It is false to claim that Canada's wireless industry is falling behind other developed countries

It is false to claim that Canada's wireless industry is falling behind other developed countries

MONTREAL, Sept. 11, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - On the eve of an eagerly anticipated decision from the CRTC regarding the regulation of wireless services in Canada, it is important to have a clear understanding of the situation. Contrary to what is sometimes claimed, the Canadian wireless industry is doing well compared to other countries based on various international rankings. So argues Yves Rabeau, associate professor at UQAM and the author of several articles and papers on telecommunications, including an Economic Note published today with the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI).

"To evaluate the wireless industry properly, there are many variables that need to be taken into account in order to see what's really going on. One must be particularly careful not to generalize from a single piece of data. When you look at the whole picture, Canada is very much within the norm for developed countries with regard to prices, available technologies and network speed," says Mr. Rabeau.

For example, according to a 2012 study by Wall Communications, high usage Canadian rate plans are less expensive than similar American plans on average. According to the OECD, Canada is the 7th least expensive of 34 countries examined when it comes to roaming fees (20 MB in 20 sessions). As for the penetration rate of broadband wireless services, Canada places 24th, not far behind France and ahead of Germany and Italy. Other factors taken into account in the Note also confirm Canada's position in the middle of the pack.

Generally speaking, the wireless telecommunications sector is progressing well in Canada. In particular, the use of smartphones has gone from 33% to 45% in just a few months, from March 2011 to December 2011. In order to preserve this momentum, Canadians have every reason to want to maintain the current approach and refrain from imposing new regulatory constraints, concludes Mr. Rabeau.

The Economic Note entitled Is the Canadian Wireless Sector Competitive? was prepared by Yves Rabeau, associate professor in the faculty of management at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and associate researcher at the MEI. It can be consulted free of charge at iedm.org.

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Global Savvis Study Finds Culture Shift on IT Outsourcing, Cloud Computing

Global Savvis Study Finds Culture Shift on IT Outsourcing, Cloud Computing

More than Half of IT Decision Makers Admit Regret on In-House Infrastructure Purchases

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Three in five IT and business decision makers agree that owning and operating in-house IT infrastructure drives costs higher and wastes resources, according to an annual study from Savvis, a CenturyLink company (NYSE: CTL) and leader in global cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises.

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This view marks a sharp increase from 2010, when just 38 percent of IT decision makers attributed IT ownership to waste in resources and higher costs, and comes as nearly 60 percent of respondents now believe organizations must place the priority on outsourced infrastructure over traditional in-house services.

"This study reveals a significant shift in the way organizations analyze and approach IT services," said Bill Fathers, president of Savvis. "IT departments are now looking to strengthen collaboration, efficiency and competitive agility – and they're turning to secure, outsourced environments and cloud computing to help meet their objectives."

Savvis commissioned international research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct the survey among 550 IT and business decision makers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. The study offers global insight from key industries, including finance, media and entertainment, retail, healthcare, software and automotive, on trends in IT outsourcing (ITO), adoption of cloud solutions and the costs of owning infrastructure. This is the fourth consecutive year that Vanson Bourne has conducted a survey for Savvis.

The report shows growing interest in outsourced infrastructure and cloud computing as means for freeing up budgets, fostering collaboration and operational efficiencies, and building competitive advantage.

Global highlights from the 2012 annual report indicate:

  • Globally, organizations are now outsourcing just over 25 percent of their IT infrastructure. In five years, organizations expect to expand outsourcing to more than 40 percent of their IT services.
  • More than half of all organizations admit to having IT equipment they now regret purchasing. The attitude is highest among U.S. respondents (66 percent), compared to 34 percent of respondents in Hong Kong and Singapore.
  • 56 percent of surveyed IT executives keep most of their infrastructure in-house, with the practice more prevalent in Japan where 78 percent of respondents indicated reliance on in-house services.
  • Forty-two percent of organizations that do not currently outsource all of their IT are most likely to name contractual obligations as the main reason for not outsourcing, indicating a major shift in thinking. In 2010 and 2011, company culture was the most common inhibitor.
  • Momentum for cloud computing continues, as 85 percent of organizations today use private and public cloud for storage, big-data analytics and other applications. In 2010, just 39 percent of respondents said that their organizations were using cloud computing.
  • The need for increased agility is leading half or more of the decision makers in the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom to boost the amount of infrastructure they outsource.

"We continue to see changing views on why organizations make the move to outsourced managed services," Fathers said. "As the business focus moves from IT budgets to enriching core competencies, we expect strategic ITO solutions to move to the forefront of decision-maker priorities."

Savvis' Strategic ITO Solutions blend the company's enterprise-class service portfolio with a utility, pay-per-use delivery approach to provide complete outsourced infrastructure and application solutions. This broad set of services drives business agility, maximizes efficiency and mitigates risk for large enterprises around the world.

Visit www.savvis.com/FastForwardITO to download a copy of the 2012 Savvis report, titled "Fast-Forward to 2013: 550 Global IT Execs Share their IT Outsourcing Strategies."

About Savvis
Savvis, a CenturyLink company, is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprises. Nearly 2,500 unique clients, including more than 30 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing.

About CenturyLink
CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States and is recognized as a leader in the network services market by technology industry analyst firms. The company is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and hosted IT solutions for enterprise customers. CenturyLink provides data, voice and managed services in local, national and select international markets through its high-quality advanced fiber optic network and multiple data centers for businesses and consumers. The company also offers advanced entertainment services under the CenturyLink Prism TV and DIRECTV brands. Headquartered in Monroe, La., CenturyLink is an S&P 500 company and is included among the Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations.

For more information, visit www.savvis.com or www.centurylink.com.

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EMC Helps Customers Transform IT and Business with Solutions Based on Intel's Newest Technologies

EMC Helps Customers Transform IT and Business with Solutions Based on Intel's Newest Technologies

EMC Conference Sessions and Booth Demos at Intel Developers Forum to Showcase Industry-Leading EMC and Intel Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM 2012 –

News Summary:

  • At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), EMC is highlighting technologies and solutions based on Intel's newest technologies that will enable customers to accelerate their journey to the cloud and more effectively capture Big Data.
  • EMC also announced full support of the Intel® Xeon® E5 processor family for its EMC® VMAX®  Service Provider (VMAX SP) platform and Kazeon®, EMC's SourceOne eDiscovery platform.
  • Building on its leading-edge use of PCI-Express Solid-State Drives (SSDs), EMC announced today that the company's next-generation Project Thunder platform will support the NVM Express (NVMe) interface. EMC will demonstrate the NVMe-ready Project Thunder at IDF.

Full Story:

At IDF today, EMC® Corporation (NYSE: EMC) announced that it extended its technology leadership and continued commitment to the company's partnership with Intel by announcing that the EMC VMAX SP platform and Kazeon, EMC's SourceOne eDiscovery platform are now powered by Intel's Xeon E5 processor. Today EMC also reinforced its commitment to interoperable industry standards through support of the NVMe standard in the company's next-generation Project Thunder platform.

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EMC Supports New NVM Express Interface Standard:

NVMe is an optimized, high performance, scalable industry-standard host controller interface designed for Enterprise and Client PCIe SSDs. NVMe revolutionizes storage by delivering unprecedented input/output operations per second (IOPS) with lower total cost of ownership.

Continuing EMC's leadership in the latest Flash technology and its commitment to promoting open standards to further advance the industry as a whole, EMC's "Project Thunder," a server network attached appliance built entirely of high-speed PCIe Flash and optimized for persistent data stores with performance intensive workloads, will support the NVMe standard.  Project Thunder will build upon the advanced PCIe technology delivered in EMC VFCache and the new NVMe industry standard to take advantage of the power of Flash through a dedicated Server Networked Flash-based appliance.  

New Intel Xeon E5-based EMC Technologies: 

  • EMC VMAX Service Provider (VMAX SP) – Announced in May 2012, the VMAX SP platform is purpose-built for service providers, enabling the rapid and cost-effective purchase and deployment of a storage infrastructure to power new cloud services. VMAX SP leverages the proven capabilities of VMAX, the world's most trusted, powerful and smart storage. With the industry-leading performance and maximum energy efficiency delivered by the Intel Xeon E5 processor, VMAX SP delivers multi-tenanted, powerful, trusted and smart storage to improve operational efficiency and allow service providers to focus on their core business—creating new and differentiated services for customers.
  • EMC SourceOne eDiscovery EMC has embedded Intel's Xeon E5 processor into Kazeon, EMC's SourceOne eDiscovery platform, to accelerate performance for identifying collecting, analyzing, and reviewing terabytes of electronically stored information (ESI) as potential evidence for criminal and civil litigation proceedings.

Intel Executive Quote:

David Tuhy, General Manager, Storage Division, Intel Datacenter and Connected Systems Group

"Intel and EMC have partnered for many years to develop next generation Data Center technologies that enable customers to transform their use of Information Technology, especially around Cloud and Big Data infrastructure. The high-performance processing power, along with Intel® Integrated I/O and advanced storage features, makes the Intel Xeon E5 product family an ideal choice for storage solutions.  Together we provide the intelligence and compute power required to enable the innovative technologies that EMC is showcasing at IDF, helping to achieve new levels of productivity and efficiency that will benefit our mutual customers."

EMC Executive Quote:

Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President, Product Operations and Marketing, EMC Corporation

"EMC and Intel have been strategic partners for 17 years and will continue to work closely to develop industry-leading products and solutions that help customers realize maximum IT efficiency.  EMC continues to lead the market in performance and efficiency because we utilize the latest Intel innovations, which helps our customers take full advantage of the revolutionary wave of IT that EMC is leading: Cloud, Big Data and Trust. These three things are transforming the way information technology is architected, deployed and consumed, which holds massive opportunity for our customers and for our business."

EMC at IDF: Key Opportunities to Listen, Learn and Gain Hands on Experience

EMC is a Gold Sponsor of IDF and will showcase advanced EMC technologies powered by Intel, as well as lead several speaking sessions for customers to gain valuable insight on a range of topics, including Cloud, Big Data, unified storage, Flash storage, and backup and recovery. 

Demonstrations include:

  • EMC Greenplum®/Big Data (Booth #300): Experts will provide an overview of the Greenplum Analytics Workbench (AWB) powered by Intel Xeon processors —a 1000-node Hadoop cluster and highlight how the AWB can be accessed by developers and researchers working on cutting-edge Big Data projects.
  • VMAX SP (Booth #300): Experts will showcase how the Intel Xeon E5-based VMAX SP is pre-packaged into service-level options, delivering specialized Quality of Service (QoS), multi-tenanted, metered platform.
  • EMC Unified Storage (Booth #300): Attendees will learn how to incorporate public cloud technology into their information management strategy by using EMC's new Cloud Tiering Appliance to transparently move inactive data to the cloud, freeing up primary NAS capacity. EMC will demonstrate how its Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA) performs policy-driven file movement from NetApp arrays and EMC Celerra® to EMC's VNX® unified storage systems or to EMC Isilon® systems.
  • EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions (Booth #300): Intel processors help EMC reach the outstanding performance to be the industry leader in the Purpose Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) market with 65.5% market share.  By leveraging Intel processors, EMC Backup and Recovery Systems help customers transform their data centers by protecting their data whether virtual or physical, with next generation products like EMC Avamar® and EMC Data Domain®
  • NVM Express Showcase (Booth #436): EMC will showcase an NVMe-ready Project Thunder solution featuring an Intel PCIe card-based SSD.
  • Intel Data Center Community (Booth #110) features a live demo (functional showcase) of the Secure Cloud On Boarding solution. The reference stack on the floor will represent two data centers and will use the latest Intel Xeon E5-based servers with Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), VMware® ESX 5.1, EMC VPLEX®, RSA® Archer® and HyTrust.

 

EMC Speaking Sessions at IDF Include:

  • Wednesday, September 12, 12:45 pm1:45 p.m., Room 2002
    Cloud Transforms IT, Big Data Transforms Business
    Zahid Hussain, Senior Vice President, Advanced Storage Division, EMC Corporation
  • Wednesday, September 12, 3:30 p.m., Room 2008 
    Take Control of Your Cloud: Solutions to Meet Security and Compliance Needs        
    John McAuley, Principal Solutions Consultant, EMC Corporation
  • Thursday, September 13, 12:00 p.m., Room 2003
    NVM Express and the PCI Express SSD Revolution
    Danny Cobb, CTO of the Flash Memory Business Unit, EMC Corporation
  • Thursday, September 13, 1:15 p.m., Room 2001
    Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600/2400 Architecture: Evolution for Storage
    Steve Sardella, EMC Distinguished Engineer, EMC Corporation

 

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.emc.com.

Additional Resources

 

EMC, Archer, Avamar, Celerra, Data Domain, Greenplum, Isilon, Kazeon, RSA, SourceOne, VFCache, VNX, VMAX and VPLEX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. VMware is either a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Intel and all product and company names herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their registered owners in the United States and in other countries. Other products and/or services are trademarks of their respective owners.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws.  Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) component and product quality and availability; (vi) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (viii) risks associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (ix) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xii) threats and other disruptions to our secure data centers or networks; (xiii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (xiv) war or acts of terrorism; and (xv) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

 

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AMD Extends Leadership in Data Center Innovation - First to Optimize the Micro Server for Big Data

AMD Extends Leadership in Data Center Innovation - First to Optimize the Micro Server for Big Data 

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000™ Server Delivers Hyper-efficient Compute for Big Data and Cloud Supporting Five Petabytes of Storage; Available with AMD Opteron™ and Intel® Xeon® "Ivy Bridge"/"Sandy Bridge" Processors

SUNNYVALE, Calif.  —9/10/2012 

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the SeaMicro SM15000™ server, another computing innovation from its Data Center Server Solutions (DCSS) group that cements its position as the technology leader in the micro server category. AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server revolutionizes computing with the invention of Freedom™ Fabric Storage, which extends its Freedom™ Fabric beyond the SeaMicro chassis to connect directly to massive disk arrays, enabling a single ten rack unit system to support more than five petabytes of low-cost, easy-to-install storage. The SM15000 server combines industry-leading density, power efficiency and bandwidth with a new generation of storage technology, enabling a single rack to contain thousands of cores, and petabytes of storage - ideal for big data applications like Apache™ Hadoop™ and Cassandra™ for public and private cloud deployments.  

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 system is available today and currently supports the Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1260L ("Sandy Bridge").  In November, it will support the next generation of AMD Opteron™ processors featuring the "Piledriver" core, as well as the newly announced Intel Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 ("Ivy Bridge"). In addition to these latest offerings, the AMD SeaMicro fabric technology continues to deliver a key building block for AMD's server partners to build extremely energy efficient micro servers for their customers.

"Historically, server architecture has focused on the processor, while storage and networking were afterthoughts. But increasingly, cloud and big data customers have sought a solution in which storage, networking and compute are in balance and are shared. In a legacy server, storage is a captive resource for an individual processor, limiting the ability of disks to be shared across multiple processors, causing massive data replication and necessitating the purchase of expensive storage area networking or network attached storage equipment," said Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager of the Data Center Server Solutions group at AMD. "AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server enables companies, for the first time, to share massive amounts of storage across hundreds of efficient computing nodes in an exceptionally dense form factor. We believe that this will transform the data center compute and storage landscape." 

AMD's SeaMicro products transformed the data center with the first micro server to combine compute, storage and fabric-based networking in a single chassis. Micro servers deliver massive efficiencies in power, space and bandwidth, and AMD set the bar with its SeaMicro  product that uses one-quarter the power, takes one-sixth the space and delivers 16 times the bandwidth of the best-in-class alternatives. With the SeaMicro SM15000 server, the innovative trajectory broadens the benefits of the micro server to storage, solving the most pressing needs of the data center.

Combining the Freedom™ Supercompute Fabric technology with the pioneering Freedom™ Fabric Storage technology enables data centers to provide more than five petabytes of storage with 64 servers in a single ten rack unit (17.5 inch tall) SM15000 system.  Once these disks are interconnected with the fabric, they are seen and shared by all servers in the system. This approach provides the benefits typically provided by expensive and complex solutions such as network-attached storage and storage area networking with the simplicity and low cost of direct attached storage

"AMD's SeaMicro technology is leading innovation in micro servers and data center compute," said Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst of ZK Research. "The team invented the micro server category, was the first to bring small-core servers and large-core servers to market in the same system, the first to market with a second-generation fabric, and the first to build a fabric that supports multiple processors and instruction sets. It is not surprising that they have extended the technology to storage. The bringing together of compute and petabytes of storage demonstrates the flexibility of the Freedom Fabric.  They are blurring the boundaries of compute, storage and networking, and they have once again challenged the industry with bold innovation."

Leaders Across the Big Data Community Agree

Dr. Amr Awadallah, CTO and Founder at Cloudera, the category leader that is setting the standard for Hadoop in the enterprise, observes: "The big data community is hungry for innovations that simplify the infrastructure for big data analysis while reducing hardware costs. As we hear from our vast big data partner ecosystem and from customers using CDH and 
Cloudera Enterprise, companies that are seeking to gain insights across all their data want their hardware vendors to provide low cost, high density, standards-based compute that connects to massive arrays of low cost storage. AMD's SeaMicro delivers on this promise."

Eric Baldeschwieler, co-founder and CTO of Hortonworks and a pioneer in Hadoop technology, notes: "Petabytes of low cost storage, hyper-dense energy-efficient compute, connected with a supercompute-style fabric is an architecture particularly well suited for big data analytics and Hortonworks Data Platform. At Hortonworks, we seek to make Apache Hadoop easier to use, consume and deploy, which is in line with AMD's goal to revolutionize and commoditize the storage and processing of big data. We are pleased to see leaders in the hardware community inventing technology that extends the reach of big data analysis."

Matt Pfeil, co-founder and VP of customer solutions at DataStax, the leader in real-time mission-critical big data platforms, agrees: "At DataStax, we believe that extraordinary databases, such as Cassandra, running mission-critical applications, can be used by nearly every enterprise. To see AMD's DCSS group bringing together efficient compute and petabytes of storage over a unified fabric in a single low-cost, energy-efficient solution is enormously exciting. The combination of the SM15000 server and best-in-class database, Cassandra, offer a powerful threat to the incumbent makers of both databases and the expensive hardware on which they reside."

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000™ Technology

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server is built around the industry's first and only second-generation fabric ? the Freedom Fabric.  It is the only fabric technology designed and optimized to work with Central Processor Units (CPUs) that have both large and small cores, as well as x86 and non-x86 CPUs. Freedom Fabric contains innovative technology including:

  • SeaMicro IOVT (Input/Output Virtualization Technology), which eliminates all but three components from the SeaMicro motherboard - CPU, DRAM, and the ASIC itself - thereby shrinking the motherboard, while reducing power, cost and space;
  • SeaMicro TIO™ (Turn It Off) technology, which enables further power optimization on the mini motherboard by turning off unneeded CPU and chipset functions. Together, SeaMicro IOVT and TIO technology produce the smallest and most power efficient motherboards available;
  • Freedom Supercompute Fabric creates a 1.28 terabits-per-second fabric that ties together 64 of the power-optimized mini-motherboards at low latency and low power with massive bandwidth;
  • SeaMicro Freedom Fabric Storage, which allows the Freedom Supercompute Fabric to extend out of the chassis and across the data center, linking not just components inside the chassis, but those outside as well.

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 Server Details

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server will be available with 64 compute cards, each holding a new custom-designed single-socket octal core 2.0/2.3/2.8 GHz AMD Opteron processor based on the "Piledriver" core, for a total of 512 heavy-weight cores per system or 2,048 cores per rack. Each AMD Opteron processor can support 64 gigabytes of DRAM, enabling a single system to handle more than four terabytes of DRAM and over 16 terabytes of DRAM per rack. AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 system will also be available with a quad core 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 ("Ivy Bridge") for 256 2.5 GHz cores in a ten rack unit system or 1,024 cores in a standard rack. Each processor supports up to 32 gigabytes of memory so a single SeaMicro SM15000 system can deliver up to two terabytes of DRAM and up to eight terabytes of DRAM per rack.

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server also contains 16 fabric extender slots, each of which can connect to three different Freedom Fabric Storage arrays with different capacities:

  • FS 5084-L is an ultra-dense capacity-optimized storage system. It supports up to 84 SAS/SATA 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch drives in 5 rack units for up to 336 terabytes of capacity per-array and over five petabytes per SeaMicro SM15000 system;
  • FS 2012-L is a capacity-optimized storage system.  It supports up to 12 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch drives in 2 rack units for up to 48 terabytes of capacity per-array or up to 768 terabytes of capacity per SeaMicro SM15000 system;
  • FS 2024-S is a performance-optimized storage system.  It supports up to 24 2.5 inch drives in 2 rack units for up to 24 terabytes of capacity per-array or up to 384 terabytes of capacity per SM15000 system.

In summary, AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 system:

  • Stands ten rack units or 17.5 inches tall;
  • Contains 64 slots for compute cards for AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon processors;
  • Provides up to ten gigabits per-second of bandwidth to each CPU;
  • Connects up to 1,408 solid state or hard drives with Freedom Fabric Storage
  • Delivers up to 16 10 GbE uplinks or up to 64 1GbE uplinks;
  • Runs standard off-the-shelf operating systems including Windows®, Linux, Red Hat and VMware and Citrix XenServer hypervisors.

Availability

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server with Intel's Xeon Processor E3-1260L "Sandy Bridge" is now generally available in the U.S and in select international regions. Configurations based on AMD Opteron processors and Intel Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 with the "Ivy Bridge" microarchitecture will be available in November, 2012. More information on AMD's revolutionary SeaMicro family of servers can be found at www.seamicro.com/products.

About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its ground-breaking AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. AMD's server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD's superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.  Intel and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Avaya Increases Customer Engagement with Radvision Scopia(R)

Avaya Increases Customer Engagement with Radvision Scopia®

Company logs 35,000 Video Calls in First 60 Days

For Immediate Release:10 Sep 2012

  • Avaya deploys more than 4,000 Radvision Scopia Desktop and Mobile video conferencing rooms; employees make 35,000 video calls with over 85,000 attendees across multiple devices in first 60 days
  • Deployed in under six weeks, the Radvision Scopia solution delivered immediate savings in travel and IT costs
BASKING RIDGE, NJ – Today, Avaya announced that 35,000 video calls have been made on its newly implemented Radvision Scopia Desktop system within the first 60 days of deploying the solution to the company’s sales, marketing and executive teams. As a result, sales teams are reporting increased customer engagement while reducing Avaya’s expenses. Internally, product development and marketing teams state they have more cohesive working relationships; and senior managers have reported improved interactions and higher quality meetings.  
 
Avaya employees rapidly adopted the Radvision Scopia system primarily due to its extraordinary ease of use for both scheduled and ad hoc video conferences across a variety of devices. Radvision Scopia provides unique, desktop and mobile capabilities as well as the ability to easily include participants from both inside and outside the organization. For example, users are able to initiate a video session on an iPad, PC or iPhone, interface with colleagues, customers and partners using a desktop or laptop PC, Apple iPad®, Apple iPhone® or an in-room device, and bring all participants together seamlessly without sacrificing meeting quality.
 
Radvision Scopia is transforming Avaya’s business by dramatically simplifying video communication. Radvision Scopia enables Avaya’s sales teams to more easily communicate with customers and partners for product demos. Therefore, customer engagement is rising and sales people are traveling less to close deals. When surveyed about their video call usage, many Avaya salespeople indicate they have replaced traditional audio calls with Radvision Scopia Desktop and Radvision Scopia Mobile video calls, citing ease of use as the key driver.     
 
Quotes
"Avaya's experience is proof that personal video conferencing is ready for prime time.  Solutions like Radvision Scopia combine click-to-call ease of use, a well-known ‘meet me’ paradigm, and a client that makes high quality audio-video sessions practical and efficient.  Rolling out to over 4,000 users was an acknowledgement on Avaya's part that 1) Metcalfe's Law is important to overcoming barriers and 2) scalable video solutions are here, now, and manageable."
ANDREW W. DAVIS
PARTNER AND CO-FOUNDER
WAINHOUSE RESEARCH

 
"A sales team is often your most critical customer. The intent of launching our Radvision Scopia Desktop solution first to our sales team was to demonstrate the power of Radvision’s products immediately following the acquisition; to show that the Radvision Scopia solution is designed to integrate into existing video communication systems; and to give our sales team a quick and easy way to connect internally and with customers via video. We’re thrilled with the success thus far – our sales team uses Radvision Scopia as effortlessly as they use the phone, with the power of face-to-face communication."
JOEL HACKNEY, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL SALES AND FIELD OPERATIONS
AVAYA

 
Resources
For more information on the Avaya Radvision Scopia deployment and key considerations and recommendations for your own deployment, please visit: Wainhouse Research: The Viability of Large-Scale Personal Video Conferencing.
 
Tags
Avaya, Radvision, Scopia, video collaboration, video calls, mobile video, videoconferencing, unified communications, telepresence
 
About Avaya
Avaya is a global provider of business collaboration and communications solutions, providing unified communications, contact centers, networking and related services to companies of all sizes around the world. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.

Intel: Low-Power Processors to Fuel Future of Mobile Computing Innovation

Intel: Low-Power Processors to Fuel Future of Mobile Computing Innovation

Perceptual Computing to Reshape How People Interact with Devices

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
  • In 2013, 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family based on "Haswell" microarchitecture will bring faster, thinner, lighter, cooler, more secure systems with built-in graphics to mainstream.
  • New line of low-power processors drives power lower to inspire even more innovative Ultrabook™, convertible and tablet designs with the performance of "Haswell" microarchitecture.
  • Intel Perceptual Computing Software Development Kit beta to help bring natural, intuitive experiences using gesture and voice interaction to Intel platforms.


INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 11, 2012 – Intel Corporation's chief product officer today described how its low-power processors, starting with the company's 4th generation Intel® Core™ processor family available next year, will set a new standard for mobile computing experiences and innovative Ultrabook™, convertible and tablet designs.

 

Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, David (Dadi) Perlmutter said Intel reduced the platform idle power of its 4th generation Intel Core processor family based on the next-generation "Haswell" microarchitecture by more than 20 times over the 2nd generation while delivering outstanding performance and responsiveness. He also said Intel will add a new line of even lower-power processors based on the same microarchitecture to its roadmap starting in 2013.

Both new products underscore the company's focus to aggressively drive power consumption down to enable longer battery life and a wave of new, more mobile designs, while delivering ever-increasing processor, graphics and media performance.

"The 4th generation Intel Core processor family and our new line of low-power processors will usher in an era of unprecedented innovation in mobile computing," Perlmutter said. "Our focus to deliver even lower power with the great performance that our processors are known for is as fundamentally significant as when we shifted our development focus beyond sheer processor speed in 2001. As a result, you'll see our customers delivering sleek and cool convertible designs, as well as radical breakthrough experiences across a growing spectrum of mobile devices."

Intel Powers the Spectrum of Mobile Experiences, Convertible Designs
Since Intel created and invested in the ecosystem for the new category of Ultrabook systems last year, it has already inspired dramatic innovation in personal computing. More than 140 different Ultrabook designs are in development, a number of which are convertibles, with more than 70 powered by 3rd generation Intel Core processors available today.

When the company's 22nm 4th generation Intel Core processor family comes to the Ultrabook and other PCs in 2013, it will bring Intel HD graphics support, new instructions for faster encryption and performance, new hardware-based security features and low-power processor sub-states to enable longer battery life.

To spur even more innovation in mobile computing, Intel's new low-power chips based on "Haswell" microarchitecture will broaden the company's mobile roadmap, initially operating at about 10 watts to enable thinner, lighter Ultrabook, convertible and tablet designs with better performance and battery life.
Turning his attention to the full mobility spectrum, Perlmutter detailed how Intel delivers the best choices for every mobile experience. Coming soon, the next-generation Intel® Atom™ processor (codenamed "Clover Trail") is a new system-on-chip (SoC) architected specifically for Windows* 8. Based on Intel's 32nm process technology, it powers lightweight tablets and convertibles, and includes outstanding battery life and always-on technology in sleek designs.

Perlmutter also articulated the advantages of Intel-based Windows 8 devices, noting that Intel Atom- and Intel Core-based tablets and convertibles will deliver a range of new features from enhanced media capabilities, security built for enterprise vertical market solutions, and support for the breadth of applications written for Intel processors, thus retaining the software investment of IT and consumers.

"We believe Windows 8 on Intel® architecture will deliver the best experience, performance and compatibility across computing platforms," he said.

The Rise of Natural, Intuitive Computing Experiences
The personal computing experience is shifting to one based on perceptual computing where devices will take on human-like senses to perceive the user's intentions, according to Perlmutter, adding that Intel is driving these capabilities across Intel platforms both now and into the future.

Perlmutter invited the developer community to work with Intel to bring the next wave of perceptual computing capability to Intel Core-based platforms with the release of the company's first Intel Perceptual Computing Software Development Kit (SDK) beta. The SDK, targeted for release early next quarter, will enable hardware and software developers to bring gesture interaction, facial and voice recognition, and augmented reality to life on existing and future Intel Core processor-based Ultrabook systems and PCs.

Perlmutter talked about progress made to bring voice recognition to the Ultrabook while showing a system running the Nuance Dragon Assistant* Beta optimized for Intel Core processors. Dell plans to make the Dragon Assistant* Beta available in the United States next quarter in its Dell* XPS13 Ultrabook.

About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries.

eBay Launches Instant Sale Program for French-speaking Canadians

eBay Launches Instant Sale Program for French-speaking Canadians

A Simple Way to Trade-In Old, Unwanted Electronic Devices

TORONTO, Sept. 10, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Partnering with Staples Canada, eBay's Instant Sale is the only online electronic trade-in program available to Canadians year round. The French program launches just in time for the much-anticipated iPhone 5 announcement, allowing Francophone Canadians to trade-in their old smartphone devices and receive offers up to $337 for a 64 gigabyte iPhone 4S.

Unwanted, trade-in devices are refurbished and resold, while those that are beyond repair are responsibly recycled, which means zero make it into a landfill. In fact, giving iPhones, iPads and iPods a new life, Instant Sale users save approximately 1550 tonnes of C02 in a year - enough to offset the emissions generated by flying around the world 155 times.

"Trade-ins makes sense economically and environmentally, and are an obvious step in the electronics lifecycle," said Andrea Stairs, country manager for eBay Canada. "French-speaking Canadians now have a green alternative to recycle electronics, put money in their pocket and keep e-waste out of landfills."

eBay's Instant Sale is an online tool that makes people a cash offer in less than 60 seconds on a number of electronics items, ranging from cell phones and tablet computers, to GPS systems and camcorders. Introduced in the United States in 2010, eBay is pleased to complete the second phase of its Canadian launch by expanding into the Francophone community. Since the program's inception consumers across Canada have embraced eBay's Instant Sale, and are trading in devices at a rate equivalent to their U.S. counterparts. To date, eBay's Instant Sale has generated more than 6.3 million offers on used electronics globally, with smartphones, iPads and iPods among the most popular trade-in items.

With a catalogue of more than 550 devices accepted by the Instant Sale program, it is free for Canadians and takes less than a minute to complete with three easy steps:

  • Find the item by searching for the device in the Instant Sale database.
  • Get an offer based on the device and description, instantly.
  • Accept the offer and eBay Instant Sale will provide a free shipping label to ship the device.

Once the device is received and assessed, the money is deposited into the consumer's PayPal account. To sell unwanted electronic devices instantly, consumers should visit https://instantsale.eBay.ca.

About eBay Canada

Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) is a global commerce platform and payments leader connecting millions of buyers and sellers. We do so through eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, which allows users to buy and sell in nearly every country on earth; through PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to securely, easily and quickly send and receive digital payments; and through GSI, which facilitates ecommerce, multichannel retailing and digital marketing for global enterprises. We also reach millions through specialized marketplaces such as StubHub, the world's largest ticket marketplace, and eBay classifieds sites, which together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world. In Canada, eBay was visited by more than 7.8 million Canadians in June 2012 (comScore Media Metrix).

Electronic payments drive nearly one quarter of Canadian GDP growth over the past 25 years

Electronic payments drive nearly one quarter of Canadian GDP growth over the past 25 years

Research by IHS identified travel and tourism, business impact and e-commerce as major drivers of electronic payments' positive influence on Canada's economic growth

TORONTO, Sept. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - Electronic payments have driven almost one quarter - or $196 billion - of total Canadian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth over the past 25 years, according to a new study commissioned by Visa Canada from IHS, a leading global source of information and analytics. The economic research demonstrates the measurable value of electronic payments, including credit, debit and prepaid cards.

IHS measured the total value of electronic payments in the Canadian economy and took an in-depth look at three economic sectors that are largely responsible for the positive impact: travel and tourism Canadian business and e-commerce.

Canada has been at the forefront of the global migration to electronic payments from cash and cheques, which underlies the positive findings in the report. From 2006 to 2010, the credit and debit transaction volume in Canada grew 25%, from $363.4 billion to $455.4 billion.

During the 25-year period (1986 to 2010), the report found that electronic payments also contributed to a $107 billion increase in Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), or consumer spending.

"Consumers are speaking with their wallets and they prefer electronic payments over inefficient cash and cheques," said Shane Norton, Director of Consulting Services, IHS.  Notably, the increase we've measured in consumer consumption mirrors the growing popularity of electronic payments."

"The widespread adoption of electronic payments has been a major catalyst to the growth of global tourism," continued Norton. "Because travellers can depend on electronic forms of payment, their tourism consumption increases, stimulating growth in one of Canada's largest economic sectors. From 1991 to 2010, our research shows that electronic payments contributed nearly $3.1 billion to the Canadian travel and tourism industry."

Norton explained, "Similarly, without electronic payments online commerce would be difficult to near impossible. In a country as large and diverse as Canada, the ability to buy and sell online has become essential for many businesses and consumers, adding to the overall growth in Canada's GDP."

According to the Benefits of Electronic Payments paper, electronic payments promote economic growth by:

  • providing reliable payment networks that connect buyers and sellers in Canada and abroad;
  • increasing consumer empowerment and economic stimulation;
  • offering greater security than cash and a stronger assurance of guaranteed payment than cheques;
  • enhancing economic transparency by reducing the "grey economy" of underreported cash transactions; and
  • broadening participation and inclusion in financial services.

"The results of the IHS research clearly reinforce the value that electronic payments can bring to economies by providing greater security, transparency, choice and enhanced payment options to the marketplace," said Wayne Best, Chief Economist, Visa Inc. "We are proud to have played a role in driving the growth of electronic payments in Canada for over 40 years and we are committed to delivering new innovations, such as contactless and mobile payments, that consumers and businesses demand in an increasingly competitive economy."

The Benefits of Electronic Payments white paper can be further explored on Visa's new platform, www.currencyofprogress.ca, along with Visa's ongoing innovations, partnerships, network advancements and commitments to security. The Currency of Progress platform features real-life examples, case studies and videos from around the world of ways in which Visa is empowering individuals, supporting businesses large and small, and partnering with governments.

About Visa

Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast, secure and reliable digital currency. Underpinning digital currency is one of the world's most advanced processing networks—VisaNet—that is capable of handling more than 20,000 transaction messages a second, with fraud protection for consumers and guaranteed payment for merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa's innovations, however, enable its financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products. For more information, visit www.corporate.visa.com.

SOURCE: VISA Canada Corporation

SaskTel and Huawei Sign LTE Agreement

 

SaskTel and Huawei Sign Agreement

Launch of first TDD-LTE 2.5 GHz fixed wireless trial in Canada

BEIJING, Sept. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - SaskTel and Huawei today announced the signing of an agreement to launch a TDD-LTE (Long Term Evolution) fixed wireless trial in Saskatchewan. The trial will help determine the feasibility of wireless broadband and voice services for customers in predominantly rural locations, using Huawei solutions and equipment. The agreement was signed in Huawei's traditional courtyard facility in Beijing, by Ron Styles, SaskTel President and CEO, and Sean Yang, President of Huawei Canada. The signing was witnessed by Brad Wall, Premier of Saskatchewan.

"This is another great first in a long list of firsts for SaskTel, and I am pleased that SaskTel is continuing its commitment to investigating opportunities to provide rural customers with advanced communications solutions," Premier Brad Wall said.

"We are very pleased to be working with SaskTel in launching Canada's first 2.5 GHz TDD-LTE deployment," said Sean Yang. "The ability to bring next generation high-speed wireless technology to residents and businesses across the Province is critical to ensuring Saskatchewan is able to compete and innovate with markets around the world."

The trial will occur in a minimum of three rural locations and will provide the latest wireless broadband speeds available. LTE will reach download speeds of approximately 100 Mbps per second, compared to existing 4G wireless technology reaching speeds of 21 Mbps. In addition, the trial will encompass the provisioning of equipment to a local telephone service, in order to determine comparability with existing landline services using copper wire infrastructure.

"SaskTel's copper infrastructure dates back to the 1960s and we are fast approaching the need to replace and upgrade this technology," said Ron Styles, SaskTel President and CEO. "With the positive partnership that has evolved with Huawei with our 4G network and our mobile LTE wireless deployment efforts that are underway, we are very pleased to partner with them to complete this trial."

The trial is scheduled to be launched in rural locations in Saskatchewan by the end of December, 2012 and will conclude in August, 2013. Following the completion of the trial, Huawei and SaskTel will work jointly to analyze results, and provide a report that includes an economic overview for the replacement of parts of its rural copper network.

About SaskTel

Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation (SaskTel) is the leading full service communications provider in Saskatchewan, with $1.1 billion in annual revenue and over 1.4 million customer connections including over 594,000 wireless accesses, 514,000 wireline network accesses, 234,000 internet accesses and 93,000 Max™ (TV) subscribers. SaskTel offers a wide range of communications products and services including competitive voice, data, internet, entertainment, national security, messaging, cellular, wireless data and directory services. In addition, SaskTel International offers software solutions and project consulting in countries around the world. SaskTel and its wholly-owned subsidiaries have a workforce of approximately 4,000 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs). Visit SaskTel at www.sasktel.com.

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Huawei has operated in Canada since 2008, employing over 440 people in Canada. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end advantages in telecom networks, devices and cloud computing. We are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive solutions and services. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 140 countries, serving more than one third of the world's population.

For more information, visit Huawei online: www.huawei.com

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For further information:

Darcee MacFarlane, SaskTel Corporate Communications
T: (306) 777-4441
darcee.macfarlane@sasktel.com

Scott Bradley, VP Corporate and Government Affairs
Huawei Canada
T: 613.595.1900 x.1400 M: 613.558.5333
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SAP Raises the Bar in Performance Management Market With New Cloud Solution

SAP Raises the Bar in Performance Management Market With New Cloud Solution

SAP® Enterprise Performance Management OnDemand Solution Uses Cloud, In Memory and Mobile to Help Business Users Get Up and Running Fast to Achieve Better Results

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the general availability of the SAP® Enterprise Performance Management OnDemand (SAP EPM OnDemand) solution. With mobile-ready applications powered by the SAP HANA® application cloud, the solution enables business users to gain real-time insight into what is happening and adapt on-the-fly. The announcement was made at the ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference, being held Sept. 10-13 in Orlando, Fla., during the keynote by Sanjay Poonen, president of Global Solutions and head of Mobility Division, SAP.

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The first options for SAP EPM OnDemand deliver:

  • Expense insight: Department managers can understand the details of anything charged to their cost centers, and can dispute and resolve miscoded, incorrect or duplicate expenses.
  • Real-time profit and loss (P&L) analysis: P&L reporting can be delivered at any level of detail by allocating costs based on consumption of resources.
  • Capital project planning: Both non-financial decision-makers and financial experts can establish the complete picture of the financial consequences of capital investment projects, and optimize the use of capital.

Future targeted options are planned to be delivered on a frequent basis.

SAP EPM OnDemand is designed to complement existing SAP solutions for enterprise performance management (EPM) such as the SAP® Business Planning and Consolidation application. The user interface (UI) offers a revolutionary experience that is designed to reach a new set of users in the organization. Right out of the box, anyone can begin using the UI on mobile devices such as the iPad. In addition, the EPM add-in for Microsoft Office can be used with SAP EPM OnDemand as well as the 10.0 version of SAP solutions for EPM. This combination extends analysis capabilities and creates a seamless experience for all users across cloud-based and existing on-premise applications.

"I talk regularly with people in both IT and finance, and while they have big initiatives in place they are also often focused on solving more discrete business problems. On-demand applications can be a great way to do this quickly and cost-effectively," said Joshua Greenbaum, principal, Enterprise Applications Consulting. "The new SAP EPM OnDemand solution is an example of how to meet these requirements. In addition, having the same user experience whether on mobile devices or in the on-premise version goes a long way toward guaranteeing high usage rates and lowering training deployment costs."

With SAP EPM OnDemand organizations can lower costs by reducing the time it takes to deploy and maintain new applications that integrate with existing systems. They can also address key business challenges such as enabling non-technical employees to manage processes, empowering employees to make more-informed, faster decisions and providing more detailed visibility into operations and performance. Combining existing systems with cloud-based applications enables organizations to further reduce upfront costs by taking advantage of pay-as-you-go software delivered as a service.

"SAP EPM OnDemand is the latest example of our leadership and how we are rapidly delivering innovation in the EPM space," said John Schweitzer, senior vice president and general manager, Analytics, SAP. "SAP is uniquely positioned in the market to build user-friendly on-demand solutions from the ground up. Built on the SAP HANA application cloud, SAP EPM OnDemand offers our customers another deployment option for extreme performance applications powered by SAP HANA. It's also complementary to — and extends the value of — the 10.0 version of SAP solutions for EPM with focused applications that are designed to be up and running quickly and help a broad set of users overcome particular business challenges."

SAP is recognized as a leader in the EPM market by industry analyst organizations such as Gartner Inc., IDC and Ventana Research.

For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom.

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