earthquake
RSS earthquakeTwitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
News It's easy to imagine how this might be interesting at an event like a concert or even something more dramatic like an earthquake. Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that the service will soon get a new... [21 Aug 2009]
The Taiwan Earthquake: A Case Study in Network Disaster Recovery
White Paper On December 26, 2006, an earthquake off the coast of Taiwan severely disrupted communications across East Asia. With undersea cables severely damaged by the 2006 Taiwan earthquake, the Verizon Business... [30 May 2009]
Leading Turkish Seismic Research Institution Achieves High Performance With Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008
White Paper Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University, is providing postgraduate and doctorate education under the Earthquake Engineering, Geophysics and Geodesy departments and... [01 May 2009]
Datacraft Builds Earthquake-Proof High Availability Network for Japan's Shizuoka Broadcasting Systems
White Paper With its main office located in the earthquake-prone region, SBS needs to find ways to ensure the continuity of its news broadcast on all platforms of radio, television and print, even in the face of the worst physical... [01 Apr 2009]
Single Sign-On for Java Web Start Applications Using MyProxy
White Paper The authors demonstrate their solution in the MAEviz application portal, a Java Web Start application for earthquake risk management and analysis. Single sign-on is critical for the usability of distributed systems. [09 Jan 2009]
Chinese Earthquake Researchers Boost Efficiency With Dual-Boot HPC Cluster
White Paper The Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration (IGCEA) needed a high-performance computing environment that supported easy application development and management - unlike its existing Linux-based cluster. [07 Nov 2008]
A High-Density Earthquake Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper This paper presents a high-density earthquake monitoring system using wireless sensor networks. The system provides earthquake engineering researchers the ability to measure vibrations of structures... [11 Sep 2008]
Chinwag Live: PPC Earthquake - 27th March 2007
White Paper Google still leads the search world. But two spanners are flying towards its works: Yahoo's new "Panama" platform and Microsoft's AdCenter. The third Chinwag Live event debated how UK advertisers and pay per click marketers can navigate... [30 Jul 2007]
Ford Otosan Builds on NetApp SAN and NAS Solution for Faultless Disaster Recovery in an Earthquake Zone
White Paper The company also wanted to ensure DR in an earthquake zone and streamline infrastructure management. Ford Otosan is a joint venture between Ford Motor Company, the highly respected global automotive manufacturer, and Koc... [20 Jul 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment The container can withstand a six-foot drop onto concrete without damage to the content, and has been earthquake-tested up to magnitude R6.7. Sun's new 'data centre in a container' is certainly innovative. [18 Jun 2007]
Connecting to the world when disaster strikes
Case Study Walton added: "A 6.2 earthquake in Turkey will not have the same impact as in Japan where people are used to and equip with dealing with such a situation. Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) provides connectivity wherever... [11 Jun 2007]
India diary, day 10: Lost in Pune
Comment And then possibly a minor earthquake. I've set myself a bit of a challenge for my second day in Pune - three meetings, in three different parts of town, in one day. With the traffic as it is, I'm wondering if I'm going... [13 Mar 2007]
Cisco Data Center Tour
White Paper How the data center guards against damage from fire and earthquake. Welcome to the Cisco Data Center And Operational Control Center. What follows is a guided tour of the Cisco Systems main production data center, located... [05 Dec 2006]
ITU satellite phone deal for disaster relief
News Events such as the Asian tsunami at the end of 2004, the Kashmir earthquake and even Hurricane Katrina have shown how terrestrial communications links are hit hard in the first hours - around the time such services are... [11 Jul 2006]
Serious holes found in SME disaster recovery plans
News Earlier this year silicon.com covered the measures businesses in San Francisco have taken to ensure they would be able to survive another earthquake comparable to 'The Big One' of 1906. The majority of small and... [20 Jun 2006]
