{"id":75947,"date":"2018-03-08T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T01:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=75947"},"modified":"2020-01-09T16:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:18:44","slug":"pdc-technology-to-businesses-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/08\/pdc-technology-to-businesses-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership brings Pacific Disaster Center technology to businesses worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_75948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75948\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-pdc-kaazing.jpg\" alt=\"two people fist bumping over video conference\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-pdc-kaazing.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-pdc-kaazing-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pacific Disaster Center  Executive Director Ray Shirkhodai celebrates partnership agreement with Kaazing <abbr title=\"cheif operating officer\">CEO<\/abbr> Bob Miller over video conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During 2017, the U.S. experienced a historic year of weather and climate disasters, resulting in a record-setting $300 billion-plus in damages, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdc.org\/\">Pacific Disaster Center<\/a> (<abbr>PDC<\/abbr>), an applied research center of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, has entered into a strategic partnership to provide businesses with the same technology used exclusively by top U.S. agencies and disaster management organizations around the globe for over a decade. Powered by <abbr>PDC<\/abbr>\u2019s global, cloud-based DisasterAWARE platform, DisasterAWARE Enterprise will be released by enterprise solutions provider <a href=\"https:\/\/kaazing.com\/\">Kaazing<\/a> as an advanced enterprise risk intelligence platform.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are excited to partner with Kaazing and to bring private industry the same life-saving science and technology that has grown out of decades of collaboration with agencies who share our mission to protect millions around the world,&rdquo; said <strong>Ray Shirkhodai<\/strong>, <abbr title=\"Pacific Disaster Center\">PDC<\/abbr> executive director. &ldquo;We anticipate DisasterAWARE Enterprise will allow businesses to take more proactive steps in protecting their people, assets and investments.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to Kaazing <abbr title=\"cheif operating officer\">CEO<\/abbr> Bob Miller, the unprecedented losses from natural disasters in 2017 show the need for enterprises to have reliable science and technology to make informed decisions and minimize risk. To scale DisasterAWARE for enterprise use, Kaazing is embedding its technologies into the platform.<\/p>\n<p>DisasterAWARE Enterprise key features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Real-time, global hazard monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Predictive hazard modeling <\/li>\n<li>Visual geospatial intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Securing client data in a friendly way<\/li>\n<li>Integrated U.S. government agency reports<\/li>\n<li>Scalable, flexible and easy implementation across any industry<\/li>\n<li>Offline support <\/li>\n<li>Multi device support <\/li>\n<li>Localization supporting six different languages&#8212;English, Spanish, Indonesian, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75949\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-pdc-aha-centre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-pdc-aha-centre.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/manoa-pdc-aha-centre-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Shirkhodai, right, and former <abbr>AHA<\/abbr> Centre Director using DisasterAWARE during a real-world earthquake event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DisasterAWARE Enterprise will be available through Kaazing online from March 22, allowing subscribers easy access to the product.<?p><\/p>\n<p>Read more about the partnership between <abbr>PDC<\/abbr> and Kaazing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdc.org\/news-n-media\/pdc-updates\/Kaazing-PDC-Partnership\/\"><abbr>PDC<\/abbr> website<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powered by Pacific Disaster Center\u2019s global, cloud-based DisasterAWARE platform, DisasterAWARE Enterprise will be released by enterprise solutions provider Kaazing as an advanced enterprise risk intelligence platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1409,955],"class_list":["post-75947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-pacific-disaster-center","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75947"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76062,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75947\/revisions\/76062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}