Day: July 14, 2022

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2022 East Asia Marine Cooperation Platform Qingdao Forum Opened

QINGDAO, China, July 14, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/– On June 22, 2022, East Asia Marine Cooperation Platform Qingdao Forum was opened in Qingdao West Coast New Area, themed “Embrace the Ocean Decade for a Shared Future”. More than 400 guests from various countries and regions around the world including ocean experts, economists, artists and entrepreneurs attended online or offline, deepening the exchanges and cooperation in the marine economy, science and technology, culture, and environmental protection.

This forum was sponsored by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China and Shandong Provincial People’s Government, hosted by the Department of International Cooperation of Ministry of Natural Resources and Qingdao Municipal People’s Government, and organized by Qingdao West Coast New Area Administrative Committee. The forum comprised of ten parts including “one main forum, seven sub-forums, one contest, and one expo”. The one main forum refers to the opening ceremony and main forum. The seven sub-forums are United Nations Ocean Decade and Marine Environmental Governance International Forum, China Marine Engineering Science and Technology Innovation Forum, Marine Processes and Resources and Environment Forum, Blue International Cooperation Entrepreneur and Young Scientist Forum, East Asia Seaport Alliance Conference, International Seaweed and Health Industry Forum, and East Asia Marine Culture and Tourism Development Forum. The one contest is the Global Marine Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest (Final), and the one expo is the East Asia Marine Expo.

At the forum, the United Nations “Ocean Decade” Ocean and Climate Collaboration Center was approved, and the Big Science plan for the “Ocean Decade” was released. The International Marine Chamber of Commerce Association Alliance was unveiled. A series of public service products have been issued, such as the Modern Maritime City Research Report (2021), the East Asian Maritime City Cultural and Tourism Development Index Report (2022), the Xinhua Qingdao 50 Index, the China-Japan-ROK Economic and Trade Index, and the East Asia Port Berthing Efficiency Index (2021), creating a “barometer” and a “wind indicator” for international maritime cooperation.

As a part of the forum, the East Asia Marine Expo themed “Blue Marine Science and Technology” was held online and offline, with three sections including the offline expo, online virtual expo and thematic events. During this expo, more than 550 enterprises and institutions from over 70 countries and regions participated offline, achieving an intended transaction amount of RMB 4.14 billion yuan. The East Asia Marine Expo has become a high-level platform for opening up and cooperation, a cooperation hub for cities and enterprises, and a gathering place for capital, talents and information.

According to Oceanic Administration of Shandong Province, since the East Asia Marine Cooperation Platform was launched in 2016, it has yielded abundant fruitful results. The Qingdao Forum and the East Asia Marine Expo have been successfully organized for five times, releasing 21 reports including the East

Asia Marine Cooperation Report and the East Asia Port High Quality Development Report. Four international cooperation alliances have been established, including the East Asia Seaport Alliance and the Marine Industry and Technology Cooperation Alliance, and three think tanks including the Special Experts Think Tank of East Asia Marine Cooperation have been set up. 34 projects with a total investment of CNY 84.5 billion have been signed, and near 1,400 companies and institutions from more than 70 countries and regions have been attracted to attend the expo, with an intended transaction amount registering CNY 4.81 billion, thus creating a brand of international marine forum and renowned marine expo with great influence.

Source: Oceanic Administration of Shandong Province and Qingdao Municipal People’s Government

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Delphix to Launch Continuous Ransomware Protection, DevOps Data Appliances

New Appliances Provide Continuous Data Protection, Advanced Test Data Management for Enterprise Applications

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Delphix, the industry leader in DevOps test data management (TDM), today announced the launch of two new data appliances powered by Dell Technologies. Both appliances are fully engineered software solutions optimized for performance and reliability.

The Delphix CDP Appliance provides businesses with continuous data protection, multiple levels of ransomware detection, and the ability to automate instant recovery of multiple applications to a clean and data-consistent state. The Delphix DevOps Appliance provides the most advanced and secure TDM solution in the market, enabling customers to release software faster, safer, and at higher quality.

The Delphix CDP Appliance syncs data from enterprise applications in near-real time and creates a continuous, immutable data record, so applications can be recovered to any time, down to the second or a transaction boundary, for a near-zero recovery point objective (RPO). In contrast, traditional backups only protect data once a day, leaving the potential for a full day’s loss of critical business transactions.

In addition, the appliance enables the instant recovery of multiple applications using APIs for a near-zero recovery time objective (RTO). Business processes, like quote to cash, often create data dependencies and consistency challenges across applications. With this new appliance, businesses can quickly recover multiple applications to a data consistent state, even across multiple points in time, in order to determine a clean data state prior to a ransomware attack.

The Delphix CDP Appliance is built on a zero trust architecture. All data is immutable, and retained data snapshots and policies can be locked from tampering or deletion. In addition, the appliance is a fully contained, isolated recovery environment that can optionally include application and database servers.

Today, businesses need to balance both security and innovation. Many companies leave test data security and provisioning up to individual application teams and administrators, often in violation of privacy compliance and industry regulations. The Delphix DevOps Appliances automate sensitive data discovery, masking, and delivery to fully protect consumer data privacy throughout the application lifecycle.

In addition, businesses are in a race to release software faster. As they invest in DevOps tools and processes, test data often becomes a major bottleneck. The Delphix DevOps Appliance provides a range of innovative and unique APIs to enable superior testing, including APIs for data refresh, rewind, bookmark, teardown, and integration across apps. Using these APIs, Delphix customers have achieved high rates of innovation—well over a million CI/CD releases a month for individual customers.

“With Dell’s reach and the powerful combination of our technologies, we can help companies around the world innovate faster, while protecting consumer data privacy from ransomware and other attacks,” said Jedidiah Yueh, Delphix CEO. “We help companies achieve zero trust and zero friction data operations.”

To learn more about the Delphix CDP Appliance or the Delphix DevOps Appliance and how they can accelerate innovation, contact [email protected].

About Delphix

Delphix is the industry leader for DevOps test data management.

Businesses need to transform application delivery but struggle to balance speed with data security and compliance. Our DevOps Data Platform automates data security, while rapidly deploying test data to accelerate application releases. With Delphix, customers modernize applications, adopt multicloud, achieve CI/CD, and recover from downtime events such as ransomware up to 2x faster.

Leading companies, including Choice Hotels, Banco Carrefour, and Fannie Mae, use Delphix to accelerate digital transformation and enable zero trust data management. Visit us at www.delphix.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

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Hitachi Energy wins order to connect one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms to the UK power grid

HVDC Light® transmission systems will connect the Hornsea 3 wind farm, providing renewable power for more than three million homes

Zurich, Switzerland, July 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hitachi Energy, the global technology and market leader in power grids, today announced it has won a major order from Ørsted, the world-leading renewable energy company, to provide two high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems to transmit green electricity from the Hornsea 3 wind farm, located more than 120 km off the UK east coast.

The wind farm will have the capacity to generate up to 2.85 gigawatts of renewable electricity, enough to power more than three million UK homes. With more than 200 wind turbines installed across almost 700 square kilometers*1, this will be the single largest offshore wind farm in the world. This project is a significant step towards the British Energy Security Strategy ambition of sourcing up to 50 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030.*2

Hitachi Energy has supported Ørsted with the grid connection of Hornsea 1*3 and Hornsea 2*4, but Hornsea 3 will be the first phase to use HVDC application in the Hornsea cluster.

The overall HVDC system, including the offshore platform, is delivered in partnership with Aibel*5. Hitachi Energy will supply two HVDC Light® converter systems, while Aibel will deliver two HVDC offshore converter platforms. The platform is based on Hitachi Energy’s modular HVDC system including its advanced control and protection system, MACH™. As the HVDC offshore market grows and becomes more complex, Hitachi Energy will continue to develop solutions with its customers and partners to enable a more flexible offshore grid of the future.

“Offshore wind is a critical part of the clean energy transition and our HVDC technology is vital for effective transmission to the mainland power grid,” said Niklas Persson, Managing Director of Hitachi Energy’s Grid Integration business. “To address the rapidly growing offshore market, partnerships and collaboration are key to deliver at the speed and scale required to reach our decarbonization and energy security goals.”

“The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy and the Hornsea projects are a significant step towards this goal in the UK,” said Patrick Harnett, Vice President Programme UK at Ørsted. “Together with Hitachi Energy, we are demonstrating that renewables like offshore wind are a huge part of the world’s sustainability journey. Hornsea 3 will not just provide low cost, clean energy for millions of homes in the UK, it will also deliver thousands of high quality jobs and billions of pounds of investment in the offshore wind supply chain in the UK and beyond.”

Hitachi Energy is supplying four HVDC converter stations, which convert AC power to DC for transmission in the subsea cables, then reconvert it to AC for integration into the onshore grid. Two of the converter stations will be installed on offshore platforms and two at mainland grid connections.

Note to editors:

Hitachi Energy’s HVDC solution combines world-leading expertise in HVDC converter valves, the MACH™ digital control platform*6 converter power transformers and high-voltage switchgear, as well as in-system studies, design and engineering, supply, installation supervision and commissioning.

HVDC Light® is a voltage source converter technology developed by Hitachi Energy. It is the preferred technology for many grid applications, including interconnecting countries, integrating renewables and “power-from-shore” connections to offshore production facilities. HVDC Light’s defining features include uniquely compact converter stations and exceptionally low electrical losses.

Hitachi Energy pioneered commercial HVDC technology almost 70 years ago and has delivered more than half of the world’s HVDC projects.

*1 About Hornsea 3

*2 British Energy Security Strategy (BESS) – offshore wind

*3 Hornsea One Press Release

*4 Hornsea Two Press Release

*5 Aibel partnership Press Release

*6 Modular Advanced Control for HVDC (MACH™)

About Hitachi Energy

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 38,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of approximately $10 billion USD.

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society with data and technology. We will solve customers’ and society’s challenges with Lumada solutions leveraging IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, under the business structure of Digital Systems & Services, Green Energy & Mobility, Connective Industries and Automotive Systems. Driven by green, digital, and innovation, we aim for growth through collaboration with our customers. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2021 (ended March 31, 2022) totaled 10,264.6 billion yen ($84,136 million USD), with 853 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 370,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company’s website at https://www.hitachi.com.

About Ørsted

The Ørsted vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. Ørsted develops, constructs, and operates offshore and onshore wind farms, solar farms, energy storage facilities, renewable hydrogen and green fuels facilities, and bioenergy plants. Moreover, Ørsted provides energy products to its customers. Ørsted is the only energy company in the world with a science-based net-zero emissions target as validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Ørsted ranks as the world’s most sustainable energy company in Corporate Knights’ 2022 index of the Global 100 most sustainable corporations in the world and is recognised on the CDP Climate Change A List as a global leader on climate action. Headquartered in Denmark, Ørsted employs more than 7,000 people. Ørsted’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen (Orsted). In 2021, the group’s revenue was DKK 77.7 billion (EUR 10.4 billion). Visit www.orsted.co.uk or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter.

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Productivity of energy sector increased due to CPEC power plants: Musadik

Minister of State for Petroleum Musadik Malik says efficiency and productivity of energy sector in Pakistan have been increased due to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor power plants.

In an exclusive interview with China Economic Net, he said the more efficiently we generate electricity, the more the price of electricity will gradually decrease.

Musadik Malik highlighted that the solution to Pakistan’s problems is to continuously increase Pakistan’s power, gas and petroleum infrastructure.

The Minister of State said there are a lot of projects being implemented in Thar, because we need our own indigenous resources and Chinese companies have invested heavily there as well.

He said we will generate additional energy from our own resources through coal produced in our country.

Source: Radio Pakistan

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Meeting of executive board of NAB held in Islamabad

A meeting of Executive Board of National Accountability Bureau chaired by Acting Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau Zahir Shah was held at NAB Headquarters Islamabad.

Prosecutor General Accountability Syed Asghar Haider, DG NAB Rawalpindi Farman Ullah and other senior officers attended the meeting.

It was decided in the meeting that the newly amended NAB Act 2022 would be implemented as per the law.

A committee headed by DG Headquarters was formed that will present its report on continuation, closure or referral to the concerned department in accordance with the law after reviewing the ongoing inquiries and investigations in NAB in the light of the newly amended NAB Act 2022.

The meeting of the Executive Board of the National Accountability Bureau also approved to file a reference against Mirage A. Syed, former Chief Hydrographer, Gwadar Port Authority and others.

They caused a loss of about 794 million rupees to the national exchequer.

The meeting of the Executive Board of the National Accountability Bureau approved the closure of the inquiries / investigations on the basis of lack of evidence in the investigation so far.

The NAB Executive Board also decided not to share the details of inquiries and investigations approved by the NAB Executive Board in pursuance of the newly amended Act 2022.

NAB is a humanitarian organization which believes in the dignity and respect of every person.

It is pertinent to mention here that all NAB inquiries and investigations are initiated on the basis of alleged allegations which are not final.

According to the law, the NAB decides whether to conduct further investigations after ascertaining the position of all the persons concerned so that the requirements of justice can be met in accordance with the law.

Source: Radio Pakistan

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Ahsan Iqbal, Huang Runqiuon discuss cooperation in SDGs, climate change

Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal, on the sidelines of High Level Political Forum in New York, called on Minister of Ecology and Environment of China Huang Runqiuon.

During the meeting, cooperation in Sustainable Development Goals and climate change was discussed.

The Minister said China is an important development partner of Pakistan.

The Minister in the Presidency South Africa Mondli Gungubele and IMF Special Representative to the UN Robert Powell also had a meeting with the Planning Minister.

Source: Radio Pakistan