Huge investment accelerates development
Analytics and IT – as well as immense compute power – are being harnessed across the globe to help researchers, health services, governments and other organisations to address the challenges that are now being presented to every nation, organisation and individual.
‘Huge amounts are being spent to develop algorithms and there will be findings that emerge from this that vendors can learn from and use in their technologies’
Last month, IBM was one of a number of companies that helped launch the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which leverages vast computing power to support researchers in the development of treatments and potential cures. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are also backing this effort. Separately, Intel and Lenovo partnered to donate a dedicated supercomputer cluster to genome sequencing specialist, BGI Genomics.
Ian Jeffs, Business Unit Director, Datacentre and Data Analytics at TD SYNNEX, said there may well be a knock-on impact for these technologies once the current situation has abated. ‘With any event such as this, you will get technology that has been developed finding its way into the market at some point. Huge amounts are being spent to develop algorithms and there will be findings that emerge from this that vendors can learn from and use in their technologies.’
Public sector purchasing processes, he noted, have been relaxed significantly over the last few weeks, for government departments, authorities and health trusts to move ahead with key projects immediately. Several purchase orders and roll-outs have also been advanced over the last few weeks.
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