DuPage County Governmental Complex includes 12 buildings totaling .5 million square feet. The chillers that serve the facility are located in the power plant building that dates back to 1970. The county recently completed an upgrade of the chiller plant and chilled water distribution system. The project involved replacing three...
The threat of petroleum releases into the Maine environment from underground petroleum storage systems has been greatly reduced. Virtually all active storage systems are now protected against corrosion and about half the storage system population is secondarily contained. However, in recent years there have been several significant releases to the...
This white paper presents the design and experimental performance analysis of a verifiable secret redistribution protocol for threshold sharing schemes. The protocol redistributes shares of data from old to new, possibly disjoint, sets of servers, such that new shares generated by redistribution cannot be combined with old shares to reconstruct...
The design and testing of a purely ultracapacitor energy storage system for the improvement of hybrid electric vehicles is presented. The system utilizes two large ultracapacitor banks for energy storage and a dc-dc boost converter that is capable of supplying 8kW for voltage regulation. The system provides greater roundtrip efficiency...
There are enormous thermal energy resources on Earth, but in many cases they are available at the wrong place and time. Efficient transport and energy storage systems are therefore essential for sustainable development. Underground thermal energy storage UTES represents one of the most sustainable and environmentally friendly approaches, with great...
This paper describes a research program that was conducted to define natural gas contaminant levels necessary to insure that internal corrosion of compressed natural gas CNG cylinders does not constitute a hazard over the lifetimes of the cylinders. A literature search was performed and companies in the natural gas transmission...
Super capacitors are new components able to store a high energy density even if this energy is still lower than the energy batteries can store. This paper shows how super capacitors can be used to supply electric vehicle such as buses and tramways. The "on-board" super capacitors need a fast...
While expressing worry that a water crisis could be looming from drought and population growth, a House committee passed Wednesday a bill by Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, to create new federal research programs on how to expand water supplies. Matheson's bill would create the program in the...
First desktop tool to provide key storage tape diagnostic and tracking data in a single device VALHALLA, N.Y. -- FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. today introduced the Fujifilm DC Analyser, the first data center tool of its kind that leverages the expertise of a leading data tape media...
3PAR ®(NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announcedtoday that NewsGator Technologies ,a pioneer in RSS Really Simple Syndication and Enterprise 2.0technologies, has implemented 3PAR Utility Storage to support itsmission-critical Microsoft® SQL Server® database applications. "3PAR already provides a reliable and easy-to-use consolidated storageplatform for...
Signiant's Digital Media Distribution Management Solution Interoperates with HP Media Storage Solutions BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Signiant([R]), Inc., the leading developer of digital media distribution management solutions DMDMS for the telco, media and entertainment industries, today announced it has been accepted into the HP Communications Media & Entertainment CME...
New BearingPoint Solution Suite Addresses Information Analytics, Sharing and Storage MCLEAN, Va. -- BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE:BE), one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms, today announced that it will offer the new release of Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management EPM System as part of its recently introduced...
CORPORATE IT UPDATE-C1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Technology company Sun Microsystems Inc (NASDAQ:JAVA) has released the industry's first one terabyte tape storage drive. According to the company, the new eco-efficient Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive offers customers 1TB of native storage capacity on a single cartridge for...
WARMINSTER, Pa., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ACT/Technico (http://www.acttechnico.com/), a leading supplier of embedded products and systems solutions built with CompactPCI, VMEbus, and other open architecture platforms, introduces the Flash PMCStor, a low-power conduction cooled, solid state flash memory PMC module with up to 128 GB of NAND Flash memory....
System Offers Additional Reporting Features to Capture Exceptions and Directory Changes and to Provide Summaries, Plus Expanded Storage for Large Enterprises SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- PacketMotion, Inc. today announced new features, reports and capacity for its PacketSentry appliance, the industry's first security system to...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-15 July 2008-Sun introduces Sun StorageTek T10000B terabyte tape storage driveC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Technology company Sun Microsystems Inc (NASDAQ:JAVA) has released the industry's first one terabyte tape storage drive. According to the company, the new eco-efficient Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive offers customers 1TB...
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- BlackEagle Partners ("BlackEagle"), a private equity firm focused on turnarounds and special situations, today announced it had acquired the assets of Eurodesign Cabinets, Inc. ("Eurodesign"). Based in Chino, Eurodesign is the leading California manufacturer and installer of semi-custom and custom, high-end residential cabinetry. Eurodesign provides cabinetry...
Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. DNF, a leadingmaker of high-performance network attached storage NAS, storage areanetworks SANs, RAID and iSCSI systems, today introduced new backup anddata archiving capabilities for its StorBank-XL line of hybrid appliances,which combine NAS and iSCSI in a single, unified IP storage platform. Thecompany will also add support...
Golar LNG ("Golar") is pleased to announce that it has agreed topartner with Bluewater Energy Services B.V ("Bluewater") for thepurposes of bidding for an offshore LNG FSRU opportunity with SouthAfrica's national oil company, PetroSA. Golar and Bluewater will beequal partners in a joint venture formed specifically for thisopportunity. Additionally,...
Over 40 Vendors and End-Users Pledge to Accelerate HPC Innovation, Market Expansion and Support Network SANTA CLARA, Calif. & YOKNEAM, Israel -- Mellanox[R] Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX) (TASE: MLNX), a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, server and storage interconnect products, today announced the formation of the HPC Advisory Council...
