Jun 15 / By Sarah Jane Hannon UPS Solutions Provide Backup in Severe Weather Conditions The frequency of severe weather events has increased in recent years, causing power outages that pose a threat to equipment and data in small businesses and home offices. Even a short interruption can cause downtime… Read Article »
May 13 / By Larry Hann Can I Get a Witness? Making Edge Computing Sites Truly Autonomous Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solves many problems that historically have plagued data center managers – clutter, management complexity, and high upgrade and maintenance costs created by multiple Ethernet boxes, servers, and storage arrays. Hyperconvergence removes those… Read Article »
May 07 / By Larry Hann Protecting and Updating Customer IT Environments with UPS Assessments Wherever you run IT infrastructure, whether on-premise, in the cloud or at the edge, power backup is critical. While end customers generally don’t give it much thought, solution providers know how important it is to… Read Article »
Apr 16 / By Roseann Brusco Help Customers Prepare for Power Outages by Calculating Downtime Costs The recent severe winter storm in Texas and surrounding states was a clear reminder that when the power goes out, much of society comes to a halt – especially in frigid temperatures. Besides human suffering,… Read Article »
Apr 08 / By Jamie Bourassa What are Managed Power Services? Rapid expansion at the edge is creating an acute need for remote management at unstaffed edge sites. The opportunity is tailor-made for managed service providers (MSP) or IT solution providers with experience in remote services… Read Article »
Mar 30 / By Jay Bogosian Contest Applicants: The Unlikely Heroes of K-12 If ever there has been a time when our schools have needed a helping hand, this last year must surely rank near the top. Since 2016, one of the ways Schneider Electric tries to be… Read Article »
Feb 22 / By Jay Bogosian Will Your Customer Be the Next Winner of an IT Makeover? We know you’ve seen them. Those unsightly (or unsafe!) IT rooms and closets with servers, routers, and switches sitting on desks, makeshift air handlers held together by duct tape, or the dreaded nest of cables… Read Article »
Dec 08 / 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 »
Nov 24 / 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 »
Nov 17 / By Scott San Antonio As Schools Ramp Up Digital Learning, Edge Computing Technology Partners are Key A significant change was already underway at educational institutions far and wide, including the adoption of cloud resources and online learning. But, as with so many industries, the pandemic is driving schools to adopt these… Read Article »