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Oracle Corporation Achieves Fast ROI with a Power Management System

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Score your goal in soccer and you may have won the game, even the championship. Hit your goal for your company and you can avert catastrophe, save thousands of dollars, and secure reliability for your company’s systems. Consider the following: How well does your company meet its energy, efficiency and financial goals? Do you have a workable plan in place guaranteed to meet high-performance, high-quality energy goals? Are you able to quickly identify the sources of potentially damaging disturbances as well as corrective action for those disturbances? Managers at Oracle Corporation, the software giant based in Redwood Shores, CA,  asked these same questions regarding their own company. They were searching for a high-performance, high-quality electrical distribution system.  Oracle wanted reliability, efficiency, safety, and support for their customers. They were able to find a solution with Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure TM , an open, interoperable, IoT-enabled system...

Hiccups in HQ Trivia Game Point to Opportunity for Colocation Providers in Delivering Agile Data Centers at the Edge

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My family has caught the HQ trivia bug, but the app is also bugging us, with its tendency for glitches including stalled video. It appears to be an example of an application becoming so popular so fast that the technology platform it runs on can’t keep up. In that, there’s a lesson – and opportunity – for colocation providers. If you’re not aware, HQ trivia is a free, interactive iPhone trivia game (with Android in beta as of this writing) where twice a day (3 p.m. and 9 p.m. EST) you get the chance to correctly answer 12 questions to win a share of a real money prize, usually $1,000 or $2,000. Although on Sunday, January 21, the prize was $15,000 – not coincidentally attracting the largest audience to date,  more than 1.6 million players . Indeed, the game has surged in popularity over the last few months. On Oct. 16 of last year, the 9 p.m. game had  about 3,600 players . On Jan. 7, the 9 p.m. game we played had 1.2 million players, a record at the time – but a short-lived...