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Mentor Veloce hardware emulation platform now available on Amazon Web Services

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Mentor, a Siemens business, says the company’s Veloce Strato platform is now a customer-validated cloud computing emulation platform directly accessible on-demand on Amazon Web Services.

The Veloce Strato platform offers data center options, such as hardware emulation on-premises, off-premises and on AWS. It’s a computing system often used by chip designers.

This new data center use model extends the availability of hardware emulation across a broad range of deployment scenarios to ensure that all semiconductor companies have access to hardware emulation for system-on-chip and system-of-systems verification.  [Read more…] about Mentor Veloce hardware emulation platform now available on Amazon Web Services

Siemens links MindSphere to AWS, and says new industrial challenges can ‘only be resolved through digitalisation’

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Siemens makes latest version of its industrial internet of things platform MindSphere available on Amazon Web Services

Research conducted by Siemens suggests that many of the new demands faced by industrial companies can only be met with increasing computerisation of traditional industry. 

Siemens says increasing demands by consumers for individual, high-quality products at favourable prices are posing new challenges for industrial enterprises which can only be resolved by digitalisation.

Siemens, which offers a wide range of digitalisation solutions for industry, suggests it now has a portfolio – collectively called Digital Enterprise Suite – that conforms to Industry 4.0 expectations.  [Read more…] about Siemens links MindSphere to AWS, and says new industrial challenges can ‘only be resolved through digitalisation’

GE Digital to switch to Amazon and Microsoft instead of building its own data centres

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General Electric’s digital business unit became one of the world’s largest software companies by offering an internet of things platform for industrial operations. 

GE Digital’s Predix software platform enabled machines in factories to send data through the sensors attached to them to the associated computer interfaces.

GE claims to be the first company to have done this, and it has made huge amounts of money doing so.  [Read more…] about GE Digital to switch to Amazon and Microsoft instead of building its own data centres