Remote Closets: Keeping an Eye on Unexpected Threats
From data centers to server rooms, physical security remains a main priority for IT managers and directors as everyone knows these systems need to stay up and running at all times through all types of...
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Today we see two major challenges facing the Water & Wastewater industry all over the world: Cost: the price of water (wastewater treatment or drinking water treatment) is remaining more or less...
View ArticleHow to Future Proof Your Role as an Energy Manager
The move from day-to-day tactical to long-term strategic energy management is an accelerating trend for today’s energy managers. In a June 2014 webinar on energy management trends, we surveyed nearly...
View ArticleFour Reasons Why Energy Efficiency Programs Fail
So you’ve decided to take the initiative to achieve sustained energy savings at your organization. By addressing every source of electricity consumption through robust automation, comprehensive energy...
View ArticleUpdating the Sagrada Familia: Why a World-Famous Church Needs a Micro Data...
We often talk about the need for data centers to scale and be flexible in order to meet business needs and, even though Sagrada Familia is not what we would traditionally think of in “business” terms,...
View ArticleHow Fleet Management Takes the Guesswork Out of UPS Maintenance
Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face all sorts of challenges when it comes to keeping their IT environments up and running reliably. While they need to offer the same sorts of applications as...
View ArticleShare More to Get More; Game Changing Collaboration
I’m sorry if I bored you with this kind of analogy before, but I am a cyclist and we tend to be a bit evangelical about our sport. You might think that cycle racing is a self-centered sport where the...
View ArticleIt’s Not Your Father’s Network Closet – it’s an Edge Data Center
The idea of a wiring closet or network closet came about because telephone lines in a building all had to go to a collection point in an old fashioned PBX (private branch exchange) phone system. The...
View ArticleSurvey Documents How DCIM Helps Companies Solve Data Center Challenges – and...
The majority of data center professionals choose Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software to improve visibility, management and capacity planning and to identify problems that threaten...
View ArticleWhat the Hell (Heck?) are Digital Services?
A few months ago I was asked to research digital remote monitoring services and write a white paper to help educate our customers on the concept. One of the first things I asked was, “What the hell are...
View ArticleTrust, but Verify…Secure Remote Monitoring for Your Data Center
Modern digital remote monitoring platforms offer a lot of promise today….reduced downtime, reduced mean time to recovery (MTTR), less operations overhead, as well as improved efficiency for power and...
View ArticleHow Your Smartphone Can Monitor Your Data Center and Your Black Friday...
The holiday period traditionally brings with it some winners and some losers. Last year for example, the holiday retail sales battle was arguably lost by physical stores. According to a report on the...
View ArticleSausage Making and Digital Remote Monitoring Platforms
UsingEnglish.com explains the “watching sausage being made” idiom in this way: “If something is like watching sausages getting made, unpleasant truths about it emerge that make it much less appealing....
View ArticleCombating Downtime While Keeping Sales on the Floor
The approach to managing distributed IT environments has changed over the last decade, particularly in retail. Rather than supporting dedicated IT resources at each store location, many have put the...
View ArticleThe Benefits of the Premium StruxureOn Offer for Cloud-based Data Center...
In my last blog I wrote about the features and benefits which are included in the standard version of StruxureOn – in other words what people could expect to get for free. In this blog, I want to cover...
View ArticleManaging Data Privacy and Cyber Security with StruxureOn
In my recent blogs I’ve taken the opportunity to write about the features and benefits of StruxureOn – our new cloud-based service for data center monitoring. This new introduction proactively...
View ArticleHow Fleet Management Takes the Guesswork Out of UPS Maintenance
Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face all sorts of challenges when it comes to keeping their IT environments up and running reliably. While they need to offer the same sorts of applications as...
View ArticleWhy Industries are rallying around the use of Services Oriented Drives
Over the last several years, Variable Speed Drives (VSDs) have proliferated across many industries and are now installed in large numbers. In many cases, however, the true potential of these drives to...
View ArticleBusiness Transformation in the New Digital Industrial Economy
During Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution as we often call it, companies who rethink the way they do business and how they make money are ones who will... Read more » The post Business...
View ArticleHow to avoid information overload in your process control room
Do you feel ever overwhelmed by all the information you need to process in your daily life? We live in a world of ever-increasing data; According to Deloitte there are... Read more » The post How to...
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