numerous white papers, industry articles, and technology assessments, Patrick's research on data center physical infrastructure technologies and markets offers guidance and advice on best practices for planning, designing, and operation of data center facilities.
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 »

Modern DCIM’s Role in Helping to Ensure CIO Success
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 »

Choosing Better DCIM  Tools for Edge Computing and other Distributed, Hybrid IT Environments
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 »

4 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Edge Computing
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 »

Remote Monitoring and Service Dispatch for Edge Computing Goes Digital
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 »

Three BIG Tips on Using DCIM to Manage Edge Computing Sites
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 »

Successful Edge Computing Deployments in the New World of “Compute Everywhere”
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 »

Edge computing Integrated Ecosystem – “It Takes a Village” to Deploy & Manage IT at the Edge
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 »

NRF 2019:  4 Thoughts on Edge Computing Infrastructure in the Retail Sector
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