micro data center Archives

How Micro Data Centers Help to Drive Hospital Hyper-efficiency

The mission-critical nature of hospitals and healthcare facilities requires stakeholders to build their business around a philosophy of highly efficient services. The ability to manage the data stream generated within daily processes is increasingly critical… Read Article »

Jul 21 / By Chris Hanley

How Retailers are Integrating Edge Computing to Support their Multichannel Operations

For retailers to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving marketplace, the ability to “go digital” is emerging as a critical success factor. Remaining competitive and maintaining market leadership now depends heavily on a retailer’s ability to… Read Article »

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 »