EVENT: 5th Annual Georgia Healthcare Trade Faire & Regional Conference sponsored by HIMSS Georgia Chapter
http://www.healthcaretradefaire.com/eticket/view.php?id=253Free Invitation - Click Here Date: Thursday September 30th: Click on the link above to Register for the Healthcare Trade Faire sponsored by HIMMS Georgia Chapter. If you are in the Healthcare Industry, you will not want to miss this years Topics and Discussion Panels. See below, the Best Experience in the Country: Pam Matthews, Sr. - Director, Regional Affairs HIMSS, Blue Ridge GA Discussion Panelists: Patty Lavely - Sr. VP & CIO Memorial University Medical Center Savannah, GA Dee Cantrell - RN & CIO Emory Healthcare Atlanta, GA Ron Strachan - SVP & CIO Wellstar Health System Marietta, GA Praveen Chopra - CIO Children's Hospital of Atlanta Atlanta, GA Marc Pasquale - VP & CIO Piedmont Healthcare Atlanta, GA Why ...
Blackouts and Power Outages on the rise!
As we have traveled around North America for years in the Enterprise Data Storage Space, redundancy has been one of the most under used words. High Availability, Mission Critical, Redundant, Data Protection, Disaster Prevention, Efficiency................ Ever thought about this in the Power Space? What does any of this mean if your batteries in the UPS are not fully charged and ready to take the load it needs to keep your infrastructure fully available while the generator kicks on and produces what it needs to maintain power availability during an outage? What if you experience a grid outage or city wide power failure like there was ...
Tourist attraction to explain ‘smart grid’ opening in Atlanta by GE Digital Energy
Thank you AJC for such great articles - 2 times! GE opening tourist attraction to explain 'smart grid' To open by this fall near the Cobb Galleria and Interstate-75, it will include the world headquarters of GE's new Digital Energy business, a smart grid engineering laboratory, and an exhibition area showing how the smart grid works. Employees will conduct research and development and application engineering. Smart grid is the name given to a more directed and efficient digital technology system of distribution of electricity to consumers. Advocates say it can better regulate power demand and supply and offer benefits such as quicker ...
GE leads the way
GE is leading the way with it's UPS technologies, Batteries and Patented UPS technology like PurePulse™ and eBoost ™ ensure clean reliable power. Critical Power Sys in Atlanta GA wants to here from End Users, Electrical Contractors, IT Partners, Architects and anyone who suggests or recommends these technologies. We want you to make to best decision possible. It's our job to make sure we give you the necessary tools to know that you have protected your investments optimally. I'm not sure that industries are the most appropriate word to describe where we best fit. It's more than DataCenter, It's more than Hospitals. Applications might be the best word. WWW.CRITICALPOWERSYS.COM ...
7×24 Exchange / Atlanta
Great Chapter meeting for 7x24 Exchange and presentations today a Marriott Atlanta Northwest. It was a packed house. Met a lot of great people who had tons of questions. Speakers were great: Case Study on the new Oracle Data Center ( Speakers: Gensler Architects, Syska-Hennessy Group, Holder Construction Company ) Medium Voltage UPS Systems ( Speaker and Legend: Bradford Roberts ) Thanks to everyone for their continued comments, questions, help. We look forward to working with each and everyone of you to provide the best UPS solutions for Mission Critical Data centers. Let me know if you have any questions about the event.
Testing Power (UPS) Availability Architecture
Have you heard what happened? Amazon Web Services’ data center had a power outage. WOW, not 1 time, or 2 times, or 3 times..... Why? Disaster recovery specialist SunGard Availability Services is expanding its data centers in Atlanta and Smyrna, GA. Amazon: Downtime for Elastic Compute Cloud customers on Wednesday! Could this have been avoided? As of the 13th, Amazons EC2 cloud computing service suffered its fourth power outage in a week. What exactly caused all 4 power outages in this short period of time? We are very interested in the details you can provide. Please send in what you find out. Avoid Future outages: Verify, Validate, Service, Test - ...
When Being Number 1 is NOT good?
Why is the classification of a DataCenter in reverse? There is debate whether the current Tiering model means anything any more. "A Tier 1 data center includes no redundancy in the power and cooling distribution systems and offers 99.671% availability, according to Processor.com (“How’s & Why’s Of Data Center Tiers”). A Tier 2 data center includes some redundancy and offers 99.741% availability. Tier 3 adds additional power and cooling distribution paths and offers 99.982% availability; Tier 4 includes multiple active power and cooling distribution paths, leading to 99.995% availability. Each successively higher Tier level takes the requirements for the preceding Tier and adds ...
Going Green with Lead Acid Batteries:
Have you ever been told or heard that lead-acid batteries weren’t “green” and that as a Data Center executive, you should be looking for a smaller simpler and greener technology than lead-acid batteries? I have heard that so many times that it prompted me to do some research on the subject. What I found was surprising. Lead acid batteries are used to store electrical energy for UPS’s by GE, APC, Eaton Powerware, Liebert and Mitsubishi/Toshiba, virtually every single UPS manufacturer’s product relies on a technology that was invented over 150 years ago. The reason why is that they are by far the most cost effective solution for standby ...
The Forgotten
In the datacenter, I can be prepared with the most dense High Performance Computing (HPC) SAN platform and the most sophisticated blade technology. I can have my data optimized with de-dup technology and replicated for disaster recovery. I can have Generators well greased and filled with fuel. I can even have single phase UPS's scattered throughout. Oops: PCs, servers, switches, routers, broadband modems, KVM switches, and other computer equipment are all subject to electrical damage. From improper site wiring to lightning strikes, a wide variety of electrical issues threaten systems and peripherals unexpectedly. Just like you monitor your data storage infrastructure, let's monitor ...
CBS says Broadcast Companies have need for UPSs
“Providing on the air news and information remains a fundamental tenant of who we are. In a crisis, natural disaster or weather emergency, television is a critical resource for the community,” said David Layne, CBS4 Building Operations and Engineering Director. “A few years ago, television stations may have been willing to go without back-up power. Now, with new digital technologies, our responsibility to the community, and the 24/7 news cycle, it is critical to remain uninterruptible.”
EVENT: 5th Annual Georgia Healthcare Trade Faire & Regional Conference sponsored by HIMSS Georgia Chapter
http://www.healthcaretradefaire.com/eticket/view.php?id=253Free Invitation – Click Here Date: Thursday September 30th: Click on the link above to Register for the Healthcare Trade Faire sponsored by HIMMS Georgia Chapter. If you are in the Healthcare Industry, you will not want to miss this years Topics and Discussion Panels. See below, the Best Experience in the Country: Pam Matthews,... [Read more of this post]
Blackouts and Power Outages on the rise!
As we have traveled around North America for years in the Enterprise Data Storage Space, redundancy has been one of the most under used words. High Availability, Mission Critical, Redundant, Data Protection, Disaster Prevention, Efficiency……………. Ever thought about this in the Power Space? What does any of this mean if your batteries in the UPS are not fully charged... [Read more of this post]
Tourist attraction to explain ‘smart grid’ opening in Atlanta by GE Digital Energy
Thank you AJC for such great articles – 2 times! GE opening tourist attraction to explain ‘smart grid’ To open by this fall near the Cobb Galleria and Interstate-75, it will include the world headquarters of GE’s new Digital Energy business, a smart grid engineering laboratory, and an exhibition area showing how the smart grid works. Employees will conduct research and development... [Read more of this post]
