Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 9.5, which contains several new features including UPSERT capability, Row Level Security (RLS) and several Big Data capabilities. In addition to supporting the new major version of PostgreSQL, 9.5, RDS for PostgreSQL also supports new minor versions 9.4.7 and 9.3.12, which contain several enhancements and fixes. All three versions are available to use starting today.
CST Industries partners with Shearer & Associates, Aquastore in the US
CST Industries is the complete storage system provider for engineering and manufacturing professionals in thousands of different industries and applications throughout the world.
California’s drinking water problem addressed in legislative hearing
Sen. Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), chair of the committee, said the hearing’s focus was to review the State Water Board’s “progress on the reorganization” and explore any challenges or gaps that have arisen.
Army Water Resources Institute awards $47M contract to Tetra Tech
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources has awarded the Company a five-year multiple-award task order contract to support the USACE’s water resources management programs.
Water Treatment Plant on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, employs GE technology
Prior to the opening of the new plant, the city had experienced boil water advisories due to elevated turbidity.
Desert water line project uses McElroy fusion machine
Materials are part of an effort to replace aged and leaking concrete water delivery structures were delivered in March near the Mexico border in San Luis, Ariz.
Water groups testify at Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
The hearing was titled “The Federal Role in Keeping Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Affordable.”
Robotics for trenchless sewer rehabilitation to be distributed by LMK
For 8 years, LMK has been selling, servicing and maintaining Schwalm robots from its Ottawa, Illinois corporate headquarters.
Nvidia sues Qualcomm for Icera demise
Nvidia is suing Qualcomm in London for killing Icera – the Bristol wireless start-up bought by Nvidia for $352 million. Four years after buying Icera, Nvidia closed it down. Nvidia alleges that the Icera closure was brought about by Qualcomm’s illegal practices which amounted to an abuse of a dominant market position. Qualcomm’s practices led, …
Xilinx and IBM put big data FPGA design in the cloud
Cloud-based FPGA design is the focus of a tie-up between Xilinx and IBM. IBM’s cloud service will host the Xilinx SDAccel development environment which will allow developers to describe their algorithms in OpenCL, C, and C++ and then compile directly to Xilinx FPGA-based acceleration boards. This is an open access cloud service, called SuperVessel, which can …