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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 18, 2022 Supermicro, a Total IT Solution Provider for Cloud, AI/ML, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced expanded adoption of key open hardware and open source technologies into the core Supermicro server portfolio. These open technologies unlock innovation across a broad developer and supplier ecosystem and reduce proprietary lock-in.

Supermicro continues its commitment to deliver best-of-breed solutions like our 8U 8-GPU AI training system while integrating key open technologies that unlock innovation and flexibility for our customers, stated Charles Liang, president, and CEO, of Supermicro. The solutions are designed to support the best-in-class features, including Intel, AMD or ARM, CPUs up to 400W, up to 700W GPUs, and 400 Gbps networking while supporting open technologies like OpenBMC and Open BIOS providing open systems that deliver superior performance, efficiency, and TCO.

The new and upcoming 8U 8-GPU Rack Optimized Systems delivers superior power and thermal capabilities for large-scale AI Training and includes a host of open technologies. This system incorporates an OAM universal baseboard design for the GPU complex with support for an open, OCP ORV2-compliant DC-powered rack bus bar and OCP 3.0-compliant AIOM cards. These open technologies enable future flexibility for multiple servers and GPU options and allow the system to be more efficient, with reliable power delivery and additional cooling. The 8U 8-GPU System supports NVIDIAs latest H100 GPUs and provides best-in-class performance with support for up to 400W CPUs and 700W GPUs, up to 8TB of memory with 32 DIMMs of DDR4 memory, and future support for DDR5, up to 6 NVMe All-Flash SSDs and up to 10 dedicated I/O modules. In addition, Supermicro offers an open standard 5U 10-GPU server that is ideal for NVIDIA Omniverse applications.

Supermicro also expanded the use of OCP 3.0 compliant Advanced IO module (AIOM) cards, which will provide up to 400 Gbps bandwidth based on PCI-E 5.0. The Open I/O modules are supported on the 8U Universal GPU System, 1U Cloud DC with dual AIOM expansion slots, 2U Hyper and GrandTwin systems featuring next-gen CPUs, and AIOM expansion slots.

In addition to the new hardware offerings, Supermicro will offer OpenBMC and Open BIOS (OCP OSF) software solutions for the next generation of Intel, AMD, and ARM-based systems. The Linux Foundation-based OpenBMC implementation enables developers to include new features, extend the existing implementation, and provides the full functionality of base code, including IPMI 2.0, WebUI, iKVM/SOL, SEL, SSH, and Redfish.

The new OCP-compliant servers will be demonstrated in the Supermicro booth (C9) at the 2022 OCP Global Summit. Showcased products will include a range of high-performance multi-GPU systems featuring OAM universal baseboards supporting a range of industry-standard form factors, as well as rackmount and multi-node architectures with OCP 3.0 compliant AIOM expansion slots, including:

To attend the 2022 OCP Global Summit, visit https://www.opencompute.org/summit/global-summit.

In addition, a demonstration of the Open BIOS (OCP OSF) software will be shown in the OCP Experience Center at the OCP Global Summit.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are transforming into a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, and switch systems, software, and services while delivering advanced high-volume motherboard, power, and chassis products. The products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).

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Stock market index and financial data company S&P Global has migrated its on-premise Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) to Oracles Fusion ERP cloud-based platform, in a bid to streamline reporting and establish global consistency. The company decided to make the move as it faced end of life support for EBS, but has resulted in S&P consolidating on Oracle systems and pursuing a more cloud-focused strategy.

The migration also took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, where the S&P team never actually met its implementation partners KPMG in real-life, and the project was completed one month ahead of schedule.

Speaking with Christopher Craig, SVP Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer at S&P Global, at Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas this week, he said that the 22,000 employee company had been using the Oracle EBS reporting environment for approximately a decade. The organization operates out of 180 legal entities, across 37 countries with 64 ledgers. Craig said:

We had grown a lot in the last 10 years, we sold four major businesses in the portfolio and then we acquired somewhere around 15 companies over the same period. And the platform that we were operating on - Oracle EBS - we knew we had to introduce a new chart of accounts.

Our consistent reporting across all of our businesses was growing increasingly challenging. So we looked at doing a full Chart of Accounts remapping. If we had done it on Oracle EBS, which was reaching end of life on January 1st 2022, we were probably going to end up paying premium support.

And then we were going to spend a higher portion of maintenance responsibilities, versus the constant innovation that would come with a product thats not end of life Oracle.

S&P weighed up the pros and cons of sticking with its Oracle EBS on-premise infrastructure, versus going with Fusion, which Craig said had a more modern i structure.

Luckily, S&P had maintained a pretty well structured and integrated system with EBS, following its acquisitions and across its multiple territories. However, across all of its divisions, which was part of the legacy challenge, there were slightly different reporting structures. Craig said:

We had diverse billing platforms for each of the businesses. Wed streamlined our businesses a lot over the years, but there were still differences in terms of reporting and roll-up. So a consistent end-to-end view of natural class reporting was increasingly challenging.

To start, S&P went through and remapped its entire Chart of Accounts. Craig said that once youre going through this process youre conforming your companys reporting structures across the entire business, which aids with consistent reporting and processes. He added:

Wed been working towards this, but this was an opportunity to take a fresh cut at that. Also, our financial reporting tool was a legacy product from IBM, and that was more or less like the lifeblood of the company. So we moved out of that to Oracle EPM. From an architecture perspective that was completely different and we had to really evolve how our reporting was performed across the organization.

The project started shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic kicked in, with the implementation project beginning in May 2020. Craig said it was nerve wracking, given that the implementation was carried out remotely and it was a new way of working.

However, S&P completed its go live one month early, with the new Fusion ERP operating from 1st January 2022. Two months later it also completed a $44 billion acquisition, in March 2022, which was successfully brought into the system.

Craig noted that whilst the journey to a cloud-based ERP wasnt exactly an exciting prospect for S&P, it forms an essential part of the organizations digital plants. He said:

Nobody was necessarily thrilled at the prospect of a 16 month endeavour and a multimillion dollar project that would dominate 200 peoples time ,with multiple vendors over the course of other projects. I think there was a lot of hesitation.

We arent in the business of implementing ERPs. And we were going into new technology we werent familiar with, into the cloud. Going from EBS on premise, where you are completely in control, to a somewhat more standardized out of the box solution was daunting. Youre kind of ceding control and building a different kind of partnership with Oracle that you didnt have before.

But for the last ten years the company has evolved. In addition to all the acquisitions, weve rationalized our real-estate footfall to pursue a more asset-light strategy. Weve moved from on premise servers to a combination of AWS and Oracle to come up with a hybrid cloud strategy. This is all part of pursuing a more nimble operating model.

Craig said the move to the cloud has resulted in a range of changes taking place, from sun setting applications to adopting new workflows. But whats evident is that a consolidation on to Oracle systems has been a priority. He said:

We used to do all the patches on our own, now the patches are done by Oracle. We moved out of our AWS data warehouse to an Oracle autonomous warehouse. Our third party feeds used to use Informatica, now we use Oracle. We got rid of IBM for reporting and now we use Oracle. So weve completely changed our architecture around how we get things done.

And we are still able to achieve a four day close.

Craig added that another key priority has been getting the teams comfortable with the new reporting systems and tools, so that they have the same level of confidence that they had with the legacy on-premise system. He said:

We managed the change and the transition okay, but now we want to create trust in the platform and the solution. That belief that we can be as nimble.

The implementation strategy used SAFe agile as part of the rollout, which includes user testing as part of the fabric - where users are testing as they go along, in the new environments. For Craig this is the key piece of advice from the project, ensuring that the team remained enthusiastic. He said:

Its the governance. Youve got to have a team that believes in the vision and thats behind the vision. The most important thing is, what do you do to keep the team motivated, excited, focused and enthusiastic for 16 months? And thats the governance and accountability and alignment of success to the project itself.

Theres going to be a tonne of problems, a tonne of pitfalls, no solution is perfect, every problem is different, but youve got to keep a team thats motivated to work through the solutions and drive success. That comes down to having the right governance structure that rewards behaviours, replicates success and identifies failures. Get that right and you can probably get any solution right.

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As your organization undergoes its digital transformation, you'll want to include your identity and access management (IAM) systems among the systems that get migrated to the cloud. However, there are certain challenges that you'll need to consider before, during and after your cloud migration.

For most organizations, there are clear benefits in moving IAM systems to the cloud. Not only should total cost of ownership be reduced as staffers spend less time on maintaining data-center infrastructure, but identity-based applications should work more smoothly for staffers and customers alike.

"There's an increased demand in the customer-identity use case, i.e., customers who can quickly log in and sign out of smooth experiences as they can on Netflix or Amazon," said Yev Koup, a senior product marketing manager at Ping Identity. "Other companies want as smooth and convenient an experience for their own customers."

Koup also sees a trend toward greater demand for smooth and easy integration in the IT space, where IAM systems must work well with other applications and technologies.

"There's invisible networking that has to exist, such as with Microsoft Active Directory," he told us. "We're also seeing demand for increased orchestration capabilities."

That said, should you move your IAM systems to the cloud? There are several issues to consider before you even decide to begin your cloud migration.

"Financial institutions often don't want their data happening in the cloud," Koup said. "They want to be first rescuers if something goes wrong, and they have teams that are very capable of doing this. Governments also often want to keep things on-premises."

"Usually for larger organizations, this is a big project," Koup told us. "They need a process and a migration path and plan. Companies like Ping can help. Partially it's a fear of the unknown it helps to get a partner involved."

Once your company has weighed all those factors and decided to migrate its IAM systems to the cloud, then there are other decisions to make before the migration begins.

"Security's generally a little bit higher when you're in the cloud, even though you are relying on a third-party vendor," said Koup. "There are risks, but the risks of being in the cloud are lower than if you have to manage the configuration on your own premises."

"The nice thing about orchestration is that as things continue to change for the business, you can update back-end components a lot quicker and on the fly," Koup told us, adding that Ping's own Da Vinci orchestration software "lets you preview and see end-user experience before you deploy."

After the migration process begins, do it the right way:

"Work closely with your identity or cloud providers," said Koup. "Phase in applications slowly and work with the vendor's professional services team. It costs more to do it this way, but it will be a smoother process."

There are also challenges that may not present themselves until after the IAM cloud migration is complete. You need to prepare yourself for the possibility that:

Despite all these potential pitfalls, Ping Identity's Koup thinks it's well worth moving IAM systems to the cloud.

"You'll get greater scalability and resiliency," he told us. "There will be a lot less behind-the-scenes work to integrate new functions and features, which will improve your total cost of ownership. You may pay higher licensing fees [for your IAM solution], but you'll have less expenditure on manpower or infrastructure or scaling."

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Key Companies Profiled in the Global eClinical Solutions Market Research Report by Kenneth Research are DATATRAK International, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Signant Health, Dassault Systmes S.E., eClinical Solutions LLC, IBM Corporation, Veeva Systems Inc., Mednet, Saama Technologies, Inc., and Parexel International Corporation, and Parexel International Corporation among others.

New York, Oct. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kenneth Research has published a detailed market report on the Global eClinical Solutions Market for the forecast period, i.e., 2022-2031 which includes the following factors:

Market growth over the forecast period

Detailed regional synopsis

Market segmentation

Growth drivers

Challenges

Key market players and their detailed profiling

Global eClinical Solutions Market Size:

The global eclinical solutions market is gathered an approximate revenue of USD 7.5 billion in 2021 and is estimated to grow at a CAGR of ~15% over the forecast period. The governments initiative to encourage clinical trials and research is responsible for the expansion of the market. Moreover, increasing investments in R&D by numerous pharma & biotech businesses are anticipated to contribute to the market growth. According to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Association (EFPIA), the value of exports from the pharmaceutical business in Europe alone was around USD 469,450 million in 2018. Additionally, it is predicted that one of the key development factors for the market would be the increasing usage of software solutions by pharmaceutical businesses. In addition, the health sectors extensive data collection is thought to be a key factor in the market growth. Over 75% of the pharma sector clients polled believe that in 2022, smart technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (MI), and natural language processing would have the greatest impact on drug development (NLP).

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Global eClinical Solutions Market: Key Takeaways

North American region gains the largest portion of the revenue

The cloud segment to influence the revenue graph

The pharma & biotech segment retains a sizable presence in the market

Rising R&D Investments, Government Funding, and Growing Medicaments Trade to Boost the Market

Some of the key reasons propelling the global eclinical solutions market include new regulations, government funding to assist clinical trials, and rising demand for pharma-biotech businesses to invest more in R&D for drug development. For instance, the UK governments net spending on research and development (R&D) increased by USD 2.0 billion from 2019 to a record high of USD 18.77 billion in 2020. Electronic data capture, clinical trial management systems, which frequently use electronic patient diaries, and other applications are all included in eclinical solutions. The Indian ministry of science and technology has been given a budget of over USD 147 billiom for R&D activities in 2021.

Furthermore, the growing export value for medical drugs further drives market growth. For instance, the global export value for medicaments was USD 9,757,494 thousand in 2020.

Global eClinical Solutions Market: Regional Overview

The global eclinical Solutions market is segmented into five major regions including North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa region.

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Increasing Government funding for Clinical Trial Support to Fuel the North American Market

The market in North America had the biggest market share in 2021. The demand for eclinical solutions in this region is anticipated to increase as a result of rising government funding for clinical trial support, ongoing product development, and new product releases by vendors of eclinical solutions as well as an increase in the number of collaborations for novel drug development. The National Institute of Health (NIH) funded clinical research at a cost of about USD 17 billion in the fiscal year (FY) 2020.

Rising Chronic Diseases and Increasing Government Funding to Propel the Asia Pacific Market Growth

On the other hand, the market in the Asia Pacific region is anticipated to experience significant growth by expanding at a higher CAGR over the forecast period as a result of rising chronic diseases like cancer, cardiovascular conditions, and other infectious diseases, as well as an aging population and growing medical needs. The Asia Pacific region alone accounts for 60% of the worlds population, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). A sizable fraction of the Chinese population had chronic illnesses in 2020. Overweight or obesity affected more than 525 million people, and high blood pressure affected more than 410 million people. In China, chronic diseases were responsible for over 89 percent of deaths in 2019. Government programs for drug discovery and research, as well as investments in clinical infrastructure, are also predicted to play a significant role in the expansion of the market in the region. For instance, the GDP for research and development in China was 2.4% in 2020 according to the World Bank Data.

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The study further incorporates Y-O-Y growth, demand & supply and forecasts future opportunities in:

North America (U.S., Canada)

Europe (U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg, NORDIC [Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark], Poland, Turkey, Russia, Rest of Europe)

Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Rest of Latin America)

Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Rest of Asia Pacific)

Middle East and Africa (Israel, GCC [Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman], North Africa, South Africa, Rest of Middle East and Africa).

Global eClinical Solutions Market, Segmentation by Delivery Mode

The cloud segment is predicted to hold the biggest market size in value and is estimated to grow at a significant CAGR over the forecast period. The preservation of client data on cloud servers rather than on internal servers at the facility is one benefit related to cloud solutions that is expected to boost the expansion of this market. Over 2.5 billion users are utilizing the Google Drive storage service in 2020. Additionally, over 120 Zettabytes of data are predicted to be in the cloud by 2025. Google Drive is currently the most prominent cloud storage platform in the world with a usage rate of 95.5 percent. The best cloud storage for collaboration, Dropbox comes in second with a still impressive 64 percent followed by One Drive with 40 percent and iCloud with almost 38 percent. Furthermore, it is projected that convenient customer access to data via the internet, which necessitates computer hardware and an internet connection, to contribute to the growth of the segment.

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Global eClincal Solutions Market, Segmentation by End-Users

The pharma & biotech segment is predicted to hold substantial market share over the forecast period. The pharmaceutical sector generates a variety of innovative products that provide valuable medicinal benefits. In 2019, the pharmaceutical sector spent USD 83 billion on research and development as per Congressional Budget Office. In addition to this, the number of new pharmaceuticals licensed for sale climbed by 60 percent during 2019 and 9 years back as compared to the prior decade, reaching a peak of 60% new drugs approved in 2018. Increased sales of new drugs and smart technologies, as well as increased spending by the pharmaceutical industry on R&D, boost the growth of the segment.

Global eClinical Solutions Market, Segmentation by Product Type

Clinical Data Management Systems (CDMS)

Electronic Data Capture (EDC)

Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS)

Electronic Clinic Outcome Assessment (eCOA)

Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM)

Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome (ePRO)

Electronic Trial Master File (eTMF)

Clinical Analytics Platform

Few of the well-known market leaders in the global eclinical solutions market that are profiled by Kenneth Research are DATATRAK International, Inc., Oracle Corporation, Signant Health, Dassault Systmes S.E., eClinical Solutions LLC, IBM Corporation, Veeva Systems Inc., Mednet, Saama Technologies, Inc., and Parexel International Corporation.

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Recent Developments in the Global eClinical Solutions Market

On 01 March 2021, the collaboration between Saama Technologies, Inc. and Oracle Corporation was made public in order to integrate the Oracle Health Sciences Clinical One Platform. The alliance aims to give pharmaceutical businesses insights powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

On October 20, 2021, Parexel International Corporation and Kyoto University Hospital jointly announced a strategic partnership to expand the potential for clinical research and to provide successful clinical trials. The alliance intends to provide patients and pharmaceutical companies with improved clinical trial benefits.

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Data centers are more than just a tech trend. They have fast become essential elements in the digital fabric powering todays businesses. And, as digital transformation attracts more industry participants, the demand for data storage and remote computing resources continues to grow. Ultra-reliable, high-availability data center services have convinced customers to give up their on-prem solutions and partner with cloud providers such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google who are estimated to operate around half of the worlds largest facilities. But, at an infrastructure level, putting thousands and thousands of processors under one roof generates a huge amount of heat and has brought the need for efficient data center cooling into focus.

A decade ago, having cold air rise up through strategically located perforations in the data center floor was enough to keep servers within their operating temperature window. But as more and more technology is squeezed into data center cabinets, and facilities increase in size, alternative data center cooling solutions are required to deal with the higher, more concentrated heat loads. One option is to build data centers in cooler climates to tip things in the favour of cloud providers. Data center operators can make use of colder temperatures outside the facility to help regulate the temperature of the hot electronics inside.

Facebooks Odense hyperscale facility in Denmark, is one example of data center cooling that benefits from being in a lower-temperature location. And further boosting its thermal efficiency, the heat generated is piped to buildings nearby to warm the residents. A more extreme example is a test setup in Japan that uses snow to enhance data center cooling capabilities. But engineering data center cooling solutions based on stable weather conditions is proving to be increasingly problematic.

This summer, unseasonably hot weather in London, UK which saw temperatures climb above 40 deg C affected big cloud operators including Oracle and Google. Amazon also registered a so-called thermal event within its data center infrastructure. And the UK capital was by no means the only site in Europes network of data centers typically clustered around Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Dublin that had to deal with higher than expected ambient temperatures.

Facility designs, which include data center cooling requirements, are often specified according to local 1 in 20-year extreme weather conditions (so-called N=20). However, the impacts of global warming mean that highs and lows can stray outside these patterns. Plus, even if facilities bulk up on their temperature management capacity there can still be issues for example, concern is growing about the amount of water that data centers use for their cooling.

In periods of drought another consequence of global warming data centers could be in competition with other users for water supply. Just a couple of years ago, Time magazine put the spotlight on tensions between Googles aspiration to grow its data center operations in the US and water availability. Some operators, such as Microsoft, have launched programs to offset the impact of their demands for water, by replenishing more than they use. But these initiatives still serve to highlight the issue.

On the plus side, competition for profits in the data center space brings bright ideas into play and that includes the search for innovative data center cooling. This month, Alibaba Cloud (teaming up with NVIDIA) announced the testing and validation of a new generation of immersion liquid-cooled server cluster solutions designed for 2U server chassis. The configuration is based around NVIDIAs A100 card, which features more than 54 billion transistors, and is designed for data-intensive applications such as training AI models. NVIDIA has an 80 billion transistor design queued up too, dubbed the H100, which takes cloud computing capabilities another step further. The liquid-cooled cards open the door to heat management at a much more granular and targeted level, with NVIDIAs design reportedly offering a 30% improvement in power consumption.

Firms such as Schneider Electric, together with Avnet and Iceotope, have been offering liquid-cooled rack-mounted enclosures for the past few years. High-performance processors require high-performance cooling to avoid premature aging and reduced performance, which is seeing more liquid-based designs being deployed for data center cooling. Other benefits for customers include quieter operation. Analysts are forecasting that the global data center liquid cooling market could grow to USD 6.4 million by 2027, up from around USD 2.1 billion in 2022.

To further encourage smart thinking on data center cooling, ARPA-E (the energy-focused arm of the US Advanced Research Projects Agency) has launched a new program dubbed COOLERCHIPS to develop transformational, highly efficient, and reliable cooling technologies for data centers. The goal for COOLERCHIPS is to reduce total cooling energy expenditure to less than 5% of a typical data centers IT load at any time. Today, depending on the capacity required, data center cooling and ventilation system can account for 30 55% of a facilitys energy consumption.

The project team reveals a number of motivations behind the project, including the rise of extreme weather events highlighting that funders have noted the risk of disruptions to cloud availability and the US goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by no later than 2050.

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