StraightTalk

Nvidia’s FS pitch expands from capital markets to retail and corporate banking

Nvidia has begun to market its ability to offer a rich graphics experience to remote users of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology, among them bank employees. In the financial sector, this represents a significant expansion of its remit, beyond the GPU computing capability it has been pitching to the capital markets for some time. Ovum sees clear potential in retail and corporate banking.

Nvidia’s CUDA-on-ARM work holds promise for HPC

Nvidia is readying its first commercial offering of a chipset combining one of its GPUs with an ARM CPU, with the GPU supporting its CUDA extensions to the C programming language. Ovum sees this as a significant development for high-performance computing (HPC) generally, and even for computational finance, once 64-bit ARM processors become available.

BlackBerry takes aim at emerging market enterprises

Device vendor BlackBerry has recently held a number of events around the world to showcase its enterprise solutions, highlighting its intention to build on its existing enterprise presence.

Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2013: IP infrastructure and a growing industry role

This report looks at the evolution of Huawei's carrier network strategy as described at its annual analyst summit, its IP infrastructure announcements, and its growing role in determining the future direction of carrier networks.

Acacia raises $20m, capitalizes on 100G coherent

Acacia Communications Inc. announced on May 15, 2013, that it raised $20m in new financing to continue delivering 100G coherent transceivers and to position itself for long-term growth.

Oil & gas producer benefits from dual technology organizations

Oil & gas producer Apache has set up two technology organizations: a traditional one for support, and one for strategic advantage. Each can be optimized for its stated purpose; neither function compromises or shortchanges the other. More producers should consider this approach.

BlackBerry Messenger is set to go cross-platform

BlackBerry has announced that its popular social messaging service, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), will be offered on the Android and iOS platforms as well as on Blackberry devices.

BT looks to break Sky’s bundle

BT has announced its intention to offer access to its two new sports channels (in which it has invested over £1bn in distribution rights alone) and ESPN free to its broadband customers.

An Agile Cisco is an innovative Cisco

At Cisco’s recent contact center analyst conference, executives from its Collaboration Technology Group gave insight into the success of the company’s current product segmentation mix, and the thinking behind some of its market movements.

Teradata’s unified data world is evolving

Traditionally identified with the enterprise data warehouse, Teradata has significantly broadened its product portfolio and positioning. With enterprise analytics no longer a monolithic world, Teradata offers an array of models optimized for different types of workloads, and increasingly, new styles such as exploratory analytics.