This kept computation from being seen as a strategic effort within enterprises, and instead, relegated it to a niche discipline.

McLoone pointed out that tools like Mathematica are critical for authoring computational programs, but historically, consuming those programs was limited to people who also ran Mathematica.

InfoQ reached out to Wolfram to learn more about EPC, and spoke to Jon McLoone, Director of Technical Communication and Strategy for Wolfram Research Europe. The Programming Lab is meant to help people learn the Wolfram Language. Mathematica is a mature, standard computation program for data analysis, advanced mathematics, image computation, and more. Data scientists and developers use the desktop or browser-based Development Platform IDE to build applications based on the Wolfram Language, and deploy them as web applications or web services. The EPC, which runs on CentOS and can operate in a single-node or multi-node configuration, includes three main Wolfram Cloud interfaces: Development Platform, Mathematica Online, and Programming Lab. High-level computation (for example, applied to your private data) can be an instant, ready-to-go, secure internal service for anyone you choose, with a wide range of interface modalities you can use directly for deploying from CEOs to developers, and instant APIs to go through other applications too. That means all the computation of Mathematica 11 and rapid application development of the Wolfram Language can now be server-side and cloud-based in your organization. Instead of us offering the computation cloud service, you can, all within your enterprise.

While these technologies have been offered in the past by Wolfram on the desktop or in their public cloud, strategic director Conrad Wolfram says that the goal is to “enable computation everywhere in your organization.”ĮPC is the enterprise “privatization” with enhanced capabilities-taking this public Wolfram Cloud and packaging it up for hosting on any organization’s infrastructure or a designate like Amazon’s EC2. The Enterprise Private Cloud (EPC) takes Wolfram’s deep foundation of computational algorithms and products and puts them into a self-contained virtual machine that can be deployed in public clouds like AWS or within a private data center.

Wolfram, the software company behind computation-centric products like Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, shipped a new private cloud appliance targeting companies who want to centralize their computational efforts.

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