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Catching the Wind

whitepaper Siemens Wind Power is more than just the global market leader for offshore wind turbines. It also manufactures the world's largest serially-produced wind turbine, which has an output of 3.6 megawatts.

Tags: data center, wind, length, market leader

[17 May 2008]

SAP Case Study: Suzlon Energy

whitepaper Suzlon Energy, is Asia's largest integrated wind energy company and among the world's leading players in the renewable energy industry. Suzlon Energy wanted proper control of operations and activities across locations and integrate business...

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

Photos: Tech ensures a smoother course

Photo The mast is 28.5m high, carrying a sail area of 590square-metres down-wind. On the right are navigation displays, such as wind-speed and angle, boat speed and Lat/Long position. She has a shallow hull and is designed to plane on the water...

Tags: yacht, ellen mcarthur, bt

[02 May 2008]

Using NASA's World Wind Component in Your Java Technology Applications

whitepaper World Wind is open-source software, developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that allows the user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar...

Tags: satellite communications

[28 Mar 2008]

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

Comment An icy wind is blowing through the high street. The danger is that a downturn will bite into IT spending even though technology could be retailers' saviour, says Julian Goldsmith. Just as the weather is starting to turn, the economic climate is...

Tags: recession, john lewis partnership, carphone warehouse, supplier

[13 Mar 2008]

Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory

Photo Red Bull Technology uses sophisticated computer aided design (CAD), wind-tunnel analysis and complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications to develop the car. The complexity of the bodywork design can be seen and illustrates how the use...

Tags: f1, grid, power, server

[10 Mar 2008]

Red Bull F1 racing up the grid

News Using a combination of computer aided design, wind tunnel analysis and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) the team uses a supercomputer to deal with the data produced. The Red Bull Formula One (F1) team is using grid computing to boost development...

Tags: f1, power, supercomputer, development

[07 Mar 2008]

Growing Energy Utility Chooses Virtualization Solution to Drive Agility and Cut Costs

whitepaper Following a recent drive to acquire and build new facilities, Spanish utility Iberdrola reached its goal of becoming the world's top producer of wind-generated electricity. However, this period of rapid growth and expansion into global markets has...

Tags: application servers, virtual, markets, reached

[29 Feb 2008]

Understanding ZDI: Separating Fact From Fiction

whitepaper Recently, concerns have resurfaced over whether or not 'Paid for' security research is in the best interest of the industry - citing that information surrounding software flaws could wind up in the hands of criminals.

Tags: security management

[28 Feb 2008]

Ultracapacitors Improve Reliability for Wind Turbine Pitch Systems

whitepaper Today's advanced wind turbines are three-bladed, variable speed turbines. On a pitch controlled wind turbine the turbine's electronic controller checks the power output of the turbine several times per second.

Tags: manufacturing

[27 Feb 2008]

Power shortages squeeze London's data centres

News We expect that we will wind down our London data centres over the next few years. Power supply issues and soaring lease costs in London are being blamed for forcing companies to look outside the M25 when building new data centres.

Tags: data centres, energy, london, man

[27 Feb 2008]

Microsoft Open Value Subscription Licensing Puts the Wind in Rokas' Sails

whitepaper Since building the first private wind farm in Greece in 1998, Rokas has secured a considerable market share in Greece's energy sector, with an installed capacity of 193.3 megawatts. In addition, the company continues to expand in the design...

Tags: windows vista

[17 Jan 2008]

Allied Aerospace, a Manufacturer of Wind Tunnel Models and Other Flight Systems, Uses NX to Shrink Cycle Times

whitepaper Allied Aerospace is the only non-government entity in the world that operates wind tunnel test facilities capable of simulating everything from sea level static and low subsonic speeds to tri-sonic (just below hypersonic, or orbital) speed.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

Optimizing the Design of Large Steel Structures

whitepaper The company deployed users like working with UGS Femap software with UGS NX Nastran software generates fast solutions and supports environmental loading (wind) and Femap data used in reports to inspection agencies.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08

Round-Up Then have to fire the remaining rockets manually 600 feet into the air in the howling wind and rain above a braying, booing crowd. In January 2007, Microsoft underwhelmed the world with the public launch of Windows Vista.

Tags: vista, microsoft, new year, xp

[04 Jan 2008]

Road to Reliable, Available VoIP & IP telephony

whitepaper Without the proper physical infrastructure in place, you could wind up reducing the reliability and availability of your phone systems. Businesses across the country are embracing voice-over-IP to reduce their long-term networking costs and gain...

Tags: voip - ip telephony, telephony, physical, voice

[12 Dec 2007]

High Bitrate Modem Architecture (WIND-FLEX) Wireless LAN: The MAC, the Scheduler and Their Performance

whitepaper A novel Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) currently developed in the WIND-FLEX project(Wireless Indoor Flexible High Bitrate Modem Architecture, European IST Programme, IST-1999-10025, EU Fifth Framework Program, and suitable for small-office...

Tags: local area networks (lan)

[05 Dec 2007]

Google pours money into renewable energy

News Engineers and energy experts are being drafted in to lead the R&D work which will start in earnest next year, initially focusing on solar thermal power, wind power and geothermal systems. Google is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in...

Tags: power, solar, google, energy

[28 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07

Round-Up But as another philosopher (Bob Dylan) once crooned: "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows". At some point before he went mental and started talking to horses, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came up with the idea of...

Tags: microsoft, linux, windows, laptops

[16 Nov 2007]

ID cards not about to be scrapped, says gov't

News If the electorate get wind that the ID card system will involve a lot of being scanned and prodded and poked and checked by civil servants, the government may want some kind of smokescreen, like the Crosby review.

Tags: id cards, government, biometrics, scheme

[06 Nov 2007]

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