B-Smart_July'17

And one thing we've heard loud and clear is that
bringing data to the cloud is really important.’
Example If a customer has 10 PB of data internally,
it can take between three and 34 years to transfer
that to the cloud, depending on available bandwidth,
according to the Google blog announcing
Google designed the hardware to fit into the
standard 19-inch data center racks that most
companies use to stack their storage and server
hardware. The hardware will come in Google's four
"core" colors: blue, red, green, and yellow. "It may
be a box, but it's a colorful box," a Google
spokeswoman says.
References:
http://fortune.com/go/tech/google-data-transferappliance/
in water bottles is known as polyethylene
terephalate, or PET. It is also found in polyester
clothing, frozen-dinner trays and blister packaging.
Previous studies had found a few species of fungi
can grow on PET, but until now, Japanese research
team from Kyoto Institute of Technology and Keio
University collected 250 PET-contaminated samples
including sediment, soil and wastewater from a
plastic bottle recycling site. o one had found any
microbes that can eat it. Next they screened the
microbes living on the samples to see whether any of
them were eating the PET and using it to grow. They
originally found a consortium of bugs that appeared
to break down a PET film, but they eventually
discovered that just one of bacteria species was
response Further tests in the lab revealed that it used
two enzymes to break down the PET. After adhering
to the PET surface, the bacteria secretes one enzyme
onto the PET to generate an intermediate chemical.
That chemical is then taken up by the cell, where
another enzyme breaks it down even further,
providing the bacteria with carbon and energy to
grow.ble for the PET degradation. They named
it Ideonella sakaiensis. The researchers report that a
community of Ideonella sakaiensis working this
way could break down a thin film of PET over the
course of six weeks if the temperature were held at a
steady 86 degrees Fahrenheit.
Y. Sowjanya
ECE A – III Year
PLASTIC EATING BACTERIA
Species of bacteria that eats the type of plastic found
in most disposable water bottles. The plastic found
Mincer, who was not involved in the work, said the
study was impressive and did a good job showing
that these organisms were eating the plastic pretty
“You can conquer almost any fear if you will make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t
exist anywhere except in the mind.” — Dale Carnegie
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