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A One-Two Punch: When Software and Services Meet, You May be Part of a Winning Team Overcoming Edge Challenges
We recently announced availability of a new API for Ecostruxure™ IT and our new Monitoring & Dispatch Services. Somebody asked me how this would help the industry with the challenges... Read more...
How Liquid Cooling Technology Can Solve Key Data Center Challenges
Engineers are often called upon to think differently and solve problems. One of my favorite examples of this creative process is when the ground crew at NASA designed a CO2... Read more » The...
Ushering in a New Era of Connectivity at the Edge with Wi-Fi 6 and 5G
As IoT devices proliferate, they will rapidly put considerable stress on today’s leading communication technologies – Wi-Fi 5 and 4G. We are familiar with these technologies because they are...
How to Protect MV Transformers from Damaging Switching Transients
Medium voltage (MV) switchgear and transformers play a critical role in the complex electrical distribution networks of large service provider or colocation data centers. They are the connection...
How a Critical to Reliability (CTR) Approach Enhances Colocation Provider and Hyperscaler Uptime
The spike in demand for IT and data center capacity is unprecedented. Colocation and hyperscale data centers are operating at their optimal levels, but reliability and uptime are still a...
Assessing your options for rapid healthcare capacity expansion
Hospitals around the U.S. are facing the challenge of adding capacity faster than ever before. What once may have taken months or years of planning is now happening in weeks,... Read more » The...
The Gang’s All Here: When a Homebound World Relies on the Internet for Everything
Everyone is adjusting to the new normal and that means we are relying heavily on the internet – and the electricity that powers it – as our mission critical communication... Read more » The post...
The Importance of Battery Backup for Industrial Purposes
Electricity is an integral part of our daily life without which we cannot function smoothly and efficiently. From homes to factories to commercial buildings and hospitals, electricity plays a...
Enabling Global Access to Energy for a Better Life
An MBA student asked Warren Buffett what he would do to be happier, if he could live his life over again. It was 1998 and Buffett was at the University of... Read more » The post Enabling Global...
Schneider Electric Power Engineers Introduce Highly Optimized 11,2MW Reference Design for Colocation Application
The colocation business is highly competitive with everyone looking for cost-efficient designs without any compromise on reliability and efficiency. And of course, speed of deployment remains a...
Webinar Details How Standardized LV Power Designs Lower Costs, Improve ROI for Hyperscale and Colocation Data Centers
With demand for data center capacity continuing to grow at a healthy clip, the industry is seeing a steady shift from smaller enterprise-owned data centers to large facilities owned by... Read...
The Secret Sauce for Industry 4.0 – the Micro Data Center at the Local Edge
Technology is playing a big part in our everyday lives and advancements in automation will continue to evolve in many different forms. Think about when we used stamps and had... Read more » The...
Liquid vs. Air Cooling. Which is the Capex winner?
Liquid cooling has been around for some time now, but has tended to be very niche… until now. There’s a lot of buzz about liquid cooling as a necessary technology... Read more » The post Liquid...
Picking the Right Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for Your Network
On its face value, a UPS battery backup power system is one that offers power facilities for a sustained period of time, long enough for a piece of equipment or... Read more » The post Picking...
Moving Forward on 5G: Schneider Electric Collaborates with Industry Peers in World Economic Forum Workgroup
Previously published on Techerati. I must be honest and confess that my knowledge of the World Economic Forum (WEF) was limited to a once-a-year meeting in Davos-Klosters where the world’s... ...
Why Hyperscalers Count on Colocation Providers to Accommodate High Demand for Data Center Capacity and Services
Trends such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) are rapidly accelerating the need for more data processing and storage capacities. As a result, hyperscale data center providers... ...
DCIM 101: What is Data Center Infrastructure Management?
What is DCIM? DCIM stands for Data Center Infrastructure Management. DCIM software is used to monitor, measure, and manage data centers, covering both IT equipment and supporting infrastructure...
The Way to Predictive Analytics: Creating Data Infrastructure
Paradoxically, data center management to date hasn’t really involved data. Maintenance is based on arbitrary schedules, viewed and performed piecemeal at the equipment level and involves human...
What Is Data Center Management and How Has it Evolved?
As we kick off a new decade, it’s a great time to reflect on the evolution of data center management. Not long ago, all functions were manual and handled on-premise,... Read more » The post What...
When One Size Doesn’t Fit All: 5G Will Use Different Frequency Spectrums for Different Applications
5G is a complicated technology that transmits and receives signals on previously unused radio frequencies within the radio spectrum called frequency bands. The rights to frequency bands are...