As the digital marketplace explodes Andy Mantis, group head of Business Solutions for MasterCard Advisors, says that retailers must work harder than ever to stake its claim to an ever-shrinking world of e-commerce. But as MasterCard shared at the recent World Retail Congress Asia Pacific 2013, they’re hard at work to translate billions of credit ...Full article
What is the fastest machine to run the new Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system from Microsoft? Ironically, it could turn out to be a storage array, and more precisely, a flash-based 6000 Series Memory Array from Violin Memory. Getting fast persistent storage near compute capacity is the key to accelerating performance and is perhaps ...Full article
With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated every day, retailers are asking themselves the question, ‘How do we get our arms around this information?’ “It’s out there—the problem is that it’s in a lot of different places,” says Paul Merritt, industry director for retail at Lexmark. “The reason the want to be able to get ...Full article
The need for capacity in enterprise IT is every increasing. Whether it’s compute, bandwidth, fabric, throughput, or even data, the march of growth only seems to hasten, a phenomenon that can prove to be exponentially expensive. Attacking this march for increasing capacity are strategic trends to contain the costs associated with these increases, such as ...Full article
Shopping season may be stressful for shoppers hoping to beat the crowds and find the lowest price, but retailers are far from immune from the stresses of the holidays. Historically, the pressure has been to wait and see which items sell and then react as quickly as possible to adjust prices and keep them in ...Full article
The VMware server virtualization installed base has 40 million virtual machines across its 500,000 customers. Most of those VMware shops will want to run at least some of their workloads on public clouds at some point. But VMware's software is not cheap, and it has been difficult for the company to get service providers to ...Full article
The quickest way to get your hands on a commercially supported variant of the new "Havana" OpenStack cloud orchestrator is to go to Canonical and get its Ubuntu Server 13.10, which was put out concurrently with that new OpenStack release this week. The timing is no accident. Canonical has been doing two releases of its ...Full article
When IBM’s Watson made his debut on Jeopardy!, the supercomputer’s makers were quick to point out that while its knowledge of trivia may be impressive, the real impact will come when Watson reaches its final destination - hospitals. Now, IBM is one step closer to this end as Cleveland Clinic brings Watson-based diagnostics tools to ...Full article
The OpenStack community that it developing the open source cloud controller by the same name has rolled up the "Havana" release of the tool and made it available for others to commercialize or use as they see fit. The update has a number of scalability enhancements that will allow companies to build and manage very ...Full article
One of the key inhibitors of cloud computing revolves around some of the shoddy native instrumentation where monitoring is concerned, leaving IT managers with the sense of amaurotic shock, unable to see what is going on behind the virtual curtain. When a company abstracts computing resources to the cloud and then shares them across multiple ...Full article
For the 160-year-old Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, organizing and making sense of its patient data has been a necessity to streamline its operations, but doctors are increasingly seeing ways in which it has opened the doors for more cost-effective patient care. Through it, physicians have been able to tailor treatment plans to ...Full article
Originally the small-scale central power systems known as microgrids were merely a solution to mitigate blackouts, but with recent announcements that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and eBay have adopted the technology, it’s clear that the technology is gaining momentum as homeowners use them to manage rooftop solar systems, cut electricity bills or ditch their power ...Full article
Financial services institutions running risk analytics, Monte Carlo simulations, or pricing algorithms using IBM's Platform Symphony grid software on their clusters are getting a computational boost now that Symphony is able to dispatch work to Intel's Xeon Phi coprocessors. The support for the Xeon Phi coprocessors with Symphony is in some ways better than that ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NCMS_NewLogoTest_NoShadow.png" alt="" width="95" height="48" border="0" />This week, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) will be signing a memorandum of understanding with Lawrence Technological University so that the school can house NCMS’ Michigan Grid Cell.Full article
The Chinese government is in the middle of putting together an economic reform and investment plan, and spending by state-owned industries has stalled. This has affected the performance of a number of big IT suppliers, and IBM is the latest to be caught off-guard by the chilly spending environment. IBM is also struggling with a ...Full article
YarcData has recently announced that it will join together with the systems diagnostics company, Selventa, to bring big data to Selventa’s push for personalized medicine. Through the collaboration Selventa will have access to YarcData’s Urika analytics appliance, which will be used to help pharmaceutical companies accelerate drug discoveries as well as market delivery. Urika is ...Full article
To offer data analytics to life sciences researchers in need of information from broad patient populations to answer questions about complex disease and drug interactions, Deloitte has announced the upcoming release of PopulationMiner, which is schedule for release in November. To this end, Deloitte is working with Intermountain Healthcare, a Utah-based nonprofit systems of over ...Full article
Should an X86 processor be running network functions, or should those jobs be offloaded to a coprocessor? Tilera thinks it is time to get that work off the CPU and onto chips designed specifically to do this work. A few years back, Tilera took a direct run at server workloads with its TILE-Gx chips and ...Full article
In response to the national Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) announced by President Obama in 2011, Purdue University has opened a new research center dedicated to modeling for materials engineering. Called the Purdue Center for Predictive Material and Devices (c-PRIMED), led by Gerhard Klimeck and Alejandro Strachan, will work alongside Conte, the nation’s fastest university-owned supercomputer, ...Full article
Last week, IDC Health Insights released a new report comparing major life sciences IT vendors and what factors are most important when selecting an outsourcing IT vendor. Called IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Life Science Sales and Marketing ITO Vendor Assessment 2013, the report assessed a number of vendors, including Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, HCL, Indegene, Infosys, ...Full article
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