North American weather is impacted by what is known as “storm season.” This aligns with hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. These weather patterns can affect the entire country and they touch our commercial customers in many ways. Power can be disrupted by sudden severe weather conditions that can affect the power grid and produce downtime for your organization.

How can organizations prepare for storm season? Data centers and edge networks need enough capacity and secure endpoints for workers to access their files and applications from anywhere. Employees need access to cloud applications to take full advantage of collaboration tools available to them, and organizations need to protect their power. What follows are some key areas to focus on with storm season preparedness (and a solid work from home strategy), so your users will be able to stay productive and your organization stays functional.

It’s a competitive world out there. In order to remain relevant to customers, every organization must continue to innovate while keeping expenses in check. IT departments are no stranger to these challenges.

The changes today in the data center with virtualization, blade chassis and storage devices brings changes in how we provide an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) to them. The typical legacy data center was filled with underutilized 2U – 5U servers and networking gear. With Virtualization we have taken what used to be 2-3 racks and…