IBM Consolidates Microelectronics with GlobalFoundries and Invests In OpenPower Foundation and New Era Of Computing, such as a16-chip for neurosynaptic (brain-like) computer for cognitive computing. By Anne Phey
The 1,219% increase shows both profit and the impact of the chip crisis on th...aditi agarwal
Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board Corp. Makes an essential component for chipmaking that has grow to be the contemporary bottleneck for automakers and electronics organizations laid low with semiconductor shortages
The 1,219% increase shows both profit and the impact of the chip crisis on th...aditi agarwal
Nan Ya Printed Circuit Board Corp. Makes an essential component for chipmaking that has grow to be the contemporary bottleneck for automakers and electronics organizations laid low with semiconductor shortages
Elements and enablers: how to develop an operator IoT ecosystemomarvl
In the battle to establish leadership in the IoT, ecosystems
will ultimately be the competitive unit.
There are three main levers for building a successful
IoT ecosystem – an IoT platform, market
expectation and network effects. Of these, market
expectation and network effects will be particularly
critical. The way in which operators use
these two levers will be the key to differentiating
their ecosystems successfully.
Evolving Service Provider Business ModelsYankee Group
The irrational exuberance of the Enron era led many communications service providers (CSPs) to financial ruin, and paying penance for past excesses consumed the first decade of the 21st century. But Yankee Group argues that it's time to shed the hair shirt.
Despite a crowded competitive environment, new business models are emerging to lead CSPs into a vibrant future. However, CSPs must have the courage to transform. Hard decisions about what is core and non-core are required.
In this webinar, Yankee Group VP and Senior Research Fellow Camille Mendler explores the ever-evolving CSP business model.
How Can the Telecom Industry Start Growing Again?Yankee Group
Will wireless kill wireline vendors? Will Google kill telcos? What is next-gen? The idea of strategic growth conjures up dozens of questions—and no specific answers. Mobile traffic is rising, and consumers and enterprises are constantly demanding more bandwidth, content and speed. The communications industry must work to keep up by both evolving traditional business models and building the capacious, ubiquitous network needed to satisfy demand.
Elements and enablers: how to develop an operator IoT ecosystemomarvl
In the battle to establish leadership in the IoT, ecosystems
will ultimately be the competitive unit.
There are three main levers for building a successful
IoT ecosystem – an IoT platform, market
expectation and network effects. Of these, market
expectation and network effects will be particularly
critical. The way in which operators use
these two levers will be the key to differentiating
their ecosystems successfully.
Evolving Service Provider Business ModelsYankee Group
The irrational exuberance of the Enron era led many communications service providers (CSPs) to financial ruin, and paying penance for past excesses consumed the first decade of the 21st century. But Yankee Group argues that it's time to shed the hair shirt.
Despite a crowded competitive environment, new business models are emerging to lead CSPs into a vibrant future. However, CSPs must have the courage to transform. Hard decisions about what is core and non-core are required.
In this webinar, Yankee Group VP and Senior Research Fellow Camille Mendler explores the ever-evolving CSP business model.
How Can the Telecom Industry Start Growing Again?Yankee Group
Will wireless kill wireline vendors? Will Google kill telcos? What is next-gen? The idea of strategic growth conjures up dozens of questions—and no specific answers. Mobile traffic is rising, and consumers and enterprises are constantly demanding more bandwidth, content and speed. The communications industry must work to keep up by both evolving traditional business models and building the capacious, ubiquitous network needed to satisfy demand.
Social Media Inside The Brand: DuPont Case Study
Learn first-hand about the internal battles, struggles and success you can expect in the Wild West world of Social Media. Hear about the legal aspects of Social Media, how to develop a proper Social Media Marketing policy, and how to sell a "word of mouth" project internally.
* Gary Spangler, eMarketing, DuPont
This business report aims to examine the challenge that emerging Cloud-Computing brought to IT industry and IBM. The author will use SWOT and revised Yip’s framework to analyze and identify the competitive strengths and weakness of IBM. The final section of this report will provide strategic recommendation and end user expectation.
A short report on IBM with its brief history, an overview of segments, services provided, storage solutions, software solutions, services, cloud, Cognitive offerings, and IBM target by the year 2020.
Device democracy -Saving the future of the #InternetOfThings @IBMIBV Diego Alberto Tamayo
Transforming businesses as
the Internet of Things expands
As a global electronics company, we understand the
issues facing the high-tech industry and the continuous
transformation required to thrive. Across the industry,
companies are turning their attention from smartphones and
tablets to a new generation of connected devices that will
transform not just the Electronics industry, but many others.
The IBM Global Electronics practice uniquely combines IBM
and partner services, hardware, software and research into
integrated solutions that can help you deliver innovation,
create differentiated customer experiences and optimize
your global operations.
This session covers IBM's various storage solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics workloads. Presented at IBM TechU in Johannesburg, South Africa September 2019
Clarisse Hedglin from IBM presented this as part of 3 days International Summit .. She shared the scenarios AI can solve for today using the IBM AI infrastructure.
Welcome to the future - IBM Cognitive Cloud in FrankfurtAleksandar Francuz
The following charts show the challenges and disruption related to digitization, main requirements from German companies related to data privacy and security and presenting the values and opportunities IBM Cloud could offer incl. customer references and examples.
Presentation from 6th June 2017, covering IBM Systems PoV, WW Executive ownership of IBM Power Systems, challenges in our industry, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Intel's Strategic direction, IBM Power Systems strategic direction, OpenPOWER Foundation, OpenCAPI, Nutanix and POWER9
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2017, the EdTech Network hosted Dr. Ben Amaba, IBM Worldwide Leader for Hybrid Cloud Software, for a presentation on how today’s global innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders are changing industries, cultures, and practices through digitization. Dr. Amaba explored how IBM is tapping the cloud, mobile, and analytics technology to compete and to harness innovation and knowledge to drive the “art of the possible” in order to achieve results and target new markets in a manner never imagined.
Similar to IBM Corporate Strategy: Move To Value - Divest To Invest (20)
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Enhancing Performance with Globus and the Science DMZGlobus
ESnet has led the way in helping national facilities—and many other institutions in the research community—configure Science DMZs and troubleshoot network issues to maximize data transfer performance. In this talk we will present a summary of approaches and tips for getting the most out of your network infrastructure using Globus Connect Server.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing Days
IBM Corporate Strategy: Move To Value - Divest To Invest
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Corporate Strategy:
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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty’s shared with Fortune that the IBM corporate strategy is to
move towards higher value and differentiation.
For decades, IBM has been synonymous with innovation, cutting-edge technology,
and cool research and developments that pushed the boundaries of what
computers were capable of doing. Today, the innovation shifts to create
breakthrough R&D innovations that will fuel the next era of computing systems.
In line with the delivery of that strategy, IBM has announced that it will pay $1.5
billion to GLOBALFOUNDIRES to take over IBM Microelectronics, its chip-making
factories. According to an anonymous source, IBM will in return receive $200 million
worth of assets as part of the supply of chips, making the net deal value $1.3 billion.
IBM Moves To Value & Sells Microeletronics Division
IBM will become a major customer for
GlobalFoundries, buying Power chips from the
manufacturing company for its own
mainframe and “scale-out” systems as well as
for next-generation storage systems. IBM will
continue to design high-end chips and sell
servers and supercomputers.
The deal is expected close in 2015.
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Who is GlobalFoundries?
GLOBALFOUNDRIES is owned by the
Mubadala Development Co, the Abu
Dhabi government's investment fund
It has been collaborating with IBM since
their inception in March 2009.
GlobalFoundries was created in 2009
when Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
sold its manufacturing operations to
Advanced Technology Investment Co.,
which is wholly owned by the
government of Abu Dhabi, a part of the
United Arab Emirates.Why GlobalFoundries?
It is the world’s first full-service semiconductor foundry with a truly global footprint.
Launched in March 2009, the company has quickly achieved scale as the second
largest foundry in the world, providing a unique combination of advanced
technology and manufacturing to more than 160 customers. With operations in
Singapore, Germany and the United States, GLOBALFOUNDRIES is the only foundry
that offers the flexibility and security of manufacturing centers spanning three
continents.
Global Foundries was chosen as the world’s first
full service foundry with a global footprint
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The World of Semiconductors
According to Forbes’ contributor Roger Kay, there are only two foundries and one
integrated manufacturer that have the investment capabilities to undertake risk in
the semiconductor industry - Taiwanese TSMC, GlobalFoundries and Intel.
Intel, the integrated manufacturer Intel fights a lonely battle, doing all its R&D
internally, building its own factories, making its own chips, and selling them to
customers who build systems.
Common Platform
In contrast, the industry has Common Platform, an alliance
formed with IBM, Samsung, GlobalFoundries who picked
up AMD and Singapore’s Chartered Semiconductor and
an alliance potentially in British ARM for Qualcomm and
Apple.
The alliance has great benefits of reduced cost,
technology development and physical risk.
This means a serious threat to Intel and a key reason for
IBM to divest their x86 business.
Common Platform = IBM + Samsung + Global
Foundries => Threat to Intel
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Consolidation & Future Collaboration
As IBM consolidates the Microelectronics manufacturing with GlobalFoundries,
questions were raised as to whether this would be further divestment of the systems
business and why IBM would pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion in cash over the next
three years to take the chip operations off its hands.
Partnership: Consolidation & Collaboration
Cut loss from manufacturing & Focus on Research
IBM needs “to narrow their focus, get their A-game on, and any distractions from a
core business perspective, such as this deal, need to be put in the rear-view mirror,"
FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives told Reuters. "From an IBM and investor
perspective, it takes one troubled area out of the core franchise.“
In a 10-year partnership, GlobalFoundries will
supply IBM with Power processors in exchange for
access to IBM's intellectual property. That would
allow GlobalFoundries to access key chip making
technology and guarantee the chips IBM needs
for its systems, like mainframe, power servers and
its Watson data-analytics technology.
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The Changing Economics Of Semiconductor Manufacturing
The cost of making chips has risen, and semiconductor development is getting more
complex, making the business less viable. Besides using its own Power chips, IBM also
sold them to game console manufacturers like Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. However,
IBM still lacks scale and despite generating $1.4 billion revenue, has $700 million loss in
the last year
According to Ana Hunter, Vice President of Foundry Services at Samsung, putting
together a factory to make the next generation of semiconductors will cost about $10
billion. Globalfoundries will book around $10bn over the next year in capital
expenditures – which shows you just how expensive it is to compete in the chip building
side of the industry. It makes sense to consolidate the manufacturing with foundry to
pool investments and risk.
The Economics Of The Consolidation
Matt Eastwood, an IDC analyst, said the deal makes
sense because of the changing economics of the
semiconductor manufacturing business. "The cost of
semiconductor manufacturing is going to continue to
increase, making it a business where scale will matter
more and more going forward…(GlobalFoundries) also
hopes that IBM's focus on growing the OpenPower
ecosystem will create new demand for semiconductor
manufacturing services.”
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By divesting the semiconductor
manufacturing business to
GlobalFoundries who can scale up and
build Power cores for a wider customer
base, IBM will also free up capital to be
reallocated to other areas. IBM will focus
on the research and design of high-end
chips, servers and super-computers. This
is part of their focus on enterprise-class
systems innovation.
IBM Divests In Manufacturing To Invest In
Systems & Research
Arvind Krishna, General Manager of IBM's Manufacturing & Development said "Over
time, you will get the at-scale manufacturing that actually assures the longer-term
sustainability of these systems," he said.
“This is another milestone in our journey to transform the IBM Systems and Technology
Group,” said IBM Senior Vice President, Tom Rosamilia. “The agreement focuses on the
strengths of each company. GlobalFoundries will drive continued leadership in scale
manufacturing becoming our premier supplier of semiconductor technology, and IBM
will continue to create breakthrough R&D innovations that will fuel the next era of
computing systems."
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IBM’s Commitment to Systems
The systems strategy is clear: “We will continue to be a leader in high-performance
systems, storage and cognitive computing, while continuing to invest in advanced
semiconductor R&D.” IBM’s research mission is unchanged -- to deliver technology
leadership that differentiates their systems today while continuing the leading edge
work to create the advanced semiconductor technologies of the future.” said IBM
Senior Vice President, Tom Rosamilia.
IBM Commits to OpenPOWER Foundation
and technology innovation
Over the past year, IBM has made bold decisions, steering its portfolio toward world class
systems and technology innovation. The company has
deployed new cloud and mobile solutions for the mainframe;
opened the Power architecture to more than 60 members through the OpenPOWER
Foundation to expand the use of the architecture;
invested in software defined storage capabilities and high performance Flash;
and announced investments in the next generation of chip technology,
developed cognitive computing systems which can help process natural language
and unstructured data created by sensors and mobile devices, and
speed up development of Watsons which is already making impact in areas like
personal medicine.
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"Given that all the design, all the software, all the operating systems, all of the
firmware and all of the other system advantages that we put in remain with IBM, my
basic answer would be it does not impact our mainframe, or power system or our
storage clients at all," he said.
OpenPOWER Foundation & IBM Research Labs
research on POWER chips
The highly regarded IBM Research labs, which
boasts Nobel Prize winners on staff, will also
continue to rethink and reshape computer design.
IBM in July announced it would pour $3 billion over
five years into hardware research that could lead
to quantum computers and cognitive systems that
mimic brain functionality. A brain-like chip was
announced in August, and the researchers have
made progress in investigating chip materials
beyond silicon.
The OpenPOWER Foundation members are developing their own Power chip for
server applications. Founding members include Google, Samsung, Tyan, nVidia,
Mellanox. Google has also shown an interest in Power architecture, said Richard
Dougherty, founder of analyst firm Envisioneering Group. While its large-scale data
centers run mostly off x86-based systems, Google has also designed a Power server
board.
This is a 16-chip version of IBM’s neurosynaptic (brain-like) computer
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