"Ensuring
the Lights Stay On"(click on article
title to read article on the Vancouver Sun website)
In a multi-part series, Vancouver Sun reporter Scott Simpson and photographer
Ian Lindsay are documenting the new infrastructure and coming challenges
involved in B.C.'s massive $5.1-billion effort to create a modern,
efficient and reliable electricity transmission grid... Click
here to read full article on The Vancouver Sun website...
"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.
