IBM’s OpenPower Foundation appears to be going from strength to strength as it heads into 2015. The consortium Big Blue formed around its Power processor technology found its 80th member last week in the form of major cloud vendor Rackspace. The Texas-based company has data centres around the world and has apparently been investigating Power […]
HelpSystems improves BI and security tools
HelpSystems‘ ShowCase division has released a new version of its eponymous IBM i BI tool. ShowCase10 includes new executive dashboards, dynamic drill-down analysis, improved reporting and a redesigned interface. Its creators say that a new ShowCase Deployment Bundle expands basic ShowCase into an ideal data access tool for both technical and end users. With a […]
Power8 gets more acceleration, new compilers
Altera has unveiled new accelerators for Power chips and Nvidia is to introduce compilers to run x86 Linux apps on the processors more easily. Silicon Valley-based Altera makes field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that are used to speed up processing (pictured). It announced support for IBM’s OpenPower Foundation in November, 2013, and is listed as a […]