Jul 22 / By Patrick Donovan Choosing Better DCIM Tools for Edge Computing and other Distributed, Hybrid IT Environments I think it’s safe to say that most businesses that used to own and operate centralized data centers now have physical IT infrastructure assets widely distributed on premise, at colocation providers, and increasingly at the… Read Article »
Jul 01 / By Steven Brown How to Make Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems Less Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks The ongoing rash of headline-grabbing cyber attacks highlights just how important it is to do everything in our power to protect IT environments. This includes managing the security of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). In fact,… Read Article »
Jun 23 / 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… Read Article »
Jun 23 / By Tarunjeet Sarao Why Edge Computing Requires a New Generation of Uninterruptible Power Supplies As businesses invest in distributed IT environments to support digitization and an increase in employees working from home, they face the challenge of managing and maintaining multiple unstaffed sites. Space is usually tight in distributed… Read Article »
Jun 14 / By Patrick Donovan 4 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Edge Computing Incidents of cyber-attacks against IT networks are intensifying globally. The recent spate of ransomware attacks on the American oil pipeline system and the global meat supply chain highlights both the vulnerabilities that exist in our… Read Article »
Apr 23 / By Scott San Antonio 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 »
Mar 08 / By Larry Hann Managed Power Services: A High-Growth Edge Computing Opportunity for IT Solution Providers The managed services market is growing at an estimated CAGR of 12% while edge computing spending is predicted to reach $33 billion by 2024. These markets intersect and, as such, create new opportunities for managed services providers (MSPs) and value… Read Article »
Mar 05 / 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 »
Jan 27 / By Larry Hann How Managed Service Providers Gain an Edge on IT Availability Issues: Minimal Smart-UPS Service Investment As we look around every day, we see more and more examples of technology being integral to our lives, brought into our everyday experiences and interactions. It’s a phenomenon that presents a significant opportunity for… Read Article »
Jan 25 / By Steven Brown Battery Health Monitoring: A First Step Toward Predictive Capability in UPS Management The humble battery is responsible for running so many devices, but it usually only draws attention when it drains. In the IT infrastructure, where batteries are necessary for backup power supplies, the attitude toward them… Read Article »