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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Monday, June 08, 2015
Seamlessly Integrated Physical Security Solutions
Monday, June 08, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
PTS 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.
Additionally, 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.
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.
Additionally, 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
Thursday, April 16, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
Upgrade 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.
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:
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Wednesday, April 08, 2015
PTS Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions with Tintri and VMware
Wednesday, April 08, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
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.
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
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
Thursday, March 12, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
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
Friday, March 06, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
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
Where: The Players Club, 348 Evelyn Street, Paramus, NJ 07652
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
PTS and SimpliVity offer Free eBook: Hyperconvergence Infrastructure for Dummies
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
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
Thursday, February 19, 2015
PTS' Peter Sacco featured in CRN's 2015 Top 20 Data Center Designers and Builders
Thursday, February 19, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
Regardless 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. |
Friday, January 30, 2015
PTS Showcasing Its CloudCover Convergence Platform at NJTC Innovation Forecast 2/10/2015
Friday, January 30, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
Tuesday, 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
Friday, January 30, 2015 – by Pete Sacco
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.
- Does 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
For more information about Aquatherm, call PTS at (201) 337-3833 or visit:
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