The information technology (IT) industry will see a new period of rapid growth in investment, driven primarily by new smart computing technology.
According to Forrester Research’s IT 2009-2016 Long-Term Forecast, current IT vendors IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are best positioned to win in next-gen technology, while GE and Semens will emerge as bigger factors.
Old technology will continue to be in demand, but purchases will grow at trend rate. Smart computing solutions will address critical business issues.Sales directly to business - not to IT.
Investment in new technology driven by strategic rationales, not cost/benefit calculations, with multimillion-dollar deals.
Highly vertical solutions will capture more of the growth, although not the largest share of sales.
Asset-intensive industries like government, healthcare, utilities, education, and professional services will be the biggest buyers.
Forrester describes smart computing as flexible, adaptable, responsive, and extended IT systems that incorporate awareness (location, status, condition) and analytics to make IT more intelligent to solve new business problems.
AMD has launched its six-core opteron server processor, codenamed Istanbul.
Dasaradha Gude, MD of AMD India said, Across a single platform, AMD can address the need for more cores and power-efficient solution with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.
But AMD’s celebration may be short-lived as Intel is due to launch its own eight-core Nehalem EX chip in the first quarter of 2010. We cannot compare our product with Intel s despite some similarities since the market segment are applications are different, said Gude.
The six-core AMD Opteron processors leverage existing platforms infrastructure and a low-cost, power efficient DDR-2 memory architecture which can help lower system acquisition costs besides HPC, virtualization and database workloads can benefit from increased 4P STREAM memory bandwidth of up to 60% enabled by HyperTransport technology HT Assist, which helps reduce processor to processor latency and traffic.
The processors are expected to be available from this month from OEMs including HP, IBM, Cray, Dell and Sun Microsystems along with support from motherboard and infrastructure partners. Some of the ISV partners of AMD in India include Citrix, Motorola, Novell, Oracle, Parallets, RedHat, Sun Microsystems, VMware and Xeon.
Besides AMD has also appointed two regional partners like Digital Waves and Wipro. The HE, SE, and EE versions of the six-core AMD Opteron processor are planned for the second half of 2009. Intel and AMD have clashed in past years over performance and price, and squeezing as many cores into a single microprocessor has been one way to boost performance.
IBM has opened an indigenous dynamic infrastructure lab at Pune by using the skill-base from its India workforce. The lab, located at the IBM Software Lab showcases technologies to address clients business challenges and brings more intelligence, automation, integration, and efficiencies to the digital and physical worlds. As a result, it will enable businesses and governments better respond to and manage challenges presented by today’s globally integrated planet.
The lab aims to help organizations deliver the visibility, control and automation needed to address quality service, manage risk and compliance besides maximizing return on investments, and accelerate business growth.
Ponani Gopalakrishnan, vice president, IBM India Software Lab said, It is time to start thinking differently about infrastructure and in this smarter world, we need our assets to propel us forward, not hold us back. A dynamic infrastructure transforms physical and digital assets into higher valued services and leverages new technologies and strategies to reduce costs manage risk and deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed.
IBM has opened an indigenous dynamic infrastructure lab at Pune by using the skill-base from its India workforce. The lab, located at the IBM Software Lab showcases technologies to address clients business challenges and brings more intelligence, automation, integration, and efficiencies to the digital and physical worlds. As a result, it will enable businesses and governments better respond to and manage challenges presented by today’s globally integrated planet.
The lab aims to help organizations deliver the visibility, control and automation needed to address quality service, manage risk and compliance besides maximizing return on investments, and accelerate business growth.
Ponani Gopalakrishnan, vice president, IBM India Software Lab said, It is time to start thinking differently about infrastructure and in this smarter world, we need our assets to propel us forward, not hold us back. A dynamic infrastructure transforms physical and digital assets into higher valued services and leverages new technologies and strategies to reduce costs manage risk and deliver superior business and IT services with agility and speed.
IBM Software Labs in India supports a heterogeneous environment and hence is very similar to a typical growing organization s IT infrastructure. Using energy monitoring systems along with advanced Virtualization and automated management, IBM is looking to increase operational efficiency by over 20% and in turn increase its green footprint.
In today s challenging business environments, customers see the value that IBM brings to the table. The Dynamic Infrastructure Lab will help clients reuse existing capital and increase optimization of their assets by better monitoring their infrastructure and increase operational efficiency, said Rekha D. Garapati, Director of IBM India Software Labs.
Global connectivity is driving increasingly complex supply chains, ultra-empowered consumers, and making issues such as governance and compliance, managing risk, and fending off security threats increasingly difficult and complex. And, with one-third of the world’s population on the Internet by 2011, four billion mobile web subscribers today, and the staggering amount of data and intelligence being driven by the rapid proliferation of smart sensors, RFID tags, and intelligence being built into everything from pets to power grids, the world’s infrastructure is at a breaking point.
Financial services group Religare Enterprises Limited (REL) has outsourced its IT infrastructure services to IBM .
As a part of the $3.1 million IT infrastructure services, IBM will also deploy three energy-efficient scalable modular data centers (SMDCs). It will design, build and maintain scalable, modular and energy-efficient green data centres in Delhi, Noida and Mumbai for REL .
Additionally, it will put in place a networking infrastructure and disaster recovery solution for REL. The solution implemented by IBM will help REL reduce annual power costs by 30-35 percent, and help the company to effectively meet technology requirements for its expanding business.
REL needed to ensure operational cost-efficiency; given that power consumption is a major factor in any company’s operational cost. IBM’s SMDC design leveraging high density computing and precision air-conditioning ensures a saving of more than 3600 units (KWH) per day in power consumption alone as compared to an 8,000 sq ft conventional data centre. In a year, this represents a saving of nearly $250,000 (nearly Rs one crore), the statement said.
IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Our Lives Over the Next Five Years
ARMONK, NY - 18 Dec 2007: Unveiled today, the second annual “IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The list is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM’s Labs around the world that could make these innovations possible.
In the next five years, our lives will change through technology innovations in the following ways:
It will be easy for you to be green and save money doing it: A range of “smart energy” technologies will make it easier for you to manage your personal “carbon footprint”. As data begins to run through our electrical wires, dishwashers, air conditioners, house lights, and more will be connected directly to a “smart” electric grid, making it possible to turn them on and off using your cell phone or any Web browser. In addition to alerting you about leaving appliances on when they could be off to conserve energy, technology will also provide you with up-to-date reports of electrical usage, so you can monitor how much you are spending and how much energy you are putting out, just like you can track your cell phone minute usage today. Intelligent energy grids will also enable utilities to provide you with the option to use green energy sources, like solar and wind, to fuel your home, and innovations in solar and wind technology will bring cost-efficient options to a utility near you.
The way you drive will be completely different: In the next five years, a coming wave of connectivity between cars and the road is going to change the way you drive, help keep you safe, and even keep you out of traffic jams. Technology is poised to keep traffic moving, cut pollution, curb accidents, and make it easier for you to get from point A to B, without the stress. The cities you live in will find a cure for congestion using intelligent traffic systems that can make real-time adjustments to traffic lights and divert traffic to alternate routes with ease. Your car will have driver-assist technologies that will make it possible for automobiles to communicate with each other and with sensors along the road — allowing them to behave as if they have ‘reflexes’ so they can take preventive actions under dangerous conditions. Your car will automatically tell you where traffic is jammed up and find you an alternative route to take.
You are what you eat, so you will know what you eat: We’ve all heard the saying ‘you are what you eat’ , but with foods being sourced across international borders, the need to ‘ know exactly what you eat’ has never been so important. In the next five years, new technology systems will enable you to know the exact source and make-up of the products you buy and consume. Advancements in computer software and wireless radio sensor technologies will give you access to much more detailed information about the food you are buying and eating. You will know everything from the climate and soil the food was grown in, to the pesticides and pollution it was exposed to, to the energy consumed to create the product, to the temperature and air quality of the shipping containers it traveled through on the way to your dinner table. Advanced sensor and tracing systems will tell you what you eat, before you eat it.
Your cell phone will be your wallet, your ticket broker, your concierge, your bank, your shopping buddy, and more: In the next five years, your mobile phone will be a trusted guide to shopping, banking, touring a new city , and more. New technology will allow you to snap a picture of someone wearing an outfit you want and will automatically search the web to find the designer and the nearest shops that carry that outfit. You can then see what that outfit would look like on your personal avatar – a 3-D representation of you – right on your phone, and ask your friends, in different locations, to check it out online and give their opinion. Your phone will also guide you through visiting a city. When you turn on your phone in a city you are visiting, it automatically provides you with local entertainment options, activities, and dining options that match your preferences, and then make reservations and purchases tickets for you – like a personal concierge.
Doctors will get enhanced “super-senses” to better diagnose and treat you: In the next five years, your doctor will be able to see, hear and understand your medical records in entirely new ways. In effect, doctor’s will gain superpowers – technologies will allow them to gain x-ray like vision to view medical images; super sensitive hearing to find tiniest audio clue in your heart beat; and ways to organize information in the same way they treat a patient. An avatar – a 3D representation of your body – will allow doctors to visualize your medical records in an entirely new way, so they can click with the computer mouse on a particular part of the avatar, to trigger a search of your medical records and retrieve information relevant to that part of your body, instead of leafing through pages of notes. The computer will automatically compare those visual and audio clues to thousands or hundreds of thousands of other patient records, and be able to be much more precise in diagnosing and also treating you, based on people with similar issues and makeup.
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