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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 »

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 »

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 »

Jan 31 / By Victor Avelar

Practical Ways to Ensuring Availability at Edge Computing Sites

This blog post originally appeared on the Schneider Electric blog on July 16, 2019. At this point I’m sure most of us have heard of edge data centers. And in the case of businesses that… Read Article »

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 »