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IBM Certified Solution Architect - Watson Internet of Things Platform V1 Certification

Exam Credential. IBM Archive and Essence Manager (AREMA) orchestrates any file-based
broadcast production workflow and is used in Autonomous SDRiving (AD) and Automated
Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). AREMA is a media asset management system, and has
more than 140 different, ready-to-deploy agents and new workflows can be swiftly modified or
created. Each agent interacts with the workflow engine and executes one specific functionality
— such as actual functionality in file transfers or adapters to control third-party systems.
“AREMA for Automotive” was introduced about four years ago on a project by project base and
it’s now becoming a standard IBM Software product.

We’re told AREMA is the “clue” software which is needed by the automotive engineers to find
the needle in the haystack data snippets to be used for AI training for Level 4/5 robo cars.
AREMA works with Spectrum Scale, NAS filers and any S3 Object Storage, all at the same
time. OpenShift/K8 is also supported.

You can ask questions like: “Please find all data in the data lake where the temperature was >5
degrees, the road was wet, speed 40–60km/h and yellow buses with flashing lights were
involved”. It will find all relevant files and timings and works with video, radar and LiDAR data.

Catalogic crams more into CloudCasa

Cloud-native data protector Catalogic has added more features to its CloudCasa product. This
provides scalable data protection, with a free service tier, and disaster recovery service for cloud-
native apps, and supports all leading Kubernetes distributions and managed services and cloud
database services.
CloudCasa now supports backup of Kubernetes persistent volumes (PVs) to cloud storage
including Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) persistent volumes and is offered in a new
capacity-based subscription model. The PVs get:

Fair, capacity-based pricing for persistent volume backups — Users pay only for the data being
protected vs what infrastructure is in use.
Free Service Tier — Unlimited PV and Amazon RDS snapshots with up to 30 days’ retention,
with no limits on worker nodes or clusters, and Kubernetes resource data included.
Free Amazon RDS snapshot management — Multi-region copies with no limits on databases or
accounts.
Software and storage included — as a SaaS application, there are no software costs, no storage to
purchase, no infrastructure to provision.
Security and compliance — SafeLock protection provides tamper-proof backups that are locked
from deletion by any user action or API call.
Oracle Exadata X9M, Optane and RoCE
Database and ERP supplier Oracle announced the availability of its Exadata X9M prouducts,
converged systems to run Oracle Database. They include the Exadata Database Machine X9M
and Exadata Cloud@Customer X9M, which runs Oracle Autonomous Database in customer
datacentres. It supports small databases running with fractional CPUs to enable agile, low-cost
consolidation, application development, and testing.

Oracle says they deliver higher performance at the same price as the previous generation. They
accelerate online transaction processing (OLTP) with more than 70 per cent higher IOPS rates
and IO latencies of under 19 microseconds. They also deliver up to an 87 per cent increase in
analytic SQL throughput and machine learning workloads.

This enables customers to reduce the costs of running transactional workloads by up to 42 per
cent, and analytics workloads by up to 47 per cent.

Juan Loaiza, EVP Mission-Critical Database Technologies at Oracle, said: “For X9M we
adopted the latest CPUs, networking, and storage hardware, and optimized our software to
deliver dramatically faster performance. Customers get the fastest OLTP, the fastest analytics
and the best consolidation — all at the same price as the previous generation. No other platform,
do-it-yourself infrastructure, database, or cloud service comes close to Exadata X9M
performance, cost/performance, or simplicity.”