Vertiv Introduces Universal Rack Power Distribution Unit For Easy, Fast Deployment Worldwide

Vertiv has introduced the Vertiv Geist UPDU universal power distribution unit, a significant reimagining of the rack PDU that allows a single unit to meet the power needs of hyperscale, colocation, enterprise and edge deployments anywhere in the world, regardless of the existing power infrastructure. The Vertiv Geist UPDU reduces the complexity of inventory management and procurement and increases the speed of deployment by simplifying product selection to a single UPDU model for installation worldwide..

All models will be available immediately as built-to-order with a lead time of as little as 3 to 5 business days. A select offering of the most common configurations will be available through the reseller distribution channel in early 2020, with models stocked locally.

The innovation behind the Vertiv Geist UPDU has its roots in work Vertiv has done as part of the Open Compute Project and complements the Vertiv strategy for more flexible and global design. With a universal design, universal input and a detachable power cable, the Vertiv Geist UPDU is compatible with AC power topologies that are common worldwide, ranging from 16A to 60A, 100V to 415V, available in single and three-phase power configurations. All models comply with international emissions, safety and regulatory requirements.

“Today’s data center environments are complex and made all the more so because of differences in power architectures from country to country and region to region,” said Brad Wilson, vice president, global rack power distribution, Vertiv. “The Vertiv Geist UPDU eliminates some of that complexity with a technology designed for fast, easy deployment anywhere in the world, with the ability to adapt to changing business needs by increasing available power capacity and upgrading intelligence.”

“The India market is of strategic importance to Vertiv. With the addition of the Geist UPDU to our existing power distribution unit (PDU) portfolio, we aim to further strengthen our position in the Indian PDU market and improve power management alternatives for our customers,” said Smrutiranjan Das – director, Avocent business, Vertiv India. “Data center requirements such as technology infrastructure, power and capacity significantly differ from region to region within the country. With the ability to adapt to changing business requirements and landscapes, the Vertiv Geist UPDU addresses this challenge by enabling reliable and seamless deployment.”

The universal design of the Vertiv Geist UPDU allows users to simply swap out the detachable  Facility Side Cable (FSC) to increase or decrease power availability based on changing IT power needs. Models are available in 11kW and 22kW max power load capacities in both vertical and horizontal form factors with various receptacle combinations and monitoring options. Intelligent models are equipped with embedded monitoring firmware and are compatible with all common management software, including Vertiv Environet. Vertiv offers additional services including rPDUs pre-installed in Vertiv racks and comprehensive support packages. 

Startups to Create 50 Lakh Jobs by 2025: Nasscom Product Conclave

The Indian startup ecosystem is expected to create around 50 lakh jobs by 2025 directly and indirectly, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has said in a report released on November 5, 2019.

Speaking to the media, Nasscom president Debjani Ghosh said by 2025, the ecosystem will create 11 lakh direct jobs and 39 lakh indirect jobs.

The report, Indian Startup Ecosystem, says that startups created 60,000 direct and 1.3-1.8 lakh jobs in 2019 compared to 40,000 direct jobs in 2018.

Total funding for 2019 stood at $4.4 billion compared to $4.2 billion the previous year.

The number of tech startups has gone up from 7,700-8,200 in 2018 to 8,900-9,300 in 2019. Of these, 28 percent are deep tech startups.

The unicorn club, too, has expanded, from 17 in 2018 to 24 in 2019 and a few more were likely to join in by the year-end.

More corporates are showing interest in the sector. As many as 80 corporate investors bet on the sector, a 10 percent increase over 2018.

Ghosh identified access to markets and funds as the biggest challenges, saying “The government has a critical role to play here”. #NPC2019

TechGig is Organising a Career Fair for Women Technologists in Bengaluru on November 9

Highlights

* One day after the finale ceremony of its marquee event - TechGig Geek Goddess 2019
* About half a dozen companies will participate in the career fair to hire the brightest women engineers for their firms
* Companies will be hiring for new-age skills as Data Engineering, Big Data, Hadoop, EST, JSON, AWS production, Docker among others
* Job positions are available for experienced women engineers

India’s biggest IT learning community – TechGig – will host an exclusive career fair for women engineers in Bengaluru on November 9, 2019, to mark the closing of its spotlight diversity event titled, TechGig Geek Goddess 2019. 

Geek Goddess is an annual hackathon hosted by TechGig which brings together women technologists to compete and showcase their coding skills. This year, as the hackathon enters its fifth edition, TechGig is hosting a career fair along with a closing ceremony to boost the employability of women technologists.

About half a dozen of India’s biggest IT companies will be participating in the career fair, namely American Express, Hexaware, JetBrains, Automation Anywhere, Capgemini, Goldman Sachs and others. These companies are looking for experienced professionals in a wide range of new-age skills as Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Distributed Systems, REST, JSON, AWS production, Docker among several others.

The vacancies at the career fair are open for junior to middle-level professionals. The job positions range from Front-end Developers, Mobile Engineers, Infrastructure Development, Migration/ Modernisation among others. All details for the career fair is available here.

Sanjay Goyal, Business Head, TimesJobs and TechGig said, “We host TechGig Geek Goddess every year with two specific goals – one, provide an unbiased platform for women technologists to rise and shine based on their coding talent; and the second one being helping progressive companies to spot innovative ideas crafted by our enthusiastic participants. This year, we have taken the excitement to another level by including an offline career fair as part of the final day celebrations. This will help the participating companies meet talented programmers face to face and hire the right fit for their firm on the spot”.

TechGig Geek Goddess 2019 noted 73,387 registrations. All the code submissions underwent many checks and only 375 participants, or 0.51% of the total participants, have been invited for the finale offline hackathon on November 8, 2019, in Bengaluru. “All these 375 women technologists are winners in a sense since they have presented crème-de-la-crème solutions and reached this level in the competition. The live hackathon on November 8 will help select the winners, and all these finalists get to be a part of the career fair where exciting job opportunities are waiting for them,” informed Ram Awasthi, Vice President-Technology, Times Internet Ltd.

TechGig Geek Goddess 2019 edition was announced on August 19 and was closed for submissions on October 21. This year’s edition hosted cutting edge technologies as hackathon themes such as Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cloudify everything, Solution hunters’ hackathon, among others.

TechGig Geek Goddess 2019 edition finale day will be marked by a live hackathon in the morning, followed by a Women Disruptors’ Conference in the evening, followed by a glitzy awards ceremony.

Eaton India Inaugurates Own Manufacturing Facility at Aerospace Park Near Bangalore Airport

Power management company Eaton has opened its first manufacturing facility in Bengaluru following demand from its main customers Boeing and Airbus to make fluid conveyance products locally and cater to the growing aircraft fleet in the country. Eaton has invested over $10 million in the facility and plans to have a workforce of around 100 people in the first phase.

These products - critical for movement of parts such as wing flaps, suffer from wear and tear over a period of time. Eaton looks at producing the equipment to ensure that there is adequate supply when planes undergo maintanence, servicing and overhaul. India has around 650 planes, with over 500 of them being single aisle Airbus 320 and Boeing's 737 plane.

The new facility, located close to the airport in Bengaluru, will manufacture hose assemblies and other fluid distribution products,  including oil debris monitoring systems, to serve commercial, business and regional aircraft.

"We believe this investment in India will help us grow our original equipment business because customers are investing heavily here. The site will leverage smart manufacturing technologies and contribute to local growth through employment, business and sourcing opportunities,” said Nanda Kumar, president, Aerospace Group, Eaton.

Eaton is also looking at India as a base to produce these equipment for the global market. The company has an existing design centre in Pune with over 1,000 people. The company looks at producing the equipment to ensure that there is adequate supply when planes undergo maintanence, servicing and overhaul. India has around 650 planes, with over 500 of them being single aisle Airbus 320 and Boeing's 737 plane.

The new facility, located close to the airport in Bengaluru, will manufacture hose assemblies and other fluid distribution products, including oil debris monitoring systems, to serve commercial, business and regional aircraft.

The facility, which will serve as the Hose Assembly Center of Excellence for Eaton’s global operations, is built in a record 10-month period at the 2.85 acres of land at the Karnataka Aerospace special economic zone (SEZ). The company representatives appreciated the support of state government while dealing with the project.

“We expect this facility to be our model plant for digital and smart manufacturing. Eaton recorded revenues of $2.1 billion and is growing at 18% annually to touch $2.6 billion globally,” said Nanda Kumar. The site will leverage smart manufacturing technologies and contribute to local growth through employment, business and sourcing opportunities,” he adds.

The new facility was inaugurated by Kota Harinarayana, the man who shaped India’s dream of building India's own Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), or Tejas, and is presently building drones and other unmanned aircrafts. He said Eaton has set high standards for others to follow. "Eaton has not only excelled in quality but is also helping the whole industry and the eco system excel setting newer standards for others to follow. Bangalore was India's aviation hub much before the information technology came in the picture."

"Civil and military aviation is set to grow double digits in India and Bangalore also has qualified engineers readily avialable for the industry to absorb. "Infact, this city can even hire 500 engineers within a short span of only 4 weeks," indicates Kota Harinarayana.

Analytics Vidhya to Organize Third Edition of DataHack Summit in Bengaluru from November 13, 2019

Highlights

* The four-day conference & workshops will be attended by more than 1000 AI & Data Science professionals from across the country and globe.
* More than 100 top Data Scientists and Machine Learning Experts will speak during the conference and conduct workshops.

Analytics Vidhya's third edition of DataHack Summit, India’s Largest Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning will be held from 13 - 16 November 2019 at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru. Global AI Leaders, Researchers, Machine Learning Experts and Data Scientists will be attending the summit to spark discussions on nextgen data technologies like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing, GANs, Computer Vision, Explainable AI, Cloud Computing, Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, Quantum Computing, and Speech Recognition.

There will be more than 1000 AI & ML professionals attending 8 workshops, 30 hack sessions and more than 70 talks. The conference will witness speakers including Dr. Geetha Manjunath (Founder & CEO of NIRAMAI), Sayan Ranu (IIT Delhi), Dat Tran (Head of AI at Axel Springer Ideas Engineering), Ujjyaini Mitra (Head of Data, ZEE5), Xander Steenbrugge (Head of applied ML-research at ML6), Prateek Jain (Microsoft), Jayatu Sen Chaudhury (American Express), Nishant Agrawal (Intel), Dr. Vikas Agrawal (Oracle Analytics Cloud), Dr. Harshad Khadilkar (TCS)  and 100 more experts sharing their views on the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

According to Kunal Jain (Founder & CEO, Analytics Vidhya), "We are on mission to build next-gen data science ecosystem and with DataHack Summit 2019 - we aim to bring together people, machines and their collaborative experience to make our world data-driven! After the immense success of the DataHack Summit 2018, the Summit has become bigger and will go deeper on the subject. With more than 70 sessions from experts across the globe spread across 4 days – there cannot be a better place to learn about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning."

After looking at the response of the data science professionals from previous years, the organizers have decided to add one whole day of the conference as Hack Day i.e., on  15th November 2019 exclusively for hack sessions. Hack sessions are live interactive sessions by the top data scientists, who build Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning applications in front of the participants. World's leading organizations like American Express, Intel, Ericsson and Amazon Web Services have partnered with Analytics Vidhya at DataHack Summit 2019 to build a vibrant community of Data Science.

If you are a data professional, or someone who wants to see machine learning in action – DataHack Summit 2019 is the place you want to be!

Asus ROG Emerges as No. 1 in the Gaming Category, as Per GFK

Having taken the world by storm with its range of exclusive and power-packed offerings, Asus ROG recently climbed to the top slot in the gaming laptop segment. The rankings are revealed by an independent global data science firm, GFK (Growth from Knowledge).

As per GFK, Asus ROG has claimed the number one slot in the gaming laptop segment for two consecutive quarters of 2019 – Q2 (April – June) with a 27.1% market share & Q3 (July – September) with a 28.1% market share.

Commenting on the latest development, Arnold Su, Business Head, PC & Gaming, Asus India, said, “It is a pivotal moment for us at Asus ROG. With innovation deeply seeped into the brand’s fabric, the feat has been achieved with our utmost focus on delivering better value for money and solving the pain points braved by the passionate gamers. We plan to further disrupt the market status quo in times to come, by delivering cutting-edge innovation within a comfortable price bracket. Riding on the back of this fundamental approach, we expect to solidify our leadership position by the end of this year.”

Asus ROG looks further gearing up to leverage the recent shake in rankings to its favour. Currently leading the market with an overall market share ranging between 25% – 30%, Asus ROG is gunning for 40% market share in the gaming laptop space by 2020. The company continues to ramp up its efforts to expand its portfolio and engagement with the gaming community, as India is a key market for it.

Bentley Systems Announces New iTwin Cloud Services for Infrastructure Engineering Digital Twins

The Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference– Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twin cloud services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced new cloud services for infrastructure engineering digital twins. Digital twins are digital representations of physical assets and their engineering information that allow users to understand and model their performance in the real world over their lifecycle. In effect, “evergreen” digital twins advance BIM and GIS through 4D.

Keith Bentley, founder and chief technology officer, said, “Today the ‘digital twin era’ is underway, and its pace accelerates every day. The early adopters we’ve worked with are already staking out leadership positions in the new digital twin economy, towards innovations in both their business processes and their business models. The advantages gained by replacing decades-old, disconnected paper-based workflows and work products with open, live, trusted, and evergreen digital twins are immense. Coupling that with an ecosystem of innovation through open-source platforms creates an unstoppable force for change in infrastructure. I can’t remember a more exciting time for the infrastructure professions or for Bentley Systems.”

New Digital Twin Cloud Services

iTwin Services enable engineering firms to create, visualize and analyze digital twins of infrastructure projects and assets. iTwin Services federate digital engineering content from BIM design tools and multiple data sources, enable “4D visualization” of digital twins, and log engineering changes along a project/asset timeline, to provide an accountable record of who-changed-what-and-when. Engineering teams are using iTwin Services to conduct design reviews, validate design data, and generate design insights. Users of Bentley’s design applications can apply the iTwin Design Review service for ad hoc design reviews, and project teams using ProjectWise can add the iTwin Design Review service to their digital workflows to facilitate overall project digital twins.

PlantSight is an offering jointly developed by Bentley Systems and Siemens, which enables owner-operators and their engineers to create living and evergreen digital twins of operating process plants. PlantSight allows operations, maintenance, and engineering to access trusted, accurate digital twin data immersively, including P&IDs, 3D models, and IoT data. It provides a single view of truth in a validated information model that facilitates situational intelligence, line of sight, and contextual awareness. PlantSight was jointly developed by Bentley and Siemens using iTwin Services and is commercially available from either company.

iTwin Immersive Asset Service enables owner-operators using AssetWise to align asset performance data and operational analytics in their digital twins’ context, making engineering information accessible to a wider audience of users through immersive and intuitive user experiences. iTwin Immersive Asset Service shows “hotspots” of activity and change in asset status over time which leads to faster and better-informed decision-making that ultimately helps improve asset and network performance.

Digital Twins Enter the Mainstream

The ever-evolving physical reality of an as-operated asset has previously been difficult to capture digitally and keep current. In addition, the corresponding engineering information, in its assortment of incompatible file formats and constant change, has typically been “dark data,” essentially unavailable or unusable. With digital twin cloud services, Bentley helps users to create and curate digital twins to improve the operation and maintenance of physical assets, systems, and construction processes, through immersive 4D visualization and analytics visibility.

At Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2019 Conference, digital twin advancements featured in 24 finalist projects in 15 categories in project locations across 14 countries ranging from transportation, water networks and treatment plants, to power stations, steel plants, and buildings. Overall, 139 nominations in 17 categories cited digital twin objectives for the innovations used on their projects – a significant increase from 29 such nominations in 2018.

Digital Twin Ideas in Action

In the technology keynote at the conference, Keith Bentley was joined on stage by representatives from Sweco and Hatch, showcasing infrastructure digital twin ideas in action.

Sweco digitally integrated a nine-kilometer light rail system project for the city of Bergen in Norway. The extension of the existing system was managed entirely through 3D BIM models, from alternative studies into a detailed engineering design. The use of iTwin Services allowed Sweco to keep track of changes automatically and minimize errors, enabling 4D visualization.

Hatch completed pre-feasibility, feasibility, and detailed engineering for a sulfuric acid facility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bentley’s plant design software enabled the project team to design a complete, intelligent digital twin to the most granular level of detail, moving the engineering quality processes upstream as part of the 3D modeling effort compared to traditional drawing-based quality processes. Hatch was able to reduce production ramp-up after hot commissioning, from six months to one week.

Microsoft is prototyping digital twins in its Asia headquarters in Singapore and its Redmond campus. Microsoft’s Real Estate and Security group is implementing an approach for the Digital Building Lifecycle to optimize building performance, cost-effectiveness, employee satisfaction, productivity and security. Microsoft’s efforts to create digital representations of physical assets like buildings are based on Microsoft Azure Digital Twins, an IoT service that helps organizations create comprehensive digital models of physical environments. Azure Digital Twins was released for public preview in 2018 and is now being adopted by Microsoft customers and partners globally, including Bentley for its iTwin Services. The companies are working together to create a digital twin of Microsoft’s new facilities in Singapore.

Digital Twin Ecosystem

Both iTwin Services and PlantSight were developed with the iModel.js open-source platform for digital twins, which was first launched in October 2018 and reached its version 1.0 milestone in June 2019. A primary reason for open-sourcing the iModel.js library is to foster an ecosystem of innovation for owners’ and engineers’ digital twin software developers and for digital integrators.

One such ecosystem software developer is vGIS Inc. which used iModel.js to integrate a mixed reality (XR) solution within a transportation infrastructure digital twin. Their mobile mixed reality app visually merges project design models with reality, in the field, in real-time. Users in the field can view subsurface utilities, such as pipes and cables, merged within their real-world orientation. Users simply point at objects with their mobile devices to see project design elements in this context.

Alec Pestov, vGIS founder and CEO, said, “The iModel.js platform is a great resource for developing and integrating value-added tools and services, such as the advanced augmented reality and mixed reality solution offered by vGIS. We love the seamless interoperability with iTwin Services and the frictionless development path to get to that seamless integration, and we look forward to expanding our collaboration potential, through iTwin Services.”