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SynapSense and Future Facilities Partner on Data Center Modeling

July 17, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

SynapSense Data Center Monitoring and Energy Management Solution Being
Integrated into Future Facilities Data Center Modeling Environment
FOLSOM, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
SynapSense and Future Facilities, Ltd today announced the integration of
SynapSense Data Center Monitoring and Energy Management Solution into the Future
Facilities “Virtual Facility” data center modeling environment. Available in
July upon the release of 6SigmaDC V6, the integrated solution will combine
real-time monitoring and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation tools to
offer a complete view of the past, present and future states of the data center
environment.

The SynapSense solution features real-time wireless monitoring and energy
management with SynapSense Adaptive Control which provides the world`s leading
data centers with the ability to continuously align cooling capacity with
changes in IT load. SynapSense Adaptive Control optimizes cooling capacity and
allows customers to drive energy savings of up to 35 percent of cooling costs,
while also featuring the security, redundancy and resiliency expected of an
enterprise-scale solution.

Future Facilities` pioneering Virtual Facility model is a 3D, photorealistic
historical record of operational changes and IT assets and an accurate
predictive tool for capacity planning and calculating the environmental response
of any future changes. The Virtual Facility model can be used to understand and
manage the supply and return of cooling air that is fundamental to IT equipment
resilience and overall facility power usage efficiency.

The Virtual Facility model now accepts environmental and power consumption
sensor readings directly from the SynapSense solution. This integration will
provide data center managers with a complete set of performance and
environmental data at any point in time including past, real-time present and
future. This holistic, time-infinite view includes both CFD results from the
Virtual Facility model, as well as environmental data collected by SynapSense
sensors. The combination of real-time measurement data and CFD simulation
provide invaluable information for operating a more efficient and cost-effective
data center.

“We are delighted to have SynapSense as a partner,” said Hassan Moezzi, Director
of Future Facilities. “The combination of real-time monitoring and the Virtual
Facility approach is the ultimate approach to managing reliability and
performance of our customers` physical assets.”

“SynapSense is delivering an enterprise-level operating platform for the world`s
leading data centers, and with an integrated interface from Future Facilities
predictive capabilities, customers receive the goodness of both real-time and
predictive tools that allow for impressive operational efficiencies,” said Peter
Van Deventer, CEO of SynapSense.

About SynapSense

SynapSense is a leading wireless instrumentation solution provider based in
Folsom, Calif. SynapSense offers the most advanced wireless instrumentation
platform, delivering unparalleled visibility, resiliency and energy efficiency
in the world`s leading data centers. For more information, visit
www.SynapSense.com.

About Future Facilities

Future Facilities Limited is a company dedicated to addressing problems faced by
modern Mission Critical Facilities. The company`s founders are experts in the
design and application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software for the
datacenter industry. For more information, visit www.FutureFacilities.com.

SynapSense Corporation
Patricia Nealon, 916-549-8574
pnealon@synapsense.com
or
Future Facilities
Sherman Ikemoto, 408-497-2671
Sherman.ikemoto@futurefacilities.com

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SynapSense and Future Facilities Partner on Data Center Modeling

July 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

About SynapSense

About Future Facilities

SynapSense Corporation
Patricia Nealon, 916-549-8574
pnealon@synapsense.com
or
Future Facilities
Sherman Ikemoto, 408-497-2671
Sherman.ikemoto@futurefacilities.com

Delhi Stock Exchange teams up with IBM to re-start its operations

July 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): IBM today announced that it has signed a 10-year information technology (IT) services agreement with Delhi Stock Exchange, one of the leading stock exchanges in India. As part of this Rs 11 crore agreement,

IBM will provide business continuity and disaster recovery services to DSE as well as remotely host and manage its IT infrastructure.

This will help the exchange meet the stringent business continuity guidelines as laid out by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) before it could resume its operations after a hiatus of six years. By engaging with IBM in a complete operational expenditure (pay-as-you-go) model, DSE will also save 100 percent capital expenditure on IT.

Signed in June 2009, this agreement demonstrates IBM’s focus to help clients ‘Do more with Less’ by engaging in an increasingly popular operational expense (opex) model. It also leverages IBM’s global experience of over 40 years to provide business continuity and resiliency services to help clients minimize the costs and time-frames associated with recovering business operations in the event of a disaster.

DSE was one of country’s largest stock exchanges – almost at par with Bombay Stock Exchange in the 90′s, and has been in existence for over 60 years.

In 2002, however, the exchange became inactive due to negligible trading volumes. Seven years later, the exchange is now looking at resurrecting itself to its former glory-one where it used to be bustling with over 2,800 companies listed.

IBM will play a key role in helping DSE go live for trading by providing a highly secure environment and a robust resiliency solution with the goal of zero data loss once the exchange becomes operational later this year.

“As DSE looks to claim back its position as one of country’s leading stock exchanges, the agreement with IBM couldn’t have happened at a better time,” said Mr HS Sidhu, Executive Director and CEO, Delhi Stock Exchange. “As the world’s leading IT services company, IBM will bring immense value to the exchange by providing time-tested and world-class managed services-that would help DSE become operational and successful once again.”

Vijay Gupta, Chairman – Business Development Committee, Delhi Stock Exchange remarked, “DSE will play a key role in the stock trading landscape of India, once re-launched. IBM’s commitment to helping DSE achieve that goal is commendable. IBM’s strong value proposition of providing managed services in an opex model was also one of the key reasons why DSE decided to choose IBM for this strategic relationship.”

Under this agreement, IBM will build, host and manage the entire disaster recovery infrastructure for DSE from its data center. IBM will also provide 24×7 monitoring services for hardware and networking devices from its command center.

Neeraj Sharma, Director, Integrated Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia, “Companies today want to do more with less in these economically challenging times. DSE’s trust in IBM is a testament to IBM’s value proposition and world-class capabilities to help its clients improve the operational efficiency and cost effectiveness as well as accelerate time-to-market for services.” (ANI)

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Heat-tolerant coral reefs may survive global warming

May 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 21 (ANI): Stanford University scientists have found evidence that some coral reefs are adapting to the climate change and may actually survive global warming.

“Corals are certainly threatened by environmental change, but this research has really sparked the notion that corals may be tougher than we thought,” said Stephen Palumbi, a professor of biology and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment.

Palumbi and his Stanford colleagues began studying the resiliency of coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean in 2006 with the support of a Woods Institute Environmental Venture Project grant.

“The most exciting thing was discovering live, healthy corals on reefs already as hot as the ocean is likely to get 100 years from now,” said Palumbi.

Coral reefs form the basis for thriving, healthy ecosystems throughout the tropics.

They provide homes and nourishment for thousands of species, including massive schools of fish, which in turn feed millions of people across the globe.

Corals rely on partnerships with tiny, single-celled algae called zooxanthellae. The corals provide the algae a home, and, in turn, the algae provide nourishment, forming a symbiotic relationship.

But when rising temperatures stress the algae, they stop producing food, and the corals spit them out.

Without their algae symbionts, the reefs die and turn stark white, an event referred to as “coral bleaching.”

During particularly warm years, bleaching has accounted for the deaths of large numbers of corals.

In recent years, scientists discovered that some corals resist bleaching by hosting types of algae that can handle the heat, while others swap out the heat-stressed algae for tougher, heat-resistant strains.

Palumbi’s team set out to investigate how widely dispersed these heat-tolerant coral reefs are across the globe and to learn more about the biological processes that allow them to adapt to higher temperatures.

In 2006, Palumbi and graduate student Tom Oliver traveled to Ofu Island in American Samoa. Ofu, a tropical coral reef marine reserve, has remained healthy despite gradually warming waters.

The island offered the perfect laboratory setting, with numerous corals hosting the most common heat-sensitive and heat-resistant algae symbionts.

In cooler lagoons, Oliver found only a handful of corals that host heat-resistant algae exclusively.

But, in hotter pools, he observed a direct increase in the proportion of heat-resistant symbionts, suggesting that some corals had swapped out the heat-sensitive algae for more robust types.

According to Oliver, “These findings show that, given enough time, many corals can match hotter environments by hosting heat-resistant symbionts.” (ANI)

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‘Super reefs’ near East Africa can fend off climate change

April 24, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, April 24 (ANI): A new study has suggested that some coral reefs off East Africa are unusually resilient to climate change, and can be termed as ‘super reefs’.

The study, conducted by researchers at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), showed that the reefs have become super tough due to improved fisheries management and a combination of geophysical factors.

The study found that Tanzania’s corals recovered rapidly from the 1998 bleaching event that had wiped out up to 45 percent of the region’s corals.

The researchers attribute the recovery of Tanzania’s coral reefs due in part to direct management measures, including closures to commercial fishing.

Areas with fishery closures contained an abundance of fish that feed on algae that can otherwise smother corals, while the few sites without any specific management measures remain degraded.

The findings also showed that the structure of the reefs played a major factor in their resiliency.

Tanzania’s reefs are particularly complex and experience unusual variations in current and water temperature.

These factors allow for greater survivorship of a higher diversity of coral species, including those that can quickly re-colonize after bleaching.

“Northern Tanzania’s reefs have exhibited considerable resilience and in some cases improvements in reef conditions despite heavy pressure from climate change impacts and overfishing,” noted Wildlife Conservation Society scientist Dr. Tim McClanahan, the study’s lead author.

“This gives cause for considerably more optimism that developing countries, such as Tanzania, can effectively manage their reefs in the face of climate change,” he added.

According to the researchers, reefs in Tanzania and elsewhere that exhibit similar environmental conditions have the ability to recover from large-scale climatic and human disturbances.

They may, therefore, be a priority for conservation under predicted climate change scenarios where many reefs are expected to suffer further degradation.

The study provides additional evidence that globally important “super reefs” exist in the triangle from Northern Madagascar across to northern Mozambique to southern Kenya and, thus, should be a high priority for future conservation action. (ANI)

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UNWTO assures full support to India for development of tourism industry

January 20, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Jan 20 (ANI): Secretary-General of United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Francesco Frangialli today compliment India for the steps taken in the country to promote tourism when he called on Minister of Tourism and Culture Ambika Soni.

During their half-an-hour meeting here, Soni apprised the Secretary-General of the latest developments in India’s tourism industry, the continued and steady growth of international and domestic tourists, the success of the Incredible India campaign, and new bilateral initiatives to foster tourism particularly from the Chinese and Japanese markets.

Francesco Frangialli complimented the Minister on the excellent achievements of India’s tourism industry and applauded the Government for its initiative in diversifying India’s tourism package.

He noted that over the past five years or so, Indian tourism has made excellent progress and recorded growth rates, which were much above the global and regional growth rates. Of late, Indian tourism has made its mark in Western Europe, North America and the far East.

The Indian tourism product has undergone tremendous diversification and the country now offers various new forms of tourism, which would attract new tourist segments in primary generating markets.

The credit for this achievement goes entirely to the policies and strategies of the Government, a very effective and healthy public-private sector partnership and new innovations in the industry.

Francesco Frangialli reiterated his condolences on the loss of lives in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai but also expressed his conviction that this was a localised incident which would not affect the Indian tourism industry in the long term, given the global perception of India as a safe, secure and extremely hospitable destination.

He hoped that the India’s tourism industry would demonstrate its strength and resiliency over the coming months and regain the consumer confidence. He lauded some of the tangible steps taken by the Government of India, which would go a long way in accelerating the complete recovery of the industry.

He assured the Minister of UNWTO’s full support and all possible technical assistance in the recovery process and for the further development and promotion of the country’s tourism industry. (ANI)

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SynapSense and Future Facilities Partner on Data Center Modeling

SynapSense and Future Facilities Partner on Data Center Modeling

Delhi Stock Exchange teams up with IBM to re-start its operations

Heat-tolerant coral reefs may survive global warming

‘Super reefs’ near East Africa can fend off climate change

UNWTO assures full support to India for development of tourism industry

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