Transitioning portions of IT applications and services into the cloud is something that’s starting to emerge in the minds of IT professionals across organizations of all sizes.
A couple of months ago, I addressed the increased acceptance of shorter runtimes for UPS in data centers and other mission critical applications, but what was not discussed is why this trend is gaining steam.
As the saying widely attributed (correctly or incorrectly, you be the judge) to the great Albert Einstein goes, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
In an industry where just seconds of downtime represent enormous bottom line implications, leak detection and monitoring are crucial elements to consider in a highly sensitive facility.
Much of the discussion at VERGE San Francisco and Power Analytics' 20/20 Vision-Driven Power Conference in October centered on a familiar topic in our industry: the need to develop grid-scale energy storage to make renewable energy-based microgrids successful, and the billions of dollars in potential profit that await the companies that can successfully do so.
Considering the ongoing onslaught of payment system breaches, one of the things that operators of online shopping systems might want to evaluate is the security of their own shopping cart software.