Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Available Lease Space in PTS' Headquarters Building (Oakland, NJ)

Lease space inside PTS Data Center Solutions’ Headquarters building, located at 16 Thornton Road, Oakland, NJ 07436.  This flexible space can be utilized as a new location, colocation, or relocation. PTS’ own data center and staff being onsite makes this is the ideal space for a tech-based company to set up shop.
PTS Data Center Solutions, 16 Thornton Road, Oakland, NJ
 
Facilities
  • Office Suites up to 20kSF
  • Warehouse Space Availability
  • 7×24 Generator (Optional)
  • Private Entrance (Optional)
  • On-Premise IT Services Available
  • On-Premise IT Hosted Services Available
Location
    PTS Data Center Solutions, 16 Thornton Road, Oakland, NJ
  • Located in the Oakland-McBride Corporate Park in Oakland, NJ
  • Close to Restaurants and Shopping
  • Convenient Access to Major Highways

Friday, December 11, 2015

PTS and Panasonic Event (1/7/2016): Physical Security in the Public Sector


PTS and Panasonic Physical Security Event
Panasonic Headquarters, Newark, NJ
January 7, 2016, from 11:00am to 2:00pm




Please join PTS Data Center Solutions, Panasonic, FST Biometrics, and Dell in welcoming the new year by exploring enhanced security technologies for a safer work environment.
 

Our guest, Aida Sanchez, will be presenting:
"Building Bridges: Teaching the Public Sector How to Leverage the Best-in-Class Commercial Technologies"

Additional Event Highlights:


  • A Panasonic Innovation Center Tour
  • Product Showcases: Panasonic, FST Biometrics, and Dell

First 20 attendees Will Receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card


Registration Closed -- View Other PTS Events Here:
http://www.ptsdcs.com/news.asp

 
We Hope to See You There!!

Thursday, December 03, 2015

PTS Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Assessment Solution

The PTS VDI Assessment Solution supports the desktop transformation process across all platforms including the VMware Horizon Suite as well as Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. We collect desktop and end-user computing details about your environment, and offer granular visibility to support the move to VDI.

PTS's VDI Assessment Solution allows you to:
    PTS virtual desktop infrastructure VDI Assessment
  • Quantify machine, user, application, operating system and infrastructure metrics
  • Define "normal" performance thresholds and baseline the user experience
  • Gain visibility into user persona and authored data
  • Access applications for usage and master image strategy
  • Pool users in tiered groups, supporting an optimal desktop architecture
  • Support a thoughtful application strategy based on actual use and consumed resources
  • Design and right-size the supporting infrastructure capacity (CPU, RAM, GPU, Storage, IOPs)

Save Time
  • Quickly identify the machines, users and groups that will benefit most from a desktop transformation
  • Confidently categorize users and groups into appropriate resource tiers
  • Easily inventory hardware, operating systems and applications
Save Money
  • Right-size the virtual infrastructure design for cost and performance
  • Optimize and define the appropriate application and master image strategy
  • Lower both CAPEX and OPEX using a proven methodology

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Forrester Report: Identifying the Total Economic Impact of SimpliVity's Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Simplivity hyperconvergence Total Economic ImpactSimpliVity commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying its hyperconverged infrastructure technology.
 
Forrester found that organizations using SimpliVity:

  • Reduced costs by 73%
  • Experienced a risk-adjusted ROI of 224% over three years
  • Avoided or reduced costs of: storage, hardware, labor, floor space, system updates, and more
“SimpliVity gives us a significantly lower cost, significantly lower application complexity, and an improved disaster recovery solution.”
~ Backup manager, educational institution
 

 
About Forrester Consulting: Forrester Consulting provides independent and objective research-based consulting to help leaders succeed in their organizations.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Free IT Assessment: How Optimal is Your IT Environment?

The IT Solution Experts at PTS are offering an innovative, new, complimentary assessment service: the PTS Virtual Environment Performance Analysis, or VEPA. With VEPA, PTS will take a snapshot of your current IT environment, and will determine the optimal balance between physical, virtual, and hyperconverged infrastructure for your enterprise.
 
As part of your Free IT Assessment, PTS will:
    pulse
  • Furnish software tools to scan your existing IT environment
  • Offer guidance in performing the scan
  • Provide a detailed report with the resulting accumulated metrics
  • Review the results in terms of impact to your business
  • Recommend the optimal balance of physical, virtual, and hyperconverged infrastructure
Register Here for Your Free IT Assessment 

As your Total Solution Partner,
PTS will work with you every step of the way.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Join PTS and AFCOM at These Upcoming Events

PTS is an active member of both the NY/NJ AFCOM Chapter and Midlantic AFCOM Chapter. PTS will be participating in these upcoming (December, 2015) AFCOM Events:

AFCOM Midlantic Holiday Networking Event: December 3, 2015  This annual event will be held in King of Prussia at the Valley Forge Casino Resort which will feature a cocktail reception and networking, buffet dinner and raffle drawings!
AFCOM Midlantic Holiday Networking Event 2015

AFCOM Symposium NYC: December 10, 2015 Working in conjunction with AFCOM Corporate, the New York City/New Jersey Metro chapter will hold the annual AFCOM Symposium providing data center and facilities management peers a day of deep-dive education and valuable networking. This Symposium is designed for anyone involved with IT, data centers, disaster recovery, facility or building managers, supervisors and/or engineers.New York 2015

Friday, October 30, 2015

Know Your Network Security Vulnerabilities: Free Cyber Threat Assessment for Your Enterprise


Secure network architectures need to constantly evolve to keep up with the latest advanced persistent threats. There are two ways to find out if your solution isn’t keeping up—wait for a breach to happen or run validation tests.
 
A Cyber Threat Assessment can help you better understand:
  • cyber threat assessment report network securitySecurity and Threat Prevention – which application vulnerabilities are attacking your network, which malware/botnets were detected, and which devices are “at risk”—for firewall assessment and security breach probability
  • User Productivity – which peer-to-peer, social media, instant messaging, and other apps are running—for application visibility control
  • Network Utilization and Performance – what are your throughput, session, and bandwidth usage requirements during peak hours—network utilization and monitoring tests for performance optimization

Friday, October 23, 2015

Are You Ready to Avoid an IT Disaster?

In order to avert an IT disaster, you need a simple, effective, virtual-ready BC/DR solution in your enterprise. A solution that is easy to deploy, simple to manage, and is both scalable and cost-effective would be ideal, if such a solution existed. It does exist.
 

Prepared customers realize:
  • Aggressive service levels
  • Automated failover, failback and DR testing
  • Robust application protection
  • Freedom to innovate
  • Further cost reductions
  • A seamless cloud strategy
Contact PTS about disaster recovery solutions, or view this disaster recovery webinar.

Friday, September 18, 2015

Is It Time To Decommission Your Data Center?

Data centers are extremely complex to manage, and the task of decommissioning a data center is far from trivial. Decisions must be made regarding which equipment, if any, can be reused in the new data center. Some of the equipment will need to be disposed of and/or destroyed, and some of the equipment may be resold. These tasks alone present their own set of unique challenges, and require significant amounts of time and labor to find an appropriate facility to decommission the equipment in question, and to transport the decommissioned equipment to that facility.

The best way to simplify your decommissioning project is to enlist the help of a company having both the experience and expertise in managing the project for you. PTS can manage all aspects of your decommissioning project, having in-house experts in facilities, IT and cabling. PTS can professionally plan, disassemble, transport, dispose/recycle, and restore all your data center equipment. The service technicians at PTS have a long track record in both building and decommissioning data center equipment.

  • Establishing a Decommissioning Plan
  • Disassemble Equipment
  • Prep & Removal of Equipment to be Transported
  • Disposal/Destruction
  • Restoration

Thursday, September 10, 2015

PTS Reaches Hiperwall Premier Gold Reseller Status

Hiperwall Premier Gold Reseller PTS
PTS has reached Premier Gold Reseller status with video wall manufacturer Hiperwall. Hiperwall is an innovative video wall and distributed visualization system manufacturer that lets you see the big picture in a brand new way. They make a powerful video wall system that is software versus hardware driven, providing unmatched speed, flexibility and functionality in extremely high resolution.
 

Breakthrough Architecture
The key breakthrough of the Hiperwall system is their distributed architecture that applies classical parallel processing techniques to overcome the performance limitations typically associated with the display of large or numerous items on multiple display devices.The result is a high performance, high resolution visualization system that gives you scalability without specialized or customized hardware, giving you multiple technical and business advantages:

  • Scalability
  • Flexibility
  • Reliability
  • Usability
  • Affordability
Contact PTS to discuss your video wall system options, or visit our Audio/Visual Solutions site to review complete A/V solutions for your enterprise.
 

Hiperwall Video Wall System components

Monday, August 17, 2015

Wednesday, July 29, 2015

PTS Educational Facility Services are Cool for Schools

PTS Educational Facility Services
The experts at PTS can help you integrate technology effectively into education and help you realize the full benefits of current technology. Following are a some of our services tailored toward educational facilities:
    • Door Access (including Facial Recognition)
    • Video Surveillance
    • Visitor Management
    • Classroom A/V Control
    • Interactive Whiteboards
    • Video Display Wall Systems 
    • Data and Voice Cabling Installations
    • WiFi Plan, Design, and Install
    • Copper and Fiber Optic Cabling

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

RackLift Data Center Lift System

As rack equipment grows in size and weight, so too grow the risks of serious employee injury and equipment damage. That’s why leading data centers depend on RackLift. During your next data center migration or relocation, leave the critical task of migrating heavy enterprise servers to RackLift.
RackLift Benefits:
  • Far less expensive than powered units
  • No electrical components to fail
  • No batteries to charge
  • Light weight, small footprint
  • Reduces lost-time injuries
  • Improve employee morale
  • Increases productivity
  • Reduces equipment damage
  • Accurate alignment
  • Easy-to-use powerful hand crank
  • Crank auto-locks when handle is released
  • Lift up to 650 lbs.
  • Precise height control
  • Slide equipment into rack on glide rails
  • Fits into standard 19″ racks
  • Security straps for enhanced safety
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Monday, June 08, 2015

Seamlessly Integrated Physical Security Solutions

PTS Physical Security SolutionsPTS Physical Security Solutions offers a turnkey solution to address all your physical security needs. Utilizing cutting edge technologies offered by our partners, PTS offers the following solutions:
PTS’s primary Physical Security platform is Genetec’s Security Center (Unified Platform), which has applications for Video Surveillance, Door Access control, License Plate Recognition, Alarm Panel Integration and other third party capabilities. These applications are all viewable on one simple Customer Interface. Genetec works with most major hardware manufacturers, and is considered an open-ended security solution.  Please contact PTS for a list of products that are compatible with Genetec.
facial-recognition-access-control.jpgAdditionally, PTS offers advanced facial recognition capability, voice recognition, and body behavioral analytics for various applications such as door access to your buildings and data centers. This product line has been proven reliable with apartment complexes, data centers, schools and other facilities where this level of security is required. Facial recognition software is truly a marvel to see. Contact PTS to schedule an on-site demo.
With each of our vendors, PTS has certified System Engineers and we keep all our certifications up to date. Our employees are informed of the latest technologies, and can extend that knowledge to an existing application, where improvements could be made. This is critical in ensuring that clients are presented with the best solution today, in order to secure their facility tomorrow.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

PTS and Planar: Upgrade Offer to Planar DirectLight

planar-logo.pngUpgrade an existing LCD video wall to a seamless 1.6mm Planar DirectLight LED Video Wall System and get credit for the full purchase price of the original LCD video wall!
 
Limited offer: Expires April 30, 2015
 
The new Planar® DirectLight™ LED Video Wall System sets the standard for seamless video walls. With this promotion, an existing LCD video wall of any make or model can be replaced with a state-of-the art Planar DirectLight DL1.6 LED video wall and PTS will be able to apply a credit equal to PTS' price of the original LCD video wall, while significantly enhancing the installation with seamless viewing, saturated colors, outstanding uniformity and excellent viewing angles - all in a slim profile and fanless design.
Planar Clarity Matrix LCD Video Wall System
From Clarity Matrix LCD
Video Wall System (or others)...
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...to Planar DirectLight
LED Video Wall System
If you purchased any LCD video wall from PTS, including other brands or perhaps a Clarity™ Matrix™ LCD Video Wall installation which is ready to be upgraded, or for those customers looking for a truly seamless new wall, this trade-in offer presents a unique opportunity!
 
Planar DirectLight joins the award-winning Clarity Matrix and our Clarity™ LED3 Series Rear Projection video wall line-up, giving Planar resellers like PTS access to a broad and differentiated line-up of video wall products. The installed base for LCD video walls is very large and presents a great opportunity for Planar resellers to promote the new Planar DirectLight LED Video Wall with this promotion or quote Clarity Matrix with G2 Architecture for immediate delivery.
 
With this limited-time promotion, the upgrade
to seamless just got much more seamless!


For more information, contact PTS (mention "Planar Upgrade") at (201) 337-3833 or visit:

Wednesday, April 08, 2015

PTS Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions with Tintri and VMware

VDI, or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, is a key initiative for many organizations looking to reduce administrative overhead while providing a more secure, flexible and reliable desktop computing environment for end users. Proper planning and good decision making are required to ensure a successful deployment. Choosing the right virtualization platform to host the virtual desktop implementation is often the first major decision and can make or break the entire transformation.


VDI Solutions with Tintri and VMware


The key to success of any VDI initiative is choosing the right virtualization software. VMware Horizon™ Suite, and more specifically VMware Horizon View™, delivers a personalized high fidelity experience for end users across all sessions and devices. It enables higher availability and agility of desktop services unmatched by traditional PCs, while reducing the total cost of desktop ownership by up to 50%. VMware Horizon View end users achieve higher levels of productivity and the freedom to access desktops from more devices and locations.

Tintri Zero Management Storage™ was designed to address the mismatch between traditional storage solutions and the demands of virtualized environments. Built on the industry’s only intelligent VM-aware storage architecture, Tintri VMstore has the intelligence to deliver unparalleled performance and efficiency, and end-to-end insights into the storage infrastructure for unmatched VM control. With the high-performing, validated VMware® Horizon View™ and Tintri reference architecture, you can:
  • Lower risk and cost-effectively deploy and scale desktop virtualization with as many as 1,000 end-users per Tintri VMstore
  • Deliver a high performing and consistent end-user experience with Ultrabook levels of performance
  • Keep end users connected and productive from a wide variety of clients with affordable easy to manage continuity
VDI Deployment
PTS can deploy VDI from within PTS’ Cloud Data Center or from a hosted deployment. Contact PTS with your VDI needs, and we'll tailor a solution to match your requirements in your preferred environment.

Thursday, March 12, 2015

PTS Smart Open Lease for your Next Data Center or Enterprise Project

PTS Offers a Turnkey Leasing Solution

There are many compelling reasons to lease equipment. Implementing a leasing strategy provides benefits that both CIOs and CFOs can agree upon. PTS will help craft a turnkey leasing solution for your business, including Planning, Design, Sourcing, Construction, Commissioning, and IT Implementation. We will help establish scope and budget from an IT and Facility standpoint. PTS are also licensed architects and engineers, so we are able to convert our conceptual plans over to signed and sealed design documents. In addition, PTS are general contractors with lots of experience building tenant space computer rooms, and PTS can handle all the rest, including: A/V, communications, and wireless.



PTS' Smart Open Lease plan offers a single flexible financial vehicle that can include Equipment and Services across IT, Facility, and Cabling. We offer delayed repayment options coordinated with design and construction. PTS’s Smart Open Lease allows businesses to get the exact data center they want, with NO upfront costs. PTS will allow you up to six (6) months to accumulate bills and apply them toward your previously approved “open” lease, so you won't have to pay upfront for any capital expenditures for planning, design, construction management, or commissioning. You won't even have to lay out cash for any new IT infrastructure (routers, switches, servers, storage, etc), or new facility infrastructure (generators, UPSs, air conditioners, cabinets, power strips, etc). Clients don't even have to use cash for the labor (IT implementation, electrical construction, mechanical construction, data cabling, etc).

Benefits of Leasing
  • Reduce total cost of ownership
  • Manage cash flow and budgets
  • Keep debt off your balance sheet and improve your performance ratios
  • Conserve working capital and keep lines of credit intact
  • Eliminate book write-downs at the end of the equipment’s useful life
  • Lease payments may be 100% deductible as an operating expense (please review this with your accountant)
  • Keep up-to-date equipment in place with a built-in refresh strategy
  • Retrieve and download information regarding your leased assets online
  • Gain flexibility to upgrade technology to meet your changing needs
  • Simplify asset disposal – just return the equipment to your lessor

Friday, March 06, 2015

PTS and CSI Leasing Indoor Golf Event, Thursday, March 19, 2015


PTS and CSI Leasing invite you to a fun 18 holes of indoor golf, while watching the 2nd round of the 2015 March Madness Tournament!!

PTS and CSI Leasing have teamed up to provide leasing options for your next Data Center or Enterprise project. PTS will help craft a turnkey leasing solution for your business, including Planning, Design, Sourcing, Construction, Commissioning, and IT Implementation. We will help establish scope and budget from an IT and Facility standpoint. PTS are also licensed architects and engineers, so we are able to convert our conceptual plans over to signed and sealed design documents. In addition, PTS can handle all the rest, including: A/V, communications, and wireless.

When: Thursday, March 19, 2015, from 11:00 to 5:00 PM
Where: The Players Club, 348 Evelyn Street, Paramus, NJ 07652

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

PTS and SimpliVity offer Free eBook: Hyperconvergence Infrastructure for Dummies

free eBook hyperconverged infrastructure for dummies
From PTS and partner SimpliVity, download a free copy of Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies (eBook in PDF format) by Scott D. Lowe
  • Use hyperconverged infrastructure to simplify IT & reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)
  • Achieve economics & agility of large scale web companies in your data center
  • Solve capacity, performance, data protection, mobility & management challenges
Hyperconvergence is the ultimate in an overall trend of convergence that has hit the market in recent years. Convergence is intended to bring simplicity to increasingly complex data centers. At the highest level, hyperconvergence is a way to enable cloud-like economics and scale without compromising the performance, reliability, and availability you expect in your own data center.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

PTS' Peter Sacco featured in CRN's 2015 Top 20 Data Center Designers and Builders

2013 Ernst & Young - Peter   Sacco with prize.jpgRegardless of the size of the data center, the right mix of IT, power and cooling equipment, and how that equipment is integrated into the facilities, is key to maximizing efficiency and providing the flexibility to expand as needed. Successful integration of equipment into data centers depends on finding the right companies with site preparation, design, construction and management expertise. Those organizations also need to be able to quickly turn the new facilities over to customers and help manage the transition.

Such designers and builders are often the unsung heroes of the data center. But not in CRN, as noted in the CRN 2015 Top Data Center Designers and Builders list.

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Friday, January 30, 2015

PTS Showcasing Its CloudCover Convergence Platform at NJTC Innovation Forecast 2/10/2015

NJTC Innovation Forecast 2015Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - NJTC Innovation Forecast 
PTS will be showcasing its CloudCover IT/Facility/Cabling convergence platform, with partner SimpliVity, a leader in hyper-converged IT deployment including compute, storage, WAN optimization, backup, replication, and deduplication. The Innovation Forecast will also feature a panel on how new ideas will be funded in 2015 and beyond. After the event, attendees will have an opportunity to take a tour of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, one of the leading technology laboratories in the country.

The event takes place on Tuesday, February 10, 2015, from 1:00 to 5:00PM (Plus Tour) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, 100 Stellarator Road, Princeton, NJ, 08543-0451


Aquatherm: High Performance, Long-Lasting, and Environmentally Friendly Pipes and Fittings

Ideally hydronic pipe should not be affected by the fluid it is carrying, and the fluid should not be affected by the pipe. Sadly, many HVAC system use a compromised material called carbon steel for hydronic piping. Water oxidizes steel, which causes pitting, scale build-up, and eventually leads to failure of the pipe. These effects are mitigated through the use of closed systems where possible, chemical treatment, PH-treatment, etc. Still, metal pipes produce rust which gums up valves, clogs strainers, and accumulates in low velocity areas. 
 
Wonder if you did not have to compromise? Wonder if an ideal piping material was available… an economically feasible material that required no maintenance? Wonder no longer. Consider Aquatherm.
  • Aquatherm PipingDoes not rust
  • Provides a lower installed cost compared to other welded or soldered system
  • Has the lowest friction loss of any pipe on the market
  • Does not require chemical treatment
  • Does not require an open flame, glues, or chemicals to fuse it together; It uses heat fusion to bond
  • Limit liability of theft on job sites (it has no scrap value, unlike copper which is often stolen from job sites)
  • Requires less external insulation (due to R-value~1)
  • Resist condensation if left exposed
  • Mitigates sound transmission and physical vibrations
  • Can be directly buried underground
  • Will not burst if water freezes within it (above –20F)
  • Forms a monolithic piping system when assembled (no gaskets, solder, weld slag, glue, etc.)
  • Approved for HVAC, domestic water, sprinkler systems, irrigation, chemical drains, and food grade applications
  • Available in pipe sizes ranging from 3/8” up to 24” diameter
  • Proven 40+ year track record of installation around the world
Aquatherm pipe colors and types
For more information about Aquatherm, call PTS at (201) 337-3833 or visit:

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Is it Time to Move or Colocate your Data Center? PTS' Relocation Services Can Help

PTS data center relocationSo you've made the decision to relocate your data center operations to a new facility. Perhaps you are moving the operations to a data center colocation facility because it was going to be too expensive to upgrade your in-house data center facility, or perhaps your organization prefers an operational expense financial model over spending capital expenditures (cash) today. Or maybe your company is simply relocating its corporate headquarters, including the computer room.

Regardless, you will have a lot of work ahead of you, and PTS’ data center experts can help. PTS’ Relocation Services provide comprehensive site selection, planning, project management, and implementation services for clients in need of data center or computer room migration, whether due to business changes, growth, changes in IT needs or requirements, business relocation, or other strategic business reasons.

PTS Data Center Relocation Process
 
Learn more about PTS' Relocation Services for your data center,
computer room, or other mission-critical facility here:

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

PTS Partner SimpliVity on a Mission to Simplify IT

SimpliVity Convergence 3.0: Converge Entire
Stack into a Single Resource Pool

SimpliVity is on a mission to simplify IT. SimpliVity’s products are used by hundreds of enterprises and service providers worldwide and SimpliVity has been recognized by the industry for its leadership team, channel acumen and friendliness, and product innovation.

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Infrastructure SolutionsToday, companies are under continued pressure to leverage IT for competitive advantage, while being constrained by the cost and complexity of deploying it. Post-virtualization data centers are challenged to deliver the scalability, efficiency and economics of cloud computing while maintaining the performance, resiliency and manageability of enterprise IT. SimpliVity delivers the best of both worlds. OmniStack, SimpliVity's novel technology, powers an assimilated IT infrastructure platform that achieves superior data efficiency by deduplicating, compressing and optimizing all data at inception in real time, once and forever, and without performance penalties. It also natively integrates data protection and cloud enablement to provide further operational efficiency and TCO reduction.
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For more information, please call PTS at (201) 337-3833 or visit: