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.

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 »