BIM Emerging as Construction's Legal Standard of Care

BIM Emerging as Construction's Legal Standard of Care

Salmon indicated building industry professionals have been advised in the past not to share their Models for fear of being sued. "Now, it is possible to be sued if you do not use Building Information Modeling software in a manner consistent with emerging industry standards," Salmon says. "You might be embarrassed if your Model is inaccurate, but it is better to be embarrassed and have a successful project than it is to be sued for not having a Building Information Model."

Why is the data storage industry locked in by hardware?

Why is the data storage industry locked in by hardware?

"And the potential separation of storage hardware and software is not restricted to the use of open source OSes. Vendors such as LeftHand and DataCore, for example, already offer their SAN products as software, while the likes of Nasuni and TwinStrata sell virtual NAS devices that only exist as software too. Logic seems to suggest that one day it will be common for customers in businesses of all sizes to buy storage operating systems, processing power and disk hardware separately. But when that day will come is open to speculation. "

Acrobat Acrobat X Pro and Bluebeam PDF Revu 9: AECbytes Product Review

Lachmi Khemlani has another great software comparison/review in AECbytes:

"In addition to the new 3D PDF support, Revu has many more things going for it to recommend it to AEC users—Revit support, ProjectWise integration, Visual Search, an extensive set of markup and measurement tools, and the ability for multiple project team members to collaborate on a document, in real time as well as offline. Its interface is much more visual than Acrobat’s and is likely to appeal to architects..."

Acrobat Acrobat X Pro and Bluebeam PDF Revu 9: AECbytes Product Review

For your free trial of BlueBeam visit http://www.lraec.com/bluebeam-pdf-revu

E-Commerce News: Data Management: Using the Cloud for Backup? You're Missing the Point

E-Commerce News: Data Management: Using the Cloud for Backup? You're Missing the Point

Using the Cloud for Backup? You're Missing the Point

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By Andres Rodriguez
TechNewsWorld
Part of the ECT News Network
05/10/11 5:00 AM PT

Much of the attention lavished on cloud storage has focused on backup; however, the massively redundant nature of cloud architecture ensures data protection inherently. Those who back up data that's already stored in the cloud are wasting their time. Cloud storage does not require backup. Here's how you can leverage cloud systems with their unprecedented levels of reliability and data durability into your own data center.

The Four Trends Driving the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Design and Management

www.emersonnetworkpower.com/en-US/Solutions/ByApplication/DataCenterNetworking/DCIM/Documents/WhitePapers/M06252_EWC_WP_v3.5hi.pdf

"During the data center’s next decade, opportunities to improve efficiency and optimize performance will exist throughout the three cycles: design and deployment, operations, and management and planning...It all starts at the design and deployment stage, when companies can leverage pre-engineered solutions and high-density architectures to reduce the time, space and capital required for construction of the building. During operation, data center managers can reduce costs by using efficient technologies and strategies while simultaneously decreasing downtime costs by employing high-availability configurations."

Does the relative "Downtime Cost" of Healthcare seems reasonable ?

-Paul

YouTube - Veronica Belmont Tests Laser Backpack at UC Berkeley

YouTube - Veronica Belmont Tests Laser Backpack at UC Berkeley

Is this an easy way to do as-builts or build a model for an existing structure? Looks a lot faster than existing laser setups.

Production rollout of cloud storage

thought I’d share some updated info on how things are going with our production Nasuni rollout:

We’ve pushed ~700 gb of data to the new server, 5 mission critical shares including our IT share (source code, documentation, etc), accounting, sales, users and our entire production share for the commercial division.   I’ve also created a 2^nd volume as a backups target where we’ve pointed our Acronis backup image to and will migrate existing backup jobs to over time.

The result thus far regarding the compression and d-dupe ratio is just under 35% savings:

-Kevin

http://www.unlimitedcloudstorage.com/