Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
Enterprise software giants such as Oracle are writing applications around "grid computer" networks--i.e.
Another portfolio company, smart grid company Silver Spring Networks, filed to go public in July.
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New entrants include Opower, Coulomb Technologies, Grid Net and Tendril Networks.
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Smart grid company Silver Spring Networks, which set the terms of its IPO earlier this week, is the latest clean-tech company aiming to provide a jolt to the industry.
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Johnson Controls could further enrich the grid by globally engendering energy networks out of buildings and multitudinous housing in those majority of countries where there is, at best, a precarious grid, prone to peaks and black-outs.
Just two technology firms have held initial public offerings this year: "smart grid" energy company Silver Spring Networks Inc. last week and social network Professional Diversity Network LLC the week before.
Transfer data packets from long-haul fiber-optic networks to the electrical power grid and shoot the data (alongside electricity) straight into people's homes.
The attack built by Giannetsos and his colleagues has a wider target than the power grid: any system that uses sensor mesh networks, from buildings that use the sensors to monitor for weaknesses in their architecture to sensors distributed in forests to detect wildfires.
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The existing US grid is really an ad hoc assembly of many networks that grew together and gradually developed interties and the ability to sell power to each other.
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Third, they are upgrading their networks in order to pump more juice through the grid safely.
One of the biggest and oldest networks around, the U.S. electric grid seems hopelessly stuck between the 19th and 21st centuries.
If the trials of the grey box prove successful, it will allow new renewable energy plants such as the farm in Roscrow to connect without the need for expensive grid reinforcement, said Roger Hey of WPD's Future Networks team.
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There would also be smaller turbines, possibly vertical ones, perched on our homes, steadily and reliably complementing our solar panels and contributing to a smart grid which in turn powered our food and factory production and transportation networks.
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As a result, members can better navigate the transforming energy and utilities environment, collecting insights from the vast amount of information pervading their networks and systems, add further intelligence to the smart grid and uncover new ways that improve business and operational outcomes.
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Finally, both of these changes are being enabled through the integration of smart grid technology in the power transmission and distribution grid, which moves not only electrons but also information effectively through our energy networks.
There will also be renewed activity in the fast-growing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) community (there are more machines in the world than people), and a new category of devices for stationary types of applications such as video cameras, smart grid applications, smart parking meters, and other devices that will use these new networks.
Section 248 leaves the responsibility of securing the power grid in the hands of the same owner-operators who have failed to harden their networks up to this point.
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