IBM Extends Reach In Supercomputing, Big Data With Platform Solutions Purchase
IBM has announced that it’s buying high-performance computing powerhouse Platform Solutions for an undisclosed sum. With a client list that spans the typical HPC verticals (from CERN to Citigroup), Ontario-based Platform Computing’s main area of expertise is parallel computing, and the company is mostly a player in the classic grid/cluster market—more “Top 500 Supercomputer List” stuff than “cloud computing.” However, you need plenty of storage bandwidth and parallel compute horsepower to run analytics the data that cloud generates, and in this respect Platform Computing has a growing footprint in the Big Data space.
