Labelling assets and cables that lasts
Handwritten tape rots in a server room. A Coimbatore plant lost four hours to one unlabelled cable, then fixed it with a Brother P-touch labelling standard.
The Rajkot factory that bought its first HPE ProLiant tower server
A Rajkot factory ran its ERP on an old desktop until a disk died. Why an HPE ProLiant tower server, sized right, beat a rack for a first server in India.
OT network segmentation before the next phishing email: one Aurangabad plant’s month
OT network segmentation, done right: how we zoned one Aurangabad auto plant with Hirschmann switches per IEC 62443 after a phishing scare, with no line stopped.
Server consolidation cost in India: the refresh quote that made a CFO stop signing
Server consolidation cost in India, counted the way a CFO does: capex, power, rack space and admin hours, with a five-year Cisco UCS versus rack-refresh table.
Zero touch switch replacement: the morning a Madurai campus stayed online for exams
An access switch died on online-exam morning. A lab assistant swapped it and the Allied Telesis AMF network rebuilt it on its own. A field story on zero touch switch replacement for SMB and education campuses.
Virtual desktop infrastructure: the call a Pune firm made for 200 staff
A 200-person Pune services firm kept client data on laptops until a contractor lost one. How virtual desktop infrastructure, split across on-premise VDI and Citrix DaaS, answered the risk and the cost.
Juniper Mist WiFi: the Chennai campus that stopped dropping video calls
Juniper Mist WiFi fixed a 350-person Chennai campus that kept dropping video calls. A field story on cloud-managed Wi-Fi, EX switches and Marvis.
Ubiquiti UniFi for hotels: a three-property India rollout
A three-property Udaipur hotel group fixed guest Wi-Fi with Ubiquiti UniFi: one console for all sites, VLAN separation for guest, billing and cameras, and a DPDP-safe network.
How to size your UPS without overbuying
A Coimbatore plant nearly bought a 20 kVA online UPS for a 6 kW load. Here is how we right sized it off a meter, the kVA maths, and why bigger is not safer.
Online UPS battery TCO: a 5 year India calculation
A 9-branch Pune NBFC nearly bought the cheapest 10 kVA online UPS. We ran the real five year battery TCO, and the cheap box lost.
