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Ecosystem business models have the potential to generate and deliver much greater value than traditional business models. It’s not a question of whether companies will make the shift anymore. The question now is about the role they will play.
We’ve written about building platforms and how platform companies are more likely to succeed. However, there are many companies in many industries in the world, and not all will be able or willing to build a platform of their own. Nor will they need to. They can still succeed, provided they have the right strategy, choosing their own ecosystem niche, as a leader or a participant.
There are many ways to be an ecosystem leader. In this article we will point out three main categories that stand to profit from ecosystem business models.

1. The Aggregator.

The aggregators connect supply and demand. They do this through their own transactional marketplaces. For this strategy to work, the volume of users is…

In today’s ever advancing world of high performance computing knowledge is key. The challenges of squeezing more performance, developing faster and more scalable applications, and implementing higher... Read more >
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Beyond the reach of the longest selfie stick and more intimate than a hovering helicopter, camera drones are the next tech frontier in photography. Enthusiasm for camera drones has skyrocketed in the last few years. Now, everyday consumers can get professional-grade aerial imagery that was once only possible with a sizeable helicopter — and budget. … Continued
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In this post, I will cover the changes in Apache® Ignite™ 2.0/2.1 (which tracks to GridGain 8.0/8.1) that are important when implementing a project in Ignite. Then we will discuss the easiest way to setup a cache and just use the basic functionality of the Data Grid.

In the below video interview, I talk with David Chou, Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer with Kansas City, Missouri-based Children’s Mercy Hospital. In addition to his work at Children’s Mercy, he helps healthcare organizations transform themselves into digital enterprises. Chou previously served as a healthcare technology advisor with law firm Balch & Bingham ...continue reading A Hospital CIO Perspective on Precision Medicine
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GPU acceleration is revolutionizing high-performance computing. Leveraging GPUs for processing-intensive workloads is on the rise, particularly among verticals such as finance, retail, logistics, health/pharma, and government. GPU-acceleration is opening new possibilities for machine learning, …

Microsoft is pleased to announce availability of SQL Server 2017 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), which is now available for download.
The release candidate represents an important milestone for SQL Server.  Development of the new version of SQL Server along most dimensions needed to bring the industry-leading performance and security of SQL Server to Windows, Linux, and Docker containers is complete.  We are continuing to work on performance and stress testing of SQL Server 2017 to get it ready for your most demanding Tier 1 workloads, as well as some final bug fixes.
We invite you to test out RC2 today, and to let us know how it’s working for you.  If you have questions, you can join the discussion of SQL Server 2017 at MSDN. If you run into an issue or would like to make a suggestion, you can let us know through…

VoltDB V7.5 is now available, with a fine set of features sure to excite our customers, including:

• Kafka updates (most requested by customers)
  1. Kafka 0.10.2 an upgrade from our previous Kafka 0.8 support. King was interested in doing this upgrade. For now, we support both versions.
  2. SSL in Kafka. The Kafka 0.10 upgrade enabled us to get SSL support – which enhances our security story even more
  3. Kafka messages going to two or more tables
• SQL features and improvements
  1. INSERT INTO..SELECT now takes way less temp memory, enabling it to be used on very large partitioned tables (customers have wanted this for a while)
  2. More flexible placement of COUNT(*) in views
  3. Unary minus
  4. SQL functions to calculate RADIANS() and DEGREES()
• New @Statistics QUEUE selector, to help customers and support diagnose performance issues.
• Bug fixes and a bunch more features.

When building applications, developers aim for them to be both consistent in performance and also highly available under every imaginable scenario.

Doing so has always been a challenge because there’s always been a tradeoff between data consistency and high availability

Until now.

1. One Thread To Rule Them All

Redis has been, from its inception, single threaded – and will remain so at least in 4.0. This is a reality that Redis apps, and more recently Redis Modules such as RediSearch , have to work with.
While keeping things single-threaded makes Redis simple and fast, the downside is that long running commands block the entire server for the duration of query execution. Most Redis commands are fast so that is not a problem, but commands like ZUNIONSTORE, LRANGE, SINTER and of course, the infamous KEYS, can block Redis for seconds or minutes, depending on the size of data they are handling.

2. RediSearch and the Single Thread Issue

RediSearch is a new search engine…

By Peter Pitsch, Executive Director of Federal Relations and Associate General Counsel for Intel This month is an exciting one in the world of 5G, as the FCC has released a draft Notice of Inquiry (NOI) to “Explore Flexible Use … Read more >
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Breaches and ransomware continue to have alarming impact and disruption across the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) industry worldwide. The global average total cost of a data breach is now $3.62 million USD, with healthcare having the highest per capita cost across all industries at $380 USD per patient record[1]. Ransomware infections, such as the ...continue reading Intel and NH-ISAC Enable Healthcare to Benchmark Security Readiness
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In the first blog of this series, “Data Fragmentation: Individual Efficiency vs the Big Picture,” David Chaiken, the CTO of SAP Cloud Platform Big Data Services, spoke to us about the challenges data fragmentation poses to enterprises and their customers. David gave us insight on the core causes of fragmentation and the obstacles created both internally and externally as a result. He discussed the most effective ways to handle the phenomena and proposed how to resolve the limits imposed on businesses and their customers trying to get the most value from data.
David Chaiken related the virtues of automation used to improve data standardization and effective business analytics. Manual processing of data runs the risk of increased lag time and…

With great responsibility comes the need for great power, or at least powerful tools that give you a competitive and creative boost. At SIGGRAPH this week you can see many examples of what can be accomplished when creative minds are empowered with Intel technology. For example, the award-winning developers at CreateVR* used Intel hardware and ...continue reading Amazing New Media & Entertainment VR Experiences Powered by Intel Xeon Processors
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GigaSpaces’ XAP In-Memory Computing Platform Integrates with New Intel® SSDs GigaSpaces today announced its collaboration with Intel to integrate and benchmark its IMC solutions with Intel® Optane™ SSDs and NVMe SSDs. The integration creates a distributed data fabric that can store
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