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The Pantry Inc. Goes Green With the Implementation of New Energy Efficient Data Center

The Pantry Inc. Goes Green with the Implementation of New Energy Efficient Data Center designed by Altruent Systems

Raleigh, N.C. (October 15, 2008)– – Altruent Systems, a systems integration company headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. that specializes in the consulting, design, and installation of mission-critical infrastructure, announced today, that the firm has completed a new energy efficient data center for Sanford-based The Pantry Inc., (NASDAQ:PTRY). Altruent Systems was selected to design, engineer and construct The Pantry’s new data center with state-of-the-art infrastructure that allows for energy savings on power and cooling.

With rising energy costs now becoming a major concern for most large organizations, the interest in reducing data center and IT energy, where the majority of a company’s utility costs are incurred, is now becoming a necessity. “Green” organizations, such as LEED and Green Grid, are stirring interest within C- level executives to turn their companies into eco-friendly, energy efficient consumers and producers.

When The Pantry decided that it was time to expand their headquarters’ data center, Ed Collupy, VP of Information Technology commented, “we saw an opportunity to take advantage of new power and cooling technologies, which were environmentally friendly yet more productive.”

The Pantry had already begun taking advantage of new computing technologies such as blade servers, whereas one server chassis consists of multiple circuit boards, or ‘blades’, that each act as an individual server. This allows more computing power in a smaller space, which drastically reduces power consumption, but results in highly concentrated, or ‘high density’ heat output. The ability to capture and remove this concentrated heat, in order to maintain an optimal temperature requires a new approach to data center design. With this in mind, The Pantry chose Altruent Systems for their proficiency in high-density data center design using APC’s (American Power Conversion) scalable InfraStruXure® architecture.

Altruent’s design and construction of The Pantry’s data center allowed The Pantry to make a significant contribution to Energy and Atmosphere conservation and preservation. This is done by using multiple InRow, ‘close-coupled’ cooling units, which eliminates the need for an inefficient raised floor, and places the cooling units closer to the servers. This captures the heat directly from an intentional ‘hot aisle’ and distributes cool air to the ‘cold aisle’. This prevents the hot and cold air from mixing, which highly improves cooling efficiency, and thus reduces the total energy required to maintain the proper temperature. With the implementation of such a system, The Pantry was able to greatly increase their computing capacity and reliability, while simultaneously going Green!

“Working together with Altruent, we successfully transformed an outdated data center into one that will carry us forward for many years to come,” said Collupy. “These initiatives have positioned The Pantry for continued technology growth along with an outlook towards smart energy-related controls.”

While more and more companies such as The Pantry are looking towards a “Greener” future, it’s no wonder why companies like Altruent Systems are being selected to reconfigure, design and provide solutions to outdated data centers. With energy costs rising and many companies trying to incorporate a green ideology within their business model, it makes sense to start going green at the core of your business, where most energy is consumed — the data center.

Brad Thompson, Project Engineer for Altruent Systems said, “Technology is constantly evolving, and our job is to stay on top of state-of-the-art innovations from the industry leading professionals, in order to provide our customers with the best possible solutions available.”

About The Pantry Inc.:
Headquartered in Sanford, North Carolina, The Pantry, Inc. is the leading independently operated convenience store chain in the southeastern United States and one of the largest independently operated convenience store chains in the country, with revenues for fiscal 2007 of approximately $6.9 billion. As of February 22, 2008, the Company operated 1,644 stores in eleven states under select banners, including Kangaroo Express, its primary operating banner. The Company’s stores offer a broad selection of merchandise, as well as gasoline and other ancillary services designed to appeal to the convenience needs of its customers.
About Altruent Systems:
Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, Altruent Systems Inc. is a systems integration firm providing consulting, design and installation of mission-critical, power and cooling infrastructure. To learn more about how your company can benefit from an energy efficient data center, visit www.Altruent.com, or call 1-888-843-9392.

KYOCERA Solar Partners with REC Solar to Provide Sustainable Energy to Castle Rock Vineyards

KYOCERA Solar Partners with REC Solar to Provide Sustainable Energy to Castle Rock Vineyards
SAN DIEGO—-Kyocera Solar, Inc. and REC Solar, Inc. today announced the completion of a 1.134-megawatt solar energy system at Castle Rock Vineyards, located in the heart of California’s Central Valley.

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Data Center Energy Smart Power Management Show Their Skills

Data center power consumption is an important operating cost of the expenditure. Around this demand, the industry introduced a variety of energy-saving products and solutions, but the electricity directly to equipment to monitor and manage rare. Recently, KVM (room monitoring and management) vendors Raritan (Raritan) pioneered a smart Power supply Management solution for data center power saving added a good helper.

Raritan enjoyed a high reputation in the field of KVM, and its new smart Power supply In the field of Raritan KVM management took many years of accumulated experience and equipment monitoring and control at Raritan PDU (power distribution unit) side of the latest combined. This is a comprehensive power management software, intelligent PDU and the environment Sensor Equipment, software and hardware integration solution that provides remote power control, rack-and device-level monitoring capabilities for data center managers to provide useful information to improve equipment uptime and capacity planning.

The program by the intelligent PDU (Intelligent PDU) and PowerIQ power management software. Intelligent PDU through Cabinets Power level and device-side monitoring and management, an accurate count of equipment-level power consumption for use Capacitance Volume control and collection of electricity provided accurate data based. The difference between ordinary PDU also is intelligent PDU to the remote site as the same person at the device power on, off, reboot operations, and repair failures, security systems up and running, but also will idle PDU Socket Make no power state, insert the device to eliminate human errors caused by the overload trip PDU and equipment downtime, and through the delay configuration PDU socket calls to avoid equipment while in power due to power outages caused by peak instantaneous current trip. Raritan’s Intelligent PDU’s biggest feature is that not only provides a measurement of each port’s power capabilities, but also the microenvironment of the device temperature and humidity monitoring.

Raritan, CEO and president, said Dr. Xu Qingyi traditional PDU can only be done in the measurement of the overall measurement, and Raritan’s intelligent PDU accurate to measure the consumption of power per port, more importantly, the data after these measures will be collected to provide a reference for managers.

Addition to intelligent PDU, the power management software can not belittle the role of PowerIQ. According to Dr. Xu Qingyi description, equipment, electricity consumption and the equipment, temperature, humidity and other information and serve PowerIQ power management software, summarized by the software, and then presented to managers to help managers to understand the basis of each equipment rack and IT Equipment power consumption. Moreover, the software also statistical trend analysis of data for management decision-making reference. If the abnormal electrical equipment or equipment changes in the microenvironment will promptly notify the management of alarm in time, to the greatest extent to ensure equipment is always in health, to avoid unplanned downtime.

Dr. Xu Qingyi the data center’s power management is divided into four stages, namely the connection (to ensure the reliability of the power supply), measurement (measuring electrical energy consumption), analysis (to find the reasons for the low efficiency of the power) and intelligent distribution (based on the demand realize the dynamic power allocation). He said that the power management is still in the connection and metering stages, in order to move towards more advanced stage of the analysis and intelligent distribution, intelligent power management is an essential means of data center managers.

New Energy Summit Focuses on Powering Data Center Efficiently and Reducing Energy Costs

New Energy Summit Focuses on Powering Data Center Efficiently and Reducing Energy Costs
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – 08/18/10) – Four leading data center power management companies today announced a first-of-its-kind Energy Summit to be held September 9th at the Santa Clara Hilton. The half-day “Energy Savings Now” event — hosted by Federspiel Controls , Power Assure , Raritan and Teladata — will examine how to leverage advances in data center energy management. The seminar …

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Xcel Energy Center : Ixs

Xcel Energy Center is a famous sports stadium located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. It is sponsored by Xcel Energy and is the home ice for the NHL’s Minnesota Wild. It comprises of four spectator levels. Out of these four one is the suite level whereas other three are general seating levels called the 100 level, the club level, and the 200 level. Its official capacity is 18,834. However, it set a new record for attendance at a Minnesota hockey game at 19,398 on October 5, 2005. This Stadium is in the ownership of the city of Saint Paul. It opened in the fall of 2000 plus it is known as the “X” by fans. It was constructed on the site of the wrecked St. Paul Civic Center. In the year of 2004, Xcel Energy Center was awarded as the best overall sports venue in the United States by the leading Sports Channel, ESPN.

The Xcel Energy Stadium called The “X” has become very popular in holding in the leading Sports Events. Minnesota Boys’ High School Hockey Tournament as well as Minnesota State High School League-sponsored volleyball state tournament is played here. It hosted the 2002 NCAA Frozen Four and will do so again in 2011. Moreover, Xcel Energy Center is frequently sold out for musical concerts. The National Lacrosse League’s Minnesota Swarm started habitual season play in the arena in January, 2005. Both Minneapolis and St. Paul are jointly bidding to host the 2008 Democratic National Convention and the 2008 Republican National Convention. Perhaps the Democrats desire Minneapolis/St. Paul, the main convention events will be held at the Xcel Energy Center. The GOP has not declared yet that which venue would host the convention, though other considerations are the Metrodome and the Target Center. The Xcel Energy will also host the 2008 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

The X Stadium provides all the necessary facilities for its spectators that has further raised the popularity of this wonderful sport’s avenue. It has taken care of the refreshments of the spectators who use to come to this splendid stadium to enjoy the games by managing some superb eating shops. The People enjoy both the sports and the delicious eatables. Iron Range Bar & Grill is a hockey theme sports bar, situated near the gate 4 at Section 120 on the 100 Level of the stadium. The Iron Range Grill offers a full menu counting hamburgers, chicken tenders, soup and sandwiches, and many other eatables. It also contains a bar serving a full selection of liquor, beer, and wine. It opens two hours prior to all Wild games and also on many other ocassions in the building. Then there is Headwaters Bar and Restaurant that is a first class dining facility, situated on the St. Paul Club Level in Section C2-C7. However, In Order to get access to this place , The Premium sea ticket ( Club, Suite or OTG) is the basic requirment for entry.

It is important to mention here that high tech technology is used to keep the stadium up-to-date. The suites at Xcel Energy Center and the Fishing Lodge contain new Apple Cinema HD Displays and PowerBook G4 notebooks to facilitate viewing of high-resolution game day video and photographs. And there is also a new multimedia intranet at the Center that allows expanded web browsing capabilities for suite holders involving the highlights of past Xcel Energy Center events and more. In order to supply on-site business center to aid with all the document needs, The Minnesota Wild has partnered with IKON Management Services. Few of the services count: Copying, Printing, Scanning & Finishing. The IKON Business Center is situated directly across from Gate #5 and is open from Monday to Friday from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM and also through out all Minnesota Wild home games until 7:00 PM.

The provision of all the wonderful facilities and the introduction of the most modern technology has made a Xcel Energy center, a magnificient stadium. The comfort of the general public especially the families have been taken a great care of. There are baby Changing stations in all public restrooms for the families who use to enjoy the sports in the X Arena. Moreover, families Restrooms are also available on all levels of the arena. Another great thing, For a lot of events children younger than two years of age are exempted for any ticket especially those held on the lap of an accompanying adult. Fold-up strollers should be stored under your seat while non-folding strollers should be checked at Guest Services, located at Section 104/105, on the 100 Level. A room in the RiverCentre Complex can be available for parents or chaperones of children who desire to be near to the concert their children are attending. The Family Room is very homely with a television to watch. The booking of the family room must be requested at least two weeks before the event. However, It is not not available for all the events.

For more information about Xcel Energy Center visit: http://venues.ixs.net/venues/Xcel-Energy-Center/index.aspx

Just Energy Reports First Quarter Results

Just Energy Reports First Quarter Results
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – 08/12/10) – Just Energy Income Fund (TSX: JE.UN – News ) – Highlights for the three months ended June 30, 2010 included: — Gross customer additions through marketing of 261,000 and net additions of 116,000 both the highest in Just Energy history. — Acquisition effective May 1, 2010 of Hudson Energy Group, a leading energy marketer to the U.S. commercial sector …

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Learn about jobs in a hot field: Energy

Learn about jobs in a hot field: Energy
Even with the recession, there’s no question the city is still a banking center. But there is another section of our economy, the energy business, that is receiving more and more attention.

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