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When selecting an industrial UPS , businesses have a lot of criteria to consider, including the exact application, environment, risk tolerance and more. You can review a checklist of the various considerations in selecting an industrial UPS in this previous blog post . Also, with so many products to choose from, it may seem like a daunting task to choose the right one. Wouldn’t it be nice to have an expert to guide you? That’s exactly what Schneider Electric provides with its Secure Power Industrial Selector , an online tool that walks you through the selection process and helps you identify the handful of UPS products that will be a fit for your exact application. Industrial UPSs Put Safety First Selecting the most appropriate UPS for any given commercial or industrial application is crucial to ensuring not only uptime for your applications, but also for safety. That includes the safety of whatever process or production you need to protect as well as the safety of your employees a...

The CLOUD Act: A Dangerous Expansion of Police Snooping on Cross-Border Data This week, Senators Hatch, Graham, Coons, and Whitehouse introduced a bill that diminishes the data privacy of people around the world. The Clarifying Overseas Use of Data ( CLOUD ) Act expands American and foreign law enforcement’s ability to target and access people’s data across international borders in two ways. First, the bill creates an explicit provision for U.S. law enforcement (from a local police department to federal agents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to access “the contents of a wire or electronic communication and any record or other information” about a person regardless of where they live or where that information is located on the globe. In other words, U.S. police could compel a service provider—like Google, Facebook, or Snapchat—to hand over a user’s content and metadata, even if it is stored in a foreign country, without following that foreign country’s privacy laws. [1] Se...

EFF vs IoT DRM, OMG! What with the $400 juicers and the NSFW smart fridges , the Internet of Things has arrived at that point in the hype cycle midway between “bottom line” and “punchline.” Hype and jokes aside, the reality is that fully featured computers capable of running any program are getting cheaper and more powerful and smaller with no end in sight, and the gadgets in our lives are transforming from dumb hunks of electronics to computers in fancy cases that are variously labeled “car” or “pacemaker” or “Alexa.” We don’t know which designs and products will be successful in the market, but we’re dead certain that banning people from talking about flaws in existing designs and trying to fix those flaws will make all the Internet of Things’ problems worse. But a pernicious American law stands between the Internet of Defective Things and your right to know about those defects and remediate them. Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans any act that weakens ...

In addition to what I’m sure will be some terrific skiing, skating and snowboarding, the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang promises to showcase a heavy dose of technology, much of it driven by cloud resources. But to make it all work as promised, I suspect there will be significant local compute and power resources as well – call it the hybrid games. Olympic Forecast: Very Cloudy The lead systems integrator for the games, Atos, promised in 2014 that systems crucial to the functioning of the games would all be in the cloud by 2018, and it has since confirmed it will be making good on that promise, according to  ComputerWeekly.com . It makes sense when you consider that the Olympics essentially requires building a temporary data center that’s used only for a relatively short time. As ComputerWeekly  reports : “Traditionally, Atos would build new systems for each Olympic event, but it wanted to be able to build systems once and then deliver them from the cloud.” The Atos s...