Iowa’s Innovative Lighting teams up with CEC, big in the Midwest, to bring Power over Ethernet together with LED luminaires in another IoT push.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for Express, Web, Standard and Enterprise Editions. You can now leverage SQL Server 2016 features such as Query Store, Operational Analytics, Temporal Tables, Always Encrypted and JSON Support on your Amazon RDS SQL Server Instances. 

We are excited to announce the ability to test drive Amazon Kinesis Firehose from the AWS Management Console using built-in sample data.

Amazon CloudWatch announces the availability of “Metrics to Logs” – a feature that helps customers pivot from a high level view of system or application behavior in a graph to the specific log events that caused the behavior. This complements the existing ability to extract aggregated metrics using metric filter patterns from log data as it streams through the CloudWatch services. Metrics created using metric filter patterns now have a View Logs option that help customers navigate to the associated logs groups from a graph to a chosen time stamp. This unifies the Logs and Metrics experiences to help customers solve problems faster.  

This new Quick Start automates the deployment of a continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline on AWS. It uses standard Microsoft Windows technologies such as Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild), Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows PowerShell, and .NET Framework in combination with the Jenkins CI tool and AWS services to deploy and demonstrate the CI/CD pipeline. 

By switching to zinc-coated, V-Bio encased ductile iron pipe, WSSC expects to put that pipe in the ground and not come back to replace it for 100 years or more.

West Virginia American Water to pay up to $126 million, Eastman Chemical $25 million.

Congress was preparing to consider a bill during the Lame Duck session that would fund the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) pilot program and provide aid to Flint, Mich., for its drinking water woes.

In Iowa, where agriculture is a critical component of the state’s economy, rain is good for crops – but too much rain is not good for anyone.

Recently, BATTA Technologies partnered with a Swedish manufacturer of peat-based contaminated-water filtration systems in order to bring this technology into the U.S. market.