On Monday, FirstEnergy Corp (NYSE:FE)’s shares declined -1.54% to $35.69, as Ohio Edison and Pennsylvania Power (Penn Power), auxiliaries of FirstEnergy Corp. (FE), will conduct an emergency readiness exercise April 15 to test the companies’ service restoration process when severe weather causes widespread power outages in the region.
Nearly 60 corporation employees will take part in or observe the drill at Ohio Edison’s Distribution Control Center in Akron, and Penn Power’s service center in Clark, Pa. Representatives of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission will observe the Penn Power parts of the drill.
“FirstEnergy’s storm restoration process has been recognized by electric industry organizations over the years for its effectiveness, which is proof that our training exercises work,” said Randall A. Frame, regional president of Ohio Edison and Penn Power. “Whether it’s conducting employee training or investing in our infrastructure, as we head into the summer storm season we want our customers to know we remain vigilant about enhancing service reliability.”
A team of FirstEnergy, Ohio Edison and Penn Power employees have been preparing for months to run the drill, which will roughly follow the same time plan and outage totals for an actual storm that occurred last fall.
FirstEnergy Corp., through its auxiliaries, generates, transmits, and distributes electricity in the United States. The corporation operates through Regulated Distribution, Regulated Transmission, and Competitive Energy Services segments. It owns and operates fossil, coal-fired, nuclear, oil and natural gas, wind and solar power, and hydroelectric generating facilities.
Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC)’s shares dropped -1.60% to $44.14, during the last trading session on Monday, as Teradata Corporation (TDC), introduced the Dashboard Engine for Hadoop. With the Dashboard Engine for Hadoop, it is now possible for organizations to quickly access and report on big data in Hadoop-based data lakes to make agile business decisions.
“There are endless streams of data from web browsers, set top boxes, and contact centers that often land in Hadoop, but sometimes don’t make their way into downstream analytics,” said Ron Bodkin, president, Think Big, a Teradata corporation. “For the first time, the Dashboard Engine for Hadoop offers organizations the ability to get summarized Hadoop data in under a second, without having to go through transformation and modeling processes.”
Dashboards and online analytic processing (OLAP) rollup summaries have been around for decades in the business intelligence market. But until now, no one has delivered OLAP summary analysis from multi-structured big data at scale. As a complementary technology to the analytic ecosystem, Hadoop assists address big data needs, and the Dashboard Engine for Hadoop accelerates reporting from data lakes. It distils terabytes of data per hour into billions of aggregates, which can then be queried by business users in under a second with a business intelligence solution.
Teradata Corporation provides analytic data platforms, marketing and analytic applications, and related services in the United States and internationally. Its analytic data platforms comprise software, hardware, and related business consulting and support services for data warehousing and big data analytics.
At the end of Monday’s trade, CA, Inc (NASDAQ:CA)‘s shares dipped -1.54% to $31.06, as As part of a European Consortium, CA Labs, the research arm at CA Technologies (CA), is conducting research and development for innovative solutions to address security challenges in multi-cloud environments. Horizon 2020 awarded a contract to the consortium to conduct the research.
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research programme to date funded by the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe’s global competitiveness. With nearly €80 billion of funding accessible over 7 years (2014 to 2020), Horizon 2020 awarded the consortium a total of €3.5 million for this cloud security research project. The aim for Horizon 2020 is to bring to the market new breakthroughs uncovered from research and the lab.
“Cloud security must keep pace with the explosive growth in demand for cloud services, and this research will assist steer the next generation of multi-cloud secure applications,” says Peter Matthews, vice president and research staff member, CA Labs. “CA Labs is immensely proud to be awarded this funding from the Horizon 2020 programme, and will be a key member of a consortium of partners to innovate multi-cloud secure application breakthroughs and discoveries that position European research at the vanguard of the cloud revolution.”
CA, Inc. provides information technology (IT) administration software and solutions that assist organizations develop, manage, and secure IT environments in the United States and internationally. It operates through Mainframe Solutions, Enterprise Solutions, and Services segments.
Autodesk, Inc (NASDAQ:ADSK), ended its Monday’s trading session with -1.55% loss, and closed at $61.77, after Autodesk, Inc (ADSK), declared the release of the new Autodesk 2016 Design Suites that offer more control than ever over all aspects of the design-to-make process through a connected desktop and cloud user experience.
Autodesk design and creation suites provide customers with expanded toolsets, unique interoperability and a consistent user experience.
“Our customers are pushing the boundaries on how products are designed and made, how buildings are built, and how entertainment is created,” said Amar Hanspal, senior vice president at Autodesk. “Autodesk Suites address the entire workflow: from capturing reality and iterating on a design, to physically making that design through 3D printing or other forms of fabrication.”
Autodesk, Inc. operates as a design software and services corporation worldwide. The corporation’s Architecture, Engineering and Construction segment offers Autodesk Building Design Suites to manage various phases of design and construction; Autodesk Revit products that provide model-based design and documentation systems; Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suites; AutoCAD Civil 3D products that offer a surveying, design, analysis, and documentation solution; and AutoCAD Map 3D software, which offers direct access to data needed for infrastructure planning, design, and administration.
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