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Memory, Power and AI Semiconductors in 5G to Hit $15.03 Billion in Revenues by 2025, Finds Frost & Sullivan

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5G semiconductor applications witness unprecedented growth, driven by increasing data traffic and hardware improvements

SANTA CLARA, California, June 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Growth Opportunities for Memory, Power, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Semiconductors in 5G, Forecast to 2025, finds that the 5G AI, memory, and power amplifier (PA) semiconductor market is rapidly transitioning from a nascent stage to a growth stage. It is strongly driven by exponentially increasing data traffic, technological advancements leading to hardware performance and capability improvements, and the emergence of new use cases. Registering an unprecedented growth at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 74.3%, the market for 5G AI, memory, and PA semiconductors is estimated to garner revenue of $15.03 billion by 2025 from $536.9 million in 2019.

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“5G is in the early commercialization stage, and a majority of the deployments in the coming years are expected to be in the sub-6 GHz range. Hence, short-term opportunities will be limited to traditional devices, such as smartphones, communication infrastructure, and laptops,” said Prabhu Karunakaran, Test & Measurement Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “Further, the AI processor market for 5G applications is rapidly growing, specifically in edge devices. They are expected to play a significant role in various devices, including edge servers and autonomous cars.”

Karunakaran added, “Memory integrated circuits (ICs) supporting 5G end-user markets will be the highest contributors. Power amplifier IC is estimated to have generated larger revenue due to multiple 5G deployments, with revenue from the infrastructure segment. Additionally, AI is in the infancy stage and is expected to grow significantly in the next five years.”

To tap into opportunities created by memory, PA, and AI semiconductors in 5G, Frost & Sullivan has identified key prospects in the:

  • Manufacturing Sector: To mitigate the issues of surging operational costs in the manufacturing sector, semiconductor companies must work with network equipment manufacturers and robotics system manufacturers to integrate cost-effective memory, PA, and AI chips and capitalize on the opportunity.
  • Healthcare Sector: The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a sudden rise in the adoption of robotics in the healthcare sector. AI and PA market participants should look into optimizing the existing products to leverage this unprecedented opportunity.
  • Automotive Sector: Autonomous vehicles need an ultra-fast, reliable network that processes huge volumes of data. Hence, 5G AI, PA, and memory device manufacturers should develop automotive-grade devices that function reliably.
  • Retail Sector: AI, memory, and PA semiconductor market participants should increasingly focus on developing solutions for 5G edge servers that will require processing large data volumes.
  • Agriculture Sector: Digitization is transforming the agriculture sector rapidly. Market players must work with system and device manufacturers to develop cost-effective, application-specific integrated circuits to enhance farm productivity.

Growth Opportunities for Memory, Power, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Semiconductors in 5G, Forecast to 2025 is the latest addition to Frost & Sullivan’s Test & Measurement research and analyses available through the Frost & Sullivan Leadership Council, which helps organizations identify a continuous flow of growth opportunities to succeed in an unpredictable future.

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icometrix launches its icompanion platform for people with multiple sclerosis

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LEUVEN, Belgium and CHICAGO, June 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — icometrix, the world leader to extract clinically meaningful data from brain scans, is proud to have launched the icompanion platform and phone application for people with multiple sclerosis on World MS Day!  icompanion is a medical device and is currently available in English, French, German, and Dutch.

To support people with multiple sclerosis, icompanion provides an easy and secure app to track symptoms, treatments, and physician visits. Users can also obtain educational information on the meaning and quality of their brain scans by uploading their MRI scans onto the platform. With this, icompanion provides a solution to log events that occur between neurologist visits, by means of day-to-day symptom-tracking and standardized questionnaires (patient-reported outcomes).

“As a neurologist, you see a patient only a couple of times a year and we know that a lot of valuable information is lost in-between,” says Dr. Helmut Butzkeuven, neurologist at the Monash University in Melbourne, and director of MSBase, the largest global multiple sclerosis registry. “To make informed clinical and treatment decisions, it is important to have a complete picture of how a patient is doing,” Dr. Butzkeuven continues. “Medical devices such as icompanion can greatly help in democratizing care, since today, patient care depends on where you live and who cares for you,” Dr. Butzkeuven concludes.

“icompanion helps me keep track of my symptoms. Even if they seem insignificant, they are crucial in helping me communicate with my physician and prepare my visits. I think it’s great that by using icompanion, my data can also support researchers in their fight against multiple sclerosis. To win this battle we need everyone’s help, and together we are stronger,” shares Roberto Paolella, living with MS for 15 years.

“Offering care based on data and objective measures is crucial to move towards more personalized and precise medicine for people with neurological disorders,” says Wim Van Hecke, CEO of icometrix. “That is why we founded icometrix and developed the CE-labeled and FDA-cleared icobrain MR and CT brain measures, which are becoming standard of care. Through icompanion, the gap between doctor visits is bridged with clinically meaningful and validated data. The seamless availability of the icompanion data to the health care provider is very important in this context,” Wim Van Hecke states.

About icometrix 
icometrix is the world leader in software solutions to obtain clinically meaningful data from brain MR and CT scans for patients with neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, brain trauma, epilepsy, dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc. The fully automated icobrain software from icometrix is FDA cleared and CE labeled and leverages artificial intelligence to quantify disease-specific brain structures. Today, icometrix is internationally active in over 100 clinical practices. Alongside this, icometrix works with healthcare providers and pharmaceutical companies on the evaluation of drug trials for neurological diseases.

Please visit icompanion.ms for further information.

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Templafy Expands into Australia and Appoints Kavita Herbert as Director of Sales for APAC

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Herbert brings extensive experience driving early growth for leading tech companies in Australia

SYDNEY, June 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Templafy, a global leader in enterprise document creation and automation, has announced today that it is physically expanding its presence into the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, establishing an office in Sydney, Australia under the guidance of veteran commercial executive, Kavita Herbert, and Templafy’s Head of Strategy and Analytics, Mads Ejstrup Frederiksen.

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Kavita Herbert

To better serve new and existing customers in the APAC market, Templafy is building a dedicated team with feet on the ground in Sydney, composed of experienced employees from offices across the world and local new hires.

“We have always seen a lot of organic interest for our product across the APAC region and have great local partners. The ANZ market in particular is ahead of the cloud adoption curve and presents a vast opportunity for Templafy’s next stage of growth,” said Frederiksen. “Kavita has a strong background in leading early-stage growth at top tech companies, and we’re thrilled to have her on board as we expand into APAC.”

Herbert comes to Templafy with over a decade of professional experience in enterprise sales, business development, strategic partnerships and client services. Before joining Templafy, she led enterprise and mid-market growth through new restaurant partnerships for Uber Eats ANZ, and before that was part of the early growth teams in ANZ at Dropbox and LinkedIn.

“With a strong product, vision and ‘people-first’ culture, Templafy is on the fast track to becoming the next big enterprise software solution, and I’m excited to lead its commercial expansion in the Asia-Pacific market,” said Herbert.

With over 2 million licenses sold worldwide, Templafy represents a global portfolio of enterprise clients, such as KPMG, BDO, IKEA and Pandora.

Learn more about Templafy’s APAC office here: https://www.templafy.com/APAC/

About Templafy
Templafy helps many of the largest companies in the world drive workforce alignment, reduce their liability and increase their productivity through the market leading document creation and document automation platform.

Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2014, Templafy’s team leveraged more than 15 years of experience in template management and document automation to develop an enterprise cloud service solution, which is now a global market leader within its category, validated by blue-chip enterprise customers on every continent.

For more information on Templafy’s product and company, visit www.templafy.com, or follow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/templafy/ or Twitter: @templafy

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Shanghai Electric Accelerates Industrial Digitalization with Upgrades to SEunicloud

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SHANGHAI, May 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Shanghai Electric, the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of power generation and industrial equipment, announced upgrades to the company’s digital solution platform SEunicloud in a hope to accelerate the evolution of work and retool the industry.

Developed by Shanghai Electric Digital Technology Co., Ltd and officially launched in 2019, the platform is deployable across various scenarios, including intelligent wind power operation, remote thermal power operation, machine tool maintenance, energy storage and distribution. The platform has been providing efficient solutions including troubleshooting, remote operations, maintenance, and energy planning to meet demands in the various scenarios.

The Shanghai Electric’s intelligent supply chain solution of the SEunicloud platform is designed to match factory production with power plant demand directly. The company has established 1781 procurement projects online, with a final bid amount of more than 800 million yuan since the resumption of work in February.

As an advanced multi-faceted digital platform, users can accelerate the process of reconstruction by resolving the stress of a tight supply chain by remotely running equipment diagnostics, procure and manage supply chains and monitor supplier contracts, source bidding, online purchasing and order coordination. The intelligent supply chain platform also provides matching between sellers and buyers through historical data analysis in the procurement pricing process and automatically tracks and documents suppliers’ historical performance, factoring them into the overall supply chain management process for due diligence.

The DES-PSO energy planning solution of the SEunicloud platform is co-developed by Shanghai Electric Distributed Energy Co., Ltd and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The solution features design & planning, investment analysis and risk assessment functions, allowing customers to evaluate the financial viability of large-scale energy production projects before commissioning their construction. 

The Shanghai Electric E-Commerce solution of the SEunicloud platform covers 90% of the power plant “must-have” spare parts product list and is a one-stop platform equipped with spare parts, maintenance services, transformation optimization and more. It can facilitate the online delivery of more than 22,000 spare parts products and 70 standard repair packages—all at near factory price. Customers can use a standardized format for requirements. This improves the transaction efficiency by streamlining the communication process between buyers and sellers. Through big data analysis, the E-commerce platform stimulates the hope of incubating an integrated data-driven solution for intelligent and customized products and services.

“Under the big picture of ‘new infrastructure’, Shanghai Electric is leveraging its competitive advantage in big data in multiple pipelines, and paving the way for an integrated platform-based solution for the whole power industry,” said Huang Ou, the Director and President of Shanghai Electric Group, “Our goal is to empower enterprises across different industries with this technology in the foreseeable future”.

About Shanghai Electric
Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited (SEHK: 02727, SSE: 601727) is principally engaged in the designing, manufacturing and sale of power equipment and industrial equipment. It focuses on Energy Equipment Business including manufacturing and sale of coal-fired power generation equipment, gas-fired power generation equipment, nuclear power equipment, wind power equipment, energy storage equipment, high-end chemical equipment, power grid and industrial intelligent power supply system solutions, Industrial Equipment Business including production and sale of elevators, medium and large-sized electric motors, intelligent manufacturing equipment, industrial basic parts, environmental protection equipment, construction industrialization equipment and the Integrated Services Business including energy, environmental protection and automation engineering and services, industrial internet services, financial services, international trade services, high-end property services, etc.

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FICO Survey: Malaysian Consumers more Comfortable Opening Bank Accounts with Smartphones than Americans and Canadians

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23 percent of Malaysians prefer to open a bank account on their phone compared to 18 percent in the US and 16 percent in Canada

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —

Do Identity Checks By Malaysian Banks Turn Away Customers?
Do Identity Checks By Malaysian Banks Turn Away Customers?

Highlights:

  • The FICO Consumer Digital Banking Survey examines the preferences Malaysian consumers have with digital bank account opening
  • The study found 23 percent of Malaysians prefer to open a bank account on their phone compared to 18 percent in the US and 16 percent in Canada
  • 78 percent of Malaysian consumers said they would open a financial account online
  • Identity verification with too much friction could cost organizations over 40 percent of new account openings

More information: https://www.fico.com/identity

FICO, a global analytics software firm, has released its Consumer Digital Banking Survey which found Malaysian consumers are more comfortable opening bank accounts on their smartphones than consumers in the US and Canada.

The study showed that 23 percent of Malaysians prefer to open a bank account on their phone compared to 18 percent in the US and 16 percent in Canada.

“It is not surprising that Malaysian consumers are digital natives,” said Subhashish Bose, FICO’s lead for fraud, security and compliance in Asia Pacific. “It is demographically a young country, with 80 percent of the population under the age of 50. Plus, the Malaysian government is actively encouraging development and investment in the digital economy which makes up about a fifth of the country’s GDP. These factors have promoted a digital-first consumer base.”

The study showed that digital account opening is rapidly becoming the norm in Malaysia with 78 percent of consumers saying they would open some kind of financial account online.

Of those that would open a financial account online, 65 percent would consider doing so for an everyday transaction account, 45 percent for a credit card and 28 percent for a personal loan.

Leading the digital push were 25-34-year-olds, with 76 percent of them saying they would open a bank account online. This dropped to 49 percent when it came to consumers 45-55 years-old, but interestingly climbed back up to 61 percent for those over 55 years of age.

“Malaysian households are often multi-generational,” explained Bose. “So, this finding might be explained by younger generations helping their grandparents with their banking, especially if they are less mobile and can’t get to a branch.

“As consumers’ reliance on online services grows in response to COVID-19, we expect further shifts in adoption and indeed an acceleration and acceptance in opening bank accounts digitally. It is important that banks closely examine any points of friction in their application process to ensure consumers are not abandoning a process or switching to a competitor,” said Bose.

Malaysians expect account opening to be fully digital

The survey found that a large percentage of Malaysians had an expectation that they should be able to complete all aspects of account opening online or on their phone.

Out of the regular identity checks needed to open an account, 78 percent of Malaysians thought they should be able to prove their identity by scanning documents or providing a selfie, 46 percent expected to prove where they live without moving offline and 40 percent said they should be able to set up a biometric such as a fingerprint scan at account opening.

If all actions required to complete an account opening cannot be accomplished in-session, only 45 percent of respondents said they would carry out the necessary offline actions as soon as possible and 23 percent said they would abandon opening the account. Overall findings demonstrated that financial institutions that don’t facilitate a completely digital account opening experience could lose over 40 percent of their new business.

“There is research to show that only 6-9 percent of applicants move through the funnel and complete the process,” said Subhashish. “The most important metric that banking executives need to understand is the difference between application completion for authenticated versus non-authenticated applications, as well as how many applicants with saved or abandoned applications return to complete the process.”

FICO’s Consumer Digital Banking Survey was the results of an online, quantitative survey of 5,000 adults (over 18) across 10 countries carried out on behalf of FICO by an independent research company.

About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time.

Join the conversation on Twitter at @FICOnews_APAC.

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Digital Solutions Optimize Performance in Global Homes & Buildings Market Following Minor COVID-19 Setbacks

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Technology-based offerings in Homes & Buildings industry segments to find growth opportunities amid pandemic, finds Frost & Sullivan 

SANTA CLARA, California, May 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Homes and Buildings Industry Outlook, 2020, reveals that the penetration of advanced technologies that provide energy and cost benefits and value-based outcomes will drive the global homes & buildings (H&B) industry in 2020. However, an additional report, Impact of COVID-19 on Global Homes and Buildings Industry, 2020, notes industry revenues are expected to drop by 3.5% from 2019 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Frost & Sullivan – Global Homes & Buildings

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“While the coronavirus is expected to negatively impact the homes & buildings industry, markets for HVAC, refrigeration systems, and fire safety products will continue to witness demand for their solutions and services, given their necessity in critical end-user industries such as hospitals and residences,” said Anirudh Bhaskaran, Senior Industry Analyst for Homes & Buildings at Frost & Sullivan. “The cleaning aspect of FM services will also grow, as there will be an increase in demand for the disinfection of commercial and industrial spaces.”

Bhaskaran added: “There is an increased level of awareness among building managers and customers about value creation from IoT and AI-driven solutions. Participants in traditional markets such as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), fire safety, and facility management (FM) are integrating digital offerings into their solutions, which will play a vital role in optimizing a building’s performance.”

For further revenue opportunities, vendors in this industry should:

  • Create a cross-functional COVID-19 task force to reinforce confidence in employees and partners, and gain trust among customers.
  • Provide services to critical end-user segments that are considered “essential.”
  • Increase the adoption of AI and machine learning algorithms in building technology solutions to enable cognitive abilities in buildings and reduce human intervention.
  • Design modular, upgradeable, and reusable products to help reduce waste.
  • Offer building management solutions at attractive prices and business models.

Global Homes and Buildings Industry Outlook, 2020 and Impact of COVID-19 on Global Homes and Buildings Industry, 2020 are a part of Frost & Sullivan’s global Building Management Technology Growth Partnership Service program.

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For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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Aetina x SmartCow: Introduce Medical Assistant for Pandemic Environment Care

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TAIPEI, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Healthcare system is the foundation of human being culture, every innovative medical research shows its supports and values to continue and expand. The world is suffering from COVID-19, AI developers seek a medical assistant to maintain the healthcare system. Aetina Corporation, a GPGPU and edge AI computing solution provider, and AI solution developer, SmartCow Co. Ltd. cooperated building an algorithm with six types of AI models that based on the edge computing platform.

Aetina x SmartCow: smart medical assistant for pandemic environment care, powered by edge AI computing platform
Aetina x SmartCow: smart medical assistant for pandemic environment care, powered by edge AI computing platform

Edgar, an AI-powered healthcare assistant built-up with Aetina AN110-NAO platform, developed for a safe work environment and patient care. In public, AI should build in original equipment or other machines most efficiently, AN110-NAO sized perfectly, with 87.4×67.4×46 mm (with fan). Various I/O support is an excellent way to build a tight and one single solution. The AN110-NAO platform, which is ready for common I/O, includes the I2S slot that brings audio out, which is suited for Edgar’s application environment, set for warning modules. Meanwhile, camera supports are the core visual AI solution. The platform supports MIPI CSI-II interface 1x 4k or 2x FHD cameras. Not only landed-ready but also fulfill demands from Edgar – high-resolution images bring accurate reality recognition.

Edgar supports six types of AI models, like social distance estimation, masks detection, and safe sneeze action classification. Among these functions, Edgar creates a safe environment in times of medical emergencies, assist the front-line medical staff in preventing the respiratory disease. For example, one of Edgar’s ability is face-mask recognition. It can be set up easily in access and provide guidance and direction to mask dispenser machines before differentiating the mask-wore to enter the premises. The types of face mask covered PPE, N95 and surgical. Another specialty of Edgar is social distancing detection; the device could combine with a policy network and keep public activity in 6 feet between 2 people.

In the data explosion era, security and privacy is the first concern. Edgar is GDPR compliant. Images will be processed and remain on the edge system; no data will transfer to the cloud. It is well-prepared for the public and ready to assist the market. Besides, Aetina Jetson series serve comprehensive, experienced R&D advise and edge AI ecosystem prop for AI development.

To reach more detail by visit Aetina website: www.aetina.com or contact them at sales@aetina.com.

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CC Awards Reopens to Recognize Customer Contact Excellence

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Frost & Sullivan prepares to honor companies in customer contact & customer experience industry

SANTA CLARA, California, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Customer service practitioners and solution providers of all areas are invited to nominate their organizations and/or clients for the CC Awards (CCs), the customer service awards program that recognizes excellence and outstanding achievement across key areas of the industry. The CCs provide an opportunity to reward those who are leading the way in innovative actions, committed pursuit and exceptional service to their customers.

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Frost & Sullivan – The CC Awards

To submit a nomination or learn more, please click here: www.frost.com/ccawards.

“By recognizing companies who are breaking new ground in customer service excellence, we aim to create a forum for celebrating and sharing best practices in the world,” said Michael DeSalles, Principal Analyst, Information & Communication Technologies at Frost & Sullivan.

Following nominations, a panel of industry experts and Frost & Sullivan research analysts will judge each category. Companies selected as best-in-class will be honored as “Kahunas” in the category or categories for which they entered. Kahunas will then be invited to compete once more to be considered for the “Big Kahuna” recognition in each category. All winners will be honored, and Big Kahuna winners are currently planned to be announced at the 16th Annual Customer Contact West: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange, October 18-21, 2020, at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa in Tucson, Ariz.

Practitioners or solution providers that focus on distinguished customer experience are encouraged to nominate their accomplishments in one or multiple categories. Consideration will be given to those whose achievements have set them apart during the past year.

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How Toshiba is Employing “Unemployed” Data to Create a World of Co-Existence and Co-Creation

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SINGAPORE, May 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — When data is processed, organized and presented in a given context, it becomes meaningful information that can improve our daily lives. Toshiba’s Chief Digital Officer Taro Shimada shares more on how Toshiba Data Corporation, newly established in 2020, aims to explore the possibilities of tapping on everyday data to realize tangible benefits for society.

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Taro Shimada, CEO & Representative Director of Toshiba Data Corporation, Executive Officer & Corporate Vice President of Toshiba Corporation
Taro Shimada, CEO & Representative Director of Toshiba Data Corporation, Executive Officer & Corporate Vice President of Toshiba Corporation
Source: Created by Toshiba, based on the IDC White Paper “The Digitization of the World from Edge to Core”
Source: Created by Toshiba, based on the IDC White Paper “The Digitization of the World from Edge to Core”
Creation of New Value by Combining Cyber and Physical Data
Creation of New Value by Combining Cyber and Physical Data
Big Data and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Big Data and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

From Data 1.0 to Data 2.0

According to estimates by the IDC (International Data Corporation), the total amount of data in the world will grow more than five times from 2018 to 2025 – a veritable explosion of data in just seven years. And this growth is expected to continue. Toshiba believes that the amount of data created from the physical world – things like factory equipment and transportation systems – will far exceed the data created in the cyber business.

With the company’s offerings and involvement in point-of-sales (POS) systems, industrial machinery and social infrastructure, Toshiba can transcribe the data from the physical world, feed it into cyberspace, and then combine the new data with already existing cyber data to create something of value.

The company is focused on aggregating behavioral data of consumers in the physical world, and with their permission or after anonymizing the data, give value created back to the consumer. Various service providers could provide different customer offerings according to the data gathered.

An example is the ‘Smart Receipt’ developed by Toshiba TEC Corporation, a Smart Receipt system that digitizes paper receipts that customers would receive when they make payments at stores. Depending on how it is applied, it could even be used as a tool for regional vitalization.

Toshiba Data is considering to offer management support to medical institutions. By collaborating with other providers, Toshiba aims to help medical institutions to analyze patients’ data and identify various pre-symptomatic diseases for health monitoring purposes. Overcoming challenges, Toshiba Data is committed to create an ecosystem where everyone can reap the benefits of data.

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Supermicro Unveils Intelligent Retail Edge – Delivers Sophisticated Solution for IoT Workload-Intensive Applications

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NodeWeaver and NetFoundry Collaborate with Supermicro to Offer Retailers a Platform to Accelerate Digital Transformation

SAN JOSE, California, May 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announced an advanced and customizable integrated platform targeting retail and chain store environments. Supermicro’s new platform combines proven hardware/software configurations to support the demand for processing the quantities of data emanating from the growing deployment of IoT and other interrelated computing devices. 

Supermicro’s Intelligent Retail Edge provides an integrated software-defined operating platform that significantly simplifies the deployment, management, orchestration, and networking of Edge infrastructure and applications. The platform runs on Supermicro’s IoT and edge hardware, ranging from small edge devices to full-scale rack-based edge servers that can support GPU, FPGA, and other technologies.

“Supermicro’s Intelligent Retail Edge solution provides retailers the engine they need to deliver innovative technologies and services to their customers efficiently,” said Raju Penumatcha, senior vice president and chief product officer, Supermicro. “Built on Supermicro’s flexible Building Block Solutions® architecture and powered by leading-edge software from our partners, this solution is optimized to help address some of the challenges facing the retail industry today.”

Supermicro’s Intelligent Retail Edge is offered in three different certified cluster configurations leveraging the industry-proven SuperServer platform that is optimized for specific sized stores, and application workload requirements.

  • Entry-level cluster platform based on the E100, a small, powerful fanless IoT/Edge gateway server for small stores with space and power constraints, such as small convenience stores or restaurants, running basic workloads such as Point-of-Sale (POS), video surveillance, and inventory management.
  • A mainstream cluster requiring a versatile, high-performance IoT/Edge server based on the E300, has a small physical footprint and superior acoustics for small to medium-sized stores running multiple applications at the edge.
  • High-end cluster configuration utilizing the 1019/5019, a short depth rack-mount edge workhorse server with rich storage and networking options and support for accelerator and GPU technologies needed for AI/ML applications for medium to- large-sized stores, such as grocery stores and mid-sized size retailers.

Developed through a collaboration with NodeWeaver and NetFoundry, Supermicro’s Integrated Retail Edge platform supports small-to-large clusters for retail applications.

“Retail technology is at the beginning of a new era that promises to revolutionize the customer experience, increase efficiencies, and reduce costs,” said Carlo Daffara, CEO and Co-Founder of NodeWeaver, a provider of a universal edge fabric software. “As distributed compute becomes more critical for retail operations, these platforms must be deployed, managed, maintained, and secured on a mass scale. Supermicro’s Retail Edge provides the foundational operating platform for this distributed compute layer, and NodeWeaver is proud to be a part of this solution.”

Providing reliable and secure networking can be challenging in distributed edge environments, and securing customer and point-of-sale (POS) data is critical in retail environments. Supermicro’s Retail Edge platform provides simple, easy to deploy Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) connectivity powered by NetFoundry to deliver exceptional performance, zero-trust security, agility, and simplicity.

“Retailers are innovating to enhance customer experiences,” said Galeal Zino, Founder, and CEO, NetFoundry. “The SuperMicro Retail Edge solution provides next-gen retail applications with the software-defined operating platform, and powerful edge compute they require to innovate.  To securely connect those retail edges with core, cloud, and partners, without needing to manage additional networking servers, the retailer or solution provider leverages Zero Trust NaaS, powered by NetFoundry, and integrated into the solution with this partnership between Supermicro and NetFoundry.”

NodeWeaver’s adaptive hypervisor provides secure and partitioned execution of any application without the traditional overhead of virtualization. Initial performance benchmarks show that the platform can run applications with performance near to that of bare metal execution, while maintaining the ability to provide for high availability and cloud-like flexibility.

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