Jun 01 / By Paul Tyrer A Managed Power Services Story: How an IT Solution Provider Improved Uptime for a Community College As pandemic-related concerns persist, colleges and universities are walking a fine line between on-campus and remote learning while struggling with IT staff shortages. These challenges open up opportunities for IT solution providers to deliver managed power… Read Article »
May 24 / By Jay Bogosian Back to School: Districts Urgently Need IT Infrastructure Upgrades While K-12 school districts had been working on digitization strategies for years, it took a pandemic to accelerate the implementation of digital learning. When the COVID-19 virus started forcing school closures in spring 2020, many… Read Article »
Apr 11 / By Mark Kaloudis It’s Time for a Smaller, More Powerful UPS for Edge Computing Sites As the need for compute, storage, and analytics grows, data center rack space gets tighter and tighter, leaving little or no room for an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). The problem is that the more capacity… Read Article »
Jan 05 / By Gordon Lord UPS as a Service: Good for Your Customers, Good for You (And You’ll Both Avoid Costly Upfront Expenses) With remote and hybrid work scenarios the norm and enterprises leveraging the cloud more than ever, your customers are likely looking to edge computing for faster, more reliable data processing. Yet when your customers have… Read Article »
Nov 10 / By Rick Ogren Are Your Customer’s Edge Computing Sites Crashing? IT service providers across North America are recognizing two seemingly contradictory trends: Our need for data is getting both bigger and smaller at the same time. Large, centralized data centers continue to grow at a… Read Article »
Nov 04 / By Dawn Rundell Black Friday: Don’t Forget the UPS for Home Office Electronics Black Friday is already underway. As a result of persistent supply chain disruptions, retailers are currently offering deals to encourage consumers to start their holiday shopping early. However, wait too long, they warn, and the… Read Article »
Oct 15 / By Steven Brown The Edge Computing Opportunity Combines Hardware with Software and Services In selling edge computing solutions, IT solution providers should take into account the whole picture – hardware, software and services. Unlike data centers, where it’s common to deploy different components separately, edges computing sites typically require single-rack… Read Article »
Aug 26 / By Larry Hann Four Reasons to Offer Managed Power Services Power infrastructure discussions usually occur late in the technology sales cycle. Customers typically are more interested in applications, servers, storage and networking. So it’s up to the IT solution provider or managed service provider (MSP)… Read Article »
Jul 01 / By Tarunjeet Sarao Are Today’s UPSs Addressing the Needs of Customers with Edge Computing Sites? As businesses push forward with digitization strategies, they are calling on IT Solution Providers to deliver solutions that address their most pressing challenges at the edge. Edge computing deployments are growing into massive, distributed networks making it… Read Article »
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 »