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Entering the third year of the AI+ Generator Program (AGP), after more than half a year of selection in 2020, 8 AI startups with international development potential were selected to join the program in late October.

SYSTEX launches GARAOTUS, a cloud service brand that integrates high-end technologies such as AI, HPC (High Performance Computing) and cloud. In the future, GARAOTUS will combine with SYSTEX’s service energy and ecosystem resources in the industry cultivated for many years. It will initially target and lock markets in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore as well as regions with high development in Asia, to assist medical organizations and government agencies that require large and fast computing resources such as genetic engineering to accelerate research and development. In the future, it also plans expand its business and services to North America and other regions. At present, it has successfully cooperated with Hong Kong research institutions and Taiwan medical organizations to introduce HPC services.

Jay, the head of the GARAOTUS team, said: "GARAOTUS brings the software technology to the utmost, coupled with international super hardware equipment manufacturers to jointly develop overseas markets. In addition to the field of genetics, atmospheric science and natural disaster prevention and warning that closely related to human life, are also fields that require a lot of image and data analysis, is particularly an emerging blue ocean. Facing the 5G era, GARAOTUS will further deepen the combination of HPC technology and chips, and look forward to collaborating with more international partners to demonstrate the possibility of more differences in HPC technology."

SYSTEX expressed that "Supporting Taiwan’s software industry to enter the international markets is SYSTEX’s commitment to Taiwan software startup teams. The GARAOTUS team owns the leading cloud technology as well as extensive execution experience, and has clear market goals; we connect with international partners externally to build the application ecosystem of HPC and have the ability as well as strength to enter the global markets."

As IoT sensors and portable devices have been popularized, recent years have seen an explosive growth of all sorts of data. With the benefits from machine learning, mature deep learning technology, and GPU chipset, a large amount of data collected can be thrown into the cloud for computing and AI modelling. Hence, the significance of high performance computing (HPC) is further underlined to suit the requirements for more real time and lower latency of data computing in the realm of medicine and transportation.

Besides, industries arising from COVID-19 prevention have enabled work-from-home and contactless modes. The Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC) estimated that telework will increase enterprises’ enormous demand for HPC before the pandemic comes to an end. MIC also pointed out that HPC and 5G will become the major two driving essentials for industries in the next few years. Whether it is to respond to AI and big data computing or reverse business mode and enhance competitiveness through digital transformation, a new HPC era has begun.



The GARAOTUS technical team with well-experience for decades in AI, HPC, Cloud Computing and Microservices infrastructure technologies., have earned certified by international bodies in cloud technology and software products, they are a technical team that stays ahead of the curve in Taiwan.
 



Acting preemptively, SYSTEX launched a new brand, GARAOTUS, aiming to worldwide market with the leading HPC technology.

With ever-changing industry, the giant of information service in Taiwan, SYSTEX, has accumulated strong technical capacity for years. At the moment when most enterprises take a defensive approach, SYSTEX has adopted an offensive strategy, rolling out a new brand, GARAOTUS. It provides leading HPC technology in combination with AI on the cloud that bolsters the level of HPC computing ability for domestic and worldwide enterprises and academic institutions.

In fact, the new brand GARAOTUS was just established, but it represents a milestone of SYSTEX’s global presence in cloud services. Terry Tai, Senior Technical Director of SYSTEX, stated, “The core of GARAOTUS brand is Moving Your Cloud Forward. This is also our value proposition!” This slogan highlights GARAOTUS insists about to keep the cloud computing technology go progressing with the times. Especially in the critical post-pandemic times, they are able to leverage the leading cloud technology to help strengthen customers’ competitiveness, showing their ambition.


The head of the GARAOTUS team, Jay Hsueh, has led the team to plan and build three TOP 500 Supercomputers. The team is equipped with international high-class cloud technology capability.
 



In addition to determination, GARAOTUS has planned ahead and worked their market strategies out, targeting the Asia-Pacific market. Terry Tai explained that as an information service solution provider, they are deeply aware of the importance of satisfying service. What is more crucial is to commit to professional and delicate service provided by professional talents. GARAOTUS team members have laid a solid foundation in the HPC industry for over a decade. Coupled with offices in Hong Kong and China, the cross-national team has a profound understanding of local market demand and channels and connections.

In other words, GARAOTUS is based in Taiwan, thinks globally, and expands their business by stages. Setting out from Taiwan, GARAOTUS continues to inject resources and spread to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Furthermore, they have developed relations with local partners and kept on training talents so as to open up new HPC business opportunities in the market.


Terry Tai, Senior Technical Director of SYSTEX, analyzed that GARAOTUS cloud platform Provide comprehensive service & solutions of HPC, AI-HPC and Cloud Orchestration.
 



Intended for enterprises and organizations, GARAOTUS Cloud Platform boasts three advantages of high-speed computing.

What features does GARAOTUS Cloud Platform have that catch our eye? Terry Tai commented that the cloud platform GARAOTUS launched achieves full integration of HPC, AI-HPC (HPC incorporated into container management) and Cloud Orchestration. The front end seems like a portal site, but the back end under the hood virtually chains all kinds of APIs of OpenStack software, providing engineers and architects with various feature modules to swiftly cater cloud computing applications to users’ needs. On the other hand, in order to reduce the deployment thresholds for enterprises, Terry Tai added that GARAOTUS Cloud Platform can support virtual technology by implementing “Hypervisor Management” and “Container Management” modules. This addresses the difference among the data center environment of each enterprise. Accordingly, GARAOTUS is a right fit regardless of a physical server or virtual machine and container mode. It can even manage a cluster of VMs, enabling customers to provision a virtual environment using VM scripts under HPC structure in a short span of time.

Apart from the diversified technology applications, the most paramount value of GARAOTUS Cloud Platform lies in the capability to boost enterprises’ IT management performance. The remote support service provided by GARAOTUS Support Service (GSS) allows subscribed business users to select which IT resources are handed over to the Cloud Support center that GARAOTUS built at SYSTEX Taipei headquarter for active monitoring management. Once any abnormality occurs to machines, specialists will assist with troubleshooting by remote support.
 

SYSTEX has been well recognized by the industry when it comes to the level of advancement and understanding of HPC application technology. Terry Tai specified that they worked on a project related to a gene database. They took advantage of data of floating-point operation and quickly finished predictive modelling. Another example is helping universities and research institutes of Hong Kong introduce GARAOTUS Cloud Platform and realize the maximization of resource utilization in a HPC environment. In this way, the enterprise’s CAPEX saving nearly 40% successfully while building HPC and cloud computing environments completed.

Collaborate with strategic partners to move forward a global stage. Cultivate Taiwanese software talents to facilitate paradigm shift.

However, furnished with such diverse applications, GARAOTUS Cloud Platform is built on the ground of exceptional human resources. In fact, SYSTEX efforts to cultivate software talents. “We systematically recruited students who were willing to delve into software infrastructure to attend Systex Cloud School (SCS). They can obtain relevant certification in cloud service field; we are training cloud software professionals of an international standard for Taiwan. Besides, GARAOTUS can lead these excellent software talents to bring their strengths into play on the global stage when we have the opportunity to get connected to the international market,” explained Terry Tai.

Moreover, after these talents obtain certification, GARAOTUS will arrange meetings for the students to exchange ideas with the international open source software community. This is an opportunity for them to network with international talents and technology, guiding them to have a closer look at how the industry works step by step. Terry Tai said, “The incubation of the industry talent base takes a lot of time and is costly as well, but in order to exploit the development potential of the software industry, we are more than willing to make long-term investment!”
 

GARAOTUS, a new brand of cloud service from SYSTEX, looks to grow the international market, develop new generation talents to pass on the knowledge, and expand on future vision. Terry Tai stressed that GARAOTUS will actively work closely with industry partners and create comprehensive solutions to tailor vertical applications to their needs, forming a HPC application ecosystem. It is expected that the “gang fight” model collaboration can help industries upgrade and even contribute to paradigm shift. Terry Tai confidently says, “We will maintain our determination to keep as a leading in cloud service field, and jump to the international stage with our solid technologies”


Terry Tai, Senior Technical Director of SYSTEX, expressed, “The core of GARAOTUS brand is Moving Your Cloud Forward, which is our value and belief! We will also continue to deepen our determination to take the global lead in cloud technology and let the software skills of Taiwan be seen in the world!”​​​​​​​




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SYSTEX announces that it has acquired a 30% stake of Baoruh, a leading manufacturer of comprehensive solutions for intelligent transportation equipment in Taiwan. Through Baoruh, SYSTEX will deeply cultivate Baoruh’s rich in-vehicle equipment software development and hardware design achievements accumulated in the integrated field of smart transportation payment for 40 years, meanwhile combining with SYSTEX resources in big data analysis, cloud platform and information security technology. That will be able to provide enterprises with a more complete smart car-connected equipment and real-time data management platform to master the huge in-vehicle equipment and derivative business opportunities in the 5G era!

SYSTEX and Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation jointly launch the TGo "Point 365" redemption platform for High-Speed Rail members. That integrates over 60 brands and more than 365 products, covering accommodation, restaurants, parking lots, car rental shops, souvenirs, drinks, convenience stores, and high-quality stores in High-Speed Rail stations, to provide consumers with online redemption of High-Speed Rail member TGo points. In the future, it expects to expand further the scope of cooperation, exchanging and circulating with other reward point platforms, so to create a "cross-region and cross-industry reward point ecosystem". That enhances the use of reward points, increases the value-add for people to ride High-Speed Rail, strengthens consumer loyalty, adhesion as well as satisfaction, and realizes the role of High-Speed Rail as a platform for a better life.

It wasn’t too long ago when high-performance computing (HPC) was largely considered to be a tool just for scientists and engineers to solve compute-intensive problems. With the advent of big data and cloud computing, however, HPC has begun making inroads into the enterprise world. When combined, HPC and cloud offer several unmatched benefits to customers. While HPC, with its ability to manage huge volumes of data, helps solve complex data problems efficiently and quickly, cloud can scale on- demand and enable users to pay per use. In other words, with HPC in the cloud, organizations will only have to pay for the capacity they use, and there is no risk of on-premises infrastructure becoming obsolete or being poorly utilized.

Despite these advantages, HPC has yet to widespread use because of the significant investment and indirect operational expenditure associated with running and maintaining HPC infrastructure. In addition, integrating the HPC cluster with legacy infrastructure and managing it while ensuring better system performance and user experience through seamless data transfer is challenging. On-premise HPC clusters—traditionally designed in a monolithic way— are capable of meeting the typical workflows but struggle to handle unexpected peak demands. At the same time, procuring and installing a new HPC cluster can take at least six months, which means the IT department will have a system that might already be outdated by the time it is installed.

The need to analyze the growing data, support complex simulations, and overcome    performance bottlenecks demands reliable software. To that end, Taiwan-based SYSTEX, a value-added IT services company, has developed a new HPC management solution that eliminates wait times and long job queues, helping businesses run tasks in the shortest possible time and achieve optimum results faster. SYSTEX’s technology combines HPC with cloud computing to deliver the fastest speed, lowest latency, smart accelerations, and the highest efficiency and resiliency for clients. Jay Hsueh, Head of AI and Cloud Center, SYSTEX, says, “What makes our solution unique is its converged architecture, which enables the optimization of computing resources for various roles. SYSTEX HPC Solution provides the computing services through its GAIA service portal.”

Breaking New Ground

Established in 1997, SYSTEX was initially renowned for its leading position in the Taiwan financial industry with a 90 percent market share in the financial information system, trading, operation, and management services. The firm slowly began integrating IT services to its ecosystem by merging with and investing in other IT companies. Today, SYSTEX is ranked as one of the leading information technology service providers in Taiwan. Over the last 23 years, the firm has assisted over 30,000 enterprise and government clients in accelerating their digital transformation with the help of its abundant solutions, including HPC solution. “We empower our clients to adopt innovative technologies, such as AI, HPC, and cloud to enhance their business operations and growth,” informs Terry Tai, Assistant Vice President, AI and Cloud Center, SYSTEX. The firm is currently recognized as one of the professional HPC service providers in Asia with sufficient resources to serve the customers in the APAC region.

Leading By Design

Through its HPC solution, SYSTEX brings to the table the GAIA service portal, which acts as a central management console built to reduce the workload of an IT administrator. The platform is not only designed to benefit administrators but also other teams. The converged architecture allows users to maximize capital investment as well as system performance without isolating computational resources from the data center. The portal enables individuals to create and administer a variety of HPC-related tasks, such as setting up users and groups or managing resources to interpret the performance of the system. It hides the complexity of HPC, allowing people who are not HPC experts to access all of the management and operation features to provide a consistent experience. Moreover, the converged HPC and cloud infrastructure optimizes CAPEX investment in computation resources consolidation for different roles and tasks. With the SYSTEX HPC Solution, there is no queuing up to run a task or waiting for the installation of additional hardware and software. Based on a workload’s parameters, the system chooses the best available resources to run the individual task in the least amount of time and at the lowest possible cost.

Talking about SYSTEX’s venture into the HPC space, Hsueh says, “One of the biggest drivers is data and AI.” Today’s enterprises are already struggling with a tsunami of data, and this is only bound to increase in the coming days. In fact, Gartner forecasts that the enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) market will grow to 5.8 billion endpoints in 2020—a 21 percent increase from 2019. To that end, HPC will provide the architecture and technology that businesses need to meet the massive data analysis tasks. “Our HPC solution will not only deliver the speed and efficiency required but also the cloud computing architecture necessary to accelerate research   processes and offer a simple computing environment that is easy to learn and replicate,” adds Tai.

SYSTEX recently presented its converged architecture model at a well-known university listed the top 100 worldwide higher education by Times. The university is currently conducting biotechnology research related to COVID-19, and they have built multiple data centers that can receive, process, manage, store, and transmit research data. But the client wanted a common storage pool to collect data from the different data centers and a computation resource for their HPC computing service. SYSTEX is designing an innovative solution for the university - a central storage system that not only allows researchers and students to capture, store, and shares data but also use AI computation to quickly and effectively research and study an antiviral antidote for diseases like the novel coronavirus. 

Delivering True Value

SYSTEX adopts a clearly-defined strategy when it comes to engaging with clients.  The firm maintains a solid connection with all of its partners and leverages the expertise of both parties to ace amid market competition. SYSTEX continues to lead the integration of the data economy, playing the role of an ‘orchestrator’ using the power of software and data to assist clients in enhancing their marketing performance and accelerating their digital transformation. And a large part of this success can be accredited to SYSTEX’s employees. “We encourage a culture of courage; we inspire our employees to take responsibility, risks, and face setbacks,” mentions Hsueh. “As long as we are willing to share and cooperate, connect people, and integrate resources, we can create value.”

Paving the Way Forward

That said, SYSTEX’s expertise and services do not stop there. The firm also offers data processing, value- added networking, system integration, and professional consulting services. SYSTEX recently launched a new brand, Garaotus, to broaden the focus of its AI, HPC, and cloud applications. By providing a converged HPC and cloud computing platform, Garaotus enables clients to benefit from edge computing and AI-enabled IoT (AIoT). The converged HPC and cloud architecture will deliver the benefits of flexibility, high performance, and easy management to customers. It will help optimize and save CapEx for users while offering high ROI. “We aim to become a world-leading AI cloud integration solution provider that delivers extraordinary  experiences for our clients, and Garaotus is our first step toward achieving it,” adds Tai. Over the last few months, the Garaotus brand has acquired approximately 20 HPC projects across different fields, including higher education, biotech research, and government agencies.

Alongside, SYSTEX aims to redefine information services. “With our positioning of ‘ecosystem integration,’ we will cultivate and make connections with businesses that are well-versed in exponential technology to help customers speed up digital transformation and create a second wave of growth and become an ‘exponential company,’” informs Hsueh. SYSTEX will continue to strengthen its software and data capabilities and set up data integration platforms to help businesses understand consumer behavior patterns through online and offline data integration in a cloud-based environment. This will allow companies to provide precise marketing and services and bolster their marketing strength. In parallel, the company is also looking forward to growing its Garaotus brand. “We created Garaotus to help our customers shape their business from the digital transformation wave, and we will continue to support them in achieving this goal with great results,” wraps up Hsueh.

SOURCE: APAC CIO outlook

 


 

Advancements in genomics are opening new doors for understanding human diseases. However, genomics sequencing generates hundreds of petabytes of data per year, it needs big data technology to accelerate deployment.

Now, SYSTEX is collaborating with Advantech, offers architecture design, delivery, and training services through the Intel Select Solutions for Genomics Analytics, accelerating the deployment progress for genomics analytics.

To fulfill the requirement of genomics analytics, SYSTEX’s HPC management platform, GAIA, provides the superior performance for the jobs like Genome Sequencing through HPC with AI framework workflow. Also, medical image recognition learning tasks can be accomplished through cloud computing design.

Source：Advantech

Gemini Data Inc., a startup company invested by SYSTEX, launched the innovative product of “Gemini Explore”. “Gemini Explore” is the world’s first product able to interact with users finding and analyzing data in real time. It can also generate the “Knowledge Graph” according to demands that assists in exploring the various correlations between the confirmed cases and the contacts, and is expected to provide more help in investigating the source and scope of infection. “Gemini Explore” has been supplied for usage by public health agencies in many countries, including Taiwan.

SYSTEX assisted PX Mart to integrate the first-generation of physical membership card and launched the online payment of “PX Pay”. By binding a credit card or stored-value card, the payment, membership, and reward-points systems are connected all together that not only accelerates the checkout speed, but also provides multiple payment methods and Increases consumer willingness for usage.

SYSTEX believes that artificial intelligence will affect all industries, especially in fields that SYSTEX is already adept in across the Straits and the world, such as telecommunications, finance, manufacturing, government, education, tourism, logistics and biomedicine. As a result, they have formulated an artificial intelligence strategy development plan (AI + Plan), in order to focus on industry applications. SYSTEX has also established the AGP (AI + Generator Program). Richard Tang, SYSTEX Asia-Pacific Telecom Division General Manager, emphasized that AGP is different from general enterprise accelerator programs. It is a non-profit, public welfare program, differentiated from the usual accelerator or incubation center. AGP doesn’t get involved in buying startup shares or in fundraising, growth, or presentation training courses required by startups. Instead, AGP focuses on new ventures that have developed products and services created using artificial intelligence technology, and startups whose business models have been assessed as having scaling opportunities, and then gives these startups market-matching and the resources to set their sights internationally.

Succeeding the first fintech service on social networking of AI on Line “Mega Financial Secretary” in Taiwan, SYSTEX, who had been devoted to the financial information services for years, cooperated again with Mega Securities and introduced “Robelf”, the first reception and fintech robot in securities industry of Taiwan.

Responding to the manpower shortage in retail and service industries and the changes of channel operation patterns, SYSTEX dedicating to intellectual retailing, introduced two new intellectual kiosks combining technology with data management platform: Fresh-Food-Box Kiosk and Intelligent & Interactive Vending Machine with Big Screen. The Second Tech-Approach Concept Store of Family Mart took the lead to adopt both of them!

Intelligent & Interactive Vending Machine with Big Screen developed by SYSTEX could store goods no matter in normal temperature or in refrigerated. The hyper-large 50” screen along with intellectual sensor, therefore it can broadcast a proper marketing commercials to consumers, serving as the best promotional billboard at the store. Besides, consumers could order product by softly touching on screen and pay with multi-payment systems with another Fresh-Food-Box Kiosk, completely doing it by themselves. It’ was also connected with the POS system at the counters of channels, which automatically integrated the daily revenue of Fresh-Food-Box Kiosk into the POS system to reduce the labor of checking store revenue on a daily basis.