"Is
Your Data Center Earthquake Safe?"(click
on article title to read article on Processor website)
WorkSafe Offers Seismic Protection, August 24, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 34
WorkSafe Technologies’ ISO-Base seismic isolation technology is
the most effective way to protect mission-critical and expensive electronic
equipment in the event of an earthquake. Click
here to read full article on Processor website...
"Earthquake-Proofing
the Data Center" (click on article
title to read article on Data Center Knowledge website) Jul 17, 2007 - Tuesday's magnitude 6.2
earthquake in central Japan was was only the most recent in a series
of strong earthquakes to hit the country, one of the most seismically
active regions on earth. This presents an engineering challenge
for data center managers, whose facilities must be prepared to
ride out quakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater.
Nearly 1,000 Japanese companies have turned to WorkSafe Technologies
to protect their equipment. The Valencia, Calif. company's ISO-BASE
earthquake mitigation products allow racks and cabinets to ride
out even major quakes with minimal vibrations.Click
here to read full article on Data Center Knowledge website...
Alaska has just received and installed the
first ISO-Base platforms in the state's interior City of Fairbanks.
Alaska has a high level of seismic activity and, according to the
Alaska Earthquake Center, the state withstands about 20,000 earthquakes
per year. Not surprisingly, Alaskans involved with IT are very excited
about the ISO-Base. On July 12th, the University of Alaska Fairbanks
base-isolated their first server cabinets in their central data center,
which is home to the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC).
The University has four main campuses and seven rural campuses scattered
throughout the nation's largest state. The data center in Fairbanks
is the universities central IT hub for communication and data storage.
It houses approximately 100 server cabinets, many of which are supercomputers.
Not only does the data center support UAF academics, it also acts
as a Shared Resource and Allocated Distributed Center for the Department
of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program. Most
importantly, ARSC is very research intensive and employs many top
scientists from around the globe. ARSC' s website says that they
are "poised to meet northern challenges with global solutions." Scientists
work with concerns such as climate change, arctic engineering, upper
atmospheric physics, volcanology, geology, and biology. Supercomputing
at UAF plays an important role. For example, the computers are used
to plot and forecast the melting of arctic sea ice, which is a complicated
task involving loads of data and incredible amounts of variables.
UAF hopes the ISO-Base will protect ARSC from seismic events that
could cause loss of critical data. The first series of platforms
are in a trial phase that could soon lead to base-isolation of the
entire data center. So far, so good. As a lifelong Alaskan, I am
excited to help introduce a technology that will protect our infrastructure.
To read more about ARSC or UAF visit: http://www.arsc.edu/about/about.html or www.uaf.edu
Tyler Klaes
WorkSafe Technologies Alaska Representative
June 2007 - Podtech.net
Dylan Mason on
ISO-Base Seismic Isolation Technology Video Blog Entry Earthquake
Proofing | Posted by James Gaskin on Podtech.net | June 29th,
2007
Dylan Mason
of WorkSafe Technologies demonstrates the ISO-Base seismic mitigation
platform used extensively in California and Japan (both well
known for earthquakes). Less well known as an earthquake center,
St. Louis businesses also need to make sure their equipment stays
up and running after the ground stops shaking.
August 2006 Valencia based WorkSafe Technologies has
been selected to provide its patented ISO-Base™ seismic isolation
technology to protect the world’s fastest supercomputer. Cray
Inc. and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced
last week that Cray has won the contract for the next-generation
supercomputer at the DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing
Center (NERSC). The contract, valued at over $52 million, includes
installation of WorkSafe’s ISO-Base™ seismic isolation
technology in order to protect the Cray XT4 massively parallel processor
supercomputer, code-named "Franklin", from seismic shock
and vibration.
September 2004 WorkSafe Technologies receives Award of
Excellence from the 2004 National Earthquake Conference in the Mitigation
category.
The 2004 National Earthquake Conference Awards of
Excellence are given to persons, organizations, or agencies, that have
contributed significantly to addressing earthquake risk reduction within
the U.S. through their achievements, leadership, and dedication. Special
emphasis is placed on those who have demonstrated these qualities as
part of a collaborative effort in addressing the hazard.
February 2003 Boeing Frontiers February Newsletter publishes
article about ISO-Base™ Click
here to view article with Acrobat Reader.
November 27, 2002 The ISO-Base™ Seismic Isolation
Platform obtains JQA Certification.
Update 2007 JQA no longer does quality certification
for earthquake protection products. ISO-Base was the first and
last product to receive this prestigious test certification from
the JQA.
November 18, 2002 The Hewlett Packard Installation of
ISO-Base in the Palo Alto Data Center makes a photographic appearance
in the November 18th issue of Fortune Magazine (Vol. 146, No.
10)
Click here to view photo.
June 26, 2000 A major earthquake will strike California sometime
in the next few years. Many lives will be lost and great property damage
will occur. California businesses may be sued for failing to adequetly
prepare for this earthquake. Click here to
read an executive summary for the Liability of Businesses and Industries
for Earthquake Hazards and Losses.
May 31, 2000 We participated at the Orange County
Chapter of the American Red Cross sixteenth annual County Disaster
Preparedness Academy (OCDPA). The Academy offered this day of
workshops tailored to meet the interests of planners from large
and small businesses, schools, government and community organizations,
health services and emergency medical providers. OCDPA's mission
is to provide the community information on emergency preparedness
planning, mitigation, response skills, and recovery operations.
Presenters for the workshop sessions are recognized disaster
preparedness experts. They have "real world" disaster
response and operations experience. These are the people who
are, to a large degree, responsible for the welfare and safety
of the residents of Southern California.For more information
contact the OCDPA at their web site: www.oc-redcrocc.org
April 1, 2000 WorkSafe Technologies is proud to present
it's launching of EQHomeSafety.com. This home safety web site
will give internet users the opportunity to learn more about
earthquake preparedness, search for seismic safety products,
and purchase those items online. The web site was launched at
the beginning of April, ("Earthquake Preparedness Month"),
and will be continually updated, so check back often!. The web
site can be found at www.EQHomeSafety.com
The Canadian Government put us to the
test in a week long Non Structural Fastening Standards Program
in the Civil Engineering Laboratory at the University of British
Columbia. All of our products and methods tested passed multiple
and consecutive shake table tests. The rigorous tests done on
a "state-of-the-art"
3-axis shake table were re-creations (based on actual sensor
readings) of seismic events such as Northridge, Loma Prieta,
Kobe, and Landers. Our ISO-Base™ base-isolation technology
products passed the intense UBC-Bellcore Engineering Test (r7.5),
and were proven to exceed Seismic Zone 4 requirements.
