The University of California system in conjunction with the California State Department of General Services has launched the Million Lamp Challenge with bids due Sept. 20.

Another day, another IoT alliance between a major lighting company and a leading networking firm.

AWS Storage Gateway has added Commvault V11 as a supported backup application for use with its virtual tape library (VTL), the Tape Gateway. You can now use Commvault V11 and the Storage Gateway VTL to backup and archive application data to scalable, cost-effective, and secure Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier storage, while preserving established tape management processes.

Amazon Pinpoint now supports two-way text messaging which enables Amazon Pinpoint customers to receive text messages from their users. When a user replies back to a text message, Amazon Pinpoint will pass that text message to the customer who can programmatically respond back to that text message.

AWS Direct Connect has now landed in Houston, TX at CyrusOne West I-III data center supporting the US East (Ohio) AWS Region. Customers in Houston can now establish a dedicated network connection from their premise to AWS.

Amazon’s AWS GovCloud (US) has achieved a Provisional Authorization (PA) by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) at Impact Level (IL) 5, as defined in the Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing (CC) Security Requirements Guide (SRG) v. 1, Release 3.

AWS Direct Connect has now landed in Canberra, Australia at NEXTDC C1 Canberra data center supporting the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region. Customers in Canberra can now establish a dedicated network connection from their premise to AWS.

This new Quick Start automatically deploys Solace Virtual Message Router (VMR) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 20 minutes, into a configuration of your choice.

The Leaders Innovation Forum for Technology is bringing innovation into practice, facilitating early adoption of new technology at utilities around the country.

The Punta Gorda water treatment plant (WTP) is a 10 MGD surface drinking water facility located just east of Punta Gorda, Fla.