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HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform Expands Partner Ecosystem, Provides Unified Experience, New Cloud Services

HPE GreenLake | March 28, 2022

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced substantial enhancements to HPE GreenLake, the company’s flagship service that allows businesses to update all of their apps and data from the edge to the cloud. With a unified operating experience, additional cloud services, and HPE GreenLake availability in the online marketplace of multiple leading distributors, HPE’s market-leading hybrid cloud platform has just become stronger.

HPE was among the first to deliver a cloud platform that enables customers to manage and extract insights from their data from edge to cloud, and our continued innovation is driving growth and furthering our market leadership. In the hybrid cloud market, HPE GreenLake is unique in its simplicity, unification, depth of cloud services, and partner network. Today, we are furthering our differentiation, boldly setting HPE GreenLake even further apart as the ideal platform for customers to drive data-first modernization.”

Antonio Neri, president and CEO, HPE.

HPE GreenLake offers multi-cloud experiences across the board – including on-premises, at the edge, in a colocation facility, and the public cloud – and continues to see high demand worldwide. HPE reported $798 in annual recurring revenue in Q1 2022, with as-a-service orders up 136 percent year over year.

HPE continues to collaborate with key distribution partners on product development. HPE GreenLake, which was first announced in March 2021, is now available directly through ALSO Group, Arrow Electronics, Ingram Mirco, and TD Synnex’s cloud marketplaces and eCommerce platforms. HPE GreenLake is now available to over 100,000 partners, who may use the platform to provide cloud services to their customers. A catalog of pre-defined cloud services for marketplaces has been added, as well as changes to simply buying and billing.

Customers can collocate any HPE GreenLake service across Digital Reality’s more than 285 data centers on six continents, including locations in 50 major cities, to provide a rich ecosystem of products and world-class business and cloud adjacency. In addition, customers benefit from a streamlined approach that includes a single agreement, invoice, and integrated service management to help them achieve their time-to-value sustainability and innovation goals.

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Nextira Selected by Ansys Technology Partner Program to Support Customers Implementing Ansys Gateway Powered by AWS

Businesswire | May 12, 2023

Nextira, a turnkey cloud solutions provider for cloud migration, technology optimization and digital transformation, announced today that it has been selected as a systems integrator for Ansys Gateway powered by AWS. The partnership establishes Nextira as a trusted technology partner empowered to equip engineering and manufacturing companies with Ansys’ sophisticated simulation and visualization software suite. Ansys Gateway powered by AWS is a solution for developers, designers and engineers who want to expand their Ansys simulation and computer-aided design or engineering (CAD/CAE) capability into AWS. Using Ansys Gateway powered by AWS for design and modeling improves companies' ability to evolve into predictive enterprises by removing users’ dependence on on-premise servers, adding computing and storage capacity in the cloud and improving productivity and efficiency through increased access to cores used in complex simulations. Replacing outdated and constrained on-premise high-performance computing (HPC) systems allows users to have instant access to the newest, most powerful design and modeling systems available. “Being the first systems integrator in North America that is currently equipped to assist users in installing Ansys Gateway powered by AWS makes our partnership incredibly unique,” said Jason Cutrer, founder and CEO of Nextira. “We are excited to help engineers and organizations adopt Ansys Gateway powered by AWS and continue to serve as a premier consultant for organizations looking to embrace cloud technologies.” Nextira will work with customers to set up Ansys Gateway powered by AWS for their organizations and offer additional support to onboard and select the best HPC configurations that optimize its usage once in place. The suite of services Nextira provides to customers using Ansys Gateway powered by AWS includes storage capacity management, troubleshooting, expanding CPU power, and cost optimization. "Ansys is a vital computing tool for engineers—it's as essential to their workflow as Photoshop or Illustrator is for graphic designers," said Cory Kim, director of engineering for predictive enterprise at Nextira. “However, moving complex simulations and developments to the cloud can be an intricate and complex process. Through our Ansys partnership, customers can feel confident in relying on Nextira’s experienced team of HPC operations experts to support them in making a smooth, seamless transition to Ansys Gateway powered by AWS.” Nextira’s core services include Predictive Enterprise, focused on integrating artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and data analytics to design, build, launch and optimize HPC environments through cloud computing. Nextira has aided clients in electronic design automation (EDA), AI, silicon chip development and more to configure and manage HPC clusters. In addition, Nextira’s experts elevate organizations through technology transformation that harnesses its Cloud-Native Innovation and Immersive Futures practice areas to transform workflows across DevOps, cloud automation, gaming and entertainment development through its proprietary Studio in the Cloud customized virtual desktop infrastructure solution and more. About Nextira Nextira is an integrated engineering, architecture, deployment and ongoing management solutions provider for cloud migration across all industries. Nextira partners the industry's leading providers of cloud and related technologies—like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud—to help customers advance cloud intelligence and immersive experiences. Nextira’s solutions include strategic consultancy and leadership, exceptional engineering expertise, sophisticated turnkey solutions, multi-cloud provision and specialist ecosystems. To learn more about Nextira, visit nextira.com.

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MariaDB’s New SkySQL Release Reimagines How Companies Control Cloud Database Spend

Businesswire | March 31, 2023

MariaDB plc (NYSE: MRDB) today announced the immediate availability of a new release of MariaDB SkySQL, a second generation cloud database service. SkySQL offers fully managed databases including its flagship distributed SQL product MariaDB Xpand for maximum resilience and scalability. The release brings new innovation that lets organizations better manage their cloud database costs. SkySQL now enables autoscaling, which scales resources when demand surges and back down when demand normalizes to save costs. SkySQL also introduces serverless analytics to uncover insights on all current data without the need for ETL and all while paying for only what is used. Cloud database services offered by public cloud vendors were the first to bring open source databases, such as MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL, to the cloud over a decade ago. These first generation cloud databases emphasized convenience and price, however, today’s world requires extraordinary resilience, elasticity and performance. Accelerated by the pandemic, at an unprecedented level, people have come to expect more from the services and applications they rely on every day – whether it's travel related, buying tickets to a concert, banking and more. Second generation cloud database services combine deep database expertise and cloud-native technology to run across clouds and achieve unstoppable performance. “At our heart, we are a database company,” said Jags Ramnarayan, SVP and SkySQL general manager at MariaDB plc. “We take that deep-rooted experience and knowledge to offer a cloud database service that is tuned and optimized for the most rigorous of situations. SkySQL brings hard-hitting capabilities such as distributed SQL with our Xpand database and we make it incredibly easy to operate, monitor, run analytics and scale elastically, all while being able to control your cloud spend. With other clouds, costs tend to only go one way, up. With SkySQL, we also let you shrink the cost footprint automatically when demand is low. For everyone looking for exceptional scalability and performance of MariaDB databases in the cloud, MariaDB SkySQL is the solution.” Autoscaling: Dynamically Adjust to Changes in Demand Unlike first generation cloud databases for MariaDB, SkySQL enables autoscaling of both compute and storage in response to changes in demand. Rules specify when autoscaling is triggered, for example when CPU utilization is above 75% over all replicas sustained for 30 minutes, then a new replica or node will be added to handle the increase. Similarly, when CPU utilization is less than 50% over all replicas for an hour, nodes or a replica is removed. Users always specify the top and bottom threshold so there are never any cost surprises. When paired with Xpand, MariaDB’s distributed SQL database, autoscaling means never having to worry about unexpected spikes in demand. Double, triple or quadruple the amount of users initially expected? No problem. Xpand on SkySQL with autoscale turned on will automatically add nodes to handle the increase in demand. Once demand is reduced, SkySQL will reduce nodes so you only pay for the resources needed. Serverless Analytics: Analyze All Current Data, Pay Only for What Is Used No ETL is required to do analytics! SkySQL enables operational analytics on active transactional data as well as external data sources using a serverless analytics layer powered by Apache Spark SQL. This approach removes any inconsistencies between an analytical view and a transactional view. Only pay for the CPU consumed for analytics without any need to provision compute. Data scientists also have access to an Apache Zeppelin notebook. The notebook is pre-loaded with examples that demonstrate ways to run analytics on data stored in SkySQL. It can also be used to discover database schemas, running queries on data stored in Amazon S3 and federating queries to join data across SkySQL databases and S3 object storage. Availability The new release of SkySQL is now generally available (GA) on AWS and Google Cloud, and includes updated MariaDB product versions: Xpand 6.1.1, Enterprise Server 10.6.12 and ColumnStore 6.3.1. Sign up for SkySQL. New users receive $500 in credits to start for free. No credit card is required. Supporting quotes "Our first look at the new MariaDB SkySQL release left us very impressed, especially with the user interface and autoscaling capabilities," said John Hundley, principal software engineer at Hughes Network Systems. "Our IoT smart power plugs are distributed nationally across hundreds of locations, collecting data from various plugs at any given time. The number of locations and data rates can vary significantly. The user interface is very easy to use and will give us a better view into our database usage. We expect autoscaling to help us in responding to our workload changes to ensure we have the right resources allocated." “Cloud-native DBMSs, such as MariaDB SkySQL, use dynamic compute and storage, making their use of resources more efficient and enabling them to deliver optimal performance,” said Carl Olofson, senior vice president, IDC. “The choice of which cloud-native DBMS to use comes down to fit. SkySQL offers scale and availability, the ability to run in multiple clouds, and to handle both OLTP and OLAP workloads. It also leverages skills that are transferable to all clouds. If these qualities are important to you, SkySQL is a cloud-native DBMS to consider.” About MariaDB MariaDB is a new generation cloud database company whose products are used by companies big and small, reaching more than a billion users through Linux distributions and have been downloaded over one billion times. Deployed in minutes and maintained with ease, leveraging cloud automation, our database products are engineered to support any workload, any cloud and any scale – all while saving up to 90% of proprietary database costs. Trusted by organizations such as Bandwidth, DigiCert, InfoArmor, Oppenheimer, Samsung, SelectQuote and SpendHQ, MariaDB’s software is the backbone of critical services that people rely on every day.

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Altair Releases Altair SimSolid Cloud

Prnewswire | April 26, 2023

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced the release of Altair SimSolid Cloud, an innovative, cloud-native structural simulation software, allowing users to access next-generation simulation technology from any web browser anywhere, anytime. SimSolid Cloud eliminates geometry simplification and meshing, the two most time-consuming and expertise-intensive tasks done in traditional finite element analysis; as a result, it delivers results in seconds to minutes, and effortlessly handles complex assemblies. "We believe SimSolid Cloud has the potential to dramatically accelerate and simplify the daily work of finite element structural analysis users in all markets," said James R. Scapa, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. "Anyone using conventional finite element tools will be left behind if they do not embrace this technology soon." With SimSolid Cloud, there is no need for software installation or extensive computing resources; users get fast, accurate results for seamless collaboration. In addition to eliminating the most time-consuming tasks of geometry preparation and meshing, SimSolid Cloud also offers structural linear and nonlinear static, modal vibration, and thermal stress analyses that users can perform within their preferred web browser. Some of SimSolid Cloud's key features include: Mesh-free technology and full-fidelity CAD simulation Comprehensive physics support Adaptive solver technology Automated model connections Results in seconds Intuitive, user-friendly interface Extensive material library SimSolid Cloud is also beneficial for design engineers working on complex projects across various industries, engineering analysts and consultants who want to handle complex geometries and conditions, and more. It is great for users in all industries, especially those in industrial machinery, tooling and equipment manufacturing, heavy equipment, consumer products, and architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). SimSolid Cloud is available via Altair One, Altair's cloud innovation gateway that offers collaborative access to simulation and data analytics technology alongside scalable high-performance computing and cloud resources – all in one place. SimSolid Cloud includes a flexible subscription option, making advanced engineering capabilities available to all, and is particularly ideal for independent professionals and small- and medium-sized businesses looking to optimize their design and engineering processes without needing to make significant investments in hardware or software maintenance. To learn more about Altair SimSolid, visit https://altair.com/simsolid or click here to register for a free trial. About Altair Altair is a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI) that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future. For more information, visit https://www.altair.com/.