Stratus Extends Leadership in Building Management and Security with Always-On Infrastructure for Smart Buildings

Smart Buildings StratusStratus Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of continuous availability solutions, today announced that it is extending its commitment to building management and security worldwide with the Stratus Always-On Infrastructure for Smart Buildings.

The advent of Smart Buildings drives the need to monitor and control many separate systems ranging from security, to IT, to lighting, HVAC and more. Using a virtualised platform is the only cost effective foundation to do this, but virtualising can also mean a single point of failure making fault-tolerant virtualisation Read more

Mayflex to promote Philips connected lighting system for offices to building IT systems integrators in the UK

Andrew Percival MayflexMayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions including cabling infrastructure, networking and electronic security solutions has signed an agreement to increase exposure of Philips’ innovative connected lighting system for offices to building IT system integrators in the UK. The connected lighting system from Philips uses Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) to connect office lighting fixtures to a building’s IT network and interface with other building systems such as heating, ventilation and IT services . The lighting system acts as an information pathway, Read more