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IDC: EMEA Cloud Infrastructure Market Grows 16% in Q1
Monday, July 13, 2015 #cloud, Europe, IDC, Research
IT infrastructure spending (server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch) for public and private cloud in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) grew 16% year over year to reach $1.01 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2015, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Cloud Infrastructure Tracker. IDC's report tracks Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Lenovo, NetApp, Oracle, the major ODM vendors, and others.
Significantly, the cloud-related share of total EMEA infrastructure expenditure on server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch grew 2 percentage points compared with the same period a year ago to reach 19% in the quarter.
"Western European cloud expenditure this quarter was mainly fueled by public cloud, which grew almost 30% year on year also thanks to the impact of hyperscale datacenter installations around the region," said Michal Vesely, research analyst, European Infrastructure, IDC. "Private cloud expenditure, especially on premises, on the other hand, is more directly connected to regular IT investments by enterprises. Private cloud spending saw a slower pace as users assess their storage, as well as integrated and hyperconverged systems, strategies. Once decisions are made, we expect another major push in the forthcoming period."
Some other highlights:
In terms of storage capacity, cloud represented around 33% of total EMEA capacity in 1Q15, with 45% year-on-year growth.
The emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) took 14% of EMEA cloud investments in 1Q15. This is a strong decrease compared with the same quarter last year, when CEMA accounted for 17%. Challenging macroeconomic conditions in Russia and weaker investments in the public cloud segment were the main reasons for the decline.
Cloud infrastructure spending in the CEMA region is estimated to be 11% of the total addressable server, storage, and networking hardware market, with public cloud accounting for about 40% of this.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUK25750815
Crehan: Data Center Switch Market Ready for 100 GbE Upgrade
Monday, July 13, 2015 100G, Crehan, Data Centers, Ethernet, Research, Switching
Switches capable of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) will soon experience a very strong increase in adoption, according to Crehan Research's most recent Data Center Switch Long-Range Forecast Report.
The firm is forecasting that data center switch port shipments in this market segment will grow from a current annual run-rate of tens of thousands to handily exceed ten million by 2019. The report points to compelling pricing as a key enabler of the strong uptake, with average 100GbE selling prices falling by approximately 50% year-over-year for a number of consecutive years.
"We expect that 100GbE-capable data center switching will soon see a dramatic increase as a result of the compelling economics and diverse use-cases that the upcoming next-gen products enable," said Seamus Crehan, president of Crehan Research. "Price premiums over prior technologies should be relatively small, and these switches can be deployed from the core of the data center network all the way down to the server access layer, given their flexible speed configurations via breakout cables," he said.
The report further predicts that the keen interest in this next-generation 100GbE-capable data center switching technology from the hyper-scale cloud segment will be a major driver of the initial strong uptake. The deployment of a new technology from large hyper-scale customers such as Google and Microsoft can result in its dramatic growth. This was recently the case with 40GbE server-access deployments and was highlighted in a prior Crehan Research data center networking report.
http://www.crehanresearch.com/
Amazon Web Services to Build 208 MW Wind Farm in North Carolina
Monday, July 13, 2015 AWS, Data Centers, Green
Amazon Web Services has contracted with Iberdrola Renewables to construct and operate a 208 megawatt (MW) wind farm on 22,000 acres of sparsely populated land in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties, North Carolina.
Amazon Wind Farm US East is expected to start generating approximately 670,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of wind energy annually starting December 2016. The energy generated will be delivered into the electrical grid that supplies both current and future AWS Cloud data centers.
"This agreement, and those previously in place, puts AWS on track to surpass our goal of 40 percent renewable energy globally by the end of 2016," said Jerry Hunter, Vice President of Infrastructure at Amazon Web Services. "We're far from being done. We'll continue pursuing projects that deliver clean energy to the various energy grids that serve AWS data centers, we'll continue working with our power providers to increase their renewable energy quotient, and we'll continue to strongly encourage our partners in government to extend the tax incentives that make it more viable for renewable projects to get off the ground."
http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainable-energy/
In November 2014, Amazon Web Services announced its long-term commitment to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for its global infrastructure.
In April 2015, AWS announced that approximately 25 percent of the power consumed by its global infrastructure was from renewable energy sources with a goal of increasing that percentage to at least 40 percent by the end of 2016.
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks Carries 300G Signal over 10K km
Monday, July 13, 2015 Alcatel-Lucent, DWDM, Modulation, Optical, Submarine Cable
Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) announced a record of data transmission over a distance of 10,000 kilometers using real-time processing prototypes of a unique 300 Gbps modulation technology that will optimize the performance of submarine cable systems.
The trial, which was conducted on the 10,000km of ASN's test bed, combined the new 300G 8QAM (8 quadrature amplitude modulation) technology of ASN's 1620 SOFTNODE platform and second-generation coherent submarine fiber (CSF-2).
ASN said its 8QAM technology can optimize both existing and new undersea cable systems, enabling operators to deliver more than 15 terabits-per-second per fiber pair on transoceanic systems/
Olivier Gautheron, Chief Technology Officer of Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks said: "This breakthrough underlines ASN's strategic focus in R&D to raise the bar for undersea fiber-optic technology. Our researchers continue to develop new solutions to further apply our own innovation to help traditional and web-scale operators cope with increasing requirements for speed, capacity and cost-effectiveness."
https://www.alcatel-lucent.com
Comcast Readies "Stream" Video Service
Monday, July 13, 2015 Comcast
Comcast is preparing to launch a new "Stream" video service for its Xfinity Internet customers.
Stream will include the major broadcast networks, HBO and thousands of on-demand movies. It will be available only inside the customer's home on laptops, tablets and phones. The service will cost $15 per month and will first launch in Boston at the end of the summer. Availability across the Comcast footprint is expected by early 2016.
Cavium Adds Flash Memory Support to ThunderX Processors
Monday, July 13, 2015 Cavium, Silicon
Cavium's 64-bit ThunderX processor family now supports SanDisk flash memory to accelerate the performance of Hyperscale and HPC workloads. The ThunderX product family includes 64-bit ARMv8 data center and cloud processors, offering high performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations, very high memory bandwidth, and integrated hardware accelerators.
SanDisk's data center storage solutions range from Solid State Drives (SSDs) to PCIe application accelerators and storage systems. These solutions accelerate performance of servers and storage arrays supporting cloud, big data and database workloads.
"SanDisk delivers Flash-based storage solutions that accelerate workload performance for our customers and we see Cavium taking a similar CPU design approach for HPC and other demanding workloads," said John Scaramuzzo, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise Solutions, SanDisk. "As datacenter workloads, compute and storage requirements continue to grow, so too will the demand for flash based storage acceleration. We intend to work with and enable innovators like Cavium to address these needs."
http://www.cavium.com
China Mobile Tests ALU's Virtualized Radio Access Network
Monday, July 13, 2015 Alcatel-Lucent, China, China Mobile, vRAN
China Mobile has conducted the industry's first field trial of a virtualized radio access network-based architecture based on network functions virtualization (NFV) technology from Alcatel-Lucent.
The trial – carried out at Beijing's Tsinghua University - demonstrated the flexibility, scalability, cost and energy-efficiency of Alcatel-Lucent's vRAN and NFV technologies. Coverage included both indoor and outdoor areas of the 442 hectare campus.
Following the successful field trial at Beijing's Tisinghua University, Alcatel-Lucent will demonstrate the vRAN platform at Mobile World Congress Shanghai between July 15 and 17, 2015. The demonstrations will include the NFV-based RAN and the wireless dual site solution based on the convergence with wireline. The demonstration further underlines Alcatel-Lucent's leading position in wireless NFV and its continuous focus on the evolution of wireless networks to accelerate industry adoption of next-generation technologies.
In addition, Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks announced that China Mobile (Suzhou) Software Technology Company Limited has deployed its SDN technology in its Development and Operations (DevOps) private cloud architecture. Specifically, China Mobile's private cloud architecture includes Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) to deliver the functionality and scalability required for its internal subsidiaries and for developing new cloud-based services. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
Gigamon's Shehzad Merchant: Intersection of Open and Security
Sunday, July 12, 2015 #NFV, #SDN, Gigamon, Open, OpenStack, Packet Broker, Testing, Video
The open networking movement is here to stay. It's not just about open source software, says Shehzad Merchant, CTO of Gigamon, but really about taking a vertically-integrated networking stack and disaggregating it. With various components of the networking stack supplied by different vendors, maintaining visibility across every layer of that stack becomes critical.
By disaggregating the networking stack, you are, in principle, opening up new attack vectors across multiple surfaces. On the other hand, there will be a much broader ecosystem moving much quicker to address vulnerabilities.
This 9-minute sponsored video covers (1) whether the many open networking projects help or hurt the case for better network security (2) the overlapping trands of virtualization and higher networking speeds (3) security as the use case for SDN (4) redefining security boundaries with SDN
http://open.convergedigest.com/2015/05/gigamon.html
FANTASTIC-5G Targets sub-6 Ghz Air Interface
Saturday, July 11, 2015 5G, Academia, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, Europe, Standards
A group of 16 leading players in the field of telecommunications kicked off the "FANTASTIC-5G Project" (Flexible Air iNTerfAce for Scalable service delivery wiThin wIreless Communication networks of the 5th Generation) with the aim of developing a new air interface below 6 GHz for 5G networks.
Specifically, the 2-year FANTASTIC-5G project will develop a new multi-service air interface that is:
Highly flexible, to support different types of data traffic.
Scalable, to support an ever-growing number of networked devices.
Versatile, to support diverse device types and traffic/transmission characteristics.
Energy- and resource-efficient, to better use the available spectrum.
Future-proofed, enabling easy upgrades to future software releases.
FANTASTIC-5G has received eight million Euros of funding by the European Commission under the EU´s "Horizon 2020" initiative aiming to advance digital Europe.
The members of FANTASTIC-5G include service providers (Orange, Telecom Italia), component and infrastructure vendors (Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Intel, Nokia, Samsung, Sequans Communications, Wings ICT Solutions), universities (Aalborg University, Politecnico di Bari, Institut Mines-Telecom/Telecom Bretagne, University of Bremen) and research institutes (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives - Laboratoire d'électronique et de technologie de l'information (CEA-Leti), Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institut (HHI)) from Europe.
"FANTASTIC-5G is of key importance, as the multi-service air interface concepts being developed in the project will be evaluated and validated by the partners. This helps to build up consensus and to facilitate the standardization process of 5G", says Frank Schaich from Alcatel-Lucent´s Bell Labs, who is leading the FANTASTIC-5G project.
http://www.fantastic-5g.com
Internap's OpenStack Public Cloud Adds Mgt, Orchestration, Auto-Scaling
Saturday, July 11, 2015 #cloud, Internap, OpenStack
Internap enhanced its public, OpenStack-powered, "AgileCLOUD" with OpenStack Glance image management functionality and Heat orchestration and auto-scaling capabilities.
Glance's image management capabilities facilitate interoperability between service providers and platforms. Internap customers can use Glance to quickly import disk images from other service providers onto AgileCLOUD and also move disk images from AgileCLOUD to other cloud or virtualized environments. Glance also gives users the ability to create and save custom server images from Internap base images, allowing engineers to provision customized server images more effectively and rapidly.
Heat auto-scaling capabilities let DevOps teams define additional rules for automatically provisioning new instances and terminating instances based on criteria such as CPU load or bandwidth traffic changes.
"As market demand increases for public cloud services to power performance-centric Web applications – from SaaS platforms to e-commerce sites – we're seeing the engineering and DevOps teams responsible for keeping these applications up and running seek more effective and efficient ways to scale, customize and manage their infrastructure environments," said Satish Hemachandran, senior vice president and general manager, cloud and hosting, at Internap. "By adding support for OpenStack Glance and Heat to our public cloud, we're giving customers optimal control for their applications as well as powerful orchestration and auto-scaling capabilities needed to meet growing user demand."
Both Glance and Heat are immediately available out of Internap's Secaucus, N.J. and Dallas data centers, and will be rolled out in Internap's Amsterdam facility at the end of July.
http://www.internap.com/press-release/internap-boosts-customization-scalability-openstack-public-cloud/
Ericsson Heads METIS-II 5G Radio Project
Saturday, July 11, 2015 5G, Ericsson, EU
Ericsson will serve as coordinator of anew METIS-II EU project to develop the overall 5G radio system design and roadmap recommendation for 5G standardization.
The METIS-II project brings together 23 partners from all regions with strong 5G R&D initiatives (China, the EU, Japan, South Korea and the US) and involving most of the major international vendors, major operators, and key researchers. On a strategic level, METIS-II will provide the 5G collaboration framework within the 5G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP) for a common evaluation of 5G radio access network concepts and a recommended 5G spectrum roadmap.
The project is co-funded in the EU H2020 research program and has a budget of EUR 8 million.
In addition, Ericsson will take the lead as the technical coordinator of the mmMAGIC (Millimetre-Wave Based Mobile Radio Access Network for Fifth-Generation Integrated Communications) project, which will develop and design new concepts for mobile radio access technology for deployment in the 6-100 GHz range.
http://www.ericsson.com/news/1936238
https://www.metis2020.com/
METIS stands for Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society. The original METIS project was launched in November 2012 and concluded in April 015.
Telefónica Tests NFV with Alcatel-Lucent
Friday, July 10, 2015 #NFV, Alcatel-Lucent, Telefonica
Telefónica is conducting NFV tests in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent. A new memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the companies renews and expands on an alliance announced in February 2014, which focused on Alcatel-Lucent's CloudBand platform to advance NFV implementation. Under the new agreement, Alcatel-Lucent and Telefónica will investigate how mobile networks can be transformed to meet demands being placed on them by the Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communications and increased customer connectivity.
Telefónica has already tested Alcatel-Lucent's Virtualized Service Router in its NFV Reference Lab using the OpenMANO NFV orchestration stack. The results delivered were outstanding, reaching 100% line-rate performance which allowed data to be transported with zero losses. The companies will continue testing other elements of Alcatel-Lucent's NFV portfolio in the coming months.
Enrique Blanco Global CTO, Telefónica, said: "We are pleased to continue our work with Alcatel-Lucent on the use of NFV technologies to transform future networks. We have already seen an outstanding performance in the testing of Alcatel-Lucent's VSR, showing that it delivers comparable performance to hardware-based routers. Use of these technologies will open up new opportunities as we continue innovating to exceed our customer's expectations."
http://www.alcatel-lucent.com
Video: White box Adoption Moves to the Edge
Thursday, July 09, 2015 #NFV, #ONS2015, #SDN, Pica8, Switching
White boxes are not just a data center story anymore, says Pica8's Calvin Chai.
New use cases are emerging for delivering network services at the customer prem. This will be a key opportunity for white boxes. Another consideration, the risk profile for using white boxes at the customer edge is lower than for whiteboxes in a data center.
See video: https://youtu.be/MC0KAfqhHew
Blueprint: The Future Is Looking up for Telco Cloud
Thursday, July 09, 2015 #NFV, Blueprint, Nokia
by Sandro Tavares, Head of Telco Cloud Business Development, Nokia Networks
If there's one thing the telco industry has experienced over the last decade and a half, it's been a constant march of progress. While there have been a variety of technological challenges to overcome, we've seen the development of ever faster networks, better performance despite an exponential increase in traffic, and a constant stream of innovative new features and services for end users. But despite all these wins, there is still a significant step the industry has to take sooner or later to continue providing the best service: fully embracing cloud technologies.
IT Cloud vs. Telco Cloud
The IT industry has already been realizing the benefits of the cloud for more than a decade, experiencing reduced costs and more dynamic networks with data center consolidation and virtualized functions. The flexibility of the cloud also enables a tight innovation cycle, allowing IT and Internet providers to experiment with a wide variety of projects, and try new things until they find success. A cloud infrastructure enables them to easily shift resources to new projects for maximum efficiency.
Telcos, however, still have to deal with a set of discrete infrastructures for each project in development, prolonging the innovation cycle from weeks to months and limiting their options. Each project has to be carefully evaluated and almost guaranteed to be a success, which limits their capability to innovate.
Looking at the operational model, IT cloud in general is very centralized, and providers typically operate a few enormous data centers that may be far from most of the users. These IT data centers can be placed strategically for cost savings; they might be in the far north to save on cooling costs, for example, or they may even be located in a rural area so as to save on the cost of the property itself. The location is irrelevant, so long as they provide the services users need.
The flip side to the IT model of the cloud is that there is a higher latency involved as data travels hundreds or thousands of miles for everyday transactions. Most IT applications, like e-commerce for example, may accept a delay of a few seconds as there are no impacts on how they work and their customers are accustomed to it. But that kind of delay in telecommunications makes a network unusable and would likely spell the death of the operator. As a result, the telco cloud will require a greater number of smaller data centers located closer to the traffic. These centers may even be so small that they consist of only a single rack of servers, and they may be so close together that data remains within a single city or even a neighborhood. This minimizes latency, and it also addresses the issue of traffic volume. Telco network functions may utilize far larger amounts of data than most IT applications; data that would choke a network backbone and incur enormous costs when traveling across a country.
The Current State of Telco Cloud
We have already seen some important strides toward telco cloud adoption with network function virtualization (NFV). NFV is the technology that allows a variety of telco network elements to be hosted on a cloud environment. This enables operators to quickly scale services and apps to meet fluctuating demand. Openness also plays a big role in NFV, promoting interoperability across vendors and eliminating dependency between hardware and software. By taking the leap towards telco cloud/NFV, operators will implement more open solutions into their networks, becoming more flexible, reducing costs and increasing their choice of vendors to better meet their needs.
As more of the network functions are virtualized, operators will see improved network performance and will have the ability to provide a more advanced and attractive portfolio of services. The direct impact of this is a potential reduction of customer churn, which is a key benefit for the industry.
Advancing into Telco Cloud Management
Automation and cloud management play a significant role in the industry's journey to telco cloud. Already important now, they will become even more critical as more network functions go to the cloud, including baseband radio. As the different apps, nodes and other network functions are offloaded to cloud-based resources, maintaining real-time visibility and simultaneously managing cloud and traditional environments can become a challenge for operators. This is where the next generation of operations support systems (OSS) will be vital. Cloud-enabled OSS systems will provide visibility and management functions for both cloud and traditional network elements, allowing a consolidated view and delivering troubleshooting capabilities across both domains.
To continue advancing and achieve the level of automation necessary for success, the industry has to move towards implementing standards for multi-vendor and cloud-stack agnostic network orchestration. This enables integration with the multiple virtualized network function managers that will be active in the cloud and centralize the decision related to resource assignment, disaster recovery, etc. Without an open orchestration layer, the industry could in practice be back to the old monolithic approach, which is counterproductive to goals.
The end goal of the telco cloud is simply that the customer pushes a button and the phone on the other end starts ringing, or the video starts streaming immediately. While that goal has been constant for more than a century, telco providers are offering so much more than users could have dreamed of just a few decades ago. By making the cloud a reality, operators have a unique opportunity to optimize their operations, reduce operational costs and position themselves for the next leap forward in technology as we begin laying the groundwork for 5G.
Sandro Tavares has more than 14 years of international experience in the telecoms industry, holding positions in sales and marketing, and participating in industry breakthroughs such as the launch of the One Voice Initiative for VoLTE.
He has worked with the Nokia family of companies for more than 10 years, and currently is Head of Telco Cloud Business Development for Nokia Networks. Previously, he served as Head of Mobile Core Marketing, overseeing strategic and product marketing activities for the company's Mobile Core portfolio. His topics of coverage included Telco Cloud, Content Delivery Networks and Customer Experience Management.
Sandro holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Universidade de Brasilia, a corporate MBA from Fundacao Dom Cabral and a post-MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management.
About Nokia Networks
okia Networks, which provides broadband infrastructure, software and services, operates at the forefront of our industry. From the first ever call on GSM to the first call on LTE, we have set the pace of innovation, a record that continues with future technologies such as 5G. Together with our operator customers, who serve close to 5 billion subscribers, we are embracing the opportunity of the connected world and helping to solve its challenges. http://networks.nokia.com/
AWS Launches API Gateway Managed Service
Thursday, July 09, 2015 #cloud, Amazon, AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new fully managed, Amazon API Gateway service to help customers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) at any scale.
The idea is enable customers to create an API that acts as a "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from their "back-end" services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), or code running on AWS Lambda.
Amazon API Gateway handles all of the tasks associated with accepting and processing billions of daily API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management. Amazon API Gateway has no minimum fees or startup costs, and developers pay only for the API calls they receive and the amount of data transferred out. To learn more about Amazon API Gateway, visit http://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway.
"Building and running rock-solid APIs at massive scale is a significant challenge for customers. And yet, this is one of the most important ingredients for building and operating modern applications that are consumed through multiple devices," said Marco Argenti, Vice President, AWS. "At AWS, we have over nine years of experience running some of the most heavily used APIs in the world. The Amazon API Gateway takes this learning and makes it available to customers as a pay-as-you-go service that eliminates the cost and complexity of managing APIs so that developers can focus on building great apps."
To help customers protect access to their back-end services, Amazon API Gateway allows customers to use familiar AWS security tools such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to verify and authenticate API requests. Amazon API Gateway lets companies run multiple versions of an API simultaneously so that they can develop, deploy, and test new versions of their APIs without impacting existing applications. Once an API is deployed, Amazon API Gateway allows customers to control the number of API requests that hit their back-end systems within a certain time period to protect them from traffic spikes, and helps reduce API latency by caching responses. Amazon API Gateway also monitors the usage and performance of back-end services, providing metrics such as number of API calls, latency, and error rates.
http://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/
Nokia Networks Tests Drones for Network Inspections
Thursday, July 09, 2015 drones, du, Middle East, Nokia, UAE
Nokia Network is testing unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) carrying smartphones with cameras and testing applications to inspect and survey mobile infrastructure.
Nokia recently conducted a test of these telco drones in partnership with Du at the Dubai International Stadium, Dubai Sports City, which has a seating capacity of 25,000 people. The Proof of Concept (PoC) gathered network data and provided Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for a speedy performance test and efficient network optimization actions. Telco drones were also used for tower inspections, radio planning and Line of Sight (LoS) testing between radio towers.
Automated testing and analysis is more efficient than traditional manual walk tests, as drones can cover the desired area quicker. Additionally, the test data is collected automatically and sent to a server so that it can be instantly processed at Nokia Networks' Global Delivery Center (GDC) for immediate reporting and any necessary actions to improve network performance.
Telco drones were also used for tower inspections to reduce the number of times technicians need to climb up and down a telecom tower, as well as for radio planning and Line of Sight (LoS) testing. The engineers knew if a frequency used was impacted by trees, if there was sufficient power to cover the distance, what the simulated latency would look like and what performance over such a connection could be expected. This helped achieve optimal site design, establish a clear LoS, as well as suitable antenna height and site location.
http://networks.nokia.com/news-events/press-room/press-releases/nokia-networks-du-first-in-uae-to-use-telco-drones-for-better-network-planning-faster-opti
IBM Achieves 7nm Test Chips in Siilcon Germanium
Thursday, July 09, 2015 IBM, Silicon
IBM Research has produced the first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors. The milestone was achieved using Silicon Germanium (SiGe) channel transistors and Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography integration at multiple levels.
Current generation microprocessors are generally implemented in silicon using 22nm or 14nm technology.
IBM partnered with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) to achieve the result.
"For business and society to get the most out of tomorrow's computers and devices, scaling to 7nm and beyond is essential," said Arvind Krishna, senior vice president and director of IBM Research. "That's why IBM has remained committed to an aggressive basic research agenda that continually pushes the limits of semiconductor technology. Working with our partners, this milestone builds on decades of research that has set the pace for the microelectronics industry, and positions us to advance our leadership for years to come."
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/47301.wss
IBM Lands $180 million IT Services & Cloud Contract
Thursday, July 09, 2015 #cloud, IBM, Managed Services
IBM announced a five-year IT services agreement including cloud, mobile, analytics and security technologies with Columbia Pipeline Group. The deal is valued at $180 million, Inc. (NYSE: CPGX) supporting the company's continued growth as an independent energy company.
On July 1, CPG completed the separation of its natural gas pipeline, midstream and storage business from energy infrastructure company NiSource Inc. As a stand-alone, publicly traded company, CPG is rapidly expanding its operations to serve new and existing customers and markets, with net asset investments expected to grow from about $4.6 billion in 2015 to about $13.5 billion by 2020.
The agreement calls for IBM to move CPG's IT infrastructure and business applications -- including human resources, billing and finance, pipeline operations and IT management -- from NiSource's data centers into a private cloud in an IBM data center in Columbus, Ohio. IBM also will separate CPG's networks from NiSource and manage CPG's integrated IT environment going forward. The solution includes the core data center and IBM Cloud infrastructure, network services, help desk, end user services, intelligent security platforms, mobile device management, and operational analytics.
Corning Intros 8-fiber Optical Cabling
Thursday, July 09, 2015 Corning, Data Centers, SANs
Corning introduced a modular, tip-to-tip optical cabling system featuring an eight-fiber (Base-8) design for use in data centers and storage-area-networks.
The Corning EDGE8 solutions optical cabling system uses eight-fiber MTP connectors. The company says this make it easy to match the fiber count in the backbone of data center networks and SANs with Base-8 Quad Small Form Factor Plugable transceivers, resulting in full fiber utilization, streamlined 1:1 port mapping, and up to 50 percent reduction in link attenuation by eliminating the need for conversion modules. EDGE8 furthers the benefits of Base-8 design with pinned MTP trunks that enable simple patch cable deployment and optimized harness mapping, resulting in no unused fiber/connectors. EDGE8 modules also offer a 30 percent improvement in insertion loss, resulting in longer duplex link distances.
https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/news-events/news-releases/2015/07/corning-introduces-edge8-solutions-for-data-centers.html
Barracuda Networks Hits Revenue of $78 Million, up 18% YoY
Thursday, July 09, 2015 Barracuda, Earnings
Barracuda Networks reported revenue of $78.0 million for its first quarter of fiscal 2016, up 18% from $66.2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2015. Appliance revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 grew to $23.7 million, up from $20.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2015, and recurring subscription revenue grew to $54.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2016, up from $45.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2015, representing 70% of total revenue.
However, there was a GAAP net loss for the quarter of $3.8 million, or $0.07 loss per share, based on a basic share count of 53.0 million.
"We delivered revenue and non-GAAP EPS at the top end of our targeted range," said BJ Jenkins, president and CEO. "During the quarter, we grew total active subscribers, increased gross margin and maintained a 92.5% dollar-based renewal rate, speaking to the underlying strength of our business model."
https://investors.barracuda.com/company/investor-relations/default.aspx


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Q: Why are projective modules contained in this class of modules? Suppose $A$ noetherian and define

$G(A):=\{M: M$ is an $A$-module reflexive and Ext$^i_A(M,A)=$Ext$^i_A(M^*,A)=0$ for $i\geq1\}$

Why are projective modules contained in this class? Of course if $M$ is projective, then $\mathrm{Ext}^i_A(M,A)=0$. I don't understand why the other conditions hold. Could you tell me why?
(It's not clear to me that we need to suppose $M$ finitely generated.)

A: Not all projectives are in that class, for not all projectives are reflexive; for an example, take $A$ to be a field and let $M$ be an infinite dimensional vector space.
Finitely generated ones are, though, and then one can check easily that their duals are also projective.

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'RuPaul's Drag Race' fans still livid over shortened episodes, weary of upcoming Snatch Game challenge
Cody Raschella Jan 18, 2023 7:51 pm Jan 18, 2023 7:51 pm
via MTV
It's a hard knock life for fans of RuPaul's Drag Race as the show gears up for its fourth episode of season 15 featuring a larger cast than ever before and noticeably shortened episodes.
Ahead of the premiere this Friday, the show released a sneak peek of the fourth episode in which we see RuPaul inform the cast that this week's maxi-challenge is none other than the famous Snatch Game.
The Queens are GOOPED when Mama Ru announces that they'll be playing the Snatch Game! 🤯
Get into a sneak peek before an all-new #DragRace – Friday at 8/7c, NOW ON @MTV! 🏁 pic.twitter.com/hq5fAuutCI
As the Snatch Game is easily one of the most-anticipated episodes of any season and fans are usually pumped for the onslaught of celebrity impersonations, season 15's shortened episodes have fans three parts furious, one part weary.
As iterated by one fan on Twitter, a Snatch Game with 14 queens, split into two parts, with 14 additional runway looks leaves little room for substantial coverage of each queen.
14 queens doing snatch game and the runway in a 45 minute show 😬 everybody gets 30 seconds to tell their best joke and show their best look
— ELITE CLIPS (@elite_clips) January 18, 2023
Indeed, there's not much room for fluff in this episode. No emotional backstories, or mini challenge. We wouldn't be surprised if the episode completely scrapped any of the workroom preparations or even RuPaul coming in to offer advice; there's simply no time.
Hopefully the edit is just Snatch Game and runway for the whole 40 minutes. I don't know how else they can do it with this many queens without being disrespectful toward their time, talent and investment.
— Pauly (@PaulyDavid) January 18, 2023
One fan voiced what's arguably on everyone's mind, which is why season 15 is choosing to premiere the Snatch Game so early on in the season. As it's typically reserved for the midway point, this season's Snatch Game will have almost double the number of previous seasons such as season 8, which had only eight queens.
Why are they doing it so soon?! Idk something about the move to MTV isnt right man
— Black Panther 👸🏾 (@ohsoyouyas) January 18, 2023
Commenting on the shorter length of episodes, one fan joked that a four-minute sneak peek is pretty much half the episode.
4 minute sneak peek? that's half of the episode
— flip! and the cold gun (@ANTlFLIP) January 18, 2023
The day before season 15 kicked off on MTV – the show's new home since transitioning over from VH1 – it was announced that episodes would be cut down from 90 minutes to 40 minutes. Fans have enjoyed 90-minute episodes ever since season 10 and, for many, the change feels like two steps backward for a franchise that is largely considered a pop culture phenomenon.
The shortened episodes were implemented so that MTV could premiere its new show, The Real Friends of WeHo, directly after RuPaul's Drag Race with a built-in audience ready to tune in, according to Deadline. However, the shortened episodes have caused such an outrage that the fandom launched a petition to return the episodes to 90 minutes.
As more queens are eliminated, the shorter episodes will become more bearable, to be sure, but in the meantime, the prospect of a 14-queen cast performing a two-part Snatch Game has dimmed much of the excitement that usually precedes the famous maxi challenge.
All-new episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race season 15 premiere every Friday on MTV at 8 pm ET.

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Some memories of events just can't remain in one's head.
It happened in 1999. It was a fun day out picking antiques, something I usually did alone when I wasn't fossil diving. My then wife happened to be with me that day as we had a part time clerk Ginny, who would hold down the fort and mind our store. I had many picking routes in those days. Some in Sarasota, one that took me out to Arcadia, and one that took me down to Port Charlotte. We did the Port Charlotte run that day and were heading back up US 41, still south of Venice when I spotted a sign on a small storefront in a little eyesore of a stripmall.
Consignments: Wanted and Sold, the cardboard sign in the window read. I also noticed at the same time the permanent sign above: Vacuum Cleaner Repairs.
How interesting and strange. Needful Things? Like doomed characters in a Stephen King novel, how could we resist?
One half of the store was devoted to vacuum cleaners, both used and new, and was littered with scattered parts. The other side had ugly gray painted metal utility shelves one would see in a garage, doing no asthetic favors to anything displayed on them. Most of the items were common and nothing of real interest. Apparently, the vacuum repair business was slow. The owner had the ingenius idea that the housewives who brought in vacuums to be fixed might have things to sell and he could get a percentage. Not a bad idea when you think about it.
Then I saw it. A thick, large, flint glass decanter in a most unusual yellow color. As a bottle collector, I just had to give it a look see. I picked it up. It was very heavy and the stopper was missing. The base had a polished out pontil mark and the pattern was absolutely beautiful, like nothing I had ever seen. The base rim had age old foot wear and the sticker read an oddball price of $28.00.
No. It's missing it's stopper, who's going to want it?
But it's old and it's good.
I'm getting it, I know it's good.
No, but I know it's good and I'm getting it anyway.
The store owner wouldn't budge on the price to an even twenty when I asked. I was expecting to pay twenty five. He was a firm seller, but did knock off two bucks and I paid $26.00 even. The feeling I got acquiring it helped me overcome the silent treatment I endured for the drive back to our store.
I should have researched the decanter first thing, but didn't. I had all kinds of glass pattern books, but I was easily distracted by so many other things at the time. I put a price of $150.00 on the decanter and set it on a shelf just before we closed the store for the day. I knew we'd make a profit, but now that the decanter was in our store, I had no idea what the mystery yellow decanter had in store for me.
The next day found me alone in the store, minding things, when a large, stocky man came in. He browsed for a moment, then he saw the decanter and walked straight to it and picked it up.
A hundred and fifty bucks? It's missing it's stopper.
He didn't even give me time to respond before he literally slammed down my decanter. I asked him to leave my store least he break something. He did so, in a huffy fast walk out the door. I walked over to the decanter, making sure it was uncracked and unchipped and looked at it again. This needs to go into a window display where it could be seen and not immediately touched. I spent the next couple of hours creating an antique glass theme window display with the decanter sitting front and center on white lace.
It sat there for a month. Everyone strolling the sidewalk saw it day or night. Our store was on a street that was mostly all antique stores and a couple of thrift shops. (No competition, but power in numbers, creating a draw for antiquers to spend the day as we all had different things.) Every shop owner and dealer in town and countless other folks saw that decanter sitting in the window. I received compliments on how beautiful or unusual it was.
One rainy Saturday, right about closing time, I took the decanter out of the window, and got out my copy of Ruth Webb Lee's Early American Pattern Glass. Only a couple of pages in, there was the pattern. Horn of Plenty, Boston & Sandwich c1860. Scarce in color. There were no price listings as it was a historical glass book. I went on eBay and couldn't find anything in that pattern listed. I took the decanter outside and placed it on a wooden covered top of an encased trash can and shot a lazy picture of it in the rain against parked cars. I then listed it on eBay with a $150.00 reserve.
That night it was bid up to $600.00. In the next couple of days it went to $1200.00. It rode at twelve hundered for most of the seven day auction listing and the next Saturday I was very excited as were all of the shop owners on my street who had seen it and knew I had listed it online.
Now, they were all wishing they had bought it for $150.00.
In the final second of the auction my $26.00 yellow decanter hammered down at three thousand, eight hundred and seven dollars and two cents.
And the buyer? Her name was familiar. She was listed in the book I looked the pattern up in as the the owner of the copyrights to the late Ruth Webb Lee's Early American Pattern Glass. Judith Cronin of Orleans, Massachussetts. My decanter found a great home in a very serious collection very close to where it was made.
I'll always know where it is.


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Q: TransactionScope in azure webjobs I have a webjob running in azure that is processing data sent to an event hub.
In the eventprocessor I want to save information to a SQL server. To make sure that everything is inserted correctly I want to use transactions.
When I run the code locally everything works perfect. But when running in Azure nothing happens, no error is thrown.
What I have read it should be possible to use TransactionScope. This example code below is not working.
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Live-fire ranges: take aim, fire, now clean up
The damage live-fire ranges can do to the environment has only recently become apparent. Andrew Tunnicliffe takes a look at what the risks are, how they can be addressed and the importance of good training.
Published at the end of 2017, a report into the risk of toxic contamination from old military sites in the US – including munitions ranges – was scathing in its conclusions. It warned that in Florida alone more than 200 sites with military links had been found to be 'hazardous'.
And it isn't just sites in operation today. ProPublica, a not-for-profit organisation which produced the report by analysing data from the US Department of Defence (DoD), warned sites that hadn't been in use for more than 70 years continued to be hazardous and would require millions to fund a successful clean up.
In particular Fort Pickens, situated at Gulf Islands National Seashore, requires as much as $8m to clean up and be monitored for another 30 years at least.
It should be said ProPublica has, for some time, been a vocal critic of the US Government on this subject.
The cost of cleaning up munitions ranges
The clean-up and monitoring bill alone in the US is staggering, with some sites having already cost, or estimated to cost, hundreds of millions of dollars. Add to that the concerns of communities regarding sites in their area and the issue becomes hugely costly, both in terms of military finances and, arguably, reputation for the US military and government.
"In the US there have been several notable cases where contamination by explosives or explosive constituents, such as white phosphorus, ammonium perchlorate and RDX, have caused significant environmental damage," says Melissa Ladyman, a lecturer in environmental chemistry at Cranfield Defence Chemistry, part of Cranfield University in the UK.
"The Environmental Science Group, part of Cranfield Defence Chemistry, provides teaching and research into the impact explosives can have on the environment."
"Live-fire training is essential to maintain military readiness, but as a result explosive residue will be deposited on the land. Over many years of training significant explosive deposits may accumulate and, without appropriate monitoring and management, could lead to damage to local ecosystems, contamination of nearby water sources and land, or toxicity to local flora and fauna."
The Environmental Science Group, part of Cranfield Defence Chemistry, provides teaching and research into the impact explosives can have on the environment. The School of Cranfield Defence and Security has nine centres in total, one being Cranfield Ordnance Test and Evaluation Centre (COTEC), which performs independent test and evaluation on munitions, weapon systems, pyrotechnic and explosive stores, and carries out disposals and demilitarisation.
Europe vs US: differences in management standards
Because of the vital role military ranges have in the development of new munitions and the training of soldiers to ensure their readiness, Ladyman says it is important to manage training ranges to avoid pollution incidents which may result in restrictions on training with certain materials, or even closure of training areas altogether.
"In the UK, military training ranges tend to be well managed and access restrictions have allowed flora and fauna to flourish, making it imperative that any new materials introduced to the sites do not adversely affect the environment," she adds.
Whist in the UK the situation seems to be well managed and very much under control, events in the US simply serve to reinforce the belief that not all militaries and their leaders are as well versed on this subject.
Armies across northern Europe, however, have had munitions and their potential for environmental contamination at the fore of their thinking for some time. Sweden became one of the first to introduce lead-free bullets following research that showed lead could leach from firing ranges and contaminate water and soil.
The science and regulation of live-fire range management
Are the issues in the US and decisions being taken by other militaries acknowledgement that munitions are evolving to be more dangerous to the environment, or that our understanding of their impact on the environment is improving? The latter, says Ladyman, adding: "People are now more aware of the environmental issues likely to occur with explosives.
"Another factor is the development of the science. Understanding the risk of exposure to certain chemicals, including explosives, is improving. Long and short term exposure risks are now being assessed for concentration levels in soil and water, as well as understanding risks from degradation products and to other flora and fauna."
Because of growing general awareness and improvements in science, regulations governing the management of live-fire ranges have also improved.
"There is no one-size-fits-all approach that can be taken, as each site and its environment is unique."
"Environmental legislation has matured rapidly, with the definition of contamination and impact broadening to include deviation from baseline levels," Ladyman says.
"For example, water quality in the European Union must now be frequently monitored and all surface waters should achieve a 'good' rating, meaning they are at least as clean as if there were no human intervention… This means there is a much better understanding of the importance of the natural environment, particularly to ensure sustainable use of all environmental resources. Environmental regulations have therefore had a significant impact on the military use of explosives."
However, although the management of these sites has improved markedly over the years, Ladyman says there is no one-size-fits-all approach that can be taken, as each site and its environment is unique.
"The methods used to sample soil and water will also depend on the reason why sampling needs to be undertaken," she says. "Sampling to determine whether houses can be built on a specific site would be different to routine sampling for a militarily training range. There are several different sampling strategies available, to help with these decisions the Environmental Science Group has been involved in writing a NATO standard."
Finding the best approach to munition range monitoring
Training is essential in order for site management to meet the needs of the facility and the community in which it is, and to understand how newly introduced munitions might affect it.
The Environmental Science Group held a workshop on the topic back in 2016, for which it recently received a NATO Excellence Award. The Cooperative Demonstration of Technology (CDT) on Military Live Fire Range Characterisation programme held the workshop "brought together many experts to instruct those involved on the need to characterise explosives contaminated sites," said Environmental Science Group head Tracey Temple after the announcement of the award.
The workshop enabled the transfer of knowledge from pioneers in soil sampling methodology and analysis of explosively contaminated land. Attendees were welcomed from any NATO nation and comprised delegates from government organisations, people with responsibilities for the management of military training ranges and researchers interested in the science of soil sampling. It will be running again later this year.
"The military, DoD and Environment Protection Agency are taking huge steps towards addressing what has happened and preventing it from happening again."
"The CDT combines classroom learning with practical field and laboratory training on effective soil sampling using the multi-increment soil sampling method" Ladyman explains. "The aim is to demonstrate the importance of using an appropriate sampling method and sampling tools, how to undertake sampling in the field and how to process and analyse the samples in the laboratory. In practical terms this is several days spent at the Defence Academy in Shrivenham, and one day on the field at COTEC taking soil samples."
Whilst the US is contending with some difficult issues surrounding historical site use, the military, DoD and Environment Protection Agency are taking huge steps towards addressing what has happened and preventing it from happening again. Meanwhile science is supporting the effort by developing a better understanding of the environmental impact and new methods to contain the damage.
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Q: When to use angularJS ng-repeat? This plunker populates a static Html Table correctly based on a search for 'Tim' (Json Data).
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Tottenham Hotspur in URGENT attempt to sign striker, Barcelona eye shock raid for Chelsea frontman
Transfer news and rumours from the Premier League
Stuart James
Tottenham Hotspur are lining up a deal to sign Barcelona's Malcom after news that star striker Harry Kane faces a spell on the sidelines.
The Daily Star are reporting that manager Mauricio Pochettino is keen to act quickly after losing his main striker to injury in the 1-0 defeat to Manchester United at the weekend.
With Heung-Min Son joining up with South Korea for the Asian Cup, it means the Londoners have only Barcelona target Fernando Llorente in attack.
Kane is facing at least a month on the sidelines after picking up the injury in their 1-0 defeat to Manchester United on Sunday, which increases Spurs' urgency for more firepoower.
Malcom has long been linked with a move to the club, from his time at French club Bordeaux, but he instead joined Barcelona.
Things have not worked out well for the Brazilian, though, and he is said to be available for transfer, although the La Liga giants want the £30 million they paid for him in the summer.
Barca eye Giroud
Barcelona are plotting a shock raid on Chelsea for striker Olivier Giroud.
Spanish outlet SPORT claim that Barca are keen to make a move for the Frenchman as back-up for main frontmen Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi.
They Catalan giants have also bene linked with a move for Chelsea team-mate Alvaro Morata.
PSG keen to sell Rabiot
Paris St Germain have told interested suitors they can have French international Adrien Rabiot for a cut-price fee as they look to get him out of the club.
Since refusing to sign a new deal in the French capital, Rabiot has been cast in exile and he is out of contract in the summer.
Rather than risk losing him for nothing, the likes of Barcelona, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham have been told they can have him now if they cough up £13.5 million, according to Paris United ( as per Marca) .
Suarez's move hope
The agent of Arsenal target Denis Suarez has stepped in to try and and push through his client's move to Premier League side Arsenal, according to a Gazzetta dello Sport reporter.
The Gunners appear to have reached an impasse over the deal as they want to take him on loan from Barcelona, but the La Liga giants are happy with that arrangement on the condition it is made permanent in the summer.
Arsenal don't want that as part of the arrangement and with talks at a deadlock, Suarez's agent has stepped in to try and solve the issue.
Liverpool 'close' to £22m striker deal, Manchester United's Marouane Fallaini 'on borrowed time' at Old Trafford
Liverpool linked with Dutch winger
Liverpool have reportedly had a £9 million bid for winger Arnaut Danjuma Groeneveld according to the Mail Online .
The Dutch international is also a target for Serie A side AC Milan, who have had a £9 million bid rejected by Belgian side Club Brugge, according to the report.
The 21-year-old is also attracting interest from Premier League sides Everton and Tottenham Hotspur, but he has not played since October due to an ankle injury.
PSG 'agree deal' for de Jong
French giants Paris St Germain appear to have won the race to sign promising Ajax youngster Frenkie de Jong.
According to AS , the 21-year-old has attracted interest from the likes of Barcelona, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham in recent months, but will head to France after the two clubs agreed a £67 million fee for his services.
De Jong is expected to sign a five-year contract in the French capital, where he will earn £5 million a year.
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Now, a report in the Daily Star claims that AC Milan have also shown interest in signing him.
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The Truth About Cars | Down On The Junkyard | Volvo
Junkyard Find: 1993 Volvo 240 Wagon
By Murilee Martin on July 16, 2018
Volvo made the beloved 240 for 19 model years, 1975 through 1993, and the car didn't change much during that period. By the early 1990s, Volvo had "replaced" the increasingly dated-looking 240 three times, with the 740, 940, and 850, but plenty of buyers were still choosing the ancient brick over the more modern iron. It had to end at some point, though, and 1993 was the last year for these cars.
Here's a very clean, very high-mile '93 wagon in a Denver-area self-service yard.
In fact, the 240 was based on the even more ancient 140, being more or less the same car from the A pillars back, and much of the 140's chassis design came from the antediluvian Amazon. You could say that the 1993 240 is based on designs from the 1950s or 1960s, and you wouldn't be wrong.
Someone took very good care of this one over its lifetime, putting better than 12,000 miles on it every year over a quarter century. There's no rust, the interior looks great, and the paint is less faded that what you'll see on a lot of 10-year-old cars.
Changing the timing belt at 256,500 miles, because it's due, shows the kind of dedication to maintenance you don't see with most owners of older cars. Sure, it's a non-interference engine and the timing belt may have been replaced after it broke, but I'm betting it was done because the maintenance schedule said so.
The final 240 had 114 horsepower from its 2.3-liter engine. These cars weighed a lot less than their bulky profiles might suggest; the 1993 wagon scaled in at just 3,051 pounds. That's 150 fewer pounds than a 1993 Mustang GT.
Volvo got rid of the "245" name for these wagons after 1979.
I see many, many Volvo 240s in wrecking yards these days, but their numbers are decreasing.
Are you considering a minivan for your family? You might as well stuff your kids into a wood chipper!
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Sub-600
Kind of Jeep Cherokee(esque) from some angles. These were very popular with the elbow patch crowd back in the day.
Maybe Teague was a fan of the Volvo!
pwrwrench
That looks like the VW/Audi 5 cylinder engine.
And yes, get the kids, put the dog in the back, and slap on the "Coexist" and "Visualize Whirled Peas" stickers.
indi500fan
Exactly. My cousin, SAHM spouse of a Wash DC mid level bureaucrat had one very much like this. I believe the school that her kids attended had a fleet of them in the teacher lot also.
JimC2
It certainly does resemble to the VW/Audi 5. They were developed at the same time and were meant for the same market (upmarket sedan). Both of them lean slightly to help them fit under the hood (OHC valve train makes the engine taller than the older style pushrods and rockers). Volvo worked with Porsche on the cylinder head design in the early 1970s, probably a lot of the same people who designed the VW/Audi engine.
The guts inside have a lot in common too- the valve tappets are inverted buckets and you adjust them with removable shims of varying thickness, they're both iron block + aluminum head. I can't remember if the VW/Audi engine had the cam riding in the head like the Volvo (the Volvo cam did not use replaceable bearing shells; it just didn't need them) or if it had a third shaft for the fuel pump and distributor like the Volvo engine (sort of an artifact from where the camshaft was in the predecessors of this engine). Both of them have really nice intake and exhaust manifolds, something that U.S. carmakers hardly ever did in the 1970s (they didn't have to and it was less expensive to make performance with more displacement).
The first water cooled VW/Porsche engines in the early Rabbits and 924s had this heritage too.
Boff
I've always had a soft spot for these cars, for some reason. Would have loved a turbo wagon. Back in '91 or so my stepmother was looking for a new car and we test drove a 240. I vividly remember how stiff the ride was and how austere everything seemed. The car was also pretty slow. She eventually chose an Acura Legend (good choice).
They had a great magazine ad in that era with the tag line saying something like "some car makers still believe in rear wheel drive" and it had a stack of pics of various race cars then the 240.
*EDIT* found it https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/395894623465805318/
dukeisduke
It was funny how they could make statements like that, and then turn their back on them. First they said that a live axle was good enough, and then introduced cars with IRS. They then said that rear-wheel-drive was good enough, then released the 850, with FWD.
AMC in 1963 "The only race we care about is the Human Race"
AMC in 1968 "look at our cool Javelin and AMX race cars!"
Subaru said AWD was so important all their cars have it standard and then make the BRZ sports car.
Chevy with Aluminum trucks, or whatever they're doing.
It happens all the time, only matters if it sells cars today!
Nukester99
I had a 1986 light metallic blue with a stick. I LOVED that car. I bought a V70 to replace it and it had no soul. I would buy another 245 in a heart beat if I could find one in good condition.
My favorite car ever. These are tremendously good cars. I drove one of these, a 1988 with a stick, to Alaska and back. Wonderful car!
Pete Zaitcev
That looks salvageable. Sadly, it will not be.
Drew8MR
Right? I'll bet you could get it to at least fire up. Bad tranny or nightmare electrical would be my guess.
Whoever junked this deserves to get kicked in the crotch.
300,000 miles isn't "high miles" for these cars. I've seen a few with well over 500,000 that still are in daily service. (Portland seems to be the capital of older Swedish Bricks and Mercedes W123's).
My wife had a '87 240GL Wagon. To this day, one of her favorite cars.
College roomie had a 740? sedan with close to 700,000kms on it and I always called him crazy for using it to commute back to his home town almost every weekend which was over 2 hours each way. Car never skipped a beat and he drove it for years afterwards too.
MRF 95 T-Bird
300k is only less than 1/3rd of a Irv Gordon 1800ES.
This one still looks salvageable or convert it to a Volvo Camino.
You mean 1/10th of Irv….
BrickDad
What is amazing is that the odometer kept working. I have a 91 240 that has indicated 187K miles for the last 10 years. My 92 945T stopped counting at 291K. The most remarkable thing about these cars is that they can sit for over a year and then fire up immediately when cranked.
ClayT
Yeah, the odometer gears are made of atmosphere soluble plastic in those.
Aftermarket gears are available, and not too difficult to replace. I tried taking a gear out of a junkyard speedo to use in mine, but it crumbled to dust soon as I touched it.
The '83 I bought in '95 had 190k on it. Odometer gave up soon after I bought it. Drove it 15 years and another (est) 200k.
thegamper
My first car was an 84′ (I believe, might have been 82′) GLT turbo wagon. Very clean with the cool OEM Volvo 5 spoke rims. (I wish I payed closer attention to details back then), but I had the car for something less than 2 years and lost her after being rear ended by an Olds 98 at high speed. That Olds 98 no longer resembled an automobile and I drove my 240 home that day after the wrecker pulled our cars apart, replaced the taillights and continued to drive it for a few months.
It may just be nostalgia, but I have fantastic memories of that car. It was high mileage, about a decade old by the time I got my hands on it, but was loaded, leather. Previous owner put a high end Alpine stereo in it. The car was a manual transmission, 4 speed technically, but had what was essentially a 5th gear in the form of an overdrive button on top of the shift lever. Push clutch in, press button and you are in 5th. Slept off many a high school party in the cavernous cargo hold that was just longer than 6 feet and layed completely flat. Cargo hold had secret compartments for hiding my underage alcohol habit.
RWD, pretty quick for the day. Wish I had it back, I credit that car for what developed into my enthusiasm for automobiles from then on.
WestoverAndOver
Gamper: I had an '83 GLT sedan, white exterior with blue velour interior, crank sunroof, same killer 5 spoke OEM wheels, and that same 4 speed manual transmission with bizarre pushbutton overdrive. That is "the one that got away" in my automotive catalogue. I bought it in '94 and sold it in '97. Also, I slept a few off in it myself and wished it had been a wagon on those nights.
There was nothing bizarre about the overdrive. You were just born in a different time and place. The ones used on Volvos were very common on millions of British cars in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s (look up de Normanville overdrive) and almost as many were put on American cars in the 50s and 60s, just without the button (look up Borg Warner overdrive).
So you think it is perfectly normal that Volvo still used that setup in 1983? Also, where and when was I born?
@Jim: It may have been common at some point, but I have never driven a car with anything like it before or since. Sort of a neat feature. Keep in mind that was my first car and it was already 10 years old, so a bit of a throwback perhaps.
Throwback… that's just the right word for it.
@Westover- you sound like where and when you were born these things were uncommon.
@ West: Yeah, great car. I have a feeling though if you got we were able to drive it again, the novelty would wear pretty quick and may realize we are much better served by our current rides. Still, was a sweet ride for a 16 year old.
I'm kinda surprised that someone hasn't rescued this one. It's a prime candidate for the Paul Newman/David Letterman treatment (a Windsor 5.0 swap).
Advance_92
A modular V8 such as Ford used in numerous Crown Vic taxis would give a nice power bump and still run forever. And I bet it would be lighter than the tractor motor that originally powered it.
Truth be told that original motor would probably last even longer, though, but we're talking glacial time at this point. I still see lots of these in Chicago where winter should have finished them off long ago.
Nice cars for LS swaps, even the wagons only weighed 3000lbs
Mea Culpa. During their heyday, I derided these vehicles as 'spartan, bland and teachers cars'.
In retrospect, their advocates were right and I was wrong. While I purchased and drove vehicles like domestic PLC's and full size vans and a 1st generation Explorer, these soldiered on and provided yeoman service.
Whoever owned this vehicle truly deserves our respect for the care they took of it. The upholstery looks almost new. The paint still appears to be in decent shape. The carpet has no rips or tears or salt stains. The headliner is still in place.
These are the types of vehicles that I most enjoy seeing in Murilee's posts. Loyal, faithful, unsung 'family haulers'.
30-mile fetch
I wonder what finally croaked on this car? The general condition and evidence of maintenance suggest it must have been something big in order for the owner to give up on it.
bumpy ii
I expect the owner croaked, and his heirs didn't want it. It got dumped on Carmax for a pittance, went straight to auction, and straight to the junkyard.
millmech
Bosch Motronic
GASP!!!!! A REAL distributor cap! It's not Motronic! Could I be… incorrect?!
gtem
Agreed. This car was a labor of love no doubt, and like 30 fetch I really do wonder what could have happened that the owner walked away? With that much heart put into the car, I can't imagine even a transmission going out would dissuade such a committed owner.
I bet you that red paint would REALLY pop after a bit of orbital polishing.
ajla
I'm guessing the owner either died or had to go to assited-living and the family just dumped it for the easiest cash possible over dealing with CL wierdos.
It probably made it to the boneyard under its own power.
It's what happened with my grandfather's Ford LTD.
Sad to say ajla, but I suspect you very well might be right.
Ryoku75
Save the hood brackets, I might need em!
For me these will always be the last good Volvos, the 7-9 series suffered from cheaper interiors and the 850 was simply rushed and under done, eventually morphing into the worse S70.
I hope this ine gets picked over, the tailights and many other bits are in decent shape still.
Absolutely, just had to change two hood brackets on my 91 240. Seems to be the only weak point on the car.
TTAC,
Your smoking, sputtering, corroded, crab-walking jalopy of a website belongs in the wrecker yard next to this Volvo. Except the Volvo is more modern, more reliable, and more predictable.
Multiple login attempts, endless page loading "Connecting to api.finance.yahoo.com", http://www.ttac.com no longer works, etc.
To the Crusher!
seth1065
I feel bad for the owner, something made this car die and unless the driver did as well, he or she has the sad task of replacing something they do not make anymore. Do you buy another one or would that be cheating on this one??? I doubt they will just buy something new and say it is better in every way.
bkojote
These cars are the epitome of car culture putting total junk up on a pedestal.
I had to suffer with one (a 91 model) growing up. The A/C was weak, the cabin electronics would overheat, it was scary in the winter, and most of all it broke down on a weekly basis with everything from faulty wiring to a bad transmission.
On the plus side, the neighbor's Caravan that often came to our rescue was a significantly nicer (and more reliable) vehicle in every regard.
These were absolutely everywhere in Ithaca when I was going to high school 2004-2007. Popular hand-me downs and they lent themselves well to going to music festivals, camping, mountain bike hauling, etc. They could go down a rutted forest access road and not worry about getting damaged or disabled. A local indie shop always had a lot full of them, including a used cars for sale area. With some snow tires they got around Ithaca's hilly just fine for the most part. They have thinned out substantially since I last lived there unfortunately. Time marches on, no matter how overbuilt they might be.
I really like them, I just wish they were more common with manual transmissions. A durable and repairable old thing (note, not necessarily "reliable" in a Toyota sense).
The 240 was really just a revision of the 140 series which arrived in 1968.
Jeff S
These were great cars. I had a friend whose parents had one of these–rough riding but built like a tank. Agree these were the last of the really good Volvos.
FalcoDog
It's hip to be square.
Funny thing about comparing these with the Fox body Mustangs, both cars' suspensions were designed the same way and had all the same features, for better or for worse- MacPherson struts on the front with sway bar, live rear axle with a sway bar and Panhard rod (among other things this cuts down on wheel hop, something the Volvo was in no danger of doing, but it also helps in the snow). Fairly sophisticated although not state of the art in the early 1980s, but does the job quite well under almost all conditions (especially if you invest in Blistein shock absorbers instead of cheap ones). A lot of contemporary RWD cars didn't have all of those bits and pieces in their suspensions.
The Volvo's suspension was designed to get around on anything from improved roads (dirt), windy roads in hill country, or freeways, all in good or bad weather.. The Mustang's was meant to get around on paved roads of all kinds and still provide sharp handling in an affordable pocket rocket.
Mike Beranek
I had an '80 DL sedan with the 4+OD manual trans. An absolute tank, but Volvo specialist mechanics are way pricey.
Best memory- tooling around a rectangle-blocked suburban neighborhood with a couple of inches of snow on the pavement. That old Slovo had a crazy-far steering lock like a drift car, and I could fishtail out of a corner and hold the slide at about 45 degrees all the way down the block. At the next corner I would snap the car back the other way and hold the tail out the opposite side for the entire next block. Lather, rinse, repeat. It had no power whatsoever so this sort of fun could only happen in the snow, but wow was it fantastic fun.
I owned a couple of these back in the day. Each had a 2.0 engine with 4 speed manual. Very reliable, very warm and wonderful to drive on snow, but had mediocre acceleration, lousy fuel economy (by Euro standards, the 4-speed didn't help), and of course rusted away like most 1980s cars.
As the cars didn't have any emissions equipment (we environmentalist Europeans didn't need no stinkin' catalytic converters until 1994), the engines were incredibly simple and easy to service, with very few vacuum lines and such. They were essentially slightly modernized 1950's designs. The downside was that the motors needed a lot more attention than modern ones to keep them running nicely – contact breakers and SU variable venturi carbs were used up until the mid-1980s.
Art Vandelay
Speaking of the environmentalist Europeans…I remember when Italy banned leaded fuel. This would have been some time around Y2K. My friend scrapped his Alfa and got a road bike that cost like 4 times what the car had and rode it all over Southern Italy. I am amazed he lived through it.
I had an '85 that finally died due to a combination of road salt and salty beach sand. Only failure in the first 200k miles was the kick-down cable on the automatic transmission, which the transmission specialist told me was a unit sourced from Toyota.
I replaced it with a '91 740 Turbo wagon which was a much, much better car.
"… the transmission specialist told me was a unit sourced from Toyota."
They were, in a roundabout way. It was probably an Aisin-Warner unit, license- built in Japan and based on the old Borg-Warner 35 three speed automatic. There were lots and lots of derivatives of the BW35 from the 1960s through the 90s and they ended up in all kinds of different cars, typically attached to engines about 3.0L and smaller.
Keith_93
I owned two 240 sedans, an 84 & a 92. Loved 'em – they had that safe as houses feel about them.
Good condition 240s (which of course are getting rarer) still command a price and have a loyal following.
Who's gonna save it?
they're boxy but they're good
FreedMike
Jaguar…when you want hand jobs from beautiful women you hardly know.
miketangolima
I remember these cars had a white sticker "Assembled in Halifax" on a window, at least on the Canadian-sold cars, not sure if it was the same for US-bound Volvos.
Our last Wagon had that too. I always wondered how that happened- in Oregon, most came from Sweden.
Aron9000
Our family had the same car growing up. I think it was an 87 or 88 model year, they bought it not too long after my sister was born in March 1987. Ours was that same bright red, automatic but with tan vinyl seats and crank windows. Dad was always a cheapskate. Things I remember about that car.
1. Mom getting it stuck in the parking lot dropping me off at daycare, pretty big snow storm for TN. That particular parking lot was kind of down in a hole, you had to drive up basically a 20 or 30% grade to get back to the road. I still drive by that building every time I see them.
2. Getting sick and barfing all over the place while riding in that backwards facing 3rd row seat.
3. It always being hot in the summer. Don't know if it was all that glass area, burning your legs on that hot vinyl seat, burning your hand on the metal seat belt buckle, or if the A/C sucked. Probably all of the above.
4. Them trading it in after 2-3 years because of some sort of electrical problem, maybe it was the fuel injection, I don't know. I remember riding around in it with the dash torn apart and the gauge cluster missing. Car was a total lemon for them, it went back to the dealer 4 or 5 different times for the same problem according to my dad. They swore off Volvo for life because of that car.
I owned an '83 240 sedan, and now own a '94 940. Both are excellent cars, though despite love and nostalgia to the contrary, the 940 is the better of the two, with many improvements over the 240.
The engine pictured is not the 5 cylinder, but the venerable B230 red block, which I suspect is fully capable of doubling its mileage with no rebuild.
While not perfect, these cars represent a high water mark for quality and long term durability seldom or never seen today.
January 3rd, 2019 at 12:15 pm
I know this is an old post, but I had to share quick. I'm sitting here in our Volvo showroom and an older fellow just gave the thumbs up to his timing belt replaced for it's 2nd scheduled time. It was due back on 210k and he's up to 234k. Real world example, Volvo customers are amazing folks. This guy was just slacking in waiting an extra 2 years.


That still doesn't mean that the article was "mostly true". Again, I believe there's some truth in there, and of course everyone involved is going to say it's completely false. I believe the MM/AR relationship was much more complicated than this article depicted.
Rodgers said the EQSB route that was reportedly changed in the huddle was a conversion route in which EQSB was facing press coverage and Rodgers thought he was running a go route, not a post. Said he corrected EQSB on the sideline.
What did you expect them to say? Admit he was undercutting HC?
you probably missed the part where davante said it was 100% accurate. i realize that there is nothing anyone can say that will convince some people that dunne's story has a lot of half truths and outright fairytales in it, but many of the players who are actually still relevant are speaking out.
Packers QB Aaron Rodgers to @ESPNMilwaukee on the recent Bleacher Report piece: "The thing is... it's not a mystery, this was a smear attack by a writer trying to advance his career talking with mostly irrelevant, bitters players who all have an agenda."
Ya know what, he seems pissed, and if this drives him to really focus on his game and get back to playing at an elite level, it'll all be worth it.
Article had truth's and had players probably making stuff up. Like Pack said somewhere in middle is truth Things were not as bad as I think article made them to be but not near as dam rosey as Rodgers makes it to be.
How the irony is that we have had 2 HOF QBs and now how their careers have paralleled each other.
Harlan for all the great things he did to turn things around made a fatal mistake and gave Sherman the reins and total control. He let Sherman have total control for too many years and wasted the best years of Favre's career. TT/Murphy has done the same with Rodgers. Harlan and Murphy should be who we are concentrating on and talking about. Not MM and AR. To have have 2 HOF QBs over 20 years with only 3 SBs and 2 winning SBs is the crime here.
IF anything, Murphy has mirrored Harlan by stepping back and not acting sooner. TT and MM stayed too long, just as Sherman did. At the old site, can Remember Dennis, Packman and I (maybe a couple of others) took a ton of heat when we said Sherman was wasting Favre's career and doubt he got another ring. We hoped to be proven wrong and weren't.
Now with Rodgers and his injuries one has to wonder if the same might be true with him. He can be dedicated all he wants and this new coach can be the golden ticket, but if Rodgers' skills from injuries have taken away some of his game, like it did for Montanna, we might not see another ring/trophy here until a new QB with a supporting cast. I don't see Rodgers lasting as long as Brady due to injuries he has had and that his window is maybe 3 years at best....again hope I'm wrong just as hoped was wrong with Favre but wasn't.


Seoul, South Korea -- The leadership of the South Korea's largest Buddhist order resigned en masse after video footage of junior monks playing poker with thousands of dollars at stake emerged.
Prosecutors launched a probe after the footage came to light this week of eight monks from the Jogye Order gambling at a hotel room in southern Jangseong County.
Gambling is illegal in South Korea, except for in special areas such as casinos for foreign tourists, and is also a breach of the Buddhist order's code of discipline.
The gambling, which took place last month, was filmed by another monk and the video footage was given as evidence to the police. The eight monks were also allegedly drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes in breach of Buddhist rules.
"All the six members of the executive committee of the Jogye Order have tendered their resignations, holding themselves responsible for the incident," a Jogye Order spokesman told Agence France Presse (AFP).
Jaseung, head of the order, said that the monks would face tough punishment and would be required to make an apology to the nation as early as on Friday, Yonhap news agency said.
The gambling controversy is the latest incident in a long-running feud between supporters of the Jogye Order's current administration and its opponents, as the footage was secretly recorded by an opponent and then made public.
One of the opponents, known by his Buddhist name Seongho, sued his eight fellow monks for gambling and betting "hundreds of millions of won."
The Jogye Order, which claims 10 million followers among South Korea's 50 million population, has been plagued by factional feuds. Dozens of monks were injured when rival factions clashed in 1999.


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2018 Maintains Skyscraper Construction Momentum
China has maintained its reign as the most prolific country when it comes to the construction of tall buildings, with 88 completions in 2018.
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A total of 143 buildings of 200 meters' (656 feet) height or greater were completed in 2018, including 18 "supertall" buildings of at least 300 meters' (984 feet) height, a new record, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) annual report, the "2018 Tall Building Year in Review." The total number of supertall buildings worldwide is now 144. In 2013, there were 76 buildings 300 meters or higher worldwide; in 2000, only 26. The 528-meter (1,732-foot) Citic Tower in Beijing was the tallest building completed in 2018.
The 528-meter Citic Tower in Beijing was the tallest building completed in 2018.
China has maintained its reign as the most prolific country when it comes to the construction of tall buildings, with 88 completions in 2018, for 61.5 percent of the total. This is a record for China, exceeds last year's figure by eight, and represents an even greater proportion of the global total than the 2017 figure of 54.4 percent. China's previous record was set in 2016, with 86 buildings of 200 meters or higher. Second place was again held by the United States, with 13 completions, up from 10 in 2017. And once again, outdoing its own record from last year, Shenzhen, China, recorded 14 completions, making this the third year in a row in which the city accounted for the world's largest number of 200-meter-plus completions, and comprising nearly 10 percent of the global total.
"Given the rate of urbanization seen in the world – and that we must build the equivalent of a new city of 1 million people every week to accommodate this growth – it is not surprising that the pace of tall building construction continues," said CTBUH Chief Executive Officer Antony Wood.
Other dominant characteristics of the 200-meter-plus set included the office function (42 percent), and concrete as the main structural material (62.9 percent). The average height of 200-meter-plus buildings completed in 2018 was 247 meters (810 feet), a slight increase over the 244-meter (800 feet) figure for 2017. The average height of the World's 100 Tallest Buildings grew to 381 meters (1,250 feet).
CTBUH examines buildings 200 meters and higher due to the completeness of available data for buildings in this category.
View the full interactive report on The Skyscraper Center.
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Manoj Bajpayee, Deepak Dobriyal self-isolate in Uttarakhand
Bollywood Actors Manoj Bajpayeee And Deepak Dobriyal Had To Stay Back In Ramgarh, Uttarakhand, After Prime Minister Narendra Modi Announced A 21 Day Nationwide Lockdown In March.
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Bollywood actors Manoj Bajpayeee and Deepak Dobriyal had to stay back in Ramgarh, Uttarakhand, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21 day nationwide lockdown in March. The actors came to Ramgarh, around 45 km from here, on March 20 for the filming of a web series and had to stay back after the lockdown was announced.
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I immediately went to their website and found my name in the winners list.
From among 7,216 entries from 144 UNESCO Member-States, I placed second. The first place winner gets an all-expense-paid trip to Japan. I guess it wasn't my time yet. Haha.
I am sincerely thankful for my second place. This was my first ever international essay entry and I am humbled by the result. God is truly amazing.
This victory is dedicated to my team. Without you, I wouldn't have a story to tell.
Young performers from the Northern tribes of Luzon woven together with one passion by one GOD – uplifting the youth through creative arts on stage.
As I am writing this entry, 14 young people have hiked down from Mt. Province to Bayombong to join the 5th batch auditions. I am thrilled with what's going on. I salute such bravery. The battle is being fought.
If you have a heart for the tribes and you want to be part of the team through prayers or financial help or be a fan, message me and we'll add you to our family.
Let the spears be sharpened!
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Today, I received your certificate of achievement from Japan. I am so proud of you. keep writing and keep winning prizes for our tribe and tribe master..God.
congrats vio..Indeed God is good. Thanks for being proud of your roots and understanding the rites and rituals.
Wheee!!! So happy for you! I read a few of the other essays. Kakatawa/tuwa yung 1st place sa children's category.
What do you plan to do w/ your prize?
GOd is good! I knew you would win. (wow, prophet? haha)Super excited for you for this achievement! lab.lab maldy!
ooohhh…pinagpray mo ba? tsk tsk.