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How Jodi Horton co-founded the Women’s Epic race – Utah Business – Utah Business

The Founder Seriesis a column by and about Utah founders and how they got to where they are today.Click here to read past articles in the series.

My family moved from Arizona to Utah when I was seven years old. My parents assumed everybody in Utah knew how to ski, so they signed my little brothers, my sister, and me up for skiing lessons right awaythe beginning of my love affair with Utahs great outdoors.

Ashlee Hinds and I launched our first Womens Epic race in 2021. We each bring different things to the table in a collaborative and creative way that has worked for us since day one. We have 10 years between us, and the age difference has worked out really wellI only notice it when building our playlist for the races. Ill ask her, Do you like this song by Fleetwood Mac or Nate Dogg? and shell say, Ive never heard of them, and then I remember were a decade apart!

Ashlees background is in fitness and marketing. I credit so much of our current path to Ashlee and her ability to think so far outside the box. Several years ago, Ashlees family owned Crazy Bobs Bair Gutsman, one of the hardest races on the Wasatch Front. She wears many hats and also serves as the race director for Womens Epic.

On founding a wool blanket company

I stepped away from the workforce after welcoming my daughter and son to the world. I had always wanted to start my own business. Doing it from home, in between naps and feedings, seemed like the perfect time to do so.

I began deep diving into the research of different trending markets, and thus, Lane & Mae, a luxury merino wool blanket brand, was born. I thrive on building a businessthe creation of a new brandand I love the early stages! My focus was on the quality of the merino wool while building a beautiful online and social presence. I was incredibly particular about the colors I carried, the dyeing process, and all the outsourcing details.

I launched, and numbers grew quickly on Instagram. Within a year, I caught the attention of a major luxury brand retailer. They were interested in carrying the brand, but to do so, I would need to scale in a big way. At that time, I didnt know how I was going to lead a team with two young babes at home, nor was I interested in doing so. However, I wanted to see it go to the next level. Offers started coming in, and I eventually sold my business within a year and a half of launching. Fast forward to 2019, I was busy consulting for small businesses to help ensure they had a social footprint, all the while continuing to research market trends hoping to find something new to spark my interest.

The launch of Womens Epic

In the spring of 2020, Ashlee and I were talking about our summer plans and the races we were hoping to participate in. That conversation was the aha moment. I had finally found another business opportunity that not only excited me, but I saw the long-term potential of it right away. Many brainstorming sessions followed.

Ashlee and I feel very fortunate that with Womens Epic, we have been able to create an environment where women can feel comfortable yet do something incredibly challenging together. I think weve really honed in on creating a memorable experience.

Weve often been asked why we launched during a pandemic, and I believe it comes down to knowing that humans, to their core, crave deep and meaningful connectionsmyself included. We believed sharing that connection on a mountain with so many incredible women was very much needed for so many that year.

There were so many unknowns, but when you believe something will be successful, you pull from that excitement and find a way. We started Womens Epic with the intention of getting more women in the mountains. It wasnt until after our first race that we truly realized how many women living in Utah, with mountains in their own backyard, had never experienced hiking or the feeling that comes with summiting a mountain.

Womens Epic really began to evolve from there. We discovered a gap in the trail running world, and we have become very proactive to start filling that void by giving more women the opportunity to get out on the trails.

Our first race was on July 31, 2021, at Brighton Resort up Big Cottonwood Canyon here in Utah.

Womens Epic sold out months in advance, unheard of for a first-year race. We also scored some big sponsors, including On Running and Pit Viper, from the get-go. I believe we were able to show them our vision in a way that resonated. Partnering with these major brands was a massive accomplishment that first year, and developing our relationship with them has been rewarding.

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For HPE, The Cloud Is A Private And A Public Matter – The Next Platform

Three years ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was the first major hardware and software infrastructure vendor to announce plans to make its entire portfolio available as a service, setting 2022 as the deadline for making that happen.

Antonio Neri, chief executive officer at HPE, and other executives saw the move, which is based on the companys GreenLake utility platform, as a way to extend the reach of its systems and software into the booming hybrid cloud space dominated by hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google, with a strong focus on the private cloud part of the equation in the datacenter, at colocation facilities, and at the edge.

Since then, HPE has aggressively grown the services it offers through GreenLake, building out the compute, storage, and connectivity capabilities, adding HPC, AI, machine learning, analytics and other fast-emerging technologies to the lineup, and supporting offerings from partners like SAP. This has helped HPE not only make GreenLake more attractive to a wider range of organizations but also keep in front of others like Dell Technologies, Lenovo, and Cisco Systems, all of which also are embracing the as-a-service model for their products.

There also are reports that HPE is looking to scoop up cloud services and software company Nutanix to bolster GreenLake, though neither company has even confirmed there are negotiations ongoing.

As we wrote about this summer, GreenLake is at the center of HPEs future plans and revenue hopes, and growth of the as-a-service business in both orders and revenue has been steady if not spectacular. As seen in the chart below, for HPEs fiscal year 2022, orders grew 68 percent year over year, with the fourth-quarter annualized revenue run rate hitting $936 million, up from $858 million the quarter before. That helped drive overall quarterly revenue up 7 percent, to $7.9 billion, and annual revenue up 3 percent, to $28.5 billion.

GreenLake has 65,000 customers, a 96 percent customer retention rate, and more than an exabyte of data under management.

Its an indication that as enterprises become more cloud-savvy, theyre understanding that the best strategy is hybrid cloud, with a mix of public and private clouds, according to Vishal Lall, senior vice president and general manager of HPEs GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions group.

If you go five or six years back and you would have spoken to enterprises, they would have said, Im going down the path of cloud and cloud means the public cloud, Lall told journalists during a briefing in the run up to this weeks HPE Discover show in Frankfurt, Germany. But now, if you have the same conversation with customers now, theyre basically saying, Im going down the path of cloud, but cloud means a little bit different for me and Im thinking about putting the right workloads in the right environment and thats a mix of private and public clouds.

Lall noted that half of data is being created outside of the traditional datacenter or cloud which means in large part the edge as the number of Internet of Things devices and systems rises sharply and that is driving the evolution of organizations cloud strategies as they juggle such issues as data gravity and latency, costs, and control.

Where the data is being produced is driving the way companies are thinking about their digital transformations, he said. One of the things theyre learning is that the approach they had for the public cloud at first essentially is not working very well, especially now more and more of the data is being produced at the edge.

At the two-day Discover event in Germany, HPE is putting an emphasis on the private side of hybrid clouds. In June, the company rolled out GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, an automated and scale private cloud offering for organizations that want to run both traditional and cloud-native applications that includes virtual machines, container, and bare metal workloads and comes with GreenLakes pay-per-use consumption model.

This week, HPE is building out Private Cloud Enterprise by adding AWS ESK service to its list of container offerings which includes HPEs own software in its Ezmeral software portfolio to give developers more deployment options for their Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code work. HPE also is running out a range of infrastructure instances optimized for compute, memory, and storage workloads along with another instance for general-purpose computing.

The idea of a single or homogenous one-size-fits-all works for some generic types of workloads, but in practice, more of our customers want to run more optimized workloads but they need it in that private cloud experience for performance, geo-locality of the data, security, any number of reasons, said Bryan Thompson, vice president of product management for GreenLake Cloud Services Solutions. By presenting these different optimized instances, we help customers configure and enable that cloud experience to optimize for their workloads, achieving the density for that generalized compute or AI types of instances for workloads all the way through things that might be optimized for HPC types of workloads, focusing on east-west networking or high-performance storage access.

In addition, HPEs Data Fabric hybrid data management plane will run natively on GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, creating a single namespace spanning the public and private clouds to make it easier for organizations to access data regardless of where it sits.

For GreenLake, the vendor also is expanding the partner offerings to include GreenLake for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and GreenLake for VMware, which was announced last month. HPE is bringing a unified view to analytics enabling organizations to use and cost numbers for GreenLake as wells as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform and offering GreenLake for Data Fabric and Ezmeral Unified Analytics through a new Ezmeral early access program.

Its all part of HPEs push to remake the long-time datacenter hardware supplier into a company that provides enterprises with the cloud-first offerings and services that are needed in a big data and hybrid cloud world.

The thing about this private cloud is its delivered as a service, so its different from what you might have expected from an HPE or traditional hardware, Thompson said. Its not about a bill of materials. Its a service provided to the customer with a rate card-consumption experience. What services am I consuming? How long do I consume them? Whats my cost per hour? It gives that public cloud consumption experience now delivered in the form factor optimized where they needed to be, in their datacenters, in their edge locations, in colocation.

It also grows the customer base beyond the IT administrator to include application owners and developers through open standards that deliver API and CLI interfaces as well as cloud-native services, he said.

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Lion’s Tail Brewing Co. – Head Brewer – Brewbound.com

Lion's Tail Brewing Co. - Head Brewer - Brewbound.com Craft Beer Job Listing | Brewbound.com Home Jobs Lion's Tail Brewing Co. - Head Brewer Lion's Tail Brewing Co. Apply for this Job Lion's Tail Brewing Co. (Neenah, WI) is a family-owned, highly-rated brewery/brewpub known for our creativity and consistent exploration of new styles in our market. Customer demand has helped steadily grow our business over the past 7 years since our founding in 2015 - most recently with the opening of a 2nd taproom location in the Milwaukee market (Wauwatosa). With a 10-bbl, 2-vessel electric brew system we will finish the year between 1500-1600 bbls, including a mix of in-house canned and kegged beer/seltzer that is self-distributed to most of the major markets in Wisconsin. With recent capacity upgrades to our Neenah brewery, we plan to produce up to 2300 bbl/year. The new Milwaukee location includes stubbed-in production space for a brewery to be constructed in mid-2023 with capacity in a similar range as we continue to steadily grow.

We are currently looking to add a hard-working, creative and talented brewer to lead our Neenah brewery staff. We anticipate staffing the Milwaukee brewery at some point in mid to late 2023, so relocation is a possibility we'll consider for the right candidate as that next chapter begins.

Preferred Qualifications:Head Brewer:>5 years commercial brewing experience with a proven track record for consistent quality. Formal brewing education or relatable higher education is a plus. Management/leadership experience preferred. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a diverse group of people. Ability to communicate effectively with brewery staff as well as between the different departments in our small company (sales, operations, hospitality, marketing, etc.). Proven track record of promoting a culture of workplace safety. Must have advanced mechanical aptitude with the ability to troubleshoot typical small brewery equipment and a drive to continuously improve processes. Must be physically capable of manual brewery processes typical of a small brewery as we have limited automation. Must be available to work Mon-Fri with enough flexibility to sufficiently manage our brewery staff (typical brew days are 9 to 12 hours total, staggered with assistant brewers), and occasional functions as needed on weekends. Participation at brewery/company events is assumed with these duties shared among all of our full-time staff.

Compensation:Competitive salary based on experience $46k-$60k (Head Brewer). Paid time off based on experience, plus paid days off for company holidays. Assistance with costs of healthcare coverage are available for the right candidate.

To Apply:Email a resume and a few words on why you're well-suited for the job. Listing of a few relatable employer references is encouraged. Please send toalex@lionstailbrewing.comand make sure to include your contact info and available times for a phone interview as a 1st step.

Job Title: Head Brewer

Company: Lion's Tail Brewing Co.

Employment Type: Full Time

Compensation/Salary: $46,000.00 - $60,000.00 per Year

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Tip of the Iceberg podcast UNFI, Square Roots executives on co-location – The Packer

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GDS partners with DCConnect to deliver advanced connectivity solutions, strengthening GDS’ presence in Southeast Asia and beyond – Yahoo Finance

Partnership to provide international customers with extended connectivity

HONG KONG, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GDS, a leading developer and operator of high-performance data centers, announced a partnership with DCConnect, a prominent Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology provider. By signing a memorandum of understating (MoU) with DCConnect, both parties will jointly develop innovative Network Automation and advanced connectivity solutions for customers across the Greater China, Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions. GDS has moved forward to offer high quality automated network services to its customers, and to expand its presence in Southeast Asia (SEA) and the rest of the world.

Thanks to GDS' total IT infrastructure solutions and DCConnect's capabilities on connectivity automation, the new partnership enables GDS to offer high-quality data center interconnection solutions to customers and allows them to benefit from seamless global connectivity, faster speed to market, higher cost-efficiencies, and rapid provisioning with advanced technology. Through this strategic alliance, both parties will co-create three innovative automated connectivity solutions, namely Virtual Cross Connect, GDS Network Automation and GDS Global Marketplace.

GDS, with its overseas operations headquartered in Singapore, serves as a bridge to connect customers from SEA to the rest of the world. The strategic alliance with DCConnect will empower GDS' customers the ability to enjoy an extensive global network in over 1,000 data centers across 61 countries. The new solutions will facilitate enterprises to expand their businesses to the world and achieve global connectivity with single-point management.

"We value the DCConnect's capabilities on connectivity automation with impressive technology. We believe this will benefit GDS customers by offering innovative solutions and technology to support the advanced connectivity services. Through our partnership with DCConnect, we enable our customers to have on-demand connectivity to data centers, network resources and cloud services globally." said Jamie Khoo, the Chief Operating Officer of GDS.

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"GDS and DCConnect are working hand-in-hand to ensure the Network Automation and advanced connectivity solutions are delivered smoothly," said Charmond Tsang, the Chief Commercial Officer of DCConnect. "Our mission is to leverage advanced SDN to create the autonomous network ecosystem the partners are incentivized to involve, connect network and bandwidth resources to address today's networking challenges".

SEA's digital economy continues to thrive, leading to a stronger demand for digital infrastructure and the need for global connectivity that facilitates digital infrastructure development. Following GDS' S-J-B (Singapore-Johor-Batam) strategy, including developing hyperscale data center projects in Nusajaya Tech Park in Johor, Malaysia and Nongsa Digital Park in Batam, Indonesia, the partnership with DCConnect has marked another key milestone in driving the prosperity of SEA's digital economy and highlights the company's continued vision to expand beyond colocation services in SEA to an all-rounded IT solution, encompassing colocation services, network and cloud connectivity.

The partnership creates more opportunities and confidence for GDS to continue to improve and expand its data center platform and substantiates its commitment in supporting customers' digital transformation. Looking ahead, building upon the key advantage of our well-established data center platform in China, GDS will persist to strengthen high quality services to SEA and global customers, and to support the rapid development of SEA's digital economy.

About GDS Holdings Limited

GDS Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GDS; HKEX: 9698) is a leading developer and operator of high-performance data centers in China. The Company's facilities are strategically located in China's primary economic hubs where demand for high-performance data center services is concentrated. The Company also builds, operates and transfers data centers at other locations selected by its customers in order to fulfill their broader requirements. The Company's data centers have large net floor area, high power capacity, density and efficiency, and multiple redundancies across all critical systems. GDS is carrier and cloud-neutral, which enables its customers to access all the major PRC telecommunications networks, as well as the largest PRC and global public clouds which are hosted in many of its facilities. The Company offers co-location and a suite of value-added services, including managed hybrid cloud services through direct private connection to leading public clouds, managed network services, and, where required, the resale of public cloud services. The Company has a 21-year track record of service delivery, successfully fulfilling the requirements of some of the largest and most demanding customers for outsourced data center services in China. The Company's customer base consists predominantly of hyperscale cloud service providers, large internet companies, financial institutions, telecommunications carriers, IT service providers, and large domestic private sector and multinational corporations.

About DCConnect

As one of the recognized brands in the industry, DCConnect leverages advanced SDN and blockchain technology to create the first autonomous network ecosystem whereby the partners are incentivized to involve and connect network and bandwidth resources to address today's networking challenges. DCConnect's solution was further enhanced and extended by the implementation of more than 1,000 Data Center PoPs in North America, Europe, APAC, SE Asia and MENA via selected partners, and access to over 61 countries. For more details, please visit our website https://www.dcconnectglobal.com/

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Americas Data Center Colocation Market to be Worth USD 10.6 Billion by 2027. Industry Insights and Competitive Analysis 2027 – Arizton – PR Newswire

CHICAGO, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --According to Arizton's latest research report, the data center colocation market in Americas is to grow at a CAGR of 5.34% during 2022-2027. Virginia is considered the data center capital of the world. It is the largest contributor to data center floor space in the Americas and added more than 3 million square feet in more than 15 data center facilities. Virginia is followed by Georgia and California. Colocation service provider Switch is the major contributor to the area, with around two million square feet, followed by Cologix and STACK Infrastructure.

The region has a presence of technical parks, special economic zones, and free trade zones that provide investment support or tax incentives in the development of data centers across the region. Some industrial parks include Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRI) and Elk Grove, Industrial Park. The Americas data center colocation market by area is expected to reach 8,495 thousand square feet by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 5.17%.

Data Center Colocation Market in Americas Report Scope

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Market Size (2027)

USD 10.6 Billion

Market Size (2021)

USD 7.75 Billion

CAGR (2021-2027)

5.34%

Market Size - Area (2027)

8 Million Sq. Ft

Market Size Power Capacity (2027)

1,317.5 MW

Base Year

2021

Forecast Year

2022-2027

Market Segmentation

Colocation Service, Infrastructure, Electrical Infrastructure, Mechanical Infrastructure, Cooling Systems, Cooling Technique, General Construction, Tier Standard, and Region

Geographic Analysis

North America and Latin America

Countries Covered

US, Canada, Latin America, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Columbia, and Other Latin American Countries

Market Dynamics

Tax incentives, increase in colocation investment, renewable energy drives data center growth, adoption of IoT & big data and smart city developments, and rising deployment of submarine and inland cables

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The business overview, service offerings, and key news

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Prominent Colocation Investors: CyrusOne, Digital Realty, Equinix, GTD Per, HostDime, IPXON Networks, Lumen Technologies, NTT Global Data Centers, OData, QTS Reality Trust, Scala Data Centers, Switch, and Vantage Data Centers

Other Prominent Vendors: 365 Data Centers, Aligned, American Tower, Ava Telecom, CloudHQ, Cologix, Compass Datacenters, COPT Data Center Solutions, CoreSite, Cyxtera Technologies, DartPoints, DC BLOX, EdgeCore Internet Real Estate, EdgePresence, Element Critical, eStruxture Data Centers, fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (1547), Flexential, GIGA Data Centers, InterNexa, Iron Mountain, Millicom, Prime Data Centers, Quntico Data Center, Sabey Data Centers, Skybox Datacenters, STACK Infrastructure, Stream Data Centers, T5 Data Centers, Telmex, Urbacon Data Centre Solutions, and Vapor IO

NewEntrants: AUBix, Cirrus Data Services, DSTOR, Eastlink, EdgeX Data Centers, Enovum Data Centers, Gatineau Data Hub, Intermarket Properties, Novva, PointOne, QScale, Quantum Loophole, and Yondr

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In the Americas, investments in submarine cables have increased considerably over the years, with the government and enterprises continuously strengthening fiber infrastructure for better connectivity with other countries. Several telecommunication providers and hyperscale data center operators invest in cables to improve network connectivity within the country. The adoption of cloud, big data, and IoT technologies has strengthened the need for strong fixed broadband connectivity in the last five years. Along with submarine cables, the market is also witnessing a growth in data storage and connectivity demand due to the growing inland connectivity options.

The North American data center market leads growth in the overall industry, with early availability and adoption of innovative technology and investments from colocation service providers, hyperscale operators, enterprises, and government agencies. Investments in North America are driven by the availability of land, governmental support, data protection laws, and tax incentives by the state governments. In North America, the U.S. dominates the Americas data center colocation market, followed by Canada, with increased investments from colocation providers, hyperscale data center operators, enterprises, and government agencies in data center facilities, adopting redundant power backup infrastructure. Northern Virginia, Georgia, California, Texas, Arizona, Ontario, Montreal, Toronto, and Richmond are favorable destinations for investors in North America.

In Latin America, countries like Brazil are witnessing the rapid adoption of renewable energy, which leads to the growth of the facilities; in Mexico and other Latin American countries, the demand for centers was driven by the growth of the gaming industry and the special economic zones.

The rapid investment in 5G technology and its deployment will increase the number of connected devices, leading to the generation of a substantial amount of data, further increasing investments in edge data centers across regions for low latency and ease of accessibility to data device-to-device communications. American Countries have deployed 5G network services, and some are on a 5G trial basis. AT&T, T-Mobile, CenturyLink, TELUS, Rogers Communications, Bell, SaskTel, Nokia, SubTel, Alvis, Claro, Antel, Entel, and Ericsson are some of the companies which are involved in the deployment of the 5G network services across the region.

In the Americas, countries such as the U.S., Canada, Chile, and Uruguay have commercially deployed 5G network services. Additionally, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and other Latin American countries are in the stage of 5G planning, trials, and yet-to-deploy commercial services during the forecast period.

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Electrical Infrastructure

Mechanical Infrastructure

Cooling Systems

Cooling Technique

General Construction

Tier Standard

Region

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Rock Samples from the Floor of Jezero Crater Show Significant Contact with Water Together with Possible Organic Compounds – Caltech

Analysis of multiple rocks found at the bottom of Jezero Crater on Mars, where the Perseverance rover landed in 2020, reveals significant interaction between the rocks and liquid water, according to a study publishing on November 24 in Science. Those rocks also contain evidence consistent with the presence of organic compounds.

The existence of organic compounds (chemical compounds with carbonhydrogen bonds) is not direct evidence of life, as these compounds can be created through nonbiological processes.

Perseverance previously found organic compounds at Jezero's delta. Deltas are fan-shaped geologic formations created at the intersection of a river and a lake at the edge of the crater. Mars 2020 mission scientists had been particularly interested in the Jezero delta because such formations are created when a river transporting fine-grained sediments enter a deeper, slower-moving body of water. As the river water spreads out, it abruptly slows down, depositing the sediments it is carryingand in so doing, traps and preserves any microorganisms that may exist in the water.

However, the crater floor, where the rover landed for safety reasons before traveling to the delta, was more of a mystery. In lake beds, one expects to find sedimentary rocks, because the water deposits layer after layer of sediment. However, when the rover touched down there and had a look around, some researchers were surprised to note igneous rocks (which is cooled magma) on the crater floor with minerals in them that recorded not just igneous processes but significant contact with water.

"The nature of the water interaction with the igneous rocks is very intriguing and unique chemically. There are carbonates, which require CO2 dissolved in water to form. There are also fascinating combinations of materials such as sulfate and perchlorate, likely formed through evaporating water," says Eva Scheller (PhD '22), now a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. Scheller, the corresponding author of the Science paper, conducted this research on the Jezero Crater floor during her doctoral work at Caltech.

The signs of different types of salts, including carbonates, sulfates, and perchlorates along with co-located possible organic compounds were discovered using SHERLOC, or the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals instrument. Mounted on the rover's robotic arm, SHERLOC is equipped with a number of tools, including a Raman spectrometer that utilizes a specific type of fluorescence to search for organic compounds and also see how they are distributed in a material, providing insight into how they were preserved in that location.

"The microscopic compositional imaging capabilities of SHERLOC have really blown open our ability to decipher the time-ordering of Mars's past environments," says Bethany Ehlmann, co-author of the Sciencepaper, professor of planetary science, and associate director of the Keck Institute for Space Studies. "The microscopic fingerprints show igneous rocks formed and then water circulated through them, altering the rocks and depositing minerals in voids and cracks. In some places, data show evidence for organics within these potentially habitable niches."

As the rover rolled toward the delta, it took several samples of the water-altered igneous rocks and cached them for a possible future sample-return mission. Determining definitively the nature of past wet environments, the presence and type of organics and whether these have anything to do with life requires returning the samples to Earth for examination in laboratories with advanced instrumentation.

"These will be key samples for understanding environments on ancient Mars and whether they had conditions suitable for life or even hosted life," Scheller says.

The Science paper has numerous co-authors from multiple institutions worldwide. This research was funded by NASA, the European Research Council, the Swedish National Space Agency, and the UK Space Agency.

Image: A photo of Jezero Crater on Mars. It was taken by instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which regularly takes images of potential landing sites for future missions. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL

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How hybrid PV technologies can contribute to the decarbonisation of Thailand’s power system Analysis – IEA – IEA

While hybridisation has many advantages, it also adds locational and operational constraints, as well as a loss of visibility to system operators. These disadvantages need to be assessed and weighed against the benefits in order to ensure that the plants construction provides net benefits to the system.

First, in co-located or fully hybridised setups, the developer constructs multiple installations (e.g.solar, wind, battery or hydropower) in the same location. The chosen location, however, may not be ideal for any one of them, which would introduce the need for a compromise when co-optimising the location. This could reduce the potential of individual constituent technologies to provide system services such as non-wire alternatives, or reduce the potential yield.

For example, by installing solar PV and BESS in a hybrid setup, the location decision will be the result of a compromise between the optimum solar resource and the potential of the battery to relieve congestion. It is possible that installing the two resources in different locations could produce more solar PV electricity (due to higher solar irradiation at that location for example), while allowing the battery to serve as a non-wire alternative and thus reduce congestion.

This trade-off is particularly clear when considering hybrid hydropower projects. As the locations suitable for hydropower plants are extremely limited, from the perspective of solar PV siting, the joint locations are often suboptimal.

The decision in favour of hybridisation should therefore be based on verification that the system-level costs of the locational drawbacks are offset by the advantages of the hybridisation. Where in certain cases, the cost-benefit analysis might be positive for the plant operator, it is crucial to check that the setup makes sense from the system-level perspective.

Secondly, hybridisation can also add operational constraints, which result from the shared infrastructure or the operational linkage. In terms of infrastructure, and in the case of a retrofit addition of solar PV to existing plants, a constraint may exist in terms of the capacity of the connection point (described below). Furthermore, in the hybrid PV and BESS setup, sharing an inverter, while bringing some advantages as outlined above, limits the output in times of high generation. In the case of hydropower, the operation range of the plant could limit the full dispatchability of the hybrid system. Hydropower ramping for short-term flexibility, for example, could be constrained by the allowed volumes of water discharge downstream.

Coming back to our modelled example, and looking at the differences between the two additional solar scenarios, one can see that there are slight differences in the way the hydropower generation is adjusting over time. In the co-located scenario, to take into account the shared infrastructure of the hydropower/floating solar plant and the constraint on the PV generation due to the reservoirs location, two additional constraints were introduced into the model. Firstly, the scenario is modelled assuming the use of common transmission and distribution equipment and is therefore limited to the capacity of the existing hydropower plant (5.34 GW) at which they are located. Secondly, there is limited transmission capacity between the hydropower plant that is in the northern region of Thailand and the main load centres located in the centre of the country. These two constraints lead to slight differences between the two additional solar cases. Indeed, the adjustment of the hydropower profile to solar PV availability is stronger in the co-located scenario, as the capacity of the shared infrastructure limits the total output at the site. The fact that the hydropower resource is increasingly used to balance local congestion instead of being controlled at system level reduces the cost-efficiency of the system.

Lastly, in full hybrid or virtual power plant setups, a trade-off is the loss of visibility from the system operators perspective. Indeed, the fact that the hybrid technologies constituents are controlled together renders their individual behaviours invisible to grid operators, who then rely on plant operators to ensure operations are managed in a system-optimum way. Providing incentives and regulations to plant operators to ensure that operations are system-friendly can address this drawback.

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Cyber and Physical Threats Illuminate Need for Security Convergence in Energy Sector – HS Today – HSToday

Security convergence is the industry term used to describe the uniting of cyber and physical security into a single organizational structure. It is a point of discussion among practitioners since ASIS International and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) established the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management an organization dedicated to this concept 17 years ago. Yet only 52.5 percent of large companies surveyed are either fully or partially converged, as noted by Megan Gates in the latest issue of Security Management. Gates also cites the Colonial Pipeline incident, which operated as a traditionally siloed cyber and physical security program and is now merging security functions in the wake of experiencing a crippling ransomware attack in May. Critical infrastructure providers, particularly those in the energy sector, cannot operate effectively with cyber and physical security information siloes in place.

With rapidly changing geopolitical risks, persistent cyber threats, enduring COVID-19 with seasonal hot spots, and violent kinetic attacks and conflicts occurring globally, companies have re-thought traditional enterprise risk management frameworks to account for all risks and hazards. The risk surface for critical infrastructure providers particularly those in the energy sector is complex.

First, energy providers that deal in the dynamic world of dispersed generation, distribution, and transmission operations often have a vast array of infrastructure located in all types of threat environments ranging from urban to isolated rural areas. These bulk-electric system sub-stations, or critical pipelines, for example, fall under varying regulatory oversight (including NERC/CIP, CFATS, and TSA Pipeline Security directives), most of which require robust cybersecurity and even physical security controls (e.g., NERC/CIP 14). Second, energy providers are increasingly susceptible to Operational Technology attacks cyber attacks that target physical infrastructure and can have a devastating physical impact beyond operational disruption.

Additionally, sophisticated cyber attacks against the grid are increasingly how state actors attempt to punish adversaries in a non-attributional or obfuscated way. Earlier this year, DHS even warned of domestic violent extremists targeting infrastructure for physical attack to create widespread chaos and undermine confidence in the government. In September, the Nord Stream pipeline was sabotaged under the Baltic Sea a stark reminder of the disruption a surgical attack can have on exposed infrastructure. Global geopolitical instability has only increased the potential for a converged attack, in which a sophisticated threat actor gains access to a critical site or location and introduces malware directly into ICS/SCADA systems a threat vector that no amount of air-gapping IT/OT systems can prevent. Worse, a coordinated cyber and physical attack, targeting disparate key bulk-electric system nodes concurrently, could have an amplifying and cascading effect.

Based on these threats, regulators are attempting to drive greater security convergence and physical-cyber coordination within the energy sector. In addition to outlining physical security requirements, TSAs latest Pipeline Security Directive, released in July, requires covered Owner/Operators to have an up-to-date Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan that includes measures to reduce the risk of operational disruption. In addition to baseline cybersecurity criteria, NERCs CIP-014-1 Physical Security also requires transmission operators to identify and protect Transmission stations and Transmission substations, and their associated primary control centers, that if rendered inoperable or damaged as a result of a physical attack could result in widespread instability, uncontrolled separation, or Cascading within an Interconnection.

NERCs Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center (E-ISAC) also leads the GridEx exercise biannually to offer member and partner organizations a forum to practice how they would respond to and recover from coordinated cyber and physical security threats and incidents. GridEx planners continue to anticipate a rise in sophisticated, coordinated attacks that will challenge traditionally siloed security organizations. When read holistically, these key regulatory and exercise regimes highlight converging cyber and physical risks.

The criticality of the sector, its reliance on decentralized, exposed infrastructure, and the creativity and sophistication of adversaries demand the dismantling of information siloes within security organizations. The best way to eliminate siloes is to converge security functions under a single, accountable executive responsible for security-related risk management decisions and investments. An incremental model would see physical security programs converge with OT security functions (vs. the entire IT cybersecurity ecosystem), uniting under a single chain of command critical functions that prevent, respond, and recover from hybrid threats and attacks.

To manage these tail risk security contingencies, or those risks with low probability by high consequence, a converged or dedicated cross-functional team can:

Convergence is not a panacea, appropriate for every company and every sector. Cybersecurity and physical security practitioners have specialized skillsets and experiences that have evolved over time and warrant continued specialization. Each bring unique perspectives that can illuminate how an adversary would exploit a vulnerability. However, critical infrastructure providers particularly those within the energy sector lack inherent protections afforded to other industries (e.g., co-locating high-value assets or systems, less persistent threat activity, and limited physical impacts from an attack). Instead, these organizations are the target of sophisticated threat actors, operate vast arrays of exposed infrastructure with inherent physical and cyber vulnerabilities, and provide services that directly impact societys ability to function. Now is the time for the energy sector to earnestly consider converging security functions to effectively manage an unprecedented threat landscape.

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