SGI's high-performance, highly-proprietary, computing systems fell victim to the spread of cheap Linux boxes hooked up together with massive redundancies.
As businesses migrate from a proprietary environment to cloud computing, Google will have to help them move their data to its cloud.
The Customer Data Platform is used to compute a proprietary Customer Quality Score (otherwise known as "CQScore") for each individual shopper, based on the data collected from previous customer behavior.
He also dismissed worries that business users would take the often-cheaper route of using software stored on the Web instead of a proprietary network, so-called cloud computing.
And it takes impressive computing power to generate and overlay the line: Sportvision's system uses a dedicated PC and four Silicon Graphics workstations, while Princeton Video Image's system uses a proprietary multiprocessor video editing computer called L-VIS, (pronounced Elvis) for live-video insertion system.
The FibroTest score is computed by accessing a proprietary website and entering the patient's age, sex, and results for serum haptoglobin, α2-macroglobulin, apolipoprotein A1, γ-glutamyltransferase, and bilirubin analyses [ 90].
"We combine this with a proprietary algorithm that eliminates underwriting bias before computing a more accurate price for foreign drivers living in the U.K.," says Kent-Braham.
At this point, though, it sees cloud computing as everything from a proprietary structure for large enterprises, to an IBM-hosted resource for customers who wish to have IBM run its applications (less hassle, as well as a balance-sheet game that shifts capital expenses to operating expenses), to an entirely public entity accessible to all.
Timedomain PulsON 220 UWB node computed a range estimate using a proprietary time-of-arrival (TOA) estimator, whose implementation is not public.
Nobody has a proprietary edge.
