This deepening intelligence powers the
Ripper Group’s shark-spotting drones in Australia. Chief
Operating Officer Ben Trollope says the Westpac
Little Rippersstream video in real time. Functioning like a
visual search engine, the software scans vast miles of ocean for the tell-tale
shape of a shark. The machine-learning program has been trained on millions of
photos of sharks and other shapes in the sea. The challenge now is perceiving
the sharks at ever-greater depths and in murky water. Sometimes, Trollope says,
the system still confuses a small whale for a shark. But every mistake sharpens
its focus.
Westpac Little Rippers patrol the
skies over dozens of Australia’s beaches. When they spot a shark, they call out
an unmissable 130-decibel warning and direct swimmers away from danger. Ripper
Group also makes larger drones that can drop life rafts and emergency supplies
to distressed swimmers or boaters.
Health care for all of Rwanda
The drones used in Rwanda, produced by
California robotics company Zipline, look more like airplanes than helicopters.
The fixed-wing design adds strength to help power the vessels through storms.
They have a round-trip range of up to 90 miles.
In less than two years, Zipline has delivered 4,000 shipments in Rwanda — one-third of them life-saving, according to the UPS Foundation, which has invested $2 million in the venture. In coming months, a second nest will enable the drone network to cover the entire Central African country, reaching 400 health clinics. Because normal impediments don’t hinder their movements, they’re fast, and can be used at a moment’s notice, drones offer flexible and nimble new methods of delivery.Joe Ruiz, director of UPS Foundation’s Humanitarian & Resilience Program, foresees a growing role for drones in aid and rescue, from natural disasters to medical emergencies. “Think of organ transplants,” he says.
A boon to infrastructure repair
Autonomous drones are already flying
over (and under) bridges and along pipelines, pinpointing areas that are
corroded or have loose struts — and scheduling the needed repairs. This constant
machine surveillance could soon replace the old and inefficient way of spotting
trouble: having teams of human inspectors occasionally fly over in a
helicopter.
HP- and Intel-powered drones flew over the stage during ODESZA’s performance at Coachella.
Just for fun
Drones are also starting to make their
mark in at live events, from the Olympics in South Korea to a spectacular show
at this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio,
Calif. During the nighttime outdoor performances of ODESZA, the
GRAMMY-nominated electronic music team of Clayton Knight and Harrison Mills, HP
and Intel teamed up to send 420 Shooting Star drones zipping through the night
sky above the crowds, the first time these drones flew over a live music
performance. “We were honored to be a part of it,” the duo said.
Atoms, genes, transistors. These are
the basic units of physical matter, hereditary traits and computers. And now
there’s a magical new addition to that list that will soon be just as familiar
to us and found everywhere in our daily lives — even inside our bodies. It’s called
the voxel: the 3D equivalent of a pixel.
Voxels are already used in virtual reality and other kinds of three-dimensional rendering. For 3D printing, HP developed a unique voxel 3D printing technology using these 25-micron building blocks (each one just ¼ the thickness of a single human hair). Voxels are rapidly becoming the DNA of the $12 trillion manufacturing industry’s digital transformation, which will change the way the world designs and produces everything.
Goodbye to injection-molded mass
production
For
more than 150 years, injection molding — the process that squeezes molten
metals or plastics into pre-formed shapes — has defined industrial
manufacturing. Once a company invested in crafting a mold, a factory line could
spit out millions of identical parts quickly and cheaply. But changing or
updating that molded product requires stopping the presses for the costly and
time-consuming construction of new physical molds, and possibly reconfiguring
the entire manufacturing line.
Now,
thanks to recent breakthroughs in
chemical science, voxels are being harnessed to make 3D printing faster and
more affordable, give designers a microscopic level of control across the
entire production process, providing manufacturers with a level of
flexibility that has never before been possible. There’s no more stopping the
presses if you need to make changes or iterations in your design during
production. Just tweak the design on your computer screen, and production of
the new object will continue without anyone needing to retool the mold or reset
the factory line. And because HP’s 3D printing approach controls how each tiny voxel is built,
inside and out, the scope of that design flexibility will, over time, become
practically limitless.
Unleashed: unimaginable new control
over design details
Multi
Jet Fusion’s voxel control technology is not only transforming how we make
things, it’s also revolutionizing the way we design them. Voxel control allows
designers to break objects down to the smallest nuances of shape, color and
function and apply them with microscopic precision, creating a new sense of
endless possibility.
To produce a 3D object using voxels, HP’s Jet Fusion 3D printers start by laying down a super-thin sheet of material less than the thickness of a sheet of paper. A printhead equipped with 30,000 nozzles then swoops over the material, precisely applying chemical fusing and detailing agents to form the shape of the object being created, and then applying infrared heat at very specific levels to make them fuse and do things like rendering objects in full color.
But
it’s what’s going on inside this mix of materials that’s the real game-changer.
HP’s printhead puts out 340 million of
these voxel building blocks per second. Not only does that help produce objects
10 times faster than other 3D printing methods, it also gives designers
unprecedented control over the details of what they’re making.
Previously, 3D design software and printing methods only allowed designers to create objects defined by their surface. But voxel printing technology lets engineers define each voxel’s characteristics both inside and out. That means designers can go inside 3D-printed objects as they’re being printed — depositing and mixing in additional materials, giving each individual voxel different properties in real time, which is at the heart of the breakthrough technology that enables flexible production.
Creating novel materials from the
inside out
With
this completely new
digital manufacturing vision, HP’s voxel-level
3D printing will soon create new products, and entirely new markets, that
simply aren’t possible using traditional production methods, or even other 3D
printing methods.
With
voxel-level control, designers will soon be able to influence the way in which
materials bond with each other, allowing them to change the tiniest mechanical
properties of physical objects, such as allowing very specific areas to be soft
and flexible while others are rigid and hard.
For
example, by applying agents containing bits of metal to voxels in specific
patterns, 3D-printed objects could be embedded with functional electronics such
as simple circuits, sensors or even wireless antennae.
This
alone further expands the design possibilities of 3D printing, but micro-level control goes for color,
too. Different hues can be infused into individual voxels to create dazzling
and unlimited arrays of color configurations to serve a variety of aesthetic or
functional applications. It can even help save lives.
For example, a surgeon may need a better reference for his patient’s heart than a 2D x-ray can provide. Soon, that doctor will be able to make a 3D scan of his patient’s heart and from it, create an exact replica — with its unique network of multicolored veins and arteries — and then 3D-print it within feet of the operating room, potentially supporting better surgical outcomes for millions of patients.
Shrinking the global supply chain for
the better
Another
change enabled by 3D printing will come as designers rethink the traditional
process of conceiving, producing and distributing things now that they’ll be
able to design and evolve products in real time. With a swipe of a mouse,
they’ll be able to keep up with customers’ evolving tastes and
specifications, tailoring products on demand — and producing them physically
closer to their consumer markets. That will localize manufacturing,
slashing the time it takes to get a product into a customer’s hands by
shortening the distribution chain, lowering transportation-related emissions
and ushering in an era of mass customization.
3D printing doesn’t rely on the economies of scale that drove the rise of global mass production. So manufacturers won’t need to build mass assembly lines in far-flung locations and ship their products overseas. Instead, they’ll locate micro-plants in unique markets around the globe, designing and producing small batches of products tailored to the needs of local customers while slashing logistics costs, eliminating delivery delays or overstocking and lowering their carbon footprint.
Embedded biosensors and bioplastics
coming your way
As
industrial, medical and consumer product designers start wrapping their heads
around the boundless
capabilities of HP’s voxel-level 3D printing,
they’ll come up with new uses and applications that are hard to even imagine
today. The products will be embedded with advanced biosensors that could track
medical conditions. And as the range of materials expands to include
bioplastics or even lab-grown nerve cells, the tantalizing promise of restoring
hearing or sight for more people in more places around the world moves closer
to reality. With the advent of voxel 3D printing, the distance between big
ideas and physical reality has never been closer.
Higher education has its risk and
rewards. Students are challenged with financial risk and are
rewarded with graduation and the pride of a great future. At a
higher education institution, Compulink found the same challenging situation.
Our client outgrew their capacity to
maintain a safe and uninterruptible power supply which jeopardized the future
of the entire data center. Compulink was asked as a valued supplier to
assess the situation and recommend a total solution including design,
installation, testing and validation.
Leaving no stone unturned, we
conducted four site visits to plan and coordinate the installation.
Our starting point was to conduct four
onsite meetings with all stakeholders, including Client Management, Manufacture
reps, School Engineers and Electricians. The first meeting Compulink
coordinated was for discovery, in which all parties were introduced to the
existing system environment, its flaws, limitations and risk areas. Based
on our Discovery session, Our second onsite meeting focused on the design of
the new electrical system, where we detailed all requirements necessary to take
the school’s data center to a safer and greater capacity electrical
environment. Our third onsite meeting validated the Design and planned in
detail the implementation and execution of the new system upgrade. The
fourth and critically important onsite meeting was to prep all electrical work,
on multiple floors, and ensure that installation would be safe and timely.
Installation was not without its
obstacles and challenges. The equipment delivered was over 3 thousand
pounds and required special flooring and moving equipment to put it all in
place. The school’s electric system had to be completely closed down end
of day Friday with the requirement to be up and running in 24 hours.
The value of the preparation meetings did pay off. The Compulink
engineers, under the auspices of the school’s electrician, installed the new
UPS flawlessly, tested the system to the full satisfaction of the client and
completed the installation safely in less than 24 hours.
Having overcome the risk associated
with a major electrical system upgrade, the school was rewarded with the
security of its future Infrastructure environment. The school is
now able to safely expand its infrastructure with the knowledge that the power
supply had sufficient capacity for growth and secondary power sources were safe
and dependable.
Compulink managed the risk associated
with the project and was rewarded with the praise and thanks of our client and
more importantly the accomplishment of delivering absolute quality in the
performance of our services.
Compulink
delivered 1200 computers (3600 items in total) to a Government client with 100%
Client Satisfaction. Business as normal for Compulink, however
there is more to the story. What appeared to be a normal procurement was
deceiving, as several requirements and roadblocks affectively made delivery a
challenge. Compulink was required to break the delivery into four nightly
runs at Midnight, into a Union restrictive building that was undergoing a
complete renovation.
Securing a
solid relationships with the Building Management, the Truckers, the Elevator
crew, the Security Guards and Union labor, Compulink was able to coordinate and
complete the delivery on time and within budget to the absolute satisfaction of
the client.
Facing a
host of logistical issues with tenacity is how Compulink built its reputation
and delivers quality service. For this assignment, we put our plan
together and executed flawlessly.
New York, NY, June 4, 2018 – Compulink
Technologies, announced today that CRN®, a
brand of The Channel
Company, has named Compulink to its
2018 Solution Provider 500 list.
The Solution Provider 500 is
CRN’s annual ranking of the largest technology integrators, solution providers
and IT consultants in North America by revenue.
The Solution
Provider 500 is CRN’s predominant channel partner award list,
serving as the industry standard for recognition of the most successful
solution provider companies in the channel since 1995. The complete list will
be published on CRN.com,
making it readily available to vendors seeking out top solution providers to
partner with.
“Compulink is proud to have received
the prestigious honor of being recognized as one of the most successful
solution providers in the channel. We will continue to dedicate our
services to the growth and success of our clients.”
“CRN’s Solution Provider 500 list spotlights the North
American IT channel partner organizations that have earned the highest revenue
over the past year, providing a valuable resource to vendors looking for top
solution providers to partner with,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel
Company. “The companies on this year’s list represent an incredible, combined
revenue of $320 billion, a sum that attests to their success in staying ahead
of rapidly changing market demands. We extend our sincerest congratulations to
each of these top-performing solution providers and look forward to their
future pursuits and successes.”
About Compulink Technologies, Inc.
Compulink Technologies Inc. is a total solutions IT firm. We provide
information technology consulting, managed services, and product fulfillment
services to commercial, non-profit, and government organizations for over 30
years. Our innovative ideas help organizations capitalize on today’s top
technology solutions to improve performance, security and financials. As a
Minority Owned Small Business, Compulink is committed to excellence and providing
top technology solutions to City, State, Federal and Commercial clients. www.compu-link.com
About the Channel Company
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant
media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative
marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and
empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more
than 30 years of unequaled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge
to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the
technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com
Compulink Technologies, Inc. Named to
CRN’s 2018 Solution Provider 500 List
New York, NY, June 4, 2018 – Compulink
Technologies, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company,
has named Compulink to its 2018 Solution Provider 500 list.
The Solution Provider
500 is CRN’s annual ranking of the
largest technology integrators, solution providers and IT consultants in North
America by revenue.
The Solution Provider 500 is CRN’s predominant channel partner
award list, serving as the industry standard for recognition of the most
successful solution provider companies in the channel since 1995. The complete
list will be published on CRN.com, making it readily available to vendors
seeking out top solution providers to partner with.
“Compulink is proud to have
received the prestigious honor of being recognized as one of the most
successful solution providers in the channel. We will continue to dedicate
our services to the growth and success of our clients.”
“CRN’s Solution Provider
500 list spotlights the North
American IT channel partner organizations that have earned the highest revenue
over the past year, providing a valuable resource to vendors looking for top
solution providers to partner with,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel
Company. “The companies on this year’s list represent an incredible, combined
revenue of $320 billion, a sum that attests to their success in staying ahead
of rapidly changing market demands. We extend our sincerest congratulations to
each of these top-performing solution providers and look forward to their future
pursuits and successes.”
About Compulink Technologies, Inc.
Compulink Technologies Inc. is a total solutions IT firm. We provide
information technology consulting, managed services, and product fulfillment
services to commercial, non-profit, and government organizations for over 30
years. Our innovative ideas help organizations capitalize on today’s top
technology solutions to improve performance, security and financials. As a
Minority Owned Small Business, Compulink is committed to excellence and providing
top technology solutions to City, State, Federal and Commercial clients. www.compu-link.com
About the Channel Company
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our
dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and
innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we
connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users.
Backed by more than 30 years of unequaled channel experience, we draw from our
deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving
challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com
Compulink Technologies is proud to join with f5 as a distinguished SILVER PARTNER.
49 of
the Fortune 50 rely on F5 to stay ahead of security, cloud, and mobility
trends. Working with f5 as a SILVER PARTNER
allows Compulink to deliver the latest cutting edge and secure App solutions to
our clients promptly and efficiently at affordable pricing.
We
are proud to add f5 to our prestigious partner list as it offers our clients a
greater opportunity to take advantage of working leading edge technologies.
Business needs and
enterprise reach are driving monumental shifts in the architecture of networks.
Naturally, the SD-WAN vendor market has responded aggressively, knowing that by
2020 the space willbe worth more than six billion dollars, according to IDC.
Choices are vast and include offerings from tried and true large networking
vendors, focused WAN specialists and venture-funded startups.
We know SD-WAN technology is an effective and economical solution that
addresses goals for agility, speed, security. Understanding your enterprise
needs will help lead you to the optimal vendor. As
important as unique case scenarios is the assurance that a vendor partner will
not disrupt the current WAN scenario as SD-WAN installation is in process and
building an SD-WAN that can securely carry cloud demands.
The three main vendor types
are:
1. Controller-based solutions
2. Appliance based overlay solutions that create a virtual IP network between
vendors hardware across any network
3. Advanced automation and change control solutions using existing hardware
One reputable player cited
in a Packet Pushers blog post written by Ethan Banks expounds on NetScaler
(Citrix’s skin in the game), which features, “…treating multiple WAN circuits
as a unified pool of bandwidth, centralized reporting, and integrated WAN
optimization. The product “appears to be the real deal,” he said.
NetScaler was also cited in Network Computing’s 12 Sizzling SD-WAN Vendors.
Network World offers four considerations to help prepare you as you explore
SD-WAN solution that is right for your business.
1. Automated management
– The impact of automation on deployment and management costs =training and
staffing. IT organizations should ask vendors how they minimize the cost and
effort of
“Day 2” operations management such as policy changes, adding new applications,
security and image updates
2. Route control – Without proper route control, business critical
applications running on the WAN may not get the bandwidth, priority and load
balancing needed for the best user experience.
Ideally, application traffic utilizes all available WAN circuits and bandwidth
to make best use of and IT department’s existing WAN infrastructure, by load
balancing across WAN circuits and utilizing
backup edge routers
3. Proactive – consider a solution’s ability to detect problems and
respond to network outages so that critical applications don’t experience loss
of service. Looking at the management tools of a
solution can provide insight into IT management
4. Support for hybrid deployments – Can the solution support hybrid
deployments by combining multiple WAN transports such as MPLS, Internet,
cellular or satellite links? Each has different
capabilities in areas such as bandwidth, SLA classes of service, security
postures, and pricing
We know your choices are
plentiful. After you’ve reviewed and prioritized against the needs of your
business, next consider a checklist of vendor fundamentals where technological
prowess, customer
service and agility in implementation are all of equal value.
Recently an article in CIO stated that Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) is set to outpace the rest of the cloud market in 2018. It also showed
that cloud adoption grew significantly in 2017. The article states that
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) grew by 47
percent while Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) grew by 31 percent. More and more
organizations are moving to the cloud.
First let’s briefly explain what IaaS is before we comment on this
trend. Infrastructure-as-a-Service is a cloud option that removes the
responsibility of building and maintaining IT infrastructure from the end user.
In essence, traditionally you as a business may have a server room, floor, or
building. With IaaS you no longer have that. All the infrastructure equipment
is no longer necessary. Your cloud provider builds and maintains the hardware
infrastructure. You still manage your applications and data, but the hardware
infrastructure is the responsibility of your provider.
Now that we explained IaaS, you can clearly see why it is
trending. Rather than have exploding IT budgets around the hardware, you can
cut that cost with a IaaS cloud provider. Instead of paying the cost upfront
for hardware, you pay a monthly or annual fee. The best part is that you only
pay for what you need. Also when the hardware needs to be upgraded, its the
responsibility of the provider.
If your looking for an IaaS provider, you should look into Amazon
Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Citrix to name a few. They are the top
providers, but there are many of these providers around, and it all depends on
budget and trust.
Let’s keep an eye on cloud adoption as we go on in 2018. Is this
the year the cloud takes over the world?
Compulink Technologies is proud to
announce a recently awarded a major contract by a government client for the
purchase of HPE equipment.
The entire sales team worked together on this very large contract.
When a large opportunity arrives at Compulink, it takes everyone in the sales
department to coordinate and work on all the moving pieces. Everyone who worked
on this opportunity while balancing their normal workloads should pat
themselves on the back.
It took weeks to learn if we had won or lost the bid.. Once we had
received a notice of intent to award, everyone in the company celebrated the
accomplishment.
Compulink might be a small business, but we have a habit of
accomplishing big things.
Congratulations to everyone who made this accomplishment happen.
Now the work begins to execute the contract and coordinate logistics.
