Terabytes, Gigabytes & Petabytes

Terabytes, Gigabytes & Petabytes

July 2019

GE donates game changing IT equipment to EAARO Recently one of GE’s offices in Cambridge, UK generously donated a quantity of redundant IT technology to the East Anglian Astrophysical Research Organisation.

Jason Williams, Director of EAARO commented, “We are delighted to receive this exciting high-tech donation which will help us to realise new projects that were previously impossible with our current resources.”

GE serves customers globally with more than 280,000 employees in approximately 180 countries. GE’s Cambridge personnel is focused on helping power and utility companies’ model, manage and control their assets and networks, supporting them within a dynamic energy sector and assisting in their digital transformation endeavors. In today’s age of accelerating energy transition, the reliability, security and efficiency of the grid remain paramount. GE's Digital Energy software portfolio helps the industry effectively manage electricity from the point of generation to the point of consumption.

EAARO is a not for profit charitable organisation founded with a single simple objective to educate and inspire people in pursuing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) careers through meaningful space research.

Above: Harry Chew, IT Specialist, EAARO with some of the donated IT kit

“The donated equipment will increase EAARO’s data storage capacity to over 2 Petabytes” mentioned Williams who would like to see much of this being utilised by their planned UK based SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Observatory which could now be operational as early as 2020.

“We are delighted to be able to support EAARO with our donation - their vision and connection with STEM and schools is very much something that GE is aligned with.” GE’s an active participant in STEM educational initiatives with the objective of driving awareness, skills guidance and career opportunities. With over 3,000 engineers in the UK, GE is a company that values and relies on people with advanced STEM skills. Exciting young people to engage and discover the opportunities that a STEM career can offer can only be a good thing,” said Rahul Jain, VP Software Engineering at GE based in Cambridge.