NorthStar Proudly Supports World Environment Day

Our mission is to deliver reliable and sustainable power to the world. Our commitment to environmental responsibility is a fundamental element of the NorthStar Group business philosophy, and that's why we are supporting World Environment Day on June 5.

We understand that damaging our ecosystem is not good for the future of our children or our business. We will host an event in our offices in Stockholm, Sweden, to celebrate the day. We will educate and raise awareness amongst our employees about global environmental challenges and what we can do to make a difference. This will be done through several multi media stations located around our offices.

We have also encouraged our suppliers and customers to embrace this day. We will of course serve our employees vegetarian food and ecological drinks. All our employees will be given their own eco bag encouraging them to use this bag over and over again instead of a plastic bag when they go shopping.

For more information about World Environment Day, visit the website www.unep。。ｏｒｇ/wed/

NorthStar 2015 Exhibition Schedule

It's another busy year on the road for NorthStar Battery. We'll be at more than 25 exhibitions big and small all around the world. From Automechanika in Chicago, TowerXchange in Singapore, IBEX in Louiseville, Electronica in Munich and SEMA in Las Vegas, our team will be out and about showing off our new products and innovative solutions.

Check back here for upcoming show info and more details. Current upcoming shows include:

- Unlimited Off-Road Expo, June 7-9, Louiseville  

- Datacenter Dynamics Converged, June 11-13, Shanghai

- CANTO Broadband Conference, June 25-29, Miami

NorthStar Battery and Eternity Technologies Announce OPzV Battery Collaboration

NorthStar Battery and Eternity Technologies join forces to launch a new tubular 2V OPzV battery range with capacities from 300-3000 Ah, to be sold exclusively by NorthStar for the ecom market. For more than a decade, NorthStar have designed and manufactured high performance AGM batteries in the USA for ecom Power Systems, Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Engine Start applications in more than 120 countries.

Eternity Technologies is a leader in the 2V motive market, with a brand new state-of-the-art facility in the UAE, and a global customer base that includes several worldwide material handling equipment suppliers. With the latest robotic processing technology, and advanced environmental control systems, NorthStar and Eternity deliver the most reliable and consistent products in the industry.

NorthStar CEO Hans Liden says the modern approach and strong customer focus of both companies will breathe new life into the standby power market. "We're very excited about the possibilities of this partnership - it's a natural fit," says Liden.

"Both companies take pride in putting customers first, meeting their high demands with our advanced manufacturing and innovative solutions, as well as our commitment to environmental responsibility."

Last year, the Missouri Water Environment Association presented NorthStar Battery with the Gold Industrial Wastewater Pretreatment Award at MWEA's Annual meeting. In 2012 Eternity was awarded the prestigious Gold Environmental Performance Certificate by the UAE's Ministry of Environment and Water.

Eternity CEO Dr. James Mark Stevenson sees the collaboration as a strategic expansion of their product range that will drive new business opportunities. "We've had a lot of success in the global motive power market and together with NorthStar we now will deliver our high quality products to a new range of customers," says Stevenson. "With our combined expertise and manufacturing excellence we will have a very attractive offer for the market place."

The new OPzV range will be built in the UAE based on collaborative designs between the NorthStar and Eternity engineering teams, with deliveries starting Q1/Q2 2015 depending on model.

Cameron Lawrence Wins Another Trans-Am Title

Cameron Lawrence has done it again, winning another Trans-Am Championship Title, this time in his new Dodge Challenger, with the help of the new NorthStar DIN Batteries. The Miller Racing Team wrapped up the SCCA Trans Am Series in the final race of the season at the Daytona International Speedway. Lawrence, the 22-year-old Trans Am Series’ TA2 class points leader heading into the finale, led from the pole position and for the entire 29-lap, 103-mile race, capturing his second and back-to-back TA2 titles.

“It’s awesome to be back home and have a little home field advantage for the last race of the season and the championship,” said Lawrence, of Windermere, Florida. “Definiy having all my friends and family here helped on race day and calmed my nerves down a little bit. The crew is awesome and worked so hard since we made the switch to the Dodge Challenger SRTs. We had a few setbacks along the way but everyone worked hard until we won the championship. It’s been a great year!”

根據(jù)IDC的研究顯示，未來的數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型經(jīng)濟（DX經(jīng)濟）對于企業(yè)業(yè)務(wù)的精準度要求非常之高，尤其是對于像數(shù)據(jù)中心領(lǐng)域來說，IDC更是針對當前的行業(yè)發(fā)展給出了未來發(fā)展的脈絡(luò)和預測，本文筆者就和大家一起來看看。

對于企業(yè)的數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型來說，數(shù)據(jù)中心近幾年開始轉(zhuǎn)向全自動化以及遠程對數(shù)據(jù)中心進行控制的分析技術(shù)和應(yīng)用，這對于企業(yè)廠商來說確實是一個未來發(fā)展*的優(yōu)勢所在，但是就目前的發(fā)展狀況來說，企業(yè)仍然要去面對如何減少系統(tǒng)宕機時間等不同的問題。盡管云技術(shù)的進步帶來了效率和靈活性的廣泛提升，但數(shù)據(jù)中心的基礎(chǔ)環(huán)境仍存在很大的技術(shù)復雜性。

數(shù)據(jù)中心未來路在何方？

根據(jù)預測，到2018年，數(shù)據(jù)密集型的行業(yè)市場將會有35%的企業(yè)去規(guī)劃一個非常正式的數(shù)據(jù)中心，用以去加快企業(yè)數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型的進程，到2019年，組織機構(gòu)當中用于數(shù)據(jù)中心的投資占比將會高達四分之一，并且數(shù)據(jù)中心還會與人工智能、機器學習等新興技術(shù)進行結(jié)合。

即付即用的方式再將來本地數(shù)據(jù)中心以及外部部署的物理IT基礎(chǔ)架構(gòu)當中將會占據(jù)主導地位，這樣做的好處就是能夠加強企業(yè)業(yè)務(wù)與IT部門之間的合作，2017年，只有20%的企業(yè)將按預定進度部署軟件定義的數(shù)據(jù)中心，因為關(guān)鍵設(shè)施的容量限制會延遲轉(zhuǎn)型進程。

我們都知道，云計算是當前企業(yè)業(yè)務(wù)的重要基石，隨著企業(yè)對不斷變化的數(shù)據(jù)應(yīng)用模式做出反應(yīng)，到2018年企業(yè)的ICT支出當中，將會有45%的資源用戶主機代管、托管云以及公共云數(shù)據(jù)中心的應(yīng)用當中。到2019年，20%的本地部署基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施將支持與地理位置相關(guān)的下一代工作負載，這些工作負載將通過集成式設(shè)備上的IaaS/PaaS堆棧直接連接到公共/托管云。

在網(wǎng)絡(luò)執(zhí)行層面，過去的一年當中機架層級的超融合與超大規(guī)模捆綁式銷售將占到服務(wù)器/存儲/網(wǎng)絡(luò)部署的30%，從而推動能耗和冷卻設(shè)計的變化，現(xiàn)在有將近四分之一的企業(yè)利用基于策略的覆蓋網(wǎng)絡(luò)，在數(shù)據(jù)中心、云和分支機構(gòu)之間快速安全地移動數(shù)據(jù)和工作負載，從而提升企業(yè)業(yè)務(wù)的運行管理效率。

數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型浪潮推動一切

當前隨著數(shù)字化轉(zhuǎn)型的推進，很多企業(yè)用戶的底層云和數(shù)據(jù)中心基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施必須以相同的速度去共同成熟，否則，如果不這樣的話，業(yè)務(wù)和IT部門就無法協(xié)調(diào)*，這樣一來就非常容易在兩者之間造成矛盾沖突，也會在很大程度上限制企業(yè)業(yè)務(wù)的發(fā)展。

從IDC的預測數(shù)據(jù)當中我們可以發(fā)現(xiàn)，到2018年，45%的企業(yè)ICT支出將用于與外部部署相關(guān)的混合環(huán)境。未來，隨著混合云逐步拓展到包含移動設(shè)備和傳感器的網(wǎng)絡(luò)邊緣，IDC預計數(shù)據(jù)中心環(huán)境只會變得更加分散和復雜。
 

The tightly contested battle for the championship saw Lawrence entering the Daytona race in his  1 CTEK/NorthStar Battery Dodge Challenger SRT just one point shy of his top contender, Adam Andretti. His record setting pole time of 1:51.319 now stands as a new track record and it broke his own qualifying record set last year, as well as adding one point to his championship points margin.

Saturday’s victory was Lawrence’s seventh of the year, ending the 2015 season with 310 points, 21 more than runner up Andretti. The 50-car entry was the largest in Trans Am history at Daytona and was an appropriate end to a great year of growth for the Trans Am Series. Congratulations to Cameron and the team!