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Servato Appoints Jon Hallett to Advisory Board

Serial Cloud / SaaS Entrepreneur Advising Company’s Business Model Evolution

NEW ORLEANS − March 14, 2016 – Servato Corp., a leading provider of energy management solutions, today announced the addition of Jon Hallett to its Advisory Board. In addition to being a current investor in over 40 start-up companies, Mr. Hallett is actively involved as Chairman or as independent Board advisor at enterprise software companies StrataCloud, Salesfusion, Cloud Sherpas, BetterCloud, Rachio, QASymphony, among others. As an operator, Jon has served as CEO or interim CEO on multiple occasions, with a very successful track record. Hallett started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and holds a B.S. in Engineering from Lehigh University. 

Wireless Week's Diana Goovaerts interviewed Servato CEO and Chairman Chris Mangum on the importance of backup power to the Internet of Things.

While depleted smart phone batteries are the worst night mare of many individuals, the batteries that protect wireless networks are out of sight and out of mind even for many of the network operators. Hundreds of thousans of cell sites have dozens of batteries each and they all have to be tested and monitored to ensure network service. Read more in the article in Wireless Week Battery Management Critical for Support, Savings.

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Servato Appoints James Lyons to its Advisory Board

Former GE Energy CTO Advising Company’s Product Strategy

NEW ORLEANS − March 7, 2016 – Servato Corp., a leading provider of energy management solutions, today announced the addition of Dr. James Lyons to its Advisory Board. Dr. Lyons is a well-respected technical advisor to the clean-tech investor community. Dr. Lyons was formerly Chief Engineer for Electrical Technologies at GE Research, serving as technology leader and mentor for a 250-member global team. He was a leading advocate for renewables within GE and corporate champion behind the formation of GE Wind Energy in 2002, which quickly grew to $8B in annual revenues. Dr. Lyons was also the technology leader during the creation of GE’s Digital Energy business unit.

Servato CEO and Chairman Chris Mangum Writes for Remote Site and Equipment Management on the Growing Need For Remote Battery Management

 Standby batteries that protect mission critical infrastrucure are now part of an expanding group of industrial equipment with remote monitoring and management options. In this article Making the Case for Remote Monitoring and Management of Backup Batteries, Servato CEO and Chairman Chris Mangum walks us through:

• Monitoring vs. Management Technology for Batteries
• Key Technical Features of Technologies at Market
• The Economic Justification for Remote Management
• and The Costs of Doing Nothing to Update Manual Processes

Servato CEO and Chairman Chris Mangum for Battery Power's online magazine and blog

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The article in Battery Power covers important topics when it comes to thinking about better battery management for telecommunications networks. As more and more essential business processes and elements of consumers' lives rely on connectivity, backup power becomes increasingly important. Learn more about it by reading thearticle here.

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Servato offers a solution for backup battery management that extends battery life and allows for advanced remote monitoring. Servato is currently working with companies in the telecom, power, transportation and solar to protectensure backup power reliability through Active Battery Management.

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Servato Appoints Dr. David Boden to Advisory Board

Respected Electrochemist Advising Company’s Product Strategy

NEW ORLEANS − February 25, 2016 – Servato Corp., a leading provider of energy management solutions, today announced the addition of Dr. David Boden to its Advisory Board. Dr. Boden is a well-respected technical advisor to the battery industry. In addition to serving in research and technology management roles at such leading battery vendors as ESB (Exide), Chloride Group (Emerson), C&D Power Systems and Douglas Battery, he has spent the past two decades advising the world’s leading battery designers and manufacturers regarding their product strategies, through a period of dramatic and exciting change.

The Connect America Fund Phase II promises to deliver over $10 billion for rural broadband development. Here's a recap of where the program came from.

 This year will mark the first year that money will flow from the Connect America Fund II (CAF II) to telecommunications companies for the purpose of increasing broadband connectivity across the country. The FCC has completed its allocation plan with 10 carriers receiving over $1.5 billion per year for the next six (and possibly a seventh) years. The impact of the CAF II program will be determined by the companies putting the money to work and remains to be seen. Here we look at where this massive cash program came from.

Will Batteries Revolutionize how Power is Produced and Used? NPR Explains...

The segment above, aired on August 3, covered energy storage on NPR and was reported with Inside Energy, a public media collaboration focusing on America's energy issues. It describes the promise of energy storage as a means to unlocking new forms of energy generation.

Backup batteries ensure that the when power goes out, the Internet stays on, and there are already millions of batteries used in these settings. These batteries will support a connected future where the cost of "downtime" grows.

For most people, the word “battery” probably makes them think first of the disheartening sight of their phone battery dying coupled with the mild panic that ensues envisioning even a few moments without the ability to connect digitally to the rest of the world. Next they would probably think of other consumer devices around their homes that either use rechargeable or disposable batteries. Between our smart phones and our cadre of consumer electronics, we are all well acquainted with the inconvenience of a dead battery. Beyond our consumer electronics devices, however, batteries play a huge role in the modern world around us that is largely out of sight and out of mind.