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The CDM Media team announced today the company's 2012 technology and CIO event schedule.

CDM Media Announces 2012 Technology Event Schedule

The CIO Utilities Summit team announced today agenda details for the upcoming event, including a CIO Thought Leadership session on smart grid security

CIO Utilities Summit Announces Agenda Session on Smart Grid Security

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Case Studies

Integrating mainframe applications and corporate portal with EMC Documentum applications to improve and streamline buisness processes By using EMC Documentation Business Process Services to integrate business processes between different systems and applications, Constellation Energy is getting a lot more out of their other technology investments.

Empowering Growth Over the past decade, Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Ind., has been expanding its medical facilities to meet the community's growing health care needs. The hospital has relied on Duke Energy to provide a constant and reliable supply of electric power.

Yorkshire Water keeps data flowing clearly Working with IBM to deploy two mirrored IBM XIV Storage Systems, Yorkshire Water had significant capital and IT operational cost savings through server virtualization and consolidation.

Energy Efficiency for Business An incentive from Progress Energy assisted Piggly Wiggly in dramatically improving their grocery refrigeration while doubling capacity and lowering their monthly energy bills.

Whitepapers

Cyber Security and Electric Utility Communications This paper will provide a general introduction to the NERC CIP Standards and the NIST Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security. It will also summarize the relevance of the NERC CIP standards to communications systems utilized by electric utilities in general with emphasis on MW radio.

Actuate Performance Management for Utilities How is your utility performing, why, and what should you do about it? See how BIRT Performance Scorecard will become an indispensable tool for your utility.

How Does Forecasting Enhance Smart Grid Benefits? Every industry - including the energy and utilities sector - is still reeling from the impact of a global recession. Deploying the technologies to address challenges, and ultimately transforming utilities from the inside out, requires insight and foresight.

Eclipse Packet Node uniquely combines high speed native IP transport with advanced convergence features, providing operators with an 'LTE-ready' solution that also supports a smooth transition from their existing network infrastructure.

Improving Utilities Collections Through Predictive Analytics Identifying and predicting the conditions when a customer may have trouble paying their bills and then developing plans for helping those customers keep their accounts current is a real necessity.

Executive Content

Bringing Smart Meters to the Public In this Thought-leadership Series Interview, Elisabeth Brinton, Chief Business and Public Affairs Officer at the Sacramento Municipal Utility District talks about SMUD's plans to install 600,000 smart meters by 2012. Brinton outlines the advantages these meters will provide SMUD and the public, as well as the next steps toward smart grid implementation.

Digitizing As-Built Gas Utility Asset Data For GIS: Digitization involves migrating the existing asset data available in hard format to GIS. This migrated asset data is important to GIS as all the functionalities of GIS are woven around that.

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