Jul 20 / By Jamie Bourassa How Edge Computing Creates New Opportunities for IT Solution Providers Today’s data center landscape represents a broad patchwork of processing hub architectures that embrace both centralized and distributed approaches. Analysts often coin the term “hybrid” to describe this mix of cloud and colocation data centers,… Read Article »
Dec 13 / By Kim Povlsen Three Essentials to Manage a Successful Edge Computing Site I’m going to come right out and say it: the future depends on the effectiveness of edge computing solutions. Think about it. Without edge computing sites that bring compute power close to the action, the… Read Article »
Oct 18 / By Jason Covitz UPS Monitoring is a Requirement for Edge Data Center Reliability and Availability Companies are building edge data centers at a furious pace to support the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital transformation efforts that demand compute power close to end-users. At the same time, they’re coming face-to-face… Read Article »
Aug 16 / By Kim Povlsen AI-driven, Cloud-based DCIM is Simplifying Data Center and Edge Computing Management This article was originally published on Data Center Dynamics. There is no doubt in my mind that the jobs of IT and data center managers are getting tougher. I’ve witnessed it firsthand. Most are being… Read Article »
Jun 21 / By Jamie Bourassa A New Ecosystem of Technology Partners Helps Retailers Bolster Business Continuity Through System Downtime Avoidance As the retail industry accelerates its drive towards more interactive and digitized customer experiences, the requirement for more complex “hybrid” IT systems becomes more acute. However, as systems grow in complexity, system architecture design and… Read Article »
Mar 20 / By Rob McKernan How Edge and Cloud Trends are Driving the Need for Cloud-based DCIM One of the principal outcomes of the trend toward outsourcing to the cloud is the elevated importance of the applications, data processing, and data storage being retained on-premise. However, these services are often located in… Read Article »
Mar 06 / By Kim Povlsen Cloud-based DCIM vs. On-premise: Just the Facts Try as you might, these days it’s hard to avoid on-premise-vs.-cloud discussions. Why would this blog post be any different? This time we’re talking about DCIM (data center infrastructure management) and when it makes sense… Read Article »
Oct 18 / By Rob McKernan Hybrid IT Creates Channel Opportunities at the Edge The future of IT is a hybrid of low cost cloud infrastructure and software, running alongside micro data centers at the edge of the network. One of the main reasons customers will need to keep… Read Article »
Aug 18 / By Jason Covitz Edge Computing: Making the Server Room Mission Critical Spending on Internet of Things (IoT) will reach $1.3 trillion by 2020, and the processing of 43 percent of this data will be at the edge, according to IDC projections. The number of “connected things”… Read Article »