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Global Organizations Boost Growth with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

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2 months ago

July 10, 2024

Ahold Delhaize, Hitachi Construction Machinery, Lemtrans, and Mazda Motors Logistics Europe N.V. move their business-critical VMware environments to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

Latest OCI Compute with AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA processors give Oracle Cloud VMware Solution customers greater scale, performance, and address new use cases like virtual desktops and AI and ML

AUSTIN, Texas, July 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Global organizations across industries including Ahold Delhaize, Hitachi Construction Machinery, Lemtrans, and Mazda Motors Logistics Europe N.V. use Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to exit their on-premises data centers and migrate their business-critical applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). To continue to add new capabilities to this service, Oracle released a new OCI Compute shape with an NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU and an Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8358 Processor for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, and plans to release another shape based on the AMD EPYC™ 9J14 processor. This will provide customers with additional compute options and improved performance across a wide range of workloads.

“Many organizations that want to move their VMware estates to the cloud are often daunted by the heavy lift and prospect of needing to learn an entirely new set of IT skills,” said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Oracle Cloud VMware Solution enables organizations to maintain full control of their VMware Clusters and preserve their tools, skills, and processes, eliminating reskilling requirements. For customers, it is a low-risk approach to modernize in the cloud by maintaining an identical operational model to their on-premises VMware Clusters.”

Ahold Delhaize Accelerates Cloud Migration to Keep Pace with Retail Growth

Ahold Delhaize is one of the largest food retailers in the world, with 16 regional brands, 7,700 stores, and more than 400,000 employees. Ahold Delhaize has been operating its on-premises VMware environment for many years, alongside other diverse IT systems and solutions to support its operations. After running Oracle and non-Oracle applications for critical business processes on VMware, it decided to accelerate the migration to the cloud to increase performance and help cut costs. Starting with its key local brands in the Netherlands, Albert Heijn, Etos, and Gall & Gall, Ahold Delhaize leveraged Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to migrate over 400 VMware virtual machines (VMs) supporting its e-commerce, supply chain, and retail processes, to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. This allowed Ahold Delhaize to reduce its remaining data center footprint to zero while maintaining full administrative control over its VMware environment. The roll-out was managed and implemented by the AH Tech Team and Oracle partner DXC Technology, a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.

“After a review process, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution was the choice for us,” said Gerhard van der Bijl, chief technical officer, Ahold Delhaize Europe & Indonesia. “It allowed us to extend our data center VMware environment into the cloud and leverage our existing processes and expertise, while delivering on our data center exit strategy. One of the most important reasons for us to choose Oracle is that we could lift and shift our workloads without having to make impactful changes to the underlying infrastructure, which allowed our business to continue to operate while we migrated workloads overnight.”

Hitachi Construction Machinery Accelerates Digital Transformation

Hitachi Construction Machinery develops, manufactures, sells, rents, and services hydraulic excavators, wheel loaders, road equipment, and mining equipment, with more than 400,000 units of construction equipment in operation worldwide. To drive its digital transformation strategy, it is migrating approximately 500 virtual servers from an on-premises VMware virtualization environment and 100 databases to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI. Hitachi Construction Machinery has already reduced its infrastructure operating costs by 20 percent while improving its online transaction processing performance by 50 percent and batching processing by 60 percent.

“OCI is the only public cloud that can securely migrate mission-critical databases running on Oracle Exadata and VMware virtualization environments since we can migrate quickly without configuration changes and reduce costs. Other clouds would have increased our costs due to having to rebuild applications,” said Noriko Momoki, senior officer and president, DX Promotion Group, Hitachi Construction Machinery. “The increased performance has significantly improved business processing time while reducing operational and management tasks, meaning our IT department can now focus on new projects to strengthen our business competitiveness.”

Lemtrans Improves Resiliency for Critical Railway Systems

Lemtrans is a leading private operator of railway vehicles in the Ukraine, operating more than 15,000 gondola cars that transport over 52 million tons of cargo annually. Lemtrans had an urgent need to transition critical processes and databases, including train scheduling and identity and access management, to the cloud. Lemtrans relied on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to quickly relocate its data and applications outside of the Ukraine, achieving greater resiliency while preserving its IT investments.

“Oracle Cloud VMware Solution was the perfect choice for us to ensure that our business would not be disrupted,” said Ivan Radchenko, head of IT department, Lemtrans. “The tools we use in OCI and our on-premises VMware environment are identical, which greatly simplified the migration of our data and VMs and provided more confidence in our business continuity. This helps us maintain the highest standard of quality for the Ukraine’s rail system.”

Mazda Motors Logistics Europe N.V. Consolidates Applications to Reduce Data Center Footprint

Mazda Motors Logistics Europe N.V. (MLE) is responsible for distributing cars and parts to European customers. MLE delivers spare parts directly to over 2,300 dealers and independent distributors in more than 30 European countries and vehicles to the ports of Barcelona, Antwerp, and Zeebrugge for European distribution. To achieve its goal of phasing out its data centers and modernizing its operations, MLE migrated 500 VMware VMs and consolidated an Oracle Exadata system into 80 Oracle Databases running on Exadata Database Service in OCI. MLE also consolidated its business-critical applications into several software-defined data centers (SDDCs) with 12 hosts on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. As a result, MLE closed its two data centers in Frankfurt while maintaining the same high level of application customization and database compatibility.

“As a long-standing customer of both VMware and Oracle, it was important for us to maintain the operation and management of our virtual infrastructure as closely as possible,” said Leander Dierckx, cloud domain lead, Mazda Motors Logistics Europe N.V. “Migrating our racks of Exadata and VMs to OCI let us keep our data and workloads in one place. This had helped us increase our agility and productivity while reducing operational costs.”

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution Introduces New Compute Shapes for Greater Customer Control

Oracle released a new Oracle Cloud VMware Solution compute shape with an Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8358 Processor and an NVIDIA Tensor Core A10 GPU to run VDI, AI inferencing, and graphic-intensive workloads on VMware this month. Oracle VMware Cloud Solution plans to also introduce a new compute shape using the AMD EPYC™ 9J14 processor, which can allow up to 50 percent more cores per cluster and bring the latest generation AMD processors to customers running VMware, later this year.

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is designed for organizations requiring the highest levels of scalability, performance, security, and control. Customers can directly manage cloud infrastructure and VMware consoles for complete administrative control of their entire VMware stack. This enables organizations to rapidly migrate on-premises VMware estates to the cloud, while preserving existing skills, best practices, and tools.

VMware environments operate in isolated customer tenancies at the highest levels of security, including FedRAMP High, to help meet compliance requirements. In addition, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution delivers enterprise-level performance along with predictable costs, including the industry’s lowest data egress prices, and consistent low pricing across Oracle Cloud regions. With Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, customers gain OCI’s flexible cloud infrastructure and zero-trust security, while retaining the full VMware administrator experience and control. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution SDDCs are deployed on OCI bare metal compute instances, a simple, consistent approach compared to solutions that use separate compute instances just for VMware. Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is available across public, government, sovereign, or even dedicated cloud environments, anywhere in the world.

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SK hynix Applies CXL Optimization Solution to Linux

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60 mins ago

September 23, 2024

HMSDK, a proprietary memory control solution lauded for its performance, is now available on Linux, the world’s largest open source operating systemHMSDK optimizes performance between heterogeneous memories, increasing bandwidth by 30% and performance by over 12%The company will foster the ecosystem by increasing software competitiveness as well as AI memory such as HBM

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SK hynix Inc. (or “the company”, www.skhynix.com) announced today that the key features of its Heterogeneous Memory Software Development Kit (HMSDK)1 are now available on Linux2, the world’s largest open source operating system.

1Heterogeneous Memory Software Development Kit (HMSDK): SK hynix’s proprietary software development kit. It enables effective memory control, improving the performance of heterogeneous memory systems such as CXL memory.

2Linux: An operating system developed in 1991 by Linus Torvalds that has since expanded to become the world’s largest open source operating system. Most operating systems for cloud systems and supercomputers, as well as smartphones, cars, and appliances, are built on Linux.

HMSDK is SK hynix’s proprietary software for optimizing the operation of Compute Express Link (CXL)3, which is gaining attention as a next-generation AI memory technology along with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Having received global recognition for HMSDK’s performance, SK hynix is now integrating it with Linux. This accomplishment marks a significant milestone for the company as it highlights the company’s competitiveness in software, adding to the recognition for its high-performance memory hardware such as HBM.

3Compute Express Link (CXL): A next-generation interface that efficiently connects CPU, GPU, memory, and other components in high-performance computing systems to support massive, ultra-fast computation. By applying CXL to existing memory modules, the capacity can be expanded by more than 10 times.

In the future, developers around the world working on Linux will be able to use SK hynix’s technology as the industry standard for CXL memory, putting the company in an advantageous position for global collaboration on next-generation memory.

SK hynix’s HMSDK enhances memory package’s bandwidth by over 30% without modifying existing applications. It achieves this by selectively allocating memory based on the bandwidth between existing memory and expanded CXL memory. Additionally, the software improves performance by more than 12% over conventional systems through optimization based on access frequency, a feature which relocates frequently accessed data to faster memory.

The semiconductor industry anticipates full commercialization of CXL in the second half of 2024, coinciding with the release of the first server CPUs featuring the “CXL 2.0” specification. In preparation for this, SK hynix is currently validating CXL 2.0 memory in 96 GB and 128 GB capacities with customers. The company plans to begin mass production by the end of the year.

“For the development and spread of AI systems such as large language models (LLMs), it is now necessary to significantly improve not only semiconductors but also the level of system applications to support them,” said Youngpyo Joo, Head of Software Solution at SK hynix. “With this Linux integration and collaboration, we will strive to improve our status as a total AI memory solutions provider by innovating technologies and expanding the ecosystem in this field.”

About SK hynix Inc.

SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world’s top-tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (“DRAM”), flash memory chips (“NAND flash”), and CMOS Image Sensors (“CIS”) for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company’s shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, and the Global Depository shares are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.

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TeraBox Is Set to Provide Premier Cloud Storage Solutions to Top Indonesian University Faculty and Students

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60 mins ago

September 23, 2024

Transforming Classrooms: TeraBox’s 1TB Free Cloud Storage Becomes Essential for Educators and Students

TOKYO, Sept. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — TeraBox (“TeraBox” or “the Company”), a globally trusted cloud storage service headquartered in Tokyo, also a favored cloud storage solution among Indonesian users, held its first large-scale campus event at prominent Indonesian universities such as University Diponegoro, Universitas Indonesia, and Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember. The company hosted numerous offline events, attracting interactions from more than 30,500 students and teachers, and handed out 85,000 flyers. Event videos posted on the universities’ official Instagram and YouTube accounts received tens of thousands of views. TeraBox looks forward to deepening its collaboration with academic institutions to offer innovative cloud storage solutions for students.

In an era where digital resources are integral to academic success, TeraBox is committed to becoming an essential tool for students, providing a secure and efficient way to save and share curriculum files and materials, simplifying file management. By offering a massive 1TB (1024GB) of free cloud storage space per account, TeraBox alleviates the challenges of managing extensive educational materials, such as e-books, digital textbooks, learning notes, and experimental data in the new semester to come. Furthermore, TeraBox enhances productivity by enabling students to engage in online assignments and collaborative projects, fostering sharing, collaboration, and communication among students and between students and teachers. TeraBox not only addresses issues related to insufficient memory on devices like smartphones and laptops, but also significantly boosts efficiency in data management in an environmentally friendly manner.

Understanding the need for seamless collaboration, TeraBox features user-friendly sharing options that allow students and faculties to create links with just one click. This facilitates easy sharing of multiple files simultaneously, which can greatly improve collaborative efforts among peers. Whether accessing files from mobile devices or desktops, students can manage their documents effortlessly anytime and anywhere. Feedback from offline surveys reveals that many users in Indonesia are impressed with TeraBox’s offering of 1TB (1024GB) of free storage space. This generous storage not only meets the needs of university students for sharing various social and lifestyle content but also eliminates the necessity of creating multiple accounts with other storage services to fulfill their storage requirements.

As of July 2024, TeraBox boasts over 320 million registered users worldwide, with more than 20 million active daily users across over 231 countries and regions. The platform ensures top-tier security by employing advanced measures such as TLS/SSL protocols, encryption algorithms, and access controls. TeraBox is accredited with ISO standards (ISO 27001/27701/27018) certifications to protect the safety of data storage and transmission. These technologies also guarantee the stored and transmitted information is safe through client-side endpoint encryption within a large-scale distributed system architecture.

About TeraBox

TeraBox, developed by Flextech Inc., is a globally trusted cloud storage app headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. With a focus on intelligent, efficient, and secure cloud storage, TeraBox is dedicated to providing users with innovative and user-friendly solutions for their data storage needs. Download the TeraBox App on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, and Windows devices, or visit www.terabox.com for online access. To learn more about the fantastic Referral Program, please visit the provided site.

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Elmo Motion Control Exhibiting at Industrial Automation Show in Shanghai, China

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60 mins ago

September 23, 2024

Elmo brings live demonstrations to present the power of motion to Hall 5.1 in Booth E181.

PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Sept. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Elmo Motion Control, a global technology leader in motion control solutions, announces its participation at the annual IAS (Industrial Automation Show) exhibition at NECC in Shanghai, China, from September 24 to September 28. At the show, Elmo will display the Platinum line of servo drives, which include fully certified Functional Safety capabilities in small yet powerful packages, and conduct live demonstrations.

Elmo’s featured demonstrations will include an operating customer XYZT stage dynamic demo with four-axis movement controlled by a single multi-axis servo drive – the Platinum Quartet. Also on the floor will be a multi-axis gantry machine from our customer PBA Systems PTE Ltd and more. In addition, visitors can be the first in China to see the future of motion control – the next-generation motion controller with artificial intelligence readiness and a new line of multi-axis servo drives.

“We look forward to greeting visitors at this year’s show and presenting the latest Elmo products. On display throughout our booth is the future of motion control and the experience of seeing our multi-axis products in action. This year, we created an environment for machine developers to learn about advanced motion performance for any application in real-time,” stated Dr. Wayne Chen, Elmo China GM.

About Elmo Motion Control

Elmo has been a motion control technology leader for over 35 years, with millions of servo drives working 24/7 worldwide. Elmo offers complete motion control solutions from design to delivery of cutting-edge servo drives, network-based multi-axis motion controllers, and integrated servo motors. All solutions can be customized and configured using Elmo’s proprietary advanced and easy-to-use software tools for any machine in any industry, such as semiconductors, lasers, robots, life sciences, industrial automation, AGV, and more. The company employs more than 350 personnel with headquarters in Israel and offices in the United States, China, Germany, Italy, Korea, Singapore, and an additional manufacturing facility in Poland. Elmo has a worldwide distribution network. By advancing motion control with state-of-the-art technology, Elmo makes smart machines even smarter. As of 2022, Elmo is a Bosch Rexroth company.

For more information, visit www.elmomc.com or email marketing@elmomc.com.

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Robert Dugan, Marketing Manager at Elmo Motion Control
T: +972-(3)-929-2300 (ext. 368)
E: robertd@elmom.com

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