Damien Wells

PR for Schneider Electric's UK IT Business and European Blog Editor working for MediaSolve Group.

Edgy about the Edge: A Working Definition..

Edge Computing is forecast to grow at a very rapid rate in a very short timescale and was therefore a major talking point at DCD Zettastructure in London. One major challenge is that so far consensus…
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From Edge to Enterprise Computing: Micro Data centres

  Reporting on the recent “Business of Cloud, Data Center and Hosting Summit” run by analyst firm 451 Research, journalist Martin Banks defined micro data centres as “small systems designed to provide either specific, specialist…
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Edge computing needs a razor sharp focus on reliability

Kevin Brown, CTO and SVP of Innovation of Schneider Electric’s IT Division and Wendy Torell, Senior Research Analyst at Schneider Electric’s Data Center Science Center talks about how Edge computing needs a razor sharp focus…
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Which Edge Computing Applications are Driving the Need for Micro Data Centers

According to the technology analyst, ABI Research, one of the most significant Internet of Things trends is the shifting balance from cloud computing to edge computing. The early days of the IoT were characterised by…
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Moving from Niche to Mainstream Applications: Prefabricated Data Centres

One of the trends in the data centre market in recent years has been the diversity in size and focus of installations. Massive centralised data centres are being supplemented by smaller facilities at the Edge…
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New 3D Modeling Tool Helps Partners Demo Products Like Never Before

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a 3D model must be worth at least three times that, right? And what if you can play with the model, turning it this way and that, zooming…
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Partner training yields business benefits for all

A familiar business adage says that half of one’s marketing budget is always wasted, but one never knows which half! A similar level of uncertainty applies to training, especially from the point of view of…
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Micro Data Centers: Getting Close to the IIoT and Enterprise Processing Edge

Kevin Brown, CTO at Schneider Electric, says it’s impossible to have a conversation about Micro Data Centers without talking about rising trends such as Edge Computing and the Internet of Things, especially the Industrial Internet…
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