environment - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Can 'Big Brother' technology clean up palm oil's image?

  Palm oil users tap satellite technology to track deforestation, as pressure grows on them to source the ingredient responsibly

• 'Thar she blows!' Scientists use drones to monitor whale health

  The whale spray collected by a drone contains DNA, proteins, lipids and types of bacteria.

• NASA selects nine US companies to vie for moon programme funding

  As soon as 2022, NASA expects to begin construction on a new space station laboratory that will orbit the moon and act as a pit stop for missions to deeper parts of our solar system, such as Mars.

• Nestle using satellites to monitor palm oil plantations for deforestation

  Plans to use the technology in areas that supply pulp and paper

• Tianjin explosion shuts down Chinese supercomputer

  The deadly explosion that rocked the Chinese city of Tianjin has caused the country to shut down a nearby supercomputer, also one of the fastest in the world.

Whitepapers about environment

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  San Jose Sharks Score Big With Pure Storage

  Challenges: - Legacy disk-based SAN performance plummeted with the addition of just 10 VDI users. - The management complexities of the legacy disk-based SAN did not allow for a "set-it-and-forget-it" operation, but the organization required simplicity. Results: - Currently supporting 250 virtual desktops, with more to be deployed - Reduced latency to sub-millisecond - Dramatically simplified storage management - Achieved 12-to-1 data reduction