Boeing Delivers F-22 Training Center with Advanced Visual System

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Boeing Delivers F-22 Training Center with Advanced Visual System

PreEmptive Solutions and Microsoft Partner to Provide Exception Analytics in Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012

Press release:

PreEmptive Solutions and Microsoft Partner to Provide Exception Analytics in Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012

Sept. 13, 2012

DevOps solution in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 combines injection of instrumentation with configurable rules engine to automatically create work items, accelerating mean time to repair and operational response.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio, and REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 13, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. and PreEmptive Solutions announced today that PreEmptive Analytics and Dotfuscator CE will be included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. Dotfuscator CE, which has been included with every version of Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2003, prevents the reverse engineering of Microsoft .NET applications and includes basic application monitoring capabilities. The Visual Studio 2012 version, renamed PreEmptive Analytics and Dotfuscator Community Edition™, has been expanded to include exception monitoring and response.

For the first time, a repository and rules engine that aggregates and analyzes incoming exception alerts will be included with Team Foundation Server 2012. When rules are triggered, work items are created or updated, providing near real-time visibility into production. 

“We’ve worked closely with our longstanding partner, PreEmptive Solutions, to create high-quality tools that help teams successfully manage the development lifecycle of modern applications,” said Mitra Azizirad, General Manager of Developer Tools Marketing and Sales at Microsoft. “Through its integration with Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012, PreEmptive Analytics quickly connects development and operations teams, improving the operations team’s response time to production incidents and creating a more collaborative development environment.”

“PreEmptive Analytics provides an end-to-end solution connecting development and operations to provide clarity around development priorities, improve application quality and increase operational response,” said Gabriel Torok, CEO of PreEmptive Solutions.

Dotfuscator Software Services Community Edition is scheduled to ship with all versions of Visual Studio 2012 (other than Visual Studio Express) at no additional charge.

About PreEmptive Solutions

PreEmptive Solutions’ software and managed services monitor, measure and protect applications across cloud, on-premise, Internet and mobile platforms. Leveraging PreEmptive’s application analytics and protection solutions, development organizations materially improve application quality, user satisfaction and development ROI across today’s distributed and increasingly heterogeneous computing architectures. For more information, visit www.preemptive.com or call +1 440.443.7200.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Legend 3D Selects EMC, Enabling Scale to 10X to Build Transformers, Smurfs, Hugo and Spiderman

EMC Press Release

Legend 3D Selects EMC, Enabling Scale to 10X to Build Transformers, Smurfs, Hugo and Spiderman

Performance, Scalability of EMC Isilon Scale-Out Storage Supports Big Data Growth for Leader in 3D Conversion and Visual Effects

SIGGRAPH 2012, LOS ANGELES, Calif. - August 7, 2012

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that Legend3D, the largest provider of 2D-to-3D media content conversions, has standardized on EMC® Isilon® scale-out storage for all of its visual entertainment assets. Leveraging Isilon's ability to store vast amounts of high-resolution digital media, Legend3D has streamlined its management of Big Data through greatly improved production management, increased artist productivity and the creation of new production pipelines for major motion pictures such as Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Smurfs, Hugo, and The Amazing Spiderman.

Customer Benefits:

• Improved Scalability—After deployment in July 2010, Isilon was instrumental in Legend3D's growth from 50 to over 400 artists in less than a year. Due to its flawless performance and scalability for Big Data, it helped the company to accelerate its move into the 2D-to-3D media conversion business.
• Increased Performance—Today, up to 500 Legend3D digital artists can work concurrently with large image files stored on Isilon.
• Enhanced Agility—Legend3D changed its digital media work flow and increased artist productivity by over 50% due in part to better performance and scalability with Isilon, giving the studio increased capacity and eliminating delays.
• Simplified Management—Isilon's reliability and minimal management requirements allowed Legend3D to reduce storage administration from three full-time equivalents (FTEs) to one-quarter FTE.

Customer Challenges and Solution:

With major 2D-3D film conversion projects generating as much as 100 terabytes of data weekly, Legend3D's previous storage environment proved inadequate. IT staff were charged with clearing out unused data, which always carries the risk of inadvertently deleting important files. Furthermore, as a result of Legend3D's own aggressive R&D program, huge production efficiencies were created that required ever-greater throughput. As a result, storage and access to data rapidly became a rate limiting step and downloads to the artist's desktop computers over the network were sometimes too slow, impeding the artist's accelerated productivity. Legend3D needed to control the pace at which it scaled to ensure that its storage platform adapted to its existing and future high volume workflows.

Legend3D chose EMC Isilon scale-out storage so it could better handle the exploding data centric 3D conversion market. After considering other NAS solutions, Legend3D's selection of Isilon was based on the platform's ability to scale beyond 500 artists and manage a 100-node render farm. The company deployed Isilon X-Series systems for its production digital assets and Isilon NL-Series systems for nearline storage of less frequently accessed data.

Today the Isilon infrastructure supports Legend 3D's regular production space of 600 terabytes of digital images and video, VMware virtual machines, intranet servers and their robust production asset management system. To boost performance in data synchronization between different environments, the company also relies on Isilon IQ Accelerator nodes. With Isilon, Legend3D has improved storage scalability and performance, enabling dramatic business growth and innovation.

Customer Quote:

Anthony Lopez, Director of IT, Legend3D

"By selectively compressing files and moving them to the Isilon archive, we can save up to 80% of our production space for certain projects and still regenerate all the necessary data our artists need. In the future, we're looking at moving our digital assets into the cloud and using SmartPools to optimize our capacity and further improve our efficiency."

"Isilon's excellent performance and scalability helped our studio grow smoothly from 50 artists to over 400 in less than a year. Today we can support upwards of 500 artists who can concurrently accessing the system without any issues or slowdowns. Isilon has given us peace of mind."

"Our previous storage had limited performance and capacity, hindering our growth and impeding our ability to handle our ever increasing volume of production work. Isilon immediately provided us with infinite scalability along with rapid access times and the ability to better manage our digital assets."

"The ease of managing Isilon allows us to focus more on innovation instead of constantly thinking about storage. We trained our tech staff to set up Isilon in a couple of hours and we reduced our overall storage admin requirements from three FTEs to one-quarter FTE today."

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about EMC Isilon
• Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and ECN

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

News Release from Cisco - SURFnet

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PRESS RELEASE

SURFnet Demonstration of 100G DWDM Solution Between Amsterdam and Geneva Showcases Ability of Existing Fiber Infrastructure to Support High Speed Networking

Ultra Long Haul Solution Offers up to 3000 Km Distance without Regeneration

UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS - MARCH 9, 2012 – Cisco today announced that SURFnet has completed a technology test of Cisco's 100G DWDM solution between the National Supercomputing Center, SARA, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, using the Cisco® ONS 15454 M6 Multiservice Transport Platform. The Cisco system uses dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) to unite multiple optical carrier signals on a single optical fiber, leading to several benefits including increased fiber capacity.

SURFnet enables collaboration between researchers, teachers, and students in the Netherlands using information and computing technology and together with partners offers high speed communication services between leading innovation centers and universities in Europe and throughout the world.

The test involved introducing 100G single carrier optical interfaces into SURFnet's existing optical infrastructure made up of a combination of 10G, 40G and 100G wavelengths. Once connected, the Cisco 100G DWDM solution was quickly operational without any disruption to the existing network. This demonstration shows that SURFnet can utilize its existing infrastructure and help protect its network investment while supporting new 100G data services over the existing fiber infrastructure. Utilizing this type of 100G technology allows research and education networks such as SURFnet to use its existing 50GHz spectrum band more efficiently and provide cost-effective all-optical connectivity across international borders.

This demonstration is another example of SURFnet's commitment to technology that supports the rapid growth of new applications and services in the international NREN community. This evaluation also showcases Cisco's ability to offer 100 Gigabit technologies that meet the needs of the Next Generation Internet for core, edge, data center, and transport. 

Highlights/Key Facts

• Error-free transmission of a 100G alien wavelength using Cisco single carrier coherent optical technology was demonstrated between Amsterdam and Geneva across SURFnet's existing 1650km optical DWDM system.
• The Cisco 100G coherent DWDM solution allowed for re-utilization of the existing fiber infrastructure without any disruption while enabling new 100G data services.
• The Cisco ONS 15454 M6 platform can support 42 x 100G wavelengths in a single bay, nearly three times the density of competing solutions.
• The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2010-2015, projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4^th a Zettabyte, by 2015. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times all the traffic traversing IP NGNs in 2008.

Quotes

• Roeland Nuijts, optical network architect, SURFnet

"This 100G alien wavelength demonstration is another important step in the future of international networking across geographical, technical and administrative borders. Being able to use high-bandwidth wavelengths over open transmission systems from different equipment vendors supports new approaches to networking. The use of all-optical alien wavelength 100G technology is what will enable cost-effective international research networking."

• Bill Gartner, vice president and general manager, Converged Optical and Routing Business Unit, Cisco

"Service providers around the globe see the need to get prepared for the next internet, including an increased demand for video, collaboration, and distributed computing and SURFnet is no exception. SURFnet's successful evaluation shows that Cisco is ready to deliver the network foundation for the Next Generation Internet."

Supporting Resources

• SURFnet
• Cisco
• Cisco Service Provider Solutions
• Cisco CRS Carrier Routing System
• Cisco Optical Solutions
• Cisco Visual Networking Index home page: http://www.cisco.com/go/vni
• Read the complete Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2010-2015

News Release from Cisco

PRESS RELEASE

Cisco First to Deliver 100G at 3,000 km Distances Without Need for Regeneration

Successful Demonstration of Cisco's Ultra Long-Haul Coherent 100G DWDM Technology Validated by EANTC

Related Information

The 100G Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) can support 42 100G wavelengths in a single bay, nearly three times the density of competing solutions

SAN JOSE, February 22, 2012 – Cisco announced the successful demonstration and validation of its coherent 100 Gigabit (100G) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) solution exceeding 3,000 km in reach, without the need for complex Raman optical amplification technology or signal regeneration signals.  This distance is 50 percent further than any non-Raman alternative solution on the market today.

By eliminating the need for Raman amplification, regeneration and dispersion compensation, carriers can add 100G services on top of existing infrastructures originally designed for 10G technology, providing better investment protection and simplifying network upgrades. The Cisco solution has been tested at a number of service providers and research networks, including US Signal. The performance was also validated by EANTC, the European Advanced Network Test Center.

The Cisco optical solution also demonstrates the ability to reach transmission rates up to 400 Gbps and ultimately up to one Tbps. Networks engineered to meet 100Gbps requirements will be able to be upgraded in service without affecting existing traffic.

Highlights/Key Facts

The Cisco coherent DWDM solution is capable of reaching distances up to 3,000 km without the need for expensive Raman optical amplifiers or regeneration. The performance was independently validated by EANTC.

The technology demonstration provides a roadmap up to 400 Gbps and up to one Tbps rates using the same advanced signal processing technology acquired in 2010 from Cisco’s acquisition of CoreOptics. Networks engineered to meet 100Gbps requirements will be able to be upgraded to higher data rates without affecting existing traffic.

The 100G Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) can support 42 100G wavelengths in a single bay, nearly three times the density of competing solutions.

The Cisco ONS 15454 MSTP is a key component in the industry’s most comprehensive 100 gigabit solution, including the Cisco CRS-3 for the network core, the Cisco ASR 9000 Series for the network edge, and the Nexus 7000 for the data center.

The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2010-2015 projects that global Internet traffic will increase more than fourfold to 767 exabytes, or more than 3/4th a Zettabyte, by 2015. This amount is 100 exabytes higher than the projected level in 2013, or an increase the equivalent of 10 times all the traffic traversing IP NGNs in 2008.

Light Reading, the leading online publication for the global telecom industry, recently completed the world’s first publicly available test of an end-to-end cloud services infrastructure for performance, security and management. The test, conducted by EANTC, covered all aspects of Cisco’s CloudVerse solution, from the data center through the access and core network, including the ability to offer high security and priority for different customers’ traffic and the ability to handle and scale both business and consumer applications.
Bill Gartner, VP/GM Optical Transport Business Unit, Cisco

“Service providers around the globe see the need to prepare for the next-generation Internet and facilitate an increasing demand for video, collaboration, and distributed computing.  These successful demonstrations are a testament to Cisco’s commitment to leading the industry in optical technology, both at 100G and beyond.”

Supporting Resources

EANTC Long-haul Optical Transport Test Results
Cisco Service Provider Solutions
Cisco CRS Carrier Routing System
Cisco ASR 9000 Series
Cisco Optical Solutions
Read the complete Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast, 2010-2015
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