UPDATED 15:34 EDT / JUNE 24 2013

ServicesAngle News Briefs for 24 June 2013

NASCAR Turns to HP for World’s Best Racing Infrastructure

NASCAR has selected HP to help it develop the technologies for an advanced racing infrastructure and organization. It named HP “Official Technology Partner” in accelerating innovation and adoption of cutting-edge technology in motor racing. It will build the collaboration around the Fan and Media Engagement Center (FMEC), which facilitates real-time response to traditional, digital, broadcast, and social media. NASCAR will also become a member of the HP Customer Lighthouse Program, giving it early access to newly developed HP technologies. More

 

IBM to Build Services Center in Lille, France, Plans 700 New Tech Jobs

IBM has announced a new services center in Lille, France, and plans to create as many as 700 French-language IT jobs in the next three-to-five years to deliver a wide range of technology services to clients across France. The IBM Services Center Lille will provide French clients with high-value application development, application maintenance, and systems integration services to support emerging Big Data, cloud, and mobile business technologies.  More

 

Harvard Uses IBM Crowdsourced Supercomputer to Rate Solar Energy Potential of 2.3 Million New Compounds

Harvard University has announced a free database cataloging the suitability of 2.3 million organic carbon compounds for converting sunlight into electricity. The Harvard Clean energy project screened the molecules using the World Community Grid, an IBM-managed virtual supercomputer that harnesses surplus computer power donated by volunteers. It is believed to be the most extensive investigation of quantum chemicals ever performed. More

 

IBM Team Delivers Recommendations on Services in Malacca

A pro bono IBM Corporate Services Corps team of 10 specialists has completed a month-long consulting assignment with key organizations in Malacca, Malaysia. Working with the Malacca State Health Department, the Malaysian Health Promotion Board (MySihat), Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), and the World Youth Foundation, the team delivered recommendations for improving social services for seniors and youths in this emerging city. Malacca is a hub for agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing. More

 

Dell Adds “Connected Intelligence” with New Toad for Oracle Version and Redesigned Toad World

Dell Software now provides seamless connection to the Toad World user community with the release of Toad for Oracle 12.0. The completely redesigned Toad World puts knowledge at the fingertips of Toad users by enabling easier navigation and encouraging engagement. Serving 3 million visitors a year, it allows developers to ask questions, interact with peers, and access platform information, all without leaving Toad. More

 

Dell Challenges College Students to Re-Engineer K-12 Environments

Dell has issued its second Dell Education Challenge to university students, the most recent participants in K-12 education systems worldwide, to re-engineer learning environments both in and outside of the classroom. The competition seeks to inspire innovative ideas to solve the biggest challenges in education, including those identified in a poll commissioned by Dell about new education models. More

 

Dozen School Districts Use Dell to Personalize Learning and Innovate Study Engagement

In the last two months, more than 12 school districts have contracted with Dell solutions and services to transform the learning environment and innovate student engagement. Dell recommends a five-step process to create a pathway to personalized learning. The personalized learning framework is built on input from students, teachers, and administrators worldwide and findings from Dell’s Innovation in Education Think Tanks. More

 

MapR, VMware Team to Deliver Apache Hadoop on vSphere

VMware has certified that MapR Technologies Inc.’s Distribution of Apache Hadoop for VMware vSphere, based on a detailed validation process done through the VMware Ready program. Certification enables joint customers to easily deploy and run the MapR Distribution on vSphere and receive commercial support. More

VMware’s Martin Casado Receives Grace Murray Hopper Award from ACM

Martin Casado, chief networking architect at VMware, has been honored with the 2012 Grace Murray Hopper Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  The annual award recognizes outstanding young computer professionals for a single recent major technical or service contribution. Casado was selected for his leadership in creating the software-defined networking (SDN) movement and laying the foundation for network virtualization as a new paradigm. More

 

Microsoft Announces Third-Party Qualification Guidelines for Azure, Office 365

Microsoft Corp. has released third-party qualification guidelines for its Windows Azure and Office 365 cloud services, demonstrating that these platforms can address the regulatory requirements for life sciences organizations to maintain compliance in the cloud. Microsoft says it is the only major combined IaaS, Paas, & SaaS public cloud provider to complete an independent review of system documentation against GxP qualification requirements, the set of production and testing practices in FDA-regulated industries, demonstrating documentation against applicable regulations. More


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