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DuraNAS 1000 rugged network attached storage (NAS) for harsh environment applications

Amaro (Italy), February 16th, 2010 – Eurotech, a leading supplier of embedded technologies, announces availability of the DuraNAS 1000 rugged Network Attached Storage (NAS).

• Ideal for Public Transportation, Security and Defense markets
• Video surveillance and multimedia applications
• Compact enclosure with standard M12 connector for data storage in a harsh environment
• Up to 1 TB of storage – Solid State Disk versions – RAID 1 storage
• POE: no need for an external power supply
• Quick and easy setup thanks to its DHCP client interface
• Fully compliant with EN 50155 for rolling stock installations
• Wide operating temperature range

The DuraNAS 1000 provides reliable high capacity Network Attached Storage (NAS) to IP-based systems installed on rolling stocks as well as in all applications where a rugged device designed for harsh environment is required.

The DuraNAS 1000 is ideally suited to complement the DuraCOR-NVR video recording system by providing expandable and removable mass storage for compressed video data.

The DuraNAS 1000 is a network device which can be accessed from anywhere the network is accessible, even from remote locations.

An Ethernet interface to mass storage is a reliable interconnection technology in harsh environment applications where EMC and immunity to electromagnetic interference are key requirements. Long cables are supported and the inherent insulation of Ethernet increases the operational reliability of the DuraNAS 1000 compared to other technologies such as USB2.0.

A high-performance NAS controller chip is used to bridge two 2.5” form factor SATA HDDs to a 10/100Mbit Ethernet interface.

Extensive measures have been taken to ensure reliable operation under all conditions and compatibility with internationally respected standards. The sealed Ethernet I/O connector, a Power Over Ethernet (POE) power supply and a compact rugged mechanical enclosure increase field reliability.

The Eurotech NAS system is intended to be used together with an external DuraCOR NVR and provides storage for up to 30 days of compressed video. Two DuraNAS 1000 can be joined for redundancy or capacity expansion.

Contact sales@eurotech.com for updated availability and pricing information. For additional specifications or to download a product datasheet, visit http://www.eurotech.com.

About Eurotech

Eurotech is a global company based in Italy and with locations in Europe, North America and Asia. The Eurotech group develops and markets miniaturised computers for special uses (NanoPCs) and computers featuring major computing capacity (HPCs – High-Performance Computers). With these two product categories, Eurotech aims to become a leader in implementation of the pervasive computing infrastructure commonly known as Cloud, capable of enabling an entire range of activities and value-added services in the transport, defence, industrial, medical and scientific-research sectors.

Company contacts:
Eurotech Group
Giuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
g.vidoni@eurotech.com

Linden, NJ, USA (February 15th, 2010) – Minicom Digital Signage (http://www.minicomdigitalsignage.com/index.htm?PR_DSE_9co), the world leader in Digital Signage player-to-screen connectivity, is proud to announce that 9 prominent Digital Signage companies have chosen Minicom Digital Signage’s products to showcase their own technology at DIGITAL SIGNAGE EXPO, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV.

Dave Haar, Managing Director North America – Minicom Digital Signage Division, “We are proud to have our products displayed in 9 Digital Signage Expo booths in addition to our own. We see that the Digital Signage industry trusts Minicom Digital Signage to demonstrate their technologies in mission-critical environments such as an exhibition.

The DS Vision® 3000 (http://www.minicomdigitalsignage.com/av_ds3000.htm) will be deployed at Scala – Booth 1500, Rhombus Services – Booth 1829, MagicBox – Booth 1653, Dynasign – Booth 1630, Chief Manufacturing – Booth 1136, NEC Display Solutions – Booth 1805, Synnex – Booth 2024 and UC View Media – Booth 1417. The Video Data Transmitter will be deployed at ZipCast – booth 2017; and the VGA Extender will be deployed at Symon Communications – Booth 1200.

About Minicom Digital Signage
Minicom Digital Signage is the world leader in the manufacturer of advanced multimedia platforms. The company’s award winning solutions enable transmitting rich content from a media player to multiple digital displays located hundreds of meters/feet away. They also keep network costs down by reducing equipment and licensing requirements and better preserving your system. Today over a quarter of a million screens worldwide run using Minicom Digital Signage technology. A private company with over two decades of experience in providing innovative technology solutions, Minicom Digital Signage is exclusively dedicated to the manufacture of digital out-of-home multimedia platforms. As a result of its success, Minicom Digital Signage became an Intel Capital portfolio company and was selected as a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 company.

Download a Minicom Digital Signage White Paper free, see the Digital Signage catalog online or view case studies (http://www.minicomdigitalsignage.com/case-studies.htm) featuring Minicom Digital Signage products.

For more information:
Gil Raz
Marketing Communication
Minicom Digital Signage
T: +972 2 5359635 F: +972 2 5359700
gil.raz@minicom.com
www.minicomdigitalsignage.com

DuraCOR 820-A Optimized for Size, Weight and Power Constrained Unmanned Aerial & Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Computing Platforms

Amaro (ITALY), February 1, 2010. (ETH.MI) Eurotech subsidiary Parvus Corporation will preview a new MIL-COTS rugged mission computer subsystem based on the low-power Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz processor with Gigabit Ethernet and MIL-STD-1553 databus connectivity at Booth #1411 of the AFCEA/USNI West 2010 Conference. AFCEA West is the largest defense and technology exposition and conference on the West Coast, being held at the San Diego Convention Center Feb. 2-4

Optimally designed for Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP)-constrained military / aerospace vehicle and aircraft installations, the new DuraCOR 820-A small form-factor rugged processor delivers processing and multimedia performance comparable (or better) to Pentium M-based DuraCOR solutions, but with less power consumption, double the RAM memory capacity, and dual Flash Solid State Disks (SSDs). The system is equipped with a 28V high efficiency power supply compliant with MIL-STD-1275 and MIL-STD-704 voltages, spikes, and surges, which makes the unit compatible with not only airborne, but also military ground vehicle platforms. System I/O includes 1x Gigabit Ethernet, 1x MIL-STD-1553, 3x USB 2.0, 2x RS-232, 2x PS/2, 8 DIO, and VGA, which are brought out through lightweight, high-density MIL-38999-like connectors, making the product an ideal solution for a variety of unmanned and manned command and control (C2) applications.

The DuraCOR 820-A offers a compact mechanical design (~3lbs weight, ~ 3.0” height) very similar in form factor to flight-qualified legacy Parvus DuraCOR 820 systems currently deployed in unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and other military applications. The unit is fanless, conduction cooled and designed for use under extended temperature (-40 to +71C) and other demanding MIL-STD-810F environmental conditions (thermal, shock, vibration, altitude, humidity). The new 820-A model offers enhanced ingress protection from dust and water immersion, along with improved filtering and shielding from EMI/EMC conditions. The system is designed to meet and will undergo MIL-STD-810F and MIL-STD-461E environmental and emissions/susceptibility qualification testing as it prepares for production.

For application flexibility, the unit comes with a 4GB industrial SSD pre-loaded with a Linux or Windows Embedded operating system, as well as a 16 GB Compact Flash disk for file storage. The unit is based on a modular PC/104-Plus open architecture, making it possible to customize/special order and meet program-specific I/O requirements. For programs requiring additional I/O expansion capabilities, Parvus offers the DuraCOR 810 and DuraCOR 810-Duo platforms, which feature up to 6x PC104(+) expansion slots.

AVAILABILITY

The DuraCOR 820-A is currently in pre-production. Official pricing is not yet available. MIL-STD qualification testing should begin later in Q1 2010 with production to follow.

Company contacts:

Eurotech Group
Giuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
g.vidoni@eurotech.com
Sales: sales.it@eurotech.com

Eurotech introduces the ISIS and PROTEUS Industrial Compact Enclosures (ICE) based on Intel Atom Processor

Amaro (ITALY), January 26th , 2010. Eurotech offer a range of embedded platforms & devices qualified for the Industrial, Transportation and Defence markets. These products cover requirements ranging from embedded boards for integration into users own devices, through to a range of standard enclosure systems qualified for the intended application. Design services providing customised variants of these products, or complete ground up product designs are also available. When coupled with the embedded operating systems and software frameworks Eurotech is able to deploy on these platforms, this total capability in embedded systems allows Eurotech to offer its clients the optimum balance of time to market, long term supply stability, system reliability and cost.

The two latest offerings, intended for industrial and light transportation applications, are the ISIS and PROTEUS Industrial Compact Enclosures (ICE).

ISIS ICE – A rugged CE approved system offering fanless diskless operation using the low power, high performance Intel Atom based ISIS single board computer. Offering wireless communications, GPS options and flexible PC/104 I/O and communications expansion, the ISIS ICE is ideal for asset monitoring & control, access control, communications gateway and in-vehicle control applications.

PROTEUS ICE – Intel Atom based low power high performance, fanless system in a CE approved industrial enclosure, offering flexible wireless communications capabilities. It is ideal for infotainment, interactive kiosks, and industrial and medical control.

In addition to a comprehensive range of standard peripheral interfaces, both systems offer wide input DC power supplies and options for the inclusion of wide and local area wireless communications and GPS receivers, allowing their use in wired and wireless net-centric applications, especially in situations where low power and high performance in space constrained environments is required. This makes them an ideal choice for a wide range of applications in the infotainment, kiosk, access control, HMI, medical, communication and industrial control markets.

They are both compatible with all major desktop operating systems and are available with pre-installed Windows XP, XP Embedded and Linux.

Availability – ISIS ICE and PROTEUS ICE are available now.

The ISIS ICE and PROTEUS ICE are just some of the platforms that Eurotech design and manufacture as part of our systems offering for the industrial, transportation and defence markets. If you want to know more about how we can help you with your next embedded solution visit www.eurotech.com

Eurotech is present in Europe, North America, China and Japan. Eurotech develop digital technologies for a better world making every day life safer and more comfortable, today and for tomorrow.

For more information, please visit the Eurotech website at www.eurotech.com

Company contacts:
Eurotech Group
Giuliana Vidoni
+39.0433.485462
g.vidoni@eurotech.com
Sales: sales.it@eurotech.com

Eurotech is proud to be the recipient of the Intel® Cluster Ready Voyager Award 2009

Portland, OR (USA) – 16 November 2009. The Intel® Cluster Ready Voyager Award 2009 has been assigned to Eurotech “for advancing toward Petascale Computing with Aurora, the scalable, high-end, Intel® Cluster Ready certified HPC system” in a celebration held during the SC09, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis.

“We are honored to be the recipient of this prestigious award”, said Walter Rinaldi, Aurora Product Manager at Eurotech, “compliance with the Intel® Cluster Ready is central in our strategy for delivering cutting edge technology our customers can capitalize on immediately.”

Aurora is the efficient supercomputing solution that has been designed to provide an environment where hardware and software are seamlessly integrated.

“The Intel® Cluster Ready certification ensures that Aurora provides a hardware, software, manageability and functionality basis that eliminates the complexity traditionally found in HPC clusters”, said Dr. Herbert Cornelius, Director Advanced Computing Center, Intel® EMEA. “Crucial aspects, such as software compatibility and completeness, interoperability and robust system management are ensured in an Intel® Cluster Ready environment such as the one provided by the Aurora cluster solution”.

Aurora is the HPC system that is a leader for power efficiency and TCO reduction and packs the most advanced features, such as liquid cooling, the Unified Network Architecture™ with 100Gb/s bandwidth per node and an on-board programmable accelerator.

Visit Eurotech Booth #745 at SC’09 2009 and check out the live demo of the Aurora Supercomputing system.

For more information please contact:
Giuliana Vidoni, Aurora Marketing & Communication (giuliana.vidoni@eurotech.com)
Walter Rinaldi, Aurora Product Manager (walter.rinaldi@eurotech.com)

Eurotech S.p.A.
www.eurotech.com

Eurotech presents Aurora, the lean, smart supercomputing solution that can grow with less. With Aurora, users can now have a Supercomputing system that is light on the TCO and easy to scale up to the PetaFLOP and beyond.

Portland, OR (USA) – 16 November 2009. Aurora has been designed to deliver more: more number crunching, more scalability, more energy savings and more compatibility with existing software applications and environments.
“Aurora is the smart system for a resource conscious world”, said Giampietro Tecchiolli, Eurotech Group VP and CTO, “With Aurora it is possible to achieve unprecedented scalability and energy savings; in designing Aurora, we have taken a radical approach to efficiency, both in raw performance and in TCO management”.

Sporting the new Intel® Xeon® 5500 processor, Aurora is Intel® Cluster Ready Certified and offers the fullest compatibility with the existing X86 software applications and development tools.

“Intel® Cluster Ready certification reduces the risks and challenges of deployment and speeds time to productive results for highly scalable HPC Clusters” said Richard Dracott, General Manager, HPC, Intel . “By establishing a hardware and software basis for clustered systems, Intel Cluster Ready certification helps HPC users rapidly realize the great TCO and performance benefits of Xeon 5500 based Aurora clusters.”

Aurora delivers high end features, such as 100Gb/s cluster interconnect bandwidth per node, with a 60Gb/s 3D torus and a 40Gb/s Infiniband interface; multilevel synchronization networks for highly efficient scalability, and an on board, programmable accelerator that can be used to implement highly optimized algorithms.
Another exclusive feature is the ultra-precise liquid cooling system, which keeps the tightest control over the temperature of every component, ensuring the best operating conditions and exceptional savings compared to air cooling.
In Aurora, the traditional sources of failure have been removed: there are no mechanical parts, thanks to liquid cooling and the Intel® Solid State Disks; memory reliability and performance are exceptional thanks to a groundbreaking coupling technology and the multi-level monitoring and control system provides a flexible infrastructure to implement fault tolerance schemes.

Visit Eurotech Booth #745 at SC’09 2009 and check out the live demo of the Aurora Supercomputing system.

For more information please contact:
Giuliana Vidoni, Aurora Marketing & Communication (giuliana.vidoni@eurotech.com)
Walter Rinaldi, Aurora Product Manager (walter.rinaldi@eurotech.com)

Eurotech S.p.A.
www.eurotech.com