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Life Sciences Cultivate Streaming Analytics

Transatlantic partners are applying machine-learning algorithms to a financial HPC platform to develop predictive models for studying crop growth patterns and agriculture practices. The partners said the models would inc Read more…

Peek Inside a Hybrid Cloud for Big Genomics Data

Genomics, or the study of human genes, holds an enormous promise to improve the health of people. However, at 80GB to 250GB per sequenced genome, the sheer size of genomics data poses a considerable storage and processin Read more…

The 2013 Big Data Year in Review

While still in its infancy, the big data technology trend has made a lot of substantial progress since it gained traction at the beginning of this decade. The year 2013 was a big year with advances being made in virtually every quarter of the space. In this feature, we take a look at some of the significant trends that have crossed our desks in the past year -- wrapped up and presented to you with a pretty bow. Out with the old, in with the new -- it's the Datanami 2013 Year in Review! Read more…

A Gateway to Unstructured Data

The ability to access the recent explosion of unstructured data, in the forms of social media data as well as video and audio files, can be limited. SGI, with their planned release of the InfinteStorage Gateway on June 15, hopes to quicken that access, with the goal being to provide a single universal place from which to draw all sorts of media types and files. Read more…

Finding SGI’s Needle with UV Big Brain

Two intuitively simple processes, searching and comparing, require two quite different skill sets when applied to large datasets. By literally moving a haystack around, SGI CTO Eng Lim Goh demonstrated the capabilities of the company’s UV Big Brain to accomplish both tasks. Read more…

What Can Enterprises Learn From Genome Sequencing?

Data sets are exploding in traditional sciences as the data becomes cheaper and cheaper to process and the scope of the research expands. Can enterprises learn from the data pioneering happening in genomic research? Read more…

SGI Plants Big Data Seeds in HPC

Mannel and Conway talked this week about SGI and their various big data functions. Their focus was specifically data-intensive high performance computing, otherwise known as high performance data analytics (HPDA). The talk touched on both the rise of big data within HPC and how SGI has molded to that. Read more…

SGI Spreads Strategic Wings with DataRaptor

SGI hopes DataRaptor will aid companies in building applications based on the MarkLogic operational database. The company's Bill Mannell, who was joined by IDC's Steve Conway, drew parallels between high performance systems, big data and the new breed of applications that are... Read more…

One Giant Leap for Psychohistory

SGI's UV2, which it touts as the world’s largest in-memory data mining system, is behind a recent project to "map the world according to Wiki" and reveal insights about the connections between history, society and geography. The researcher behind the project who is known for his.... Read more…

This Week’s Big Data Big Seven

We wrap up this week with news about a new high performance, data-intensive supercomputer from SGI, new Hadoop announcements, including those from Hortonworks, Datameer, and Karmasphere, some software enhancements for big data infrastructure from ScaleOut and some other startup goodness--all with an eye on next week's International.... Read more…

This Just In

SGI Announces Partnership with GIS Federal and NVIDIA

Apr 16, 2014 |SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, today announced a partnership with GIS Federal, a supplier of high performing innovative solutions for big data, cloud computing and intuitive tools across all intelligence disciplines and NVIDIA, a pioneer in digital computing. The partnership will power a GAIA distributed database for the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), to rapidly render complicated geospatial features and heat maps, providing real-time actionable insights with the goal of saving lives during military operations. Read more…

Wipro and SGI Partner to Expand Market Presence in India

Mar 13, 2014 |Wipro Ltd., a leading global information technology, consulting and outsourcing company and SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, announced a strategic partnership to expand market presence in India. SGI has appointed Wipro as its master Authorised Service Provider (ASP). This partnership will enable SGI customers and partners based in India to access enhanced support and maintenance services. Read more…

Jorge Titinger Named CEO of the Year in the Operational Effective Category

Feb 12, 2014 |Jorge Titinger, president and chief executive officer of SGI, has been announced as one of the winners in the prestigious CEO World Awards program. The coveted annual CEO World Awards program encompasses the world's best in leadership, innovation, organizational performance, new products and services. Jorge was named CEO of the World in the Operational Effective Category. Read more…

SGI and Cognilytics Partner

Feb 6, 2014 |SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, and Cognilytics, a global provider of Big Data and Advanced Analytics solutions and the winner of the SAP North America Partner Excellence Award 2014 for Platform Solutions, announced a partnership to help enterprises monetize their data as a strategic asset. Read more…

SGI Announces Global Big Data Educational Tour

Jan 28, 2014 |SGI will host SGI Big Data U -- a global complimentary lunch event to discuss the hottest topic in technology today, Big Data. The multi-city tour will provide a forum to discuss the leading Big Data challenges -- volume, variety and velocity and how enterprise and government organizations can better understand their customers to grow revenue, lower costs, gain competitive advantage and derive valuable insights from their increasing volumes of data. Read more…

SGI Launches New Enterprise Storage Systems

Jan 22, 2014 |SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, today announced the introduction of SGI InfiniteStorage 5100, SGI InfiniteStorage 5600 FC16, SGI InfiniteStorage 5500-F, and SGI InfiniteStorage 5600-F, supported by the InfiniteStorage Storage Management (ISSM) 11.10. These enhancements to the SGI InfiniteStorage 5000 series will enable customers to tackle their Big Data challenges with enhanced computing, performance and scalability, accelerating the discovery of actionable insights and innovation. Read more…

SGI to Develop In-Memory Computing System

Jan 14, 2014 |SGI, a trusted leader in high performance computing and big data and an SAP global technology partner, today announced plans to develop an in-memory appliance based on the SAP HANA platform, working in collaboration with SAP AG, the market leader in enterprise software and software-related services. Using the scalable shared memory architecture of SGI's next-generation UV system together with SAP HANA, the new in-memory appliance from SGI will be designed to streamline database management for single large node environments, which require extremely high capacity and scale to meet the needs of in-memory databases. Read more…

Extreme Networks Partners with SGI

Nov 18, 2013 |Extreme Networks, Inc., a leading provider of high performance network solutions, today announced an agreement with SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing (HPC) and Big Data, to be their select networking partner in order to provide comprehensive Hadoop solutions globally. Read more…

SGI Launches Portfolio of Solutions to Enable Big Data Innovations

Oct 22, 2013 |SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, today introduced SGI InfiniteData Cluster, SGI ObjectStore and SGI LiveArc AE for SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway as part of the company's portfolio of Big Data solutions. Read more…

SGI Active Archive Platform Honored

Oct 11, 2013 |SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, has earned the prestigious Gold status in the Golden Bridge Awards for its SGI StorHouse ForeverNAS technology (formerly known as FileTek StorHouse ForeverNAS). Read more…
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