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Actian Launches Zen 16.0, the Next Generation Database for Edge Computing

Jun 18, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #Actian, #Actian Launches Zen 16.0, #Emma McGrattan, #IDC., #IoT devices, #Next Generation Database for Edge Computing, #ROUND ROCK, #Texas, #the data and analytics division of HCLSoftware, #Trent Maynard, #Zero-ETL

ROUND ROCK, Texas, June 17, 2024  — Actian, the data and analytics division of HCLSoftware, today announced the launch of Actian Zen 16.0, the newest version of its innovative embedded database. To help businesses run faster, smarter applications on the edge, Zen 16.0 is designed for real-time data processing across mobile, IoT devices, edge gateways, and complex machinery.

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Actian developed Zen 16.0 to capture the growing demand for edge computing. IDC predicts edge computing will account for $232 billion in spending this year*. Zen 16.0 simplifies and optimizes edge computing for resource-constrained environments that range from industrial IoT and connected healthcare to smart cities. Actian Zen 16.0 introduces performance enhancements and new features designed to improve efficiency and functionality for the more than 13,000 organizations currently using Zen, as well as attracting new customers.

“Actian Zen16.0 is designed to meet the needs of modern embedded systems and edge computing,” said Emma McGrattan, senior vice president of engineering and product at Actian. “Its secure and scalable design allows for easy data synchronization with Zero-ETL, making it perfect for developers creating intelligent applications that can deliver real-time decisioning from edge to cloud to give a business competitive advantage.”

Zen 16.0 delivers the small footprint with fast read and write access and automatic administration that resource-constrained environments require. Zen16.0 addresses the need to support high-performance intelligent applications with minimal administration, particularly for frequent data update use cases like sensor data collection to monitor patient well-being or asset management tracking using RFID scanners.

Zen 16.0 ensures seamless data synchronization from edge to cloud, supports both SQL and NoSQL data access, and leverages popular programming languages to empower developers in building low-latency embedded applications.

“Actian Zen provides a high performance, lightweight, and self-managed embedded database for our business,” said Trent Maynard, Director of Product & Engineering at Global Shop Solutions. “Zen continues to deliver exactly what we need and we’re enthusiastic about the new capabilities of Zen 16.0 to empower our business operations even further.”

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IDC MarketScape: Huawei Named a Leader in Network Consulting Services

Jun 3, 2024 by Mansi Praharaj 0 Comments #ICT infrastructure, #IDC., #Leaders, #Network Consulting

[Shenzhen, China, June 3, 2024] In May 2024, IDC, a world-leading industry consulting firm, released IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Network Consulting Services 2024 Vendor Assessment. With its leading end-to-end network consulting capabilities, Huawei was positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in the competitiveness assessment by the capabilities of ICT services and software.

IDC collected and analyzed data on 18 network equipment vendors, global systems integrators (GSIs), and global telecommunications providers for this IDC MarketScape. It performed the assessment in terms of capabilities and strategies, to provide market reference for ICT infrastructure field customers. Huawei was placed in the “Leaders” quadrant, which means network consulting capabilities of Huawei ICT services and software have been recognized by authoritative third-party evaluation institutions.

IDC believes that ICT services and software of Huawei has a global service organization, rich product portfolio, and continuous investment in developing self-owned tools and platforms to provide end-to-end consulting services, including network design, capacity planning, O&M transformation, network optimization. In addition, Huawei has more than 30 years of experience in the ICT field, and partnerships with leading business consulting firms to provide vertical expertise to clients to help them with digital intelligence transformation:

Intelligent Connectivity Integration: Designs and builds green and resilient target networks for customers, and achieves coordinated development of 2C/2H/2B services.

Intelligent IT Integration: Huawei provides customers with full-stack integration services, including data center IT and facility services, covering the entire process of consulting and planning, integration implementation, and auxiliary operation, building green, reliable, and intelligent data centers for customers.

Intelligent Operations: Service-centric intelligent O&M helps customers minimize service interruption caused by network faults and improve user experience.

SmartCare: Innovatively apply AI and digital twin technologies to network performance and service experience to build networks with optimal performance and experience, helping operators improve network brand value.

Huawei Learning: Based on 30+ years of experience in talent cultivation, Huawei Learning offers systematic talent development services that integrate talent planning, talent cultivation, talent assessment, and operation to develop digital intelligence talent.

Business and network consulting: Based on global best practices & industry know-how, understand customer strategy, identify key value use cases and critical weaknesses, create AI tools, synergy between business and network, support customer business success by digital transformation, DICT planning and operation consulting services.

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Quantum Stornext Sets New Performance Records For Video Workloads

Mar 8, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Brian Pawlowski, #Chief Development Officer, #Eric Burgener, #IDC., #Infrastructure Systems, #Platforms and Technologies Group, #Quantum, #Research Vice President

Bangalore, India — Quantum Corporation announces that its StorNext® File System is the fastest file system for video workloads. In testing using the independent SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark, the StorNext 7 system outperformed all other file systems across all three-performance metrics, using a reference architecture with 57% fewer storage nodes than the next nearest vendor and at a much lower cost per concurrent stream. These results demonstrate that StorNext provides the best performance and best value for any workload that requires massive streaming performance with a large number of concurrent users or processes.

Video Surveillance Capture

Use cases in media and entertainment, video surveillance capture and retention, and earth and life sciences with large digital image files can all benefit from the streaming performance and data lifecycle management of the StorNext system. The SPEC SFS 2014 SP2 Video Data Application (VDA) test, which is designed to simulate a high-performance video-based workload at scale, was conducted on the StorNext File System and Quantum F-Series NVMe storage servers.

The Quantum StorNext system set new performance records for:

• The highest aggregate throughput (34,391 MB/sec)
• The lowest latency (0.9 milliseconds overall response time)
• The highest number of concurrent streams (7,450 streams)
The charts below show how Quantum outperformed its competitors across the three metrics.Quantum Stornext Sets New Performance Records For Video Workloads

Performance Storage System

“Video creation is growing exponentially across all industries — whether for entertainment, marketing, communications, training or surveillance — and customers require extremely high-performance storage systems to ingest and process their video content,” said Brian Pawlowski, Chief Development Officer, Quantum. “These test results clearly demonstrate that StorNext is the fastest file system on the planet for video workloads. And thanks to the architecture of the StorNext File System, it achieved these record-breaking results with substantially less hardware than the nearest competitor.”

“The record-setting results in this SPEC SFS testing validate the StorNext system’s performance leadership for video and other large file workloads,” said Eric Burgener, Research Vice President, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, IDC. “And since explosive growth of this type of data is occurring across many industries, StorNext is well positioned to help enterprises ingest, process, and manage this type of data across its lifecycle.”

Endorsing Standardized Benchmarks

The reference architecture uses generally available products, configured as a single StorNext 7 File System running on Quantum Xcellis ® appliances, with 10 Quantum F-Series NVMe storage servers. The StorNext File System was connected to clients via iSER (iSCSI Extensions for RDMA) over a 100GbE dual network, with an additional 1GbE network for metadata and administration. Full details of the architecture used are publicly available on the SPEC website.

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain, and endorse standardized benchmarks and tools to evaluate performance and energy efficiency for the newest generation of computing systems. SPEC develops benchmark suites and also reviews and publishes submitted results from its member organizations and other benchmark licensees.

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Five Key Factors for a Future-Oriented Digital Transformation of Electric Power Enterprises

Sep 25, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #digital transformation, #Electric Power Enterprises, #Hu Hao, #Huawei, #HUAWEI CONNECT 2020, #IDC.

[Shanghai, China, September 24, 2020] At HUAWEI CONNECT 2020, IDC and Huawei jointly released the white paper for the electric power industry — Building the Future-Ready Power Enterprise: Road to a Successful Digital Transformation.

In the white paper, IDC proposed a methodology for the transformation of electric power enterprises. This methodology supports and aligns with Huawei’s digital transformation methodology. IDC and Huawei follow a similar approach with frameworks and blueprints to help organizations design their
digital transformation priorities and set their agenda, which in turn enables power enterprises to deliver the business value of scale.

Electric Power Enterprises Urgently Need New Operating Structures
and Business Models

The power industry has long faced disruption. Power enterprises are now facing multiple changes. Management will need new operating structures and business models if power enterprises are to remain key players in the energy ecosystem. As 2020 progresses, COVID-19 has introduced another dimension of change and disruption that business leaders in the power industry must tackle.

Hou Jinming, Deputy Director of the Technology Department of the Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) said that “As the advance of global energy reform and energy Internet development, the power sector will take an entirely different shape. It will be decarbonized, digitized, and intelligent.” The implications of the change will impact the management, operations, services, and transaction modes of the electric power industry. Power enterprises must reconsider who the customer is and who the competitor is, a new breed of stakeholders and participants, and how the energy ecosystem works. This will mean new customer engagements, new business
models, new competitors, more stakeholders and increased risks.

Increasing renewables, emerging power consumption devices, multiplying power grid connections, and the integration of energy, information, and transportation networks require power enterprises to systematically improve their response capabilities and the intelligence of their management systems and business processes. This will allow power enterprises to better adapt to complex environments, and enable power systems to operate more securely, adaptively, flexibly, and efficiently. Therefore, high operation data analysis efficiency, rapid and efficient artificial intelligence (AI) decision-making capability, and full-process automation will be crucial to the survival of power enterprises.

Methodology: Five Stages of Digital Transformation of Electric Power
Enterprises

To build a future power enterprise, IDC proposes the digital transformation methodology for the electric power industry.

IDC’s maturity model is part of its digital transformation methodology that seeks to provide a framework for companies to build their roadmaps. According to the maturity model, the digital transformation of electric power enterprises is divided into five phases: adhoc, opportunistic, repeatable, managed and optimized.

The factors most critical to the success of power industry digital transformations are as followed: 1. A single enterprise digital strategy; 2. Resolution to make the required organizational and cultural changes; 3. A long-term investment commitment to digital transformation; 4. A platform-based strategy; 5. An enterprise-wide data governance model.

Emilie Ditton, AVP of the Energy and Manufacturing Insights Group, IDC Asia Pacific, believes that modernization, digitalization, and transformation of the grid are an immediate requirement. The transformed digital grid will combine traditional centralized generation, large-scale distributed generation, and renewables as well as enabling visualized management and control of the
complex power grid environment. Grid operations will transform from digital grid operations to smart grid operations. New business models will be established, and the power service mode and power grid management mode will be changed.

Huawei: Reliable Partner for Digital Transformation

Collaborating with its enterprise partners, Huawei implements comprehensive awareness, interconnection, and intelligence of various power terminals by integrating 5G, IoT, optical, IP, cloud, big data, and AI technologies into the power system. Through digital transformation, Huawei is committed to assisting
customers develop coping strategies in dealing with industry challenges and seizing future opportunities.

Lu Yongping, Vice President of the Global Energy Business Dept of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, stated that Huawei is a reliable partner for digital transformation. Huawei will facilitate the digital transformation of electric power enterprises through a variety of methods, including assisting in the understanding of their own status quo, the market, and the entire industry ecosystem. Based on
extensive digital transformation practices in the energy industry, Huawei has developed an energy ring — ‘1-2-3-2-1’ — a digital transformation framework applicable to the energy industry, in aiding electric power enterprises realize the vision of their digital transformation goals.

Adhere to one transformation vision: Electric power enterprises should interpret ‘digital transformation’ as a corporate-level transformation strategy and an indispensable element of their overall strategy.

Create two assurance conditions: Develop data literacy levels of enterprises and employees, progress the cultivation of a digital and transformation culture, and build a talent team for digital transformation, supporting enterprises’ digital transformation objectives.

Implement three key processes: Implement integrated management of planning, construction, and operations and ensure that digital transformation is progressing as outlined, so that an organization’s transformation vision can be converted into enterprise value.

Build two core driving forces: Follow service and technology trends and seize opportunities in the future.

Build one basic platform: Build a fully connected digital platform to provide solid foundations for the digital transformation of businesses.

Huawei’s digital transformation methodology is similar to that of IDC, and they complement each other. Both parties believe that digital transformation steps and frameworks need to be planned and established to help electric power enterprises design their digital transformation priorities and set their agenda, which will enable power enterprises to deliver the business value of scale.

Hu Hao, Chief Digital Transformation Officer of the Global Electric Power Industry of Huawei Enterprise BG, pointed out that the global energy industry is facing transformation. The traditional energy consumption structure centred on primary energy is gradually transforming to a new structure centred on secondary energy such as PV and wind power. This will drive the industry evolving towards decarbonized, clean, electrified, and distributed. During the transformation, Huawei will help power enterprises optimize management processes, reduce production costs, improve operation security, and innovate business models. It will also help enterprise customers accelerate digital transformation to achieve the goal of building an intelligent energy system that features multi-energy synergy, ubiquitous connectivity, and intelligent interaction.

HUAWEI CONNECT 2020 is an annual flagship event hosted by Huawei for the global ICT industry and is being held in Shanghai from September 23 to 26, 2020. HUAWEI CONNECT is an open platform designed to help our customers and partners navigate these changes, share experience, and work together to create new value. At this year’s event, we will explore trends and opportunities in industry digitization; showcase advanced ICT technologies, products, and solutions; give you an insider’s look at the fruits of joint innovation; and share best practices in digital transformation. Our ultimate goal is to build an open and sound industry ecosystem that will benefit all stakeholders and create new value
for all industries. For more information,

please visit: https://www.huawei.com/en/events/huaweiconnect2020/

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Genpact and Deloitte Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Business Transformation and Build Enterprise Resilience

Aug 7, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Alison Close, #Anil Nanduru, #Ayan Chatterjee, #chief commercial officer, #Deloitte Consulting LLP., #Digital Business Operations and Analytics Services, #Genpact, #Genpact (NYSE: G) and Deloitte, #IAOP, #IDC., #national managing principal, #Operate Services, #research manager

Genpact (NYSE: G) and Deloitte announced a strategic alliance to offer comprehensive solutions to help organizations scale and optimize critical business operations, drive speed to the outcome, deliver business transformation to enhance competitive growth, and build resilience in an uncertain future.

As clients reimagine their core businesses, the challenges that lie ahead are increasingly complex, creating a need for an ecosystem of partners to help organizations rapidly pivot and prepare for the future. Genpact and Deloitte’s deep domain and technology experience, along with depth in driving transformation at scale, creates a unique combination. Genpact’s strength in running intelligent operations coupled with Deloitte’s breadth across advise, implement and operate services, offer a tailored end-to-end solution for clients.

“Genpact and Deloitte are a natural fit,” said Alison Close, research manager, Digital Business Operations and Analytics Services, IDC. “This alliance is a game-changer and signals a revolutionary model of providing end-to-end solutions for clients.”

The alliance will deliver a number of tangible benefits to clients that can be leveraged quickly to help them accelerate their digital transformation journeys, with an emphasis on mission-critical services in areas such as finance and accounting, supply chain, and procurement. Enabling clients to focus on their core strengths, the alliance will help deliver increased enterprise value without them having to build or run the solutions themselves. It will also provide access to domain depth and knowledge in the latest technologies like digital, cloud, and artificial intelligence while optimizing process expertise.

“Businesses must leverage technology to differentiate, scale quickly, and stay ahead in today’s environment,” said Ayan Chatterjee, national managing principal, Operate Services, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “It’s no longer about just executing the transformations; it is about continuously innovating and realizing the maximum value from these transformations over a period of time. Our alliance with Genpact brings this philosophy to the forefront. Our combined services can often generate the savings that can in fact fund these much-needed transformations.”

The alliance will provide clients with both bespoke and predefined solutions to accelerate the shift to new business models and meet market demands. Genpact and Deloitte has collaborated on several joint go-to-market offerings to help clients in their transformation journeys. Two of the predefined solutions include GenOne™, a finance as-a-service offering powered by Workday, and DEAL (Digitally Enabled Accelerated Lending), that helps accelerate and lower the cost of the commercial lending process. Additionally, Deloitte and Genpact can build and execute bespoke multi-year solutions for our clients leveraging a wide array of technologies to drive large scale transformations, while operating both the legacy and the transformed environments.

“We have always believed an ecosystem of partners is the way of the future. To enable digital transformation, service providers need to create solutions by not only investing in their own people, proprietary tools, and intellectual property, but they also need to build a partner ecosystem that brings comprehensive and specialized solutions to the market,” said Anil Nanduru, chief commercial officer, Genpact. “Through this alliance, clients are already seeing the impact as we address their needs to drive end-to-end operational capabilities and accelerate digital transformation.”

Recently, the IAOP® recognized the Deloitte-Genpact alliance for demonstrating excellence in collaboration, innovation and outcomes with the Excellence in Strategic Partnerships honour.

“In recent years, we’ve seen more and more Global Outsourcing 100 applicants contribute their success to strategic partnerships,” said Debi Hamill, chief executive officer, IAOP. “This is something to celebrate, and for this reason, we added it as an option on the GO100 award application. But make no mistake, our new Excellence in Strategic Partnerships program is a stand-alone, admirable recognition, and we’re thrilled to honour these organizations.”