Dec 16 / By Bob Olwig Data Center Disaggregation 101 – How to Build a New Edge Computing Infrastructure As the data center continues to become more disaggregated, the data center itself is also becoming part of a larger distributed ecosystem that includes cloud resources and edge computing. With this shift comes the need… Read Article »
Nov 24 / By Jean-Baptiste Plagne New Black Friday Shopping Demands Drive Need for Edge Computing Solutions This year’s Black Friday will be like no other. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, retailers are being creative in how they approach the holiday shopping season, knowing that many customers don’t want to… Read Article »
Nov 12 / By Guest Blogger How Edge Computing Solutions are Supporting New Healthcare Demands We all know what a heroic job healthcare providers have done in dealing with the challenges that COVID-19 presents, and we’re extremely thankful to them (including my wife, who is a COVID nurse). Less well-known… Read Article »
Oct 13 / By Steven Brown A Major Step To Predictive Capability: UPS Management with Battery Status Monitoring If there is one truism IT solution providers understand all too well, it is that it’s hard to manage what you can’t see. If you lack visibility into customers’ environments, the chances of achieving high… Read Article »
Sep 28 / By Victor Avelar Preparing your edge computing site for a micro data center Edge computing is becoming a popular way of addressing business needs, but there’s little information available when it comes to the practical guidance of how to prepare (or in IT speak, provision) a space (such… Read Article »
Aug 31 / By Tarunjeet Sarao How to Reduce Physical and Cybersecurity Risks at Edge Computing Sites Monitoring distributed, edge computing environments has always been something of a challenge given these installations often have no IT personnel on-site. But in the current climate, with so many of us working from home and… Read Article »
Aug 25 / By Jonathan Healey Top 10 Questions to Ask Vendors When Selecting an Edge Computing Infrastructure Management Solution This blog post is part of a series focused on edge computing infrastructure management best practices. Access other blog posts in the series: Blog Post #1: Four Considerations for Managing Edge Computing Systems as Critical… Read Article »
Jul 31 / By Jeff Chabot Why IT Staffs Require Dynamic IT Infrastructures to Support Edge Computing and New “Hybrid” Learning Approaches More than 1.2 billion children across 186 countries have thus far been affected by school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the World Economic Forum. These closures have prompted school districts across regions… Read Article »
Jul 22 / By Sarah Jane Hannon What is the Best UPS Management Option for Your Business? Ensuring that businesses have power protection for critical applications is vital to prevent disruptions to day-to-day operations. For small-to-medium business (SMB) owners, it’s really a matter of when, not if, you’re going to encounter a… Read Article »
Jul 14 / By Jason Covitz 5 Reasons to Sell Power and Cooling Managed Services The managed services provider’s (MSP) primary mission is to prevent downtime for the customer. Savvy MSPs know that going beyond simply monitoring power and cooling for online/offline status is critical to deliver on their service… Read Article »