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Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Out Of The Box Ideas!

We are excited to be part of a new segment with the Looney Executive Pod Casts Series!  Working with Blake Glenn, the brainchild behind this incredible source of business information, we will be given 90 seconds of fame every two weeks when the latest pod casts air.  Our spot will feature great tips for business like, “Going Green“, “Latest Technology“, and “What is VoIP Really About?” read more

Uncovering the Mystery of Power

Power consumption is becoming increasingly important as companies strive to achieve green standards within their organization, along with reducing overhead.  After all, a reduction in energy costs is a great way to return money to your company’s bottom line without affecting head count.  What do you need to know about power and what tools are available to educate you? read more

Healthcare and IT: A Resource that Ensures Up Time

We recently came across a White Paper on Healthcare and IT Up Time.  We all agree that we want our doctors and nurses to have real-time access to our information while they are working on us, our friends, and family.  Having the right systems and procedures in place to ensure no downtime in accessing the computer is critical to any healthcare facility. read more

EPEAT: The Green Electronic Standard

Back in the day, the environmental battle mainly consisted of car emissions and smoke stack pollutants.  Today, we have a new concern:  energy consumption.  Unlike before where people had to band together in large groups to take on corporate giants, we now can take immediate steps as individuals and small companies to do our part of the environment. read more

KVM Update: What's the latest and greatest?

Minicom has made recent changes to its offering.  They now have a product that  provides corporate IT managers with consolidated access management in mixed virtual and physical server environments. read more

KVM (keyboard / Video / Mice) switch by Minicom

Picture this:  Your are now in charge of the IT department – or at least, that’s what the big boss says.  In your “new” department, you now have a hybrid of technology and vendors, a skeleton staff (just about every company has experienced a downsizing or two), and your new mandate from the top is to improve the functionality of “your” data center – make it faster, greener, more efficient and easier to use.  Oh, and you have almost no budget to work with. read more

Next Generation KVM: A Data Center "Face Lift"

This blog has been adapted with permission from Minicom.

KVM.net® II is a centralized remote access system. It empowers IT administrators to remotely access all their distributed IT assets such as KVM, serial, power and network devices via a single IP address.  This new technology radically simplifies life for these IT managers by providing centralized, unified secure access to all their globally distributed services and network devices via a single click of a link on the portal. read more

How Functional Is Your Data Center?

If your data center had to pass an Energy Star audit today, would it? Do you have the right products in place to tell you how much power is a single server ACTUALLY drawing? I don’t mean a guesstimate; I mean the real, raw data.

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What does Arizona State University (ASU) have in their Data Center that no one else has?

The ReadyCart – Quite simply the coolest thing to hit the data center in a very long time. I am not knocking the server and software industry, but picture pushing a cart up to a rack that has some really unique built-ins.  Imagine a mobile work station with on board read more