micro data center Archives

Jun 23 / By Joris Verdickt

How an Ecosystem of Partners can Help with Your Next Edge Computing Project

As IT infrastructure evolves, operators find themselves supporting a broad mix of cloud, colocation, on-premise, and regional and local edge data centers. For the IT staff that manages these diverse environments, streamlining and simplifying the… Read Article »

Jun 13 / By Sarah Jane Hannon

Enabling a Graceful Shutdown of Hyperconverged Infrastructure at Edge Computing Sites

Hurricanes, blizzards, wildfires, and other weather events in recent years have grown in magnitude and intensity. One of the habitual casualties of this trend is the power supply – the bigger the storm, the more… 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 »

Nov 24 / By Jean-Baptiste Plagne

New Black Friday Shopping Demands Drive Need for Edge Computing Solutions

This year’s Black Friday will be like no other. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, retailers are being creative in how they approach the holiday shopping season, knowing that many customers don’t want to… Read Article »

Nov 12 / By Guest Blogger

How Edge Computing Solutions are Supporting New Healthcare Demands

We all know what a heroic job healthcare providers have done in dealing with the challenges that COVID-19 presents, and we’re extremely thankful to them (including my wife, who is a COVID nurse). Less well-known… Read Article »

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 »

Aug 04 / By Jeff Chabot

3 ways community colleges can keep up with unpredictable IT demands

From what I’m hearing in my network, fall enrollment at community colleges in the United States is spiking dramatically. It’s no secret why: In the era of online learning, students looking to save on tuition… Read Article »

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 »

Jun 03 / By Wendy Torell

Not all Edge Computing Environments are the Same. Design the Physical Infrastructure accordingly

Now more than ever, businesses are depending on the local edge for compute, storage, and/or networking close to the point of use. As an integral part of day-to-day business operations, these edge computing sites must… Read Article »

May 15 / By Scott San Antonio

From the Nurburgring to the Micro Data Center, How Formula One Racing Can Educate Us on Edge Computing

As I’ve been sheltering in place these past several weeks with no live sporting events to watch, I’ve been taking advantage of the free (or low cost) streams of one of my favorite sports –… Read Article »