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Parallels RAS is Now Accessible Through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Taylor Graham — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:00:26 +0000

Parallels has announced that Parallels RAS (Remote Application Server) is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This allows Parallels customers to benefit from the efficient and reliable Azure cloud platform, with simplified deployment and management.

As organizations continue to navigate an evolving landscape, the demand for solutions supporting remote workforces and efficient application delivery has never been higher. Parallels RAS represents one such solution, and now that it can be purchased and deployed through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, additional options emerge for partners to extend this delivery to customers wishing to better deploy and manage their remote desktop and application infrastructure.

“With Parallels RAS now available in the Azure Marketplace, organizations worldwide can experience enhanced accessibility,” said Prashant Ketkar, Chief Product and Technology Officer for Parallels. “Listing Parallels RAS as a managed app alongside the existing BYOL options, simplifies the deployment process, making it easier for organizations to find, adopt, and integrate Parallels RAS directly from the Azure Marketplace. This move optimizes operations and removes barriers to adoption, ensuring a smoother and more efficient implementation.”

Deploying Parallels RAS within Azure Marketplace offers a significant advantage: complete automation. This streamlined process handles the initial setup of a full Parallels RAS infrastructure in the customer’s Azure subscription. It automates the deployment of infrastructure components, such as Connection Brokers, Secure Gateways, and Load Balancers, all customizable to the user’s preferences.

Furthermore, integration with Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) can automatically be configured. This allows organizations to jump start their Azure Virtual Desktop deployment, take advantage of all the benefits Azure Virtual Desktop provides, and get all the enhancements Parallels RAS bring to this platform.

During the automated deployment, a new pay-as-you-go license is configured, meaning there is no need to buy Parallels RAS licenses separately. With an Azure Marketplace deployment of Parallels RAS, organizations automatically pay for usage based on the highest concurrency each month, billed through Azure Marketplace.

Additionally, customers may be eligible to debit their existing Microsoft cloud commitment to purchase offers like this in Azure Marketplace. This alignment with existing cloud consumption commitments provides businesses with an incentive to leverage Parallels RAS on Microsoft Azure, optimizing IT spending while benefiting from its advanced features.

Tailored, private offers by partners

With Parallels RAS now available as a transactable solution within the Azure Marketplace, partners, such as Cloud Solution Providers, can now work together with Parallels to create unique offers for their customers and help promote revenue growth. A Multi-Party Private Offer (MPO) allows partners to create personalized offers, provide added value, add custom payouts, and sell directly to Microsoft customers with simplified selling through the marketplace.

A suggested private offer could be an extended offer with Parallels RAS as the secure application and desktop delivery solution, included with professional services for migration, consultancy and IT training from value-added partners.

Jake Zborowski, General Manager, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp., said, “We welcome Parallels RAS to Azure Marketplace, where global customers can find, try, and buy from among thousands of partner solutions. Thanks to trusted partners like Parallels, Azure Marketplace is part of a cloud marketplace landscape predicted to grow revenue 500% from 2022 to 2025.

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

To learn more about Parallels RAS on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, visit the website here.

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AppAssure Ensures Performance and Resilience for Critical Applications

Taylor Graham — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:30:50 +0000

Catchpoint introduced AppAssure, a streamlined solution aimed at boosting the digital resilience of top-tier applications. This new offering gives IT teams a fast, easy-to-deploy, and affordable way to gain full visibility into the entire Internet Stack affecting application performance, significantly enhancing their ability to ensure uptime and optimize user experience.

Every week we read news about critical applications failing users. IT departments are still plagued by too many incidents and war rooms that disrupt their operations, requiring the top experts in each field to stop everything to try to pinpoint the root cause of incidents. According to a Forrester report, in the month before the study, 37% estimated their companies lost between $100,000-$499,000, and 39% lost $500,000-$999,999 due to internet disruptions.

Large enterprises usually have dozens of Tier-1 applications that are critical for the business, especially as everything becomes digital. According to the Catchpoint Internet Resilience Report, 97% of respondents say a reliable, resilient Internet Stack is of utmost importance to their business success. Every second of slowness or downtime costs the business money, trust, and reputation. Some examples of critical applications ideal for AppAssure include:

E-commerce websites, SaaS applications and their mobile counterparts
Vendor ordering and management systems, EDI, and other supply-chain applications
Electronic Payment, credit card processing, banking and treasury apps
Operational applications: logistics, travel applications, fleet management
Hospital systems: HER, point of care systems, care management protocols, etc.

“The main reason why application teams are failing is because in today’s cloud-centric world where everything is distributed and service-oriented, these teams don’t have visibility into how the dozens of external dependencies across the internet are impacting their application,” said Mehdi Daoudi, co-founder and CEO of Catchpoint. “These teams are myopically focused on collecting ever more logs, traces, and events, while ignoring the internet stack which includes cloud providers, APIs, EDGE devices, ISPs, Site-to-site connectivity, CDNs, DNS, and dozens more. AppAssure is a game changer for these teams.”

AppAssure changes all this by providing a turnkey solution, quickly deployed to eliminate the guesswork of performance and resilience monitoring. It grants you access to all the power of Catchpoint IPM in an all-in-one cost-effective package that simplifies setup and management, ensuring your critical applications are resilient—without burdening your internal teams.

AppAssure incorporates unique AI-powered capabilities designed to ensure the resilience of your mission-critical applications. A few key benefits include:

Real-World User Experience Monitoring: Leverage thousands of last-mile, wireless, backbone, and cloud nodes across more than 100 countries to monitor applications from the user’s perspective.
Live Global Dashboard: Gain visibility into global internet and cloud service uptime and performance, covering ISPs, DNS, CDN, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, SECaaS, Martech components, and more.
Comprehensive Metrics: Access detailed performance and availability data for any API, both internal and external.
Networking and Routing Insights: Monitor the entire path from the user, through the backbone, to your servers and internal network. Includes real-time BGP monitoring from front-end to origin to backend servers.
Visual, Interactive Application Map: View current and historical performance and availability with an interactive, real-time map of your Internet Stack, enabling detailed drilldowns.
Complete Dashboards and Alerts: Utilize a full suite of dashboards, alerts, and reports to keep track of performance, what requires immediate attention, and SLA tracking.
Seamless Integrations: Integrate with APM systems, CI/CD pipelines, alerting systems, Open Telemetry, or export raw data to other operational intelligence platforms.
Expert Support: Benefit from initial setup, configuration, and training by an experienced internet resilience team.

AppAssure is fully customizable based on the complexity of the application and the specific monitoring needs of the business.

The goal is to simplify implementation and day-to-day operations, eliminating the need for installations, agent deployments, or distractions to customer’s technical teams. It’s a full-service solution delivering instant insights and business value:

Resilience: Uncover opportunities to enhance performance and availability.
SLO and SLA Compliance: Track Service Level Objectives and monitor vendor SLAs for increased accountability. Monitor XLOs (Experience-Level Objectives).
Rapid Issue Resolution: Reduce Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), minimizing disruptions and the need for War Rooms.
Team Alignment: Reduce finger-pointing and streamline responses to outages, minimizing business impact. Invest resources in fixing the problem, not in finding the problem.
Fully Managed Service: No installations or training required, ensuring a hassle-free experience. A fully-managed Monitoring-as-a-Service model is also available.

To learn more about AppAssure from Catchpoint and how it enables resilience and performance for Tier-1 applications, visit the website here.

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US Technology Leaders Tap NVIDIA to Create Custom AI Applications

Taylor Graham — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:00:01 +0000

NVIDIA announced it is teaming up with U.S. technology leaders to assist organizations develop custom AI applications and revolutionize industries using the latest NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, along with NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA NIM microservices.

Across industries, organizations like AT&T, Lowe’s and the University of Florida are using the microservices to create their own data-driven AI flywheels to power custom generative AI applications.

U.S. technology consulting leaders Accenture, Deloitte, Quantiphi and SoftServe are adopting NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints and NVIDIA NeMo and NIM microservices to help clients in healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services and retail create custom generative AI agents and copilots.

Data and AI platform leaders Cadence, Cloudera, DataStax, Google Cloud, NetApp, SAP, ServiceNow and Teradata are advancing their data and AI platforms with NVIDIA NIM.

“AI is driving transformation and shaping the future of global industries,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “In collaboration with U.S. companies, universities and government agencies, NVIDIA will help advance AI adoption to boost productivity and drive economic growth.”

NVIDIA NeMo Microservices for Precision-Tailored Generative AI
NVIDIA NeMo microservices support end-to-end model customization workflows and the development of AI agents to help enterprises bring custom generative AI applications to market faster, reducing development costs.

New NeMo microservices — NeMo Customizer, NeMo Evaluator and NeMo Guardrails — can be paired with NIM microservices to help developers easily curate data at scale, customize and evaluate models, and manage responses to align with business objectives. Developers can then seamlessly deploy a custom NIM microservice across any GPU-accelerated cloud, data center or workstation.

New NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprint for Software Security Now Available
To provide a jump-start for developers, NVIDIA offers NIM Agent Blueprints — reference workflows that provide a guide for developing applications built with NVIDIA NeMo and NIM microservices.

NIM Agent Blueprints help accelerate AI deployments for key enterprise use cases, including drug discovery, customer service and data extraction. A new blueprint for software container security is available today.

Developers can experiment with NeMo and NIM microservices, as well as NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, at no charge. Enterprises can deploy applications in production with enterprise-grade security, support and stability through the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.

NVIDIA Microservices Build Custom AI Agents for Industries
Leaders across industries are using NVIDIA AI to improve telecommunications, education and security.

AT&T is working with Quantiphi to build a conversational platform, using NVIDIA NIM, that can support employees with software development, network engineering and financial services tasks.
The University of Florida has adopted NVIDIA NIM and NeMo to advance its learning management system, based on retrieval-augmented generation, that helps teaching assistants improve student success and retention.
Lowe’s, a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company, is exploring the use of NVIDIA NIM and NeMo microservices to improve experiences for associates and customers and enhance productivity of their store associates. For example, the retailer is leveraging NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails to enhance the safety and security of its generative AI solution platform.

Global Consulting Giants Accelerate AI Adoption With NeMo
NVIDIA global service provider and service delivery partners are helping companies across industries use NVIDIA NeMo and NIM microservices and NIM Agent Blueprints to build custom AI applications that tap into business data.

Accenture is helping clients build domain-specific AI agents using NVIDIA NeMo and NIM microservices through its AI Refinery and the Accenture NVIDIA Business Group.
Deloitte is integrating the latest NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprint into its cybersecurity solutions, which will help enterprises accelerate software vulnerability analysis and mitigation at scale.
SoftServe’s generative AI Industrial Assistant, which uses NeMo and NIM microservices, improves safety and efficiency in industrial manufacturing by making equipment manuals more accessible and providing factory workers real-time guidance on troubleshooting and maintenance.

Data and AI Platforms Advance Insight With NeMo and NIM Microservices
NVIDIA AI ecosystem partners Cadence, Cloudera, DataStax, Google Cloud, NetApp, SAP, ServiceNow and Teradata are using NeMo and NIM microservices to build customized generative AI applications with optimized inference.

Cloudera today unveiled an AI Inference Service with embedded NIM that will allow developers to build, customize and deploy enterprise-grade large language models with up to 36x faster inference performance.
Google Cloud is integrating NIM into Google Kubernetes Engine to provide enterprise customers with a simplified path for deploying optimized models directly from the Google Cloud Marketplace.
SAP will use NIM microservices to deploy custom generative AI applications for its clients.
ServiceNow is one of the first to adopt NeMo and NIM microservices, and recently announced its plans to also adopt NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints to power generative AI use cases for several U.S. government agencies. ServiceNow’s technology also enables organizations to create custom generative AI agents that can reinvent work across the entire enterprise.
Teradata is integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise into its Vantage platform to enable more efficient development and deployment of trusted generative AI applications.

Availability
Developers can access NVIDIA AI software, including NIM microservices, through the NVIDIA API catalog, as well as experiment with the microservices for free using an NVIDIA Developer license.

To learn more about NVIDIA and the creation of custom AI applications, visit the website here.

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Code Intelligence Launches AUTOSAR Simulator

Taylor Graham — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Code Intelligence has introduced its Classic AUTOSAR Simulator, allowing automotive companies to test AUTOSAR applications using a software-in-the-loop approach. This method helps identify critical vulnerabilities earlier in the testing phase, eliminating the need for hardware and reducing the time and costs typically involved in hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Code Intelligence’s lightweight Classic AUTOSAR simulator allows automotive companies to perform thorough security testing on complete systems such as electronic stability control (ESC), steering, electric parking brakes, park distance control, exterior lights, infotainment, anti-theft systems, remote keyless entry, and more. As a result, companies can identify security vulnerabilities accessible via external channels, such as Bluetooth or other public-facing interfaces, which could be exploited by attackers.

With the AUTOSAR simulator, automotive software developers can perform whitebox fuzz testing as security testing and standard testing techniques, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, entirely in software. Testing systems in a software-in-the-loop manner is cheaper, quicker, more scalable, and can be more easily integrated into continuous integration workflows than hardware-in-the-loop testing.

“Code Intelligence’s AUTOSAR Simulator allows us to execute and fuzz code in a software-in-the-loop manner. It automates finding bugs as early as possible and ensures that all delivered components from Tier-2 suppliers don’t contain critical vulnerabilities as buffer overflows,” said Dr. Michael von Wenckstern, Product Cybersecurity Governance, Risk and Compliance Specialist, Continental AG.

“In an era where connected vehicles, efficient and effective security testing is more critical than ever. Traditional hardware-in-the-loop testing methods are often time-consuming and lack scalability. To address these challenges, we developed our classic AUTOSAR simulator, enabling system-level testing for AUTOSAR applications entirely in software. This not only overcomes the limitations of traditional testing but also unlocks powerful automated testing approaches, such as whitebox fuzz testing. The value it brings to our automotive customers is significant: faster development cycles, enhanced security assurance, and the ability to ensure the reliability of complete automotive systems well before they hit the road,” said Khaled Yakdan, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Code Intelligence.

On October 22, Code Intelligence will present its Classic AUTOSAR simulator at the webinar “How to test AUTOSAR applications for security issues and bugs without hardware.” Learn more about the Classic AUTOSAR simulator by Code Intelligence and its architecture at the website here.

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WaveMaker Announces React Native Studio

Taylor Graham — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:30:53 +0000

WaveMaker introduces React Native Studio, enabling web developers with JavaScript experience to easily build native mobile apps.

React Native Studio technology accelerates and simplifies the development of mobile applications that have all of the features commonly found in truly native applications. This has led to a resurgence in demand for mobile applications among organizations. WaveMaker helps overcome React Native skill shortages in developer teams by empowering developers with web skills using a low-code approach.

“Businesses today need to innovate faster than ever, and our React Native-based platform helps them do just that,” said Deepak Anupalli, Co-founder and CTO of WaveMaker. “By combining low code with React Native, we enable teams to build cross-platform, secure, enterprise-grade and experience rich mobile apps at a fraction of the time and cost. This solution is designed to help companies stay ahead in a fast-moving, mobile-first world.”

WaveMaker Studio for React Native provides web developers a familiar JavaScript paradigm to create apps for both iOS and Android devices from a single codebase, and translates complex CSS and components into high quality React Native code. The integrated low code driven development environment comes with tools for testing, debugging, installer creation and deployment.

WaveMaker uses a unique reusable prefab component system that serves both web and mobile application architectures. While factory components can be used with minimal customization, it provides a way for developers to bring in their custom components and design system elements. This significantly reduces development time and ensures a consistent user experience across both web and mobile platforms.

With React Native at its core, WaveMaker’s platform empowers developers to build seamless, native-like apps for both iOS and Android from a single codebase, significantly reducing time-to-market. The platform integrates agile methodologies, allowing for iterative development and quick adaptation to market changes, enabling companies to release apps up to thrice as fast.

WaveMaker uses its cloud infrastructure to allow customers to access scalable resources and streamline deployment processes. This reduces operational costs and enhances the overall performance and reliability of web and mobile applications built on the platform.

To learn more about WaveMaker React Native Studio, visit the website here.

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Parallels Desktop 20 for Mac Launched with AI-Ready Virtual Machine

Taylor Graham — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:30:52 +0000

Parallels has unveiled Parallels Desktop 20 for Mac, a major release featuring new AI capabilities, including secure, downloadable AI-ready virtual machines that can be managed offline to simplify AI application development. It is fully compatible with macOS Sequoia and Windows 11 24H2 and introduces a management portal in the new Enterprise Edition, along with several updates for Windows, macOS, and Linux virtual machines.

Parallels Desktop is the only virtualization solution authorized by Microsoft to run Windows in a virtualized environment on Apple silicon. This gives developers and users choice across their favorite user and development environments.

“As PCs become more AI-capable, we believe AI will soon be standard on every desktop. This shift challenges developers to update their applications to fully leverage AI-enabled PCs,” said Prashant Ketkar, CTO at Parallels. “That’s why we created the Parallels AI Package: to equip development teams—whether experts or beginners—with accessible AI models and code suggestions. This enables ISVs to build AI-enabled applications in minutes, significantly boosting productivity for every software development team using a Mac.”

Key highlights of Parallels Desktop 20 include:

New Parallels AI Package*: To make AI development more accessible, this all-in-one solution includes a virtual machine pre-loaded with 14 AI development toolsets, sample code, and instructions, enabling developers to experiment with and deploy AI quickly. With just a click, users can download the Parallels virtual machine ready for AI and run a third-party small language model inside it, while completely disconnected from the Internet. The package offers offline, secure environments and allows users to customize resources and disable network access for enhanced privacy.
macOS Sequoia Compatibility: Users can enjoy Apple’s new AI-powered Writing Tools with Windows apps, sign in to Apple ID in macOS virtual machines on Apple silicon, and more (available when macOS Sequoia is released).
Windows 11 24H2 Support: Optimizations ensure users’ workflows remain uninterrupted while running legacy Windows apps which get up to an 80% performance boost** for some workloads thanks to the improved Prism emulator built into Windows 11 on Arm.
Seamless compatibility with Windows applications through new shared folders technology: Improves performance with a variety of apps and installers, such as Mathematica or NinjaTrader, and delivers up to 4x faster operations*** on Mac files in Linux VMs.

For Businesses:

New Enterprise Edition including Management Portal: The most advanced offering yet, designed for organizations needing greater control, visibility, and efficiency in managing Parallels Desktop virtual machines and security policies. The new Edition unlocks, advanced licensing option that supports both SSO and volume license, premium support and onboarding.
SOC 2 Report: Parallels Desktop has attained a SOC 2 Type 2 report and undergoes regular third-party penetration testing, supporting upholding standards for security and reliability.

For IT Pros and Developers:

Enhanced DevOps Services: Build software in Windows, Linux and macOS VMs on Macs anywhere.
Enhanced Visual Studio Code Extension: Simplifies access to the AI package and integrates Microsoft Copilot, allowing users to control virtual machines using natural language.
Snapshots and OCR-powered Packer: Enhanced features for macOS virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs.

Parallels Desktop for Mac is an essential virtualization tool for professionals, developers, and individuals, whether it is for accessing Windows-applications, developing- or testing software, or to run multiple operating systems (such as Windows, Linux, or other macOS versions) simultaneously on Mac computers. For more information about Parallels Desktop 20 for Mac, visit the website here.

Trial and Availability

Parallels Desktop 20 for Mac Standard, Pro, and Business editions can be purchased or upgraded at the website or from authorized resellers worldwide.

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*The Parallels AI Package is included at no additional cost in the Parallels Desktop for Mac Business and Enterprise editions. It is also available free of charge in the Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition during 2024 only.

** Performance measurements conducted by Parallels by comparing the score produced by the x86 version of the test Floating Point Math from the Passmark 10 CPU Mark suite in Windows 23H2 (10.0.22621.3593) versus Windows 24H2 (10.0.26120.670) on MacBook Pro (M2 Max, (8+4) CPU, 96GiB RAM) with the virtual machine (4 CPU, 32GiB RAM). Measured using Parallels Desktop public version 19.4.1. The performance may vary based on usage, system configuration, and other factors.

*** Performance measurements conducted by Parallels by measuring the time it takes to copy 3000 (three thousand) files in 315 directories from the primary macOS 13.3 (22E252) to the Ubuntu Linux virtual machine (4 CPU, 8GiB RAM, Ubuntu Server 22.04) on MacBook Air (M2, (4+4) CPU, 32GiB RAM). Measured with a prerelease version of Parallels Desktop 20 versus the released version of Parallels Desktop 19. The performance may vary based on usage, system configuration, and other factors.

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World’s-First Quad-Play Solution Amplified on the Userful Infinity Platform

Taylor Graham — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:00:09 +0000

Userful Corporation announces upgrades to its Quad-Play solution on the Userful Infinity Platform, a SaaS-based operations center solution that functions without the need for proprietary hardware.

“We’ve added features that empower Control Room operators to excel”. said John Marshall, CEO, Userful. “Our Quad-Play solution now enables operators to manage all control rooms from a single point, improve content display switching, and enhance data visualization and distribution with its new impressive user interface enhancements”.

Userful’s world’s first Quad-Play solution for modern operations centers was launched in the summer of 2023 offering the four core elements of a modernized operations center: (1) support for centralized video walls and control hubs in 8k resolution; (2) advanced operator workstations (KVM and uControl), (3) secure war rooms (Spaces with conferencing), and (4) operations notifications for employees and management (operations triggers, emergency alerts, audio announcements, and HLS streams for frontline workers).

Userful’s Quad-Play solution is transforming control room operations with unparalleled data visualization, seamless integration, and unmatched scalability. These enhancements optimize Network Operations Centers, Security Operations Centers, Emergency Operations Centers and manufacturing and production environments to ensure they remain at the forefront of technological advancements, driving a new era of efficiency and performance.

Userful continues to lead the control room sector and build on its leadership position with its next-generation Quad-Play solution. New capabilities of the solution include:

Soft KVM Enhancement: Userful introduces a new version of the uClient application, which can run on a broader range of devices. This update significantly improves latency, and content manageability across multiple desktop and web sources – reducing hardware requirements and costs.
Datametrics Integration Into the Control Room: modernized operations are increasingly interconnected with mainstream applications of the corporation. PowerBI, Tableau, ServiceNow, and SAP are just a few integrations supported by the Userful Infinity Platform.
New Dedicated Streams for Frontline Workers: provides real-time operational data visualization to ensure frontline teams receive immediate and actionable insights directly from the control room on their devices. This provides centralized management with distributed operations.
Centralized Management for Global Reach – allows clients to manage all global distributed control rooms from a single point with the Global Cluster Manager (GCM) ensuring consistency and up-to-date information across all locations, making it ideal for enterprise and multinational organizations.

Join Userful at GSX 2024, Sept 23-25 in Orlando, Florida to experience firsthand the transformative power of the enhanced Quad-Play solution. To learn more about Userful’s enhanced Quad-Play solution, visit the website here.

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NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints via Inaugural Partner SoftServe

Taylor Graham — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:00:02 +0000

SoftServe has introduced the initial release of its Gen AI Solutions, enhanced with NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, to assist enterprises in overcoming obstacles related to full-scale production of Generative AI (Gen AI) applications and to make Gen AI more accessible, speeding up adoption. Developed using NVIDIA NIM inference microservices, these solutions include five pre-packaged jump-start applications, designed to help users address real-world challenges more efficiently.

“It’s clear enterprises are seeking faster and more affordable ways to adopt Gen AI beyond pilots to full-scale deployments for enabling new business capabilities and experiences,” said Alex Chubay, SoftServe’s CTO.“Our pre-packaged solutions, accelerated by enterprise-grade NVIDIA technology such as NIM Agent Blueprints, will quickly take our customers from A to Z by cutting down lengthy implementation cycles, technical complexities, and unnecessary costs.”

According to a survey (Below under related news) from Forrester Consulting commissioned by SoftServe, only 22% of business leaders report effectively using Gen AI across all business functions due to a lack of skills, guidance, and data readiness. SoftServe’s Gen AI Solutions provide avenues for easy and scalable implementation of Gen AI workflows across functions, roles, industries, and technology infrastructures, such as cloud and on-premises data centers, to better meet the unique needs of today’s businesses.

SoftServe Gen AI Industrial Assistant

The complexity and technical demands of equipment in the manufacturing and industrial sectors can cause operational inefficiencies, leading to slow manual navigation, troubleshooting delays, lengthy maintenance, and hazardous working conditions.

SoftServe Gen AI Industrial Assistant digests and analyzes vast data, providing workers with quick access to equipment manuals and real-time guidance for solving and simplifying maintenance tasks. With instant KPIs, such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and forecasting, the industrial assistant helps workers monitor equipment health, predict failures, and optimize performance. This leads to a 10% improvement in OEE, 50% less onboarding, 56% fewer equipment defects, and a staggering 83% decrease in average search time for information.

SoftServe Speech Recognition Platform

Most current automated speech recognition (ASR) systems are trained primarily on adult voice data, leading to inaccurate voice detections that can negatively impact language development and the diagnosis of reading and speech disorders, as well as the exactitude of speech-to-text transcriptions.

SoftServe Speech Recognition Platform, powered by NVIDIA Riva multilingual and translation AI microservices, is designed to capture subtle speech nuances of a child’s voice and spoken language, down to the basic sound at its phoneme level. This platform fosters early literacy, new language acquisition, proper pronunciation, fluency, and public speaking skills. The platform can be used in noisy environments like sporting events or call centers to convert speech into exact transcriptions. It’s also useful for professions with complex terminologies, such as healthcare and law, enabling more precise transcriptions of medical records and legal proceedings. SoftServe’s speech recognition platform achieves a word error rate three times lower than standard ASR systems, setting a new benchmark for accuracy.

SoftServe Digital Concierge

Businesses in multiple sectors – fintech, healthcare, retail, or public services – face growing demands for quick and personalized customer interactions. Failing to address this need leads to higher operational costs, lower customer satisfaction, and lost revenue.

SoftServe Digital Concierge is an AI-powered virtual assistant that serves as a 24/7 company representative, offering in-depth knowledge, directional navigation, and instant answers to customer inquiries. This reduces wait times, alleviates customer frustrations, simplifies onboarding, and eases employee workloads. Built using NVIDIA Riva, the digital concierge can be a game-changer for businesses operating in global markets with customer support capabilities in multiple languages, including English, Spanish, German, French, and more. It not only reduces operational costs by up to 40% over three years, but also improves response times by 50% with instant answers and multi-query handling. Further, the concierge expedites updates and adaptations of company data by 80%, ensuring customers receive the latest information in real-time.

SoftServe Multimodal RAG System

Traditional systems process different data types separately, which leads to fragmented and often irrelevant responses, particularly during quality and assurance over documents. This undermines effective data processing and can result in misleading insights.

SoftServe Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) System uses NVIDIA NeMo Retriever NIM inference microservices and accumulates data from multiple sources – text, images, and tables – to provide accurate and comprehensive responses. Across industries such as healthcare, finance, legal, manufacturing, and energy, the Multimodal RAG System enables easier interaction with data through an intuitive chatbot to glean more valuable insights and better understand business performance, customer behavior, operational trends, and more. From financial report processing and technical document analysis to medical records integration, this solution can increase response accuracy by 70%, decrease average response time by 40%, lower operational costs by 30%, and boost interactions and engagements by 65%.

SoftServe Content Creator

Customized content generation for marketing, social, and various communication channels can be time-consuming and inefficient – especially with limited bandwidth and resources – which affects engagement, performance, and ultimately, ROI.

SoftServe Content Creator is a Gen AI-powered platform that generates top-notch creative assets and automates content production using brand-specific data to quickly produce and scale content consistent with brand guidelines. Notably in the marketing and communication sectors, this solution reduces the time needed to generate tailored content and creative materials by 90%, increases conversion rates through A/B testing and hyper-personalization by 15%, and accelerates the processing of large volumes of data and content in multiple formats and types by 80%.

With SoftServe’s Gen AI Lab, clients will be able to discover use cases, test proof-of-concepts, and customize solutions before production. Powered by NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, NIM microservices, and the NeMo framework within the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, this release of SoftServe Gen AI Solutions is the first round of many SoftServe service packs to launch. All pre-packaged solutions will be accessible and deployable by leading infrastructure systems and marketplaces before expanding to various cloud and on-premises service partners.

To learn more about SoftServe Gen AI Solutions and collaboration with NVIDIA, check out SoftServe’s latest blog, AI Made Easy: SoftServe Gen AI Solutions Accelerated by NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints.

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Salt Security API Protection Platform Enhancements Launched

Taylor Graham — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:30:53 +0000

Salt Security announced new enhancements to its API Protection Platform, improving API discovery, posture governance, and threat protection for organizations. These innovations enable proactive API posture management, provide unparalleled visibility into both encrypted and unencrypted API traffic, and help outsmart sophisticated attackers with rapid, AI-driven insights.

According to the Salt Labs State of API Security Report 2024, API security incidents more than doubled within the past 12 months. The research also found that API usage is rapidly accelerating, with two-thirds now managing over 100 APIs every day. Organizations continue to struggle to keep pace with the threats associated with expanding API ecosystems, along with trying to accurately comprehend their complex behavioral attributes.

Earlier this year, Salt became the first API security vendor to launch a posture governance engine, designed to deliver operationalized API governance and threat detection across organizations at scale. These innovative capabilities marked a revolutionary change for API security, enabling organizations to establish, educate and enforce API posture standards throughout the application and API lifecycle. Building on such innovation, Salt has further enhanced its capabilities in the posture governance domain and today introduces several new advanced features that are redefining next-generation application security. This includes the launch of:

Panoramic Discovery with eBPF and Salt Surface: This extends governance visibility by improving the discovery of API traffic, vulnerabilities, and sensitive data, even in encrypted and complex environments.
Salt Posture Governance Policy Hub: This allows organizations to establish and enforce API posture standards across the application lifecycle. It ensures that next-generation apps and GenAI initiatives comply with the best security practices.
Full Lifecycle Posture Governance: Salt Security has updated its platform to help organizations extend API posture governance “left.” The platform now enables organizations to more easily capture security posture noncompliance and establish posture validation gates beyond production into an API’s design and test phases. This is achieved through new ecosystem enrichments, integrations, and enhanced in-platform posture validation functionality. This comprehensive approach ensures that Salt’s Posture Governance Engine empowers risk reduction at all stages of an API’s lifecycle.
LLM-Powered Attacker Insights for Rapid Response: Salt’s custom-built Large Language Model (LLM) to translate complex attack patterns into clear, concise, actionable insights. This enables security teams to quickly understand the attacker’s identity, tactics, and intent, thus speeding up incident response and remediation efforts significantly.
Novel Detection of Malicious Scanners, Bots, and Human Attackers: Salt Security employs innovative detection methods to differentiate traffic abnormalities originating from automated scanners, bots, and human attackers, accurately identifying whether traffic from these sources is malicious. This capability provides a comprehensive understanding of attack motivations, enabling security teams to prioritize and mitigate the most significant threats.

“Growing API ecosystems are making it increasingly challenging for companies to effectively monitor and track all activity within their API ecosystems, and quickly identify malicious intent,” said Roey Eliyahu, CEO of Salt Security. “At Salt, our mission is to provide organizations with the most comprehensive API security. An offering that not only provides rapid threat detection but also provides organizations with the means to proactively improve their posture to plug security gaps before they can be exploited. Our latest platform innovations build on this, providing customers with additional visibility into their API traffic and the AI-powered insights required to quickly mitigate threats.”

To learn more about the Salt Security API Protection Platform or to request a demo, please visit the website here.

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Ansys Multiphysics Simulation Collaboration Solution Boosts Speeds

Taylor Graham — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 20:00:12 +0000

Ansys is partnering with Supermicro and NVIDIA to provide turnkey hardware solutions that significantly accelerate Ansys multiphysics simulation solutions. By harnessing the combined power of top-tier hardware and software, Ansys customers can solve larger, more complex models up to 1,600 times faster. Utilizing Supermicro and NVIDIA technology, Ansys solutions shorten time-to-market and enhance design exploration across various applications, including automotive crash testing, external aerodynamics, aerospace gas turbine engines, 5G/6G antennas, and biopharmaceutical development.

Getting the most out of multiphysics simulation involves integrating different types of physics solvers with a range of hardware choices, each offering unique performance benefits. However, sizing and configuring the right hardware for multiphysics simulation is a complex task that can significantly impact performance, cost, and productivity. Turnkey, customized hardware solutions with central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), interconnects, and cooling modules allow engineers to run predictively accurate simulations more efficiently.

Collaborative testing between Ansys and Supermicro discovered replicating the performance of Ansys Fluent and Ansys Rocky running on one NVIDIA GPU would require 1,500 and 480 CPU cores, respectively. Ansys Perceive EM running on one NVIDIA GPU achieves the same performance as 1,000,000+ CPU cores. In addition, the testing process revealed the following accelerations:

Ansys optiSLang AI+: 1,600x speed-up
Ansys Fluent: 24x speed-up
Ansys Mechanical: 6x speed-up
Ansys HFSS: 11x speed-up
Ansys Perceive EM: 53x speed-up
Ansys Rocky: 17x speed-up
Ansys LS-DYNA: 4x speed-up

The speed-ups were achieved by introducing or replacing CPU cores and GPUs with NVIDIA technology. NVIDIA hardware used in testing included NVIDIA H100 GPUs, NVIDIA L40S GPUs, and the NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip.

“The breadth and depth of the Ansys multiphysics portfolio requires a thoughtful approach to compute infrastructure with GPUs,” said Vik Malyala, president & managing director, EMEA; SVP, Technology & AI, Supermicro. “We are closely working with Ansys and NVIDIA with the broadest GPU and CPU systems offering (Hyper/CloudDC, scalable GPU systems: 4U-10U, and others) to accelerate simulations, eliminate guesswork, and improve customer deployment time worldwide.”

With NVIDIA technology designed with Ansys and Supermicro’s energy-efficient server technology, engineers can reduce overhead costs and energy consumption by using fewer servers to do the same work.

“Supermicro provides exceptional architecture for Ansys solutions, reducing constraints on the number, size, and complexity of simulation models,” said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president of products at Ansys. “We remain committed to working with NVIDIA to migrate our solutions currently supported on Hopper chips to Blackwell. By offering advanced, customized configurations with Blackwell and Hopper superchips, our customers’ projects can truly span the full range of physics, from fluids to electronics and structures.”

“The synergy between Ansys and NVIDIA is propelling us into a new era of technological innovation,” said Dion Harris, director of data center product solutions at NVIDIA. “Ansys simulation solutions play a key role in the development of our cutting-edge AI superchips, while NVIDIA’s accelerated data center AI and digital twin platforms empower Ansys to push the boundaries of simulation performance. Together, we’re unlocking deeper insights and paving the way for groundbreaking advancements that will shape the future of engineering and AI.”

To learn more about Ansys Multiphysics Simulation solutions, visit the website here.

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