The investment will allow Music City’s orchestra to reinstate its 2026-27 season and recall furloughed musicians and staff

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Oracle today announced that it is investing $10 million and creating a strategic partnership to help sustain the Nashville Symphony and keep the music playing as the organization restructures. Oracle’s support will help the Nashville Symphony address its immediate financial needs, move forward with its 2026-27 season, and bring its musicians and staff back to the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

“Oracle’s commitment is a lifeline for the Nashville Symphony and the community we serve,” said Mark Tillinger, president and CEO, Nashville Symphony. “Oracle’s partnership gives us the ability to bring our musicians and our music back to the stage, and it gives us momentum as we build toward a stronger, more sustainable long-term future. We’re immensely grateful for Oracle’s belief in the Nashville Symphony.”

“It’s an extraordinary relief to be able to welcome a new corporate partner to arts philanthropy in Nashville,” said Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell. “Oracle’s generosity ensures that the upcoming season will not be lost. For years, the Nashville Symphony has entertained fans—including me—and it’s encouraging to see the steps its new leadership is taking to ensure that remains true for years to come.”

The partnership enables the Symphony to reinstate the 2026-27 season along with its full-time staff members and all members of the orchestra who were to be furloughed on Oct. 18 due to a financial emergency.

“Nashville is a city that understands how music can bring people together,” said Clay Magouyrk, CEO, Oracle. “We are part of this community and understand how important cultural institutions like this are to the residents of Nashville. As Oracle builds its new headquarters on Nashville’s East Bank, we are here to help solve the community’s problems and ensure Nashville remains a vibrant place to live and work for generations to come.”

About the Nashville Symphony
The Nashville Symphony inspires and engages audiences across Middle Tennessee with extraordinary live orchestral music experiences. Founded in 1946, the Symphony is celebrated for its commitment to contemporary American orchestral music, innovative programming across genres, and a prolific recording legacy, earning 14 GRAMMY® Awards and 27 nominations. Today, the Symphony performs in the world-class, acoustically superb Schermerhorn Symphony Center, and reaches nearly 550,000 Middle Tennesseans annually through its free and low-cost education and community programs. Globally, the orchestra connects with almost 13 million listeners worldwide through its recordings, broadcasts, and streaming activities. The Nashville Symphony is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching its community and inspiring the next generation of music lovers. Learn more at nashvillesymphony.org.

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With Scoot as its first airline partner, tigerhop expands Dohop’s footprint in Asia and adds new network capacity and destinations for Taiwan’s leading low-cost carrier.

REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, Oct. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dohop, the travel technology company creating a new standard for Connected Travel that works beyond traditional interline, has announced a new partnership with Tigerair Taiwan to deploy the Dohop-powered tigerhop platform, now live on the airline’s retail channels. Through the initial partnership with Scoot, Singapore Airlines’ low-cost subsidiary, Tigerair Taiwan customers will have more options for travel within Asia, specifically across North Asia routes and new connections to Singapore, all bookable in a single transaction.

Tigerhop, powered by Dohop’s RetailConnect platform, allows Tigerair Taiwan to sell multi-carrier journeys that combine its own flights with onward services operated by partner airlines. At launch, tigerhop will offer connections from Taipei and Da Nang to Singapore via Scoot, and travelers departing from Singapore can transfer at Taoyuan International Airport to other destinations, including Akita, Hanamaki, and Tottori.

“Tigerair Taiwan demonstrates how airlines can use Connected Travel to expand their network without the cost and complexity of bilateral interlining,” said Hugh Aitken, Chief Operating Officer at Dohop. “Launching tigerhop with Scoot gives Taiwanese travellers access to more destinations through Tigerair Taiwan’s own channels, while enabling the airline to capture bookings that might otherwise go to OTAs. With additional carriers joining the platform in the coming months, tigerhop also marks an important expansion of Dohop’s presence in Asia.”

For Tigerair Taiwan, the partnership adds connections with other carriers without complex interline or codeshare agreements, expanding its commercial reach with minimal technical investment. By selling these itineraries through tigerhop under its own brand, the airline can compete more effectively with online travel agents while giving passengers access to Dohop’s ConnectSure disruption support and travel protection services.

“Working with Dohop, we can grow our international reach without traditional interline structures while maintaining our brand promise to our passengers,” said Joyce Huang, Chairperson of Tigerair Taiwan. “We look forward to partnering with new carriers and expanding our coverage in the APAC region through Dohop’s technology.”

The Tigerair Taiwan launch extends Dohop’s presence across Asia, where its platforms are already live for Scoot, Thai Vietjet, Citilink and Air India Express, with others in development. These deployments reflect growing demand among Asian carriers for flexible connectivity that can integrate into existing retail channels without individual codeshare or bilateral interline agreements, supporting the industry’s broader move toward modular, multi-carrier connectivity and modern retailing.

For more information about the partnership between Dohop and Tigerair Taiwan, or to arrange an interview with a Dohop executive, please contact Vanessa Horwell at vhorwell@thinkinkpr.com.

About Dohop 
Dohop enables connected journeys from booking through arrival, combining flights and travel segments from multiple airlines and travel providers into a single trip supported by disruption handling, travel protection, and baggage transfer. More than 100 airlines and travel partners, including Air France, Air Transat, easyJet, Scoot, Vueling and Wizz Air, use Dohop’s Connected Travel platform to create, sell, and support multi-carrier journeys without traditional interline agreements, expanding network connectivity and route options as participation grows. Visit www.dohop.com/airlines to learn more.

About Tigerair Taiwan
Tigerair Taiwan launched its first route in 2014. As Taiwan’s first and only low-cost carrier (LCC), it operates routes across Asia, providing travelers with affordable, reliable, and convenient options. Focusing on a warm, passionate, and genuine service while upholding safety as its core value, Tigerair Taiwan continues to expand its footprint and add more destinations in Asia. Learn more at www.tigerairtw.com.

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LAS VEGAS and NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vision Group showcased its portfolio of AI data center (AIDC) power and energy storage products at YOTTA 2026 in Las Vegas on September 29–30, marking the first public appearance of LiLic Sidecar. Addressing the growing need for high-power delivery, flexible backup power, and integrated backup and energy storage, the company presented LiLic Sidecar, its high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power solution, battery backup units (BBU), and battery energy storage systems (BESS). Together, these solutions demonstrate a multilayered portfolio spanning battery backup, high-voltage DC power, and energy storage applications.

As AI infrastructure moves toward higher power densities, power systems must do more than provide protection during outages. They must also accommodate rapidly changing loads while addressing space utilization, power efficiency, and deployment timelines. At YOTTA 2026, Vision Group presented new products and system solutions designed to meet these requirements, bringing its technologies across battery cells, backup power equipment, and power supply and distribution systems to the global data center community.

LiLic Sidecar: Combining Transient Power Support with Sustained Backup

A key highlight of Vision Group’s exhibit, LiLic Sidecar is designed for high-power-density AI data centers. It connects directly to an 800V DC busbar (±400V) and is compatible with the OCP ORV4 open rack standard, offering a new backup power option for high-voltage DC architectures.

To address both frequent AI load fluctuations and power interruptions, LiLic Sidecar uses a hybrid cell design that combines the pulse-cycling characteristics of lithium-ion capacitors (LIC) with the backup capabilities of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. It integrates power fluctuation smoothing and short-duration backup within a single system. In a five-module operating configuration, each cabinet delivers 1MW of rated discharge power and at least 60 seconds of backup at a 1MW load, providing reserve energy for high-power compute racks.

LiLic Sidecar features an All-in-One design that integrates power functions associated with CBU and BBU systems. By addressing requirements across multiple timescales—from transient response to short-duration backup—it reduces the space required for separately deployed equipment. Its integrated battery management system (BMS) and DC/DC design further reduces external connectors and cable interconnection points, simplifying system connections. Hot-swappable modules facilitate maintenance and replacement.

For thermal management, the product combines immersion cooling with cold-plate cooling. An electrically insulating, flame-retardant immersion coolant works alongside cold plates to address electrical safety and heat dissipation requirements in high-voltage environments. This hybrid liquid-cooling approach improves temperature uniformity across cells and supports stable system operation.

Discussing the innovation behind LiLic Sidecar, Tom Qin, Vice President of Strategy and Business Management at Vision Group, said in an interview: “This is more than a product. It represents a new path for Vision Group to redefine AIDC backup power architecture.”

This approach reflects the company’s efforts to jointly optimize power response, backup capability, and system integration around the operating characteristics of AI loads.

From Backup Power to Campus Energy: Matching Solutions to Different Deployment Needs

Vision Group also showcased HVDC, BBU, and BESS solutions to address power and energy storage requirements at different levels, giving customers multiple options for architecture selection, project deployment, and operational management.

HVDC: Supporting 800V Power Architectures

Vision Group’s HVDC solution uses an 800V high-voltage DC architecture to address AI data centers’ demand for efficient power delivery. The solution has been deployed at a hyperscale AI data center in Ulanqab, providing practical project experience to support further deployment of the company’s high-voltage DC energy storage and backup power systems.

BBU: Bringing Backup Power Closer to the Load

Battery backup units extend power protection to the load side. The 72kW BBU presented at the event features a compact 2RU design and a 5+1 redundant architecture, delivering high-density backup power within a limited footprint. It also incorporates three levels of fire safety protection—at the cell, module, and system levels—to provide multilayered safeguards for backup power deployed close to computing loads.

BESS: Extending Energy Value Beyond Backup

Vision Group’s BESS portfolio includes 5.015MWh and 6.48MWh liquid-cooled battery energy storage containers, as well as a 215kWh immersion-cooled battery energy storage cabinet, addressing energy storage needs at different scales. Where backup capacity and operating requirements are met, available surplus capacity can support peak shaving and valley filling, extending the value of integrated backup power and energy storage.

Safety and Reliability as the Foundation for High-Density Computing

During an industry media interview at the event, Tom Qin emphasized: “In AI data centers, high power density is important, but safety and reliability will always be Vision Group’s first principle.”

He noted that the highly dynamic nature of AI loads places greater demands on the long-term stability of power systems, making safety essential throughout the product lifecycle.

Citing the large-scale indoor fire test of Vision Group’s REVO 3.0 lithium battery system for UPS applications, Qin described the company’s approach to validating system-level safety under extreme conditions. From fire testing to the BBU’s multilayered fire protection, Vision Group incorporates safety requirements into both product design and validation to support continuous, stable power delivery in high-density data centers.

Strengthening Its North American Presence with Global Delivery Capabilities

Beyond product innovation, global delivery and localized service were also key topics in the interview.

“North America is a strategic market for Vision Group and will be a key focus of our future efforts,” Tom Qin said.

Serving global cloud providers and data center operators, Vision Group will continue to strengthen its technological innovation, delivery, and service capabilities while deepening collaboration with industry partners.

Founded in 1994, Vision Group has built extensive experience in backup power, with a business presence spanning more than 100 countries and regions. Supported by manufacturing facilities in Vietnam and other locations, together with its overseas service network, the company provides delivery, compliance certification, and after-sales support. It also maintains collaborations with companies including Eaton, Vertiv, Schneider Electric, and Delta to align its products and solutions with customers’ practical application requirements.

From the debut of LiLic Sidecar to its multilayered HVDC, BBU, and BESS portfolio, Vision Group is advancing its “All in AIDC” strategy by expanding from individual backup power products to integrated power supply and distribution solutions. Its appearance at YOTTA 2026 highlighted the company’s AIDC technologies and product portfolio while providing an opportunity to deepen engagement in North America and expand collaboration across the global industry ecosystem.

To learn more about LiLic Sidecar and Vision Group’s AIDC power solutions, contact the Vision Group team to discuss power supply and backup configurations tailored to your project.

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