Mission Critical and Panduit commissioned Clear Seas Research to conduct a survey measuring industry awareness and usage of edge computing solutions. A total of 100 experts were asked how they would explain edge computing to someone new in the industry.

In many ways, IoT is still a buzzword. But more significantly, new technologies, which have grown from various IoT initiatives, have led to a revolution in the data center. The abundance of new data is having a significant impact on how deep learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) applications are leveraged.

Traditional air-cooled data centers will continue to work for many of the legacy applications. However, there are better solutions that enable space reduction, increased efficiency, cost reduction, and sustainable operations, all while providing the ability to compute at higher densities.

When IT departments look to switch to a virtualized environment, it seems they are almost always talking about cloud. However, both HCI and cloud have their respective benefits and drawbacks.

Whether it’s sudden disruption from innovation, a natural disaster, or a pandemic forcing people to stay home, business must continue, and this means networking systems and processes must anticipate unexpected change.

Advanced Thermal Solutions provides a family of ultra-high performance heat sinks for cooling high-powered CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and AI processors. This ultra-cool family includes active heat sinks with integral blowers, and passive heat sinks that use available airflow to provide thermal management.

Schneider Electric announced that the Galaxy VS 3-phase UPS with internal smart battery modules now extends from 10 to 100 kW.

Veritas Technologies unveiled the Flex 5150 appliance, a complete data protection solution purpose built for the edge of enterprise networks.

Over the last 30 years, the IT industry — data centers in particular — has seen the pendulum swing from centralized to decentralized and back again. Is it any wonder why mission critical operations are so driven by the latest buzzword of the day?

Flir Systems introduced the FLIR A400/A700 Thermal Smart Sensor and Thermal Image Streaming fixed camera solutions for monitoring equipment, production lines, critical infrastructure, and elevated skin temperatures.