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Table of Contents
1. Financial, M & A Updates..................................................................................................................................1
2. Solution Updates................................................................................................................................................13
3. Rewards and Recognition Updates..................................................................................................................39
4. Customer Success Updates...............................................................................................................................57
5. Partnership Ecosystem Updates......................................................................................................................75
6. Miscellaneous Updates.....................................................................................................................................96
7. Event Updates...................................................................................................................................................97

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Autodesk, Inc. Announces Fiscal 2020 Third Quarter Results
• Total ARR was $3.22 billion, an increase of 28 percent as reported, and on a constant currency basis.
Acquisitions from the fourth quarter of last year contributed $113 million or 4 percentage points of the growth.
On a sequential basis, total ARR increased 5 percent as reported, and 6 percent on a constant currency basis.
• Subscription plan ARR was $2.86 billion, an increase of 49 percent as reported, and 50 percent on a constant
currency basis. Acquisitions from the fourth quarter of last year contributed $113 million or 6 percentage points
of the growth. On a sequential basis, subscription plan ARR increased 8 percent as reported, and on a constant
currency basis. Subscription plan ARR includes $597 million related to the maintenance-to-subscription (M2S)
program.
• Maintenance plan ARR was $365 million, a decrease of 39 percent as reported, and 40 percent on a constant
currency basis. On a sequential basis, maintenance plan ARR decreased 12 percent as reported, and on a
constant currency basis.
• Core ARR increased 23 percent to $2.99 billion. On a sequential basis, core ARR increased 5 percent.
• Cloud ARR increased 164 percent to $232 million. Acquisitions from the fourth quarter of last year
contributed $113 million or 128 percentage points of the growth. On a sequential basis, total cloud ARR
increased 12 percent.
• Total billings increased 55 percent to $1.01 billion.
• Total revenue was $843 million, an increase of 28 percent as reported, and on a constant currency basis.
Acquisitions from the fourth quarter of last year contributed $29 million or 4 percent of the growth.
• Net revenue retention rate was within the range of 110 to 120 percent.
• Total recurring revenue in the third quarter was 96 percent of total revenue, consistent with the third quarter
last year.
• GAAP operating income was $111 million compared to $15 million in the third quarter last year. GAAP
operating margin was 13 percent, up 11 percentage points.
• Total non-GAAP operating income was $225 million compared to $92 million in the third quarter last year.
Non-GAAP operating margin was 27 percent, up 13 percentage points.
• GAAP diluted net income per share was $0.30, compared to GAAP diluted net loss per share of $(0.11) in the
third quarter last year.
• Non-GAAP diluted net income per share was $0.78, compared to non-GAAP diluted net income per share of
$0.29 in the third quarter last year.
Executive Commentary
"Our strong performance continued in Q3 as revenue, billings, ARR, earnings and free cash flow came in
above expectations," said Autodesk president and CEO. "We continue to demonstrate the cash generating
power of our business model, and this quarter drove a record last twelve months free cash flow of nearly
$1 billion. The breadth and depth of our product portfolio in Construction paved the way for another strong
quarter. In Manufacturing, we continue to displace competitors and grow faster than the overall market."
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Strong Storage, VMware and PC Performance Power Dell
Technologies’ Third Quarter Results
• Third quarter revenue was $22.8 billion, up 2 percent, and non-GAAP
revenue was $22.9 billion, up 1 percent over the same period last year.
• Operating income was $836 million1 compared to an operating loss of
$356 million last year, and non-GAAP operating income was up 18
percent to $2.4 billion.
• Net income was $552 million or 2.4 percent of revenue, non-GAAP
net income was $1.4 billion or 6.3 percent of non-GAAP revenue, and
adjusted EBITDA was $2.9 billion or 12.5 percent of non-GAAP
revenue.
• Cash flow from operations was $1.8 billion.
• Diluted earnings per share was $0.66 and non-GAAP diluted earnings
per share was $1.75.
• Dell Technologies ended the quarter with a cash and investments
balance of $9.4 billion.
• The company repaid approximately $1.1 billion of gross debt in the
quarter and approximately $3.5 billion year-to-date.
• The company has paid down more than $18 billion in gross debt over
the three years since closing the EMC transaction and remains on track
to repay approximately $5 billion of gross debt in fiscal 2020.
“Dell Technologies is innovating and integrating solutions across
our entire portfolio to create the technology infrastructure of the
future for our customers,” said Vice chairman, Dell Technologies.
“Our highly differentiated set of offerings enables us to continue to
win in a consolidating industry, while also driving long-term value
for all stakeholders.”
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F5 to Acquire Shape Security, Transforming Application Security
F5 Networks, Inc. and Shape Security announced a definitive agreement under which F5
will acquire all issued and outstanding shares of the privately held Shape for a total
enterprise value of approximately $1 billion in cash, subject to certain adjustments. Shape
protects the largest banks, airlines, retailers, and government agencies with sophisticated
bot, fraud, and abuse defense. In particular, Shape defends against credential stuffing
attacks, where cybercriminals use stolen passwords from third-party data breaches to take
over other online accounts. Shape has built an advanced platform, utilizing artificial
intelligence and machine learning, supported by powerful cloud-based analytics to protect
against attacks that bypass other security and fraud controls. This acquisition brings
together F5’s expertise in protecting applications across multi-cloud environments with
Shape’s fraud and abuse prevention capabilities to transform application security. Together
F5 and Shape offer organizations comprehensive, end-to-end application security,
potentially saving billions of dollars lost to fraud, reputational damage, and costly
disruptions to critical online services. Shape’s application protection platform evaluates the
data flow from the user into the application and leverages highly sophisticated cloud-based
analytics to discern good traffic from bad. With F5’s location in the data flow of traffic in
over 80% of Fortune 500 application infrastructures, F5 provides the ideal insertion point
for Shape’s security services. Together F5 and Shape will dramatically reduce the time and
resources needed for organizations to deploy world-class online fraud and abuse protection.
“We know from the companies we work with that applications are critical to running
their business. To drive maximum business value and the best experiences for their
customers, these apps need to perform flawlessly while protecting data security and
user privacy. When a website or application experience is degraded by web fraud and
abuse, the result is lost revenue, lost brand equity, and customers jumping ship to the
competition,” said F5 President and CEO.
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HPE Reports Fiscal 2019 Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Results
Q4 2019 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Revenue: $7.2 billion, stable for the last three quarters
• Gross margins: GAAP of 33.2%, up 250 basis points from the prior-year period and
Non-GAAP of 33.3%, up 260 basis points from the prior-year period
• Diluted net earnings per share from continuing operations:
• GAAP of $0.36, compared to ($0.53) from the prior-year period and above the previously
provided outlook of $0.24 to $0.28 per share
• Non-GAAP of $0.49, up 14% from the prior-year period EPS and above the previously
provided outlook of $0.43 to $0.47 per share
FISCAL 2019 FULL-YEAR FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Revenue: $29.1 billion
• Gross margins: GAAP and Non-GAAP of 32.6%, up 270 basis points from the prior-year
period
• Diluted net earnings per share from continuing operations:
• GAAP of $0.77, down 41% from the prior-year period due primarily to a one-time
arbitration award payment of $668 million to DXC, but in-line with the 2018 Securities
Analyst Meeting outlook of $0.73 to $0.83 per share
• Non-GAAP $1.77, up 20% from the prior-year period and above the 2018 Securities
Analyst Meeting outlook of $1.51 to $1.61 per share
• Cash flow from operations: $4.0 billion, up 35% from the prior-year period
• Free cash flow: $1.7 billion, up 58% from the prior-year period
• Capital return to shareholders: $2.9 billion in the form of share repurchases and dividends
“We had a very successful fiscal year, marked by strong and consistent performance,”
said President and CEO of HPE. “Through our disciplined execution, we improved
profitability across the company and significantly exceeded our original non-GAAP
earnings and cash flow outlook, while sharpening our focus, transforming our culture
and delivering differentiated innovation to our customers as they accelerate their digital
transformations. I am confident in our ability to drive sustainable, profitable growth as
we continue to shift our portfolio to higher-value, software-defined solutions and
execute our pivot to offering everything as a service by 2022. Our strategy to deliver an
edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service is unmatched in the industry.”
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HP Inc. Reports Fiscal 2019 Full Year and Fourth Quarter Results
Fiscal Year 2019
• Fiscal 2019 GAAP diluted net earnings per share (“EPS”) of $2.07, below the
previously provided outlook of $2.31 to $2.35 per share
• Fiscal 2019 non-GAAP diluted net EPS of $2.24, above the previously provided
outlook of $2.18 to $2.22 per share
• Fiscal 2019 net revenue of $58.8 billion, up 0.5% from the prior-year period
• Fiscal 2019 net cash provided by operating activities of $4.7 billion, free cash flow of
$4.0 billion
• Fiscal 2019 returned $3.4 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and
dividends
Fourth Quarter 2019:
• Fourth quarter GAAP diluted net EPS of $0.26, below the previously provided
• Fourth quarter non-GAAP diluted net EPS of $0.60, above the previously provided
• Fourth quarter net revenue of $15.4 billion, up 0.3% from the prior-year period
• Fourth quarter net cash provided by operating activities of $0.6 billion, free cash flow
of $0.4 billion
• Fourth quarter returned $0.7 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases
and dividends
“2019 marks our third consecutive year of revenue, non-GAAP operating profit and
non-GAAP earnings growth, with non-GAAP EPS up 11% and strong free cash
flow of $4 billion,” said President and CEO, HP Inc. “We delivered an excellent
Q4, with 11% non-GAAP EPS growth. Our strategy is working and we are
confident in our business heading into FY20.”
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Intel Acquires Artificial Intelligence Chipmaker Habana Labs
Intel Corporation announced that it has acquired Habana Labs, an
Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators
for the data center for approximately $2 billion. The combination
strengthens Intel’s artificial intelligence (AI) portfolio and
accelerates its efforts in the nascent, fast-growing AI silicon
market, which Intel expects to be greater than $25 billion by 2024.
Intel’s AI strategy is grounded in the belief that harnessing the
power of AI to improve business outcomes requires a broad mix of
technology – hardware and software – and full ecosystem support.
Today, Intel AI solutions are helping customers turn data into
business value and driving meaningful revenue for the company. In
2019, Intel expects to generate over $3.5 billion in AI-driven
revenue, up more than 20 percent year-over-year. Together, Intel
and Habana can accelerate the delivery of best-in-class AI products
for the data center, addressing customers’ evolving needs.
“This acquisition advances our AI strategy, which is to provide
customers with solutions to fit every performance need – from
the intelligent edge to the data center,” said, Executive vice
president and general manager of the Data Platforms Group at
Intel. “More specifically, Habana turbo-charges our AI offerings
for the data center with a high-performance training processor
family and a standards-based programming environment to
address evolving AI workloads.”
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Keysight Technologies Reports Fourth Quarter 2019 Results
Fourth Quarter Financial Summary
• GAAP revenue grew 7 percent to reach $1.120 billion, when compared with $1.047
billion last year.
• Non-GAAP revenue grew 7 percent to reach $1.122 billion. Non-GAAP core revenue,
which also excludes the impact of foreign currency changes and revenue associated
with businesses acquired or divested within the last twelve months, increased 7 percent.
• GAAP net income was $195 million, or $1.02 per share, compared with GAAP net
loss of $114 million, or $(0.61) per share, in the fourth quarter of 2018.
• Non-GAAP net income was $254 million, or $1.33 per share, compared with $193
million, or $1.01 per share in the fourth quarter of 2018.
• As of October 31, 2019, cash and cash equivalents totaled $1.598 billion.
Fiscal year 2019 Financial Summary
• GAAP revenue grew 11 percent over last year and totaled $4.303 billion. Non-GAAP
revenue grew 10 percent to reach $4.312 billion. Non-GAAP core revenue grew 11
percent year-over-year.
• GAAP net income was $621 million, or $3.25 per share, compared with $165 million,
or $0.86 per share in fiscal 2018. Non-GAAP net income was $902 million, or $4.72
per share, compared with $618 million, or $3.24 per share in fiscal 2018.
• Keysight acquired approximately 2.1 million shares in the open market at an average
share price of $76.32, for a total consideration of $160 million during fiscal year 2019.
Keysight has $410 million remaining under the current $500 million share repurchase
authorization implemented in May 2019.
"Keysight delivered a very strong finish to the year with both revenue and earnings
exceeding the high-end of our guidance for the quarter. Record-setting quarterly
and annual revenue was driven by growth across our portfolio of differentiated
solutions, and broad-based momentum across multiple end markets. We continued
to execute on our strategy and growth initiatives, while exceeding our
commitments to customers and shareholders," said Keysight president and CEO.
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Logmein Enters Into Definitive Agreement To Be Acquired By Affiliates Of Francisco
Partners And Evergreen Coast Capital For $86.05 Per Share In Cash
LogMeIn, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based connectivity,
announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement (or the
“Agreement”) to be acquired in a transaction led by affiliates of
Francisco Partners, a leading technology-focused global private
equity firm, and including Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation
(“Evergreen”), the private equity affiliate of Elliott Management
Corporation (“Elliott”), for $86.05 per share in cash. The all-cash
transaction values LogMeIn at an aggregate equity valuation of
approximately $4.3 billion. Under the terms of the Agreement,
LogMeIn shareholders will receive $86.05 in cash for each share of
LogMeIn’s common stock they hold. This consideration represents a
premium of approximately 25% to LogMeIn’s unaffected closing
stock price on September 18, 2019, the last trading day before a
media report was published speculating about a potential sale
process. The Board of Directors of LogMeIn approved the
Agreement and recommended that shareholders vote in favor of the
transaction.
“This transaction acknowledges the significant value of LogMeIn
and provides our stockholders with a meaningful and certain cash
offer at a compelling premium,” said President and Chief
Executive Officer of LogMeIn. “Together, Francisco Partners and
Evergreen are committed to addressing the unique needs of both
our core and growth assets. We believe our partnership with
Francisco Partners and Evergreen will help put us in a position to
deliver the operational benefits needed to achieve sustained
growth over the long term.”
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NXP and Marvell Announce Final Regulatory Approval and Expected Close Date for
NXP’s Acquisition of Marvell’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Connectivity Assets
NXP Semiconductors N.V. and Marvell announced that all
necessary regulatory approvals have been received for
NXP’s acquisition of the wireless connectivity portfolio
from Marvell. In May 2019, NXP agreed to acquire
Marvell’s wireless connectivity portfolio in an all-cash, asset
transaction. The acquisition will enable NXP to deliver
complete, scalable processing and connectivity solutions to
its customers across its end markets, including tailored
security and a full suite of wireless connectivity spanning
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, Zigbee, Thread
and Near Field Communications (NFC). The acquisition
includes nearly 600 people worldwide and is expected to be
accretive to NXP’s non-GAAP operating profit in the first
full quarter after the transaction closes.
“We are pleased that the closing of this deal is upon us,
and ahead of schedule,” said NXP Chief Executive
Officer. “Marvell’s world-class engineering team and
industry-leading connectivity product set, especially the
disruptive Wi-Fi 6 portfolio, will immediately
complement NXP’s processing, security and connectivity
offerings in the Industrial & IoT, as well as in the
Automotive and Communication Infrastructure markets.
We are very excited to soon be able to offer NXP’s
customers one of the broadest portfolios of edge solutions
in the industry, truly enabling us to deliver on our vision
to provide Secure Connections for the Smarter World.”
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Rackspace Completes Acquisition of Onica
Rackspace® announced the completion of its acquisition of Onica,
an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Premier
Consulting Partner and AWS Managed Service Provider. The
addition of Onica to the Rackspace team builds upon and expands the
company’s professional and managed services portfolio, including
expertise in Application Modernization, Machine Learning (ML),
Internet of Things (IoT), Containers, and Serverless Computing.
With Onica’s cloud-native capabilities, Rackspace will lead some of
the world’s most complex technology projects, leveraging the cloud
to help customers build new revenue streams, increase efficiency, and
deliver incredible experiences. The addition of Onica strengthens
Rackspace’s ability to more fully meet all of its customers’AWS
needs. Onica brings new cloud-native AWS capabilities,
competencies and customers to the Rackspace portfolio. This
combination allows Rackspace to further move up the stack and
enhances its expertise across the full spectrum of cloud services.
With Onica, Rackspace now has the most complete set of
professional services and managed services in the industry.
“The acquisition of Onica will be truly transformative for our
customers,” said CEO, Rackspace. “The talented Onica team has
built an exceptional business that provides unmatched capabilities
on AWS. We look forward to building on their success and
leveraging our expanded portfolio to more completely serve
customers’ needs. We’re excited to officially welcome Onica to
the Rackspace family.”
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Slack Announces Record Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2020 Results
• Total revenue was $168.7 million, an increase of 60% year-over-year.
• Calculated Billings was $186.1 million, an increase of 47% year-over-year.
• GAAP gross profit was $145.6 million, or 86.3% gross margin, compared
to $92.1 million, or 87.2% gross margin, in the third quarter of fiscal year
2019. Non-GAAP gross profit was $148.9 million, or 88.3% gross margin,
compared to $92.5 million, or 87.5% gross margin, in the third quarter of
fiscal year 2019.
• GAAP operating loss was $95.0 million, or 56% of total revenue, compared
to a $50.8 million loss in the third quarter of fiscal year 2019, or 48% of total
revenue. Non-GAAP operating loss was $18.1 million, or 11% of total
revenue, compared to a $39.6 million loss in the third quarter of fiscal year
2019, or 37% of total revenue.
• GAAP net loss per basic and diluted share was $0.16. Non-GAAP net loss
per share was $0.02.
• Net cash used in operations was $9.1 million, or 5% of total revenue,
compared to cash used in operations of $28.4 million, or 27% of total
revenue, for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019. Free Cash Flow was $(19.1)
million, or 11% of total revenue, compared to $(43.5) million, or 41% of total
revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year 2019.
“Revenue growth was 60% year-over-year, driven by strong growth
upmarket,” said Chief Financial Officer at Slack. “We ended the quarter
with 821 Paid Customers greater than $100,000 in annual recurring
revenue, which is up 67% year-over-year. We also exceeded 50 Paid
Customers with greater than $1 million in annual recurring revenue for
the first time, an indication that large enterprises are increasingly
standardizing on Slack as their primary collaboration platform.”
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Zoom Video Communications Reports Third Quarter Results for
Fiscal Year 2020
• Revenue: Total revenue for the quarter was $166.6 million, up 85% year-over-year.
• Income/Loss from Operations and Operating Margin: GAAP loss from operations for the quarter was
$1.7 million, compared to GAAP loss from operations of $1.1 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2019.
After adjusting for stock-based compensation expense and related payroll taxes, non-GAAP income from
operations for the third quarter was $21.3 million, up from $1.6 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2019.
For the third quarter, GAAP operating margin was (1.0)% and non-GAAP operating margin was 12.8%.
• Net Income and Net Income Per Share: GAAP net income attributable to common stockholders for the
quarter was $2.2 million, or $0.01 per share, compared to GAAP net loss attributable to common
stockholders of $0.6 million, or $(0.01) per share in the third quarter of fiscal 2019.
• Cash: Total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of October 31, 2019 was $811.4 million.
• Cash Flow: Net cash provided by operating activities was $61.9 million for the quarter, compared to
$18.2 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2019. Free cash flow was $54.7 million, compared to $10.1
million in the third quarter of fiscal 2019.
Financial Outlook: Zoom is providing the following guidance for its fourth quarter fiscal 2020 and its full
year fiscal 2020.
• Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2020: Total revenue is expected to be between $175.0 million and $176.0 million
and non-GAAP income from operations is expected to be between $17.0 million and $18.0 million. Q4
non-GAAP EPS is expected to be approximately $0.07 with approximately 296 million non-GAAP
weighted average shares outstanding.
• Full Year Fiscal 2020: Total revenue is expected to be between $609.0 million and $610.0 million and
non-GAAP income from operations is expected to be between $67.0 million and $68.0 million. Full year
non-GAAP EPS is expected to be approximately $0.27 with approximately 293 million non-GAAP
weighted average shares outstanding.
“Our third quarter was another strong performance for Zoom. Our execution helped drive revenue
growth of 85% with increased non-GAAP profitability year-over-year and free cash flow of $54.7
million. This execution also drove 67% growth in the number of customers with more than 10
employees and 97% growth of in the number of customers contributing more than $100K of TTM
revenue,” said Founder and chief executive officer of Zoom. In Q3, we hosted our premier customer
event, Zoomtopia, with more than 2,600 registered guests, up 80% year-over-year. During the event,
our customers shared their stories of how frictionless Zoom experiences are driving productivity and
delivering happiness with both internal and external stakeholders. Also, at Zoomtopia, we were proud
to announce expansions to our platform including our new Zoom Rooms Appliance Program,
expanded Zoom Phone service and capabilities, and the growth of our App Marketplace. Our
customers tell us that Zoom ‘just works,’ and with these new innovations we empower teams to do
even more with video communications.”
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CenturyLink Leads Wi-Fi 6 Transition for Broadband Subscribers
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Solution Description
The number of connected devices per person is expected to exceed 13 by 2022, according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index. To meet that growth,
CenturyLink, Inc, in collaboration with Intel, has developed an enhanced gateway to bring in-home gigabit connections to subscribers with managed network
capabilities and embedded security. The CenturyLink next-generation gateway uses Intel's Wi-Fi 6 Gig+ technology to deliver gigabit speeds and provides
significant improvements in latency for gaming and video-intensive applications over Wi-Fi 5. The technology also enables best-in-class performance on new
PCs powered by Intel® Wi-Fi 6 Gig+ and increases data capacity to enable ultra-responsive video streaming with fiber gigabit network connections that are
nearly three times faster. The CenturyLink Wi-Fi 6 gateway will lead the way by enabling the connected home with the latest technology so as new wireless
devices enter the market, customers are ready with a high-performing network that helps transmit information more quickly and efficiently, delivers faster
speeds and provides more responsive connections in device-packed homes.
Key Facts
The CenturyLink Wi-Fi 6 gateway package will include:
• Embedded cyber security for all connected devices
• Managed network services
• Parental controls
Wi-Fi 6 delivers:
• Up to 75% lower latency
• Nearly 3 times faster connectivity
• Up to 4 times greater data capacity when compared to Wi-Fi 5
• Extended battery life of in-home devices

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Citrix Makes Work Personal
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Citrix Systems, Inc. announced general availability of new features within Citrix® Workspace™ including an intelligent feed and personalized
workflows designed to simplify work by eliminating digital noise and automating meaningless tasks so that employees can focus on their core
jobs and be their best. Using Citrix Workspace, companies can optimize the work day for every employee by organizing, guiding and automating
work in an intelligent and personal way that enables them to focus on doing what they do best - and do it best. Infused with innovative
technologies such as machine learning and micro applications, Citrix Workspace enables organizations to create a single, unified and experience
that is intelligent and secure across apps and data. Leveraging out of the box integrations to the world’s most commonly used applications,
including SAP (Ariba, Concur and SuccessFactors); Microsoft (Dynamics, Power BI and Teams); Google G-Suite (Drive, Calendar and
Directory); Salesforce; Workday; Atlassian (Jira); Zendesk and ServiceNow; more than 100 pre-configured microapps and the new intelligent
features, companies can:
• Automate repetitive, valueless tasks.
• Extract the most pertinent tasks and insights from systems of record and deliver them in intelligent feeds to individual users on any device or
channel.
• Create single-purpose steps to simplify the execution of mundane tasks such as filing expenses, requesting time off and submitting purchase
orders, among other things.
• Build personal workflows around individual employees with context and smarts so they can spend less time on menial tasks and focus on
meaningful work.

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Citrix Workspace live for Google Cloud
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Citrix Systems, Inc. announced general availability of Citrix® Workspace™ on Google Cloud. Using the solution, companies
can deliver unified access to the G Suite apps employees need and prefer to use and fuel a simple, intelligent experience that
improves engagement and productivity. Citrix Workspace is a unified, secure and intelligent work platform that transforms the
employee experience by organizing, guiding, and automating all activities people need to perform at their best. And leading
companies using Google Cloud are fast embracing it to do just this. Using Google Cloud’s Anthos for hybrid and multi-cloud
deployments, companies can build microservices applications and run them anywhere. With the validation of Citrix ADC™ for
Anthos, customers can integrate Citrix ADCs, including MPX, VPX and CPX, into Anthos with confidence and maintain
operational and policy consistency between on-prem and cloud environments to ease application migration. They can also use
Citrix ADM Service Graphs to visualize microservice maps, gain insights about microservice health and detect anomalies and
potential problems. And using Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Machine Creation Service (MCS), IT can quickly and
efficiently provision Windows-based Citrix workloads at scale and create a modern digital work environment in which
employees can access all of the tools they need to collaborate and perform at their best.

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Fujitsu Develops New "Actlyzer" AI Technology for Video-Based Behavioral
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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. have innovated an AI technology for video-based behavioral
analysis. Dubbed "Actlyzer", the tech can recognize a variety of subtle and complex human activities without relying on large amounts of
training data. Deep learning technologies conventionally demand large amounts of video data for training systems to recognize individual
behaviors, and video data must be collected from scratch in order to add each new behavior. This time-consuming process means that it can
often take several months to introduce functional AI into the field. Taking advantage of the fact that human behaviors generally consist of a
combination of basic movements and actions, (e.g. walking, nodding, extending the hand) Fujitsu has created a technology that makes it possible
to recognize more complex human behaviors, including when an individual appears to be acting suspiciously or seems inclined to make a
purchase, by training the AI to recognize about 100 basic actions in advance. Potential use cases for this new technology include automatic
detection of individuals engaged in suspicious-seeming activity, product interest surveys based on recognition of purchase behavior by
customers, and training applications through comparing the skills of experienced and novice workers at factories, to name a few. Actlyzer
demonstrates Fujitsu's continued commitment to delivering exciting new AI technologies with an emphasis on their human centric potential,
offering rapid deployment to business frontlines to contribute to enhanced security, streamlined operations, as well as better workplaces for
employees. Moving forward, Fujitsu will initially offer Actlyzer to customers in Japan during fiscal 2019, and subsequently aims to
commercialize the technology for international markets as a service as part of its "Fujitsu Human Centric AI Zinrai" portfolio.

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Fujitsu Launches SAP Solution to Support Mass Customization in Engineer-to-Order
Production
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Fujitsu Limited announced the launch of the "Fujitsu Application for ETO(1) on SAP Cloud Platform," which will improve the efficiency of
operations, including estimating specifications, arranging materials after receiving orders, and issuing production orders, for manufacturers
receiving orders for individual specification products. This solution reduces production lead time while enabling the prompt information sharing
of specification changes among sales, design, and manufacturing departments. With minimal master operation that enables production and parts
information to be estimated and arranged even when it is not registered as master data, a navigator that aggregates essential business
information, and a configurator that can determine the consistency of specification combinations during the sales process, the new solution
alleviates the burden and shortens the cycle of estimating and arranging work. Fujitsu will continue to provide solutions for the manufacturing
industry to support the digital business of manufacturing customers worldwide.
Features of the solution
Inheriting Fujitsu's experience in offering GLOVIA solutions for manufacturers and carrying out many SAP solution implementation projects,
the new solution offers the functionality to improve on-site system usability utilizing the standard function of SAP S/4 HANA ®, on the SAP ®
Cloud Platform. Furthermore, this "SAP ® Cloud Platform" development method minimizes the impact of upgrading "SAP S/4 HANA ®".
1. Enabling shorter manufacturing lead time with minimal master operation
2. Minimize operations with navigator consolidating key business information on one screen
3. Configurator that enables consistent specification combinations during the sales process

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Fujitsu Launches New PRIMERGY Model with High-Speed Virtual Switch for 5G
Communications in Japan
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Fujitsu Limited announced the Japan launch of a new model in its FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY series of PC servers(1),
the PRIMERGY RX2530 M4p, which features a high-speed virtual switch optimized for 5G(2) communications. The new
model comes equipped with the Intel® Xeon® Gold 6138P processor with integrated FPGA(3) as standard, and includes a
virtual switch for performing packet processing in a virtual network. By including an FPGA with logic circuits designed by
Fujitsu in the virtual switch, the new model delivers packet processing speeds that are roughly 4.5 times faster than a
conventional virtual switch using only a CPU, to offer low-latency, high-speed data transmissions. Going forward, Fujitsu
will leverage this and other technologies to support an ecosystem of new services in the 5G era and contribute to the DX
(digital transformation) of its customers. The ongoing challenge of digital transformation presents enterprises with a number
of logistical obstacles, including the growing needs to consolidate IT equipment and flexibly allocate resources by virtually
building storage and network functions into servers. As 5G technologies become widespread in the near future, it is
predicted that networks, in particular, will become increasingly complex to accommodate the surge in traffic and the high
speeds of new services. Despite growing demand, however, limits exist to the processing performance of network controls
in the virtual environment.

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Fuze Advances Cloud-Based PBX for Enhanced Enterprise Communications
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Fuze, the leading cloud-based communications provider for the modern global enterprise, unveiled updates and enhancements to its global voice offering
for desktop, mobile, and contact center users. These investments will deliver clearer and more reliable and streamlined internal and external voice
communications for enterprise users, driving more productive engagements. Voice communications is at the heart of every real-time interaction, from
one-to-one voice to 1,000-participant meetings. Fuze’s enhancements to its global voice offering strengthen the features and functionality that enterprises
expect from legacy PBX systems with the scalability and ease-of-use of a cloud communications platform. The Fuze Platform now includes advancements
to the mobile user experience, as the rise in remote and mobile-first workers requires full access to communications capabilities while on-the-go. For these
users, Fuze added critical functionalities that historically workers could only access deskside, including improved mobile call escalation from video to
screen share and new agent queues where contact center agents can participate in calls from a mobile device. Fuze also enables users to choose the best
method for connecting calls, from WiFi and cellular data only, to cellular minutes when data connectivity is poor. The global voice updates handle
transitions automatically and will also recommend action when connectivity is low.
Additional features and benefits include:
• Quiet Mode: In an always-on workforce, quiet mode enables users to personalize their schedules and clearly communicate their work preferences. Data
shows that good technology isn’t enough, the best work is done by employees who feel like their workstyle preferences and ideas are heard and supported.
• Fuze Check Up: This ‘check-up’ helps users determine if their audio sources and internet connection are optimized to support voice and video, ensuring
that users are working with optimal audio, wherever they are.
• Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) Support: With the added convenience to send/receive MMS text messages on their desktop, users have the ability
to choose their platform of choice.

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Garland Technology Boosts Security Operations With Update To Cisco Security Solution
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Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker, and cloud visibility solutions,
announced the completion of a technology solution with Cisco, a global leader in telecommunications, security, network
infrastructure, and IT applications. As part of the Cisco Solution Partner Program since 2005, Garland Technology provides
visibility and access for Cisco security and performance monitoring solutions. Garland Technology’s Inline Edge Security
solutions provide bypass connectivity to allow complete lifecycle management for Cisco Firewalls or Firepower NGIPS,
while replicating traffic for use with all out-of-band tools for further analysis. Garland also supports Cisco’s BiDirectional
Optical Technology with its unique BiDi design, which enables the flexibility to TAP and load balance data up to 100G over
users’ existing cable infrastructure. The solution provides increased resiliency of the network while providing the
functionality to expedite troubleshooting and shorten maintenance windows. Garland is committed to educating all
organizations and individuals on the benefits of having a strong foundation of network visibility and access. Seeing every
bit, byte and packet is critical. Garland’s unique educational-based approach provides your team with the best monitoring
and security solutions to meet your needs.

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Ghostery Launches New Tool Enabling Full Desktop Privacy Protection Through
App-Level Tracker Blocking and VPN
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Ghostery, the digital intelligence company known for its free browser extension that makes your web browsing experience cleaner, faster and safer, today has
launched Ghostery Midnight, expanding its privacy capabilities beyond the browser for full desktop protection. Midnight’s device-level blocking tools allow
users to protect personal data across their entire computer and applications, including email clients, creative software, task apps, entertainment and music
platforms and more. Additionally, Midnight will feature Ghostery’s first ever Virtual Private Network tool, ensuring the highest level of browsing privacy
through a protected internet network. Together with its application tracker-blocking capabilities, Midnight will provide users the most secure digital experience,
protecting them from data collection on both browsers and applications. Midnight will be offered at its Premium tier, which unlocks advanced features at a
monthly rate of $14.
Key features include:
• Ad Blocking & Tracker Protection: Prevent trackers from collecting your data and block intrusive and annoying ads across all desktop applications, from email
clients like Microsoft Outlook, to entertainment apps like Spotify and Hulu
• Virtual Private Network (VPN): Connect to the internet and shield your activity via a secure and encrypted connection. By anonymizing your IP address,
location and browsing information is obscured as you browse on a private network
• Tracker Monitoring: View which companies are trying to track you, and how trackers are interacting together to share and spread data
• Cross-Browser Compatibility: Protection for every single browser, regardless of limitations and extension support, managed entirely through Midnight
• Customized Protection: Make informed decisions around your data by viewing app tracker totals, and picking and choosing which apps to safeguard for
flexible protection and control

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Inspur Releases the First OAM System MX1 supporting Multiple AI Chips at the SC19
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Inspur launched the MX1 AI System which supports a variety of OAM (OCP Accelerator Module)-compliant AI chips on a single AI server, and is also the first OAM AI
system that supports different types of AI chips from multiple manufacturers. Currently, with the increasing demand of data center users for AI computing performance,
hundreds of companies around the world have invested in the R&D and production of new AI chips, and the trend of AI chip diversification has become increasingly
prevalent. However, due to the different ASIC solutions adopted by various manufacturers in AI development, AI accelerators are incompatible with each other in terms of
interfaces, interconnections, and protocols. As a result, data center users face major obstacles with various hardware and tool kits in AI infrastructures. Inspur is committed to
promoting the establishment of specifications in the AI industry, and hopes to promote the development of AI chips and technologies through an open and common
specification of AI infrastructure. This vision is highly consistent with OCP, the global open computing community. As the cornerstone of the next generation hyperscale
accelerated computing platforms, the OAM standard established by the OCP community defines a unified interface for AI accelerators that supports multiple architectures
such as ASIC, GPU, and FPGA, and provides innovative designs in physical form factor, power supply, connectors, definition of pins, and system architecture. Inspur
actively participates in the development of the OAM specification and took the lead in designing and developing the MX1, the world’s first OAM-compliant open AI
acceleration system. MX1 adopts technologies such as high bandwidth and dual power supply, and is compatible with a wide variety of OAM-compliant AI accelerators.
MX1 features a total interconnection bandwidth of up to 224Gbps and provides two interconnect topologies — fully-connected and Hybrid Cube Mesh (HCM) — so that
users can flexibly design on-chip interconnection schemes according to the needs of on-chip communication for different neural network models. MX1 has two independent
power supply schemes, 12V and 54V, with the maximum powers of 300W and 450W-500W respectively, which can support various AI accelerators with high power
consumption. The single-node design of MX1 supports eight AI accelerators and supports up to 32 accelerators with high-speed interconnection scale-up extensions to
accommodate the computing needs of ultra-large-scale deep neural network models.

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Inspur releases Intel Xeon Platinum 9200-based HPC system at SC19
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Inspur released an HPC system based on Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 processors in collaboration with Intel. The system supports up to 112 cores, 9.3 TFLOPS of FP64 performance
and 24 memory channels per node, a maximum of four nodes on a 2U server, and on-board liquid cooling. It will provide a cost-efficient, intensive and green supercomputing
platform for global HPC users. With data size and computing load surging, HPC applications need higher operation performance, memory bandwidth and data throughput. Massive
HPC systems present new challenges on intensity and cooling modes of computing devices. The HPC system released by Inspur answers to the increasing demands on computation
performance from massive parallel HPC applications to help HPC users better solve major scientific problems featuring increasingly larger-scale computation. The system, equipped
with the Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 processors designed for intensive computation, supports up to dual 56-core CPUs with built-in AI acceleration fueled by Intel Deep Learning
Boost and 24 DDR4 2933MHz memory banks per computing node. Its FP64 performance reaches 9.3 TFLOPS per node at the maximum, making it the highest-performing
processor in Intel’s 2nd generation Xeon Scalable processor family. Interconnected and scalable through the Intel OmniPath Architecture high-speed network, the system enables
easy cluster expansion to thousands of nodes. It is particularly suitable for HPC, big data, image and video processing, virtual applications and other computation-intensive
scenarios. Tests on a single-node Intel Xeon Scalable 9242 platform show that with 24 32GB of 2933MHz memory, the system can deliver a memory bandwidth of up to 300 GB/s
when running a WRF application; when the system is used to run a VASP application, its memory bandwidth reaches as high as 450 GB/s, with the performance standing at 4,000
GFLOPS. In addition, the system integrates Inspur's ClusterEngine - a cluster management platform, and Teye - a HPC application performance monitoring and analysis system, to
effectively address management and application optimization challenges for massive HPC clusters. Specifically, ClusterEngine enables comprehensive management of HPC
clusters. Teye provides scientific and effective guidance for application bottleneck investigation, application algorithm improvement and parallel computing efficiency increase.
Meanwhile, Inspur's HPC experts have more than 10 years of experience in application optimization and nearly 300 application databases in more than 10 industries. This enables
Inspur to provide customized services for application optimization and effectively enhance computing efficiency.

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Inspur Releases Multiple Series of Cutting-Edge Storage Products
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Inspur released a series of new storage products including the mid-range storage AS5000G5 series with centralized architecture, as well as
the high-performance P series, the high-density H series, and the highly flexible X series with distributed architecture. Inspur and Intel
jointly launch all-flash storage systems with dual-port Optane SSD Inspur AS5000G5-F is an all-flash storage product featuring the Intel
dual-port Optane SSD. With the Optane SSD as the high-speed cache layer, AS5000G5-F combines innovative technologies such as
intelligent data layering, on-board hardware acceleration and online compression/deduplication, which achieves up to 8 million IOPS and a
latency of 0.1ms, representing one of the highest performing mid-range storage systems available in the industry. Meanwhile, the
multi-device management platform InView and the active prediction technology AIOPS enable a 14-day prediction accuracy rate of up to
95% or more. Inspur releases distributed storage systems in multiple forms, including the high-performance P-series, high-density H-series
and highly flexible X-series. P series for high-performance applications: based on the POWER architecture, P series features high frequency
CPU (up to 3.8GHz), PCIe 4.0 and high-speed interconnect HBA card, achieves 2 times 4M sequential write performance, 1.5 times 4M
sequential read performance, 3 times 4K random write performance, and 1.3 times 4K random read performance. H series for massive
high-definition video and image: the AS13000G5-H, for example, has a single node capacity of nearly 1PB and is able to carry 256
channels of 1080p, 4Mbps ultra-high-definition video streams for about 90 days of data volume. X-series for cloud-based elastic
deployment: the AS13000G5-X, for example, is a single distributed storage system that can simultaneously carry instance data on the cloud,
local real-time data, and archived data to achieve data lifecycle management.

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Intel Solutions Marketplace for Partners Helps Speed Growth, Innovation through
Global Collaboration
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Intel launched Intel® Solutions Marketplace, an innovative platform to help partners deploy solutions in an increasingly
complex, data-centric economy. On the new platform, and all from personal dashboards, Intel partners can grow their
businesses through new partner connections and matchmaking, receive and manage leads, monitor business performance, and
market solutions to end customers. The new platform joins Intel® Partner University as a key offering of Intel® Partner
Alliance, the company’s announced channel partner program transformation designed to help partners connect, innovate and
grow in a data-centric world. The Solutions Marketplace facilitates better collaboration between partners, helping them focus
on desired outcomes and delivering customization. The platform is equipped with powerful new capabilities that enable
partners to connect and collaborate with a global network of other peer partners to jointly deliver innovative data-centric
solutions to business end customers. Today, solutions typically include hardware, software and services in varying
combinations and are increasingly being designed to solve specific business challenges. For example, a solution to help a
municipality reduce energy consumption using smart devices could be entirely led by the services side of the business, while an
artificial intelligence solution to drive predictive maintenance for reduced downtime might be led by a software or hardware
vendor. The Solutions Marketplace makes this kind of collaboration easier and more efficient.

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Intel Introduces ‘Horse Ridge’ to Enable Commercially Viable Quantum Computers
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Intel Labs unveiled what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind cryogenic control chip — code-named “Horse Ridge” — that will
speed up development of full-stack quantum computing systems. Horse Ridge will enable control of multiple quantum bits
(qubits) and set a clear path toward scaling larger systems — a major milestone on the path to quantum practicality. Developed
together with Intel’s research collaborators at QuTech, a partnership between TU Delft and TNO (Netherlands Organization for
Applied Scientific Research), Horse Ridge is fabricated using Intel’s 22nm FinFET Low Power (22FFL) technology. In-house
fabrication of these control chips at Intel will dramatically accelerate the company’s ability to design, test and optimize a
commercially viable quantum computer. In the race to realize the power and potential of quantum computers, researchers have
focused extensively on qubit fabrication, building test chips that demonstrate the exponential power of a small number of qubits
operating in superposition. However, in early quantum hardware developments — including design, testing and
characterization of Intel’s silicon spin qubit and superconducting qubit systems — Intel identified a major bottleneck toward
realizing commercial-scale quantum computing: interconnects and control electronics. With Horse Ridge, Intel introduces an
elegant solution that will enable the company to control multiple qubits and set a clear path toward scaling future systems to
larger qubit counts — a major milestone on the path to quantum practicality.

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Intel RealSense Lidar Camera Technology Redefines Computer Vision
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Intel announced the Intel® RealSense™ lidar camera L515, the world’s smallest and most power-efficient, high-resolution lidar that captures
millions of depth points per second. Designed with proprietary technology that creates entirely new ways to incorporate lidar into smart devices
to perceive the world in 3D, the L515 provides high-quality performance and millimeter accuracy to products that require vision capabilities.
Intel RealSense technology depth experts have developed a revolutionary solid-state lidar for a new family of high-quality depth cameras. The
Intel RealSense lidar camera L515’s unparalleled depth quality and low power consumption, combined with its ability to generate 23 million
accurate depth points per second, makes it perfect for a wide variety of applications. The logistics industry is one market that can benefit from
the L515’s high resolution and full scene perception. Companies looking for inventory management automation will benefit from precise
volumetric measurement of products, enabling an accurate state of inventory at all times. Many other applications for the L515 can be found in
3D scanning, healthcare, retail, robotics and more. Light detection and ranging (lidar) is a remote-sensing technology that measures the distance
to objects and targets using a combination of laser light and receivers. The difference with Intel RealSense lidar technology is that it uses an
advanced, miniaturized micro-electro-mechanical system mirror to scan the scene. This method enables the reduction of the laser pulse power,
achieving the world’s smallest, most power-efficient, high-resolution lidar.

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Juniper Networks Expands Enterprise Portfolio with Cloud-Managed SD-LAN and New
CPE Devices
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Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, announced several enhancements to the company’s enterprise portfolio that bring
additional flexibility, scale and cost savings to campus and branch network environments. The same cloud-managed Juniper solution for
deploying and managing highly scalable SD-WAN deployments has now been extended to also include SD-LAN operations. In addition,
the company has expanded its robust family of SRX and NFX CPE devices to include even more options for secure and scalable network
connectivity. Juniper offers a unique SD-WAN solution with unprecedented scale, robust security, an array of performance options for
campus, branch and public cloud WAN connections, and both on-premises and cloud-managed service options for SDN control. Today, the
Juniper cloud offering has been expanded to also include SD-LAN operations. From one portal, customers can now easily provision Juniper
EX Series switches to manage LAN fabrics and configure LAN virtualization and security policies in the same way they operate their
SD-WAN environments. This automated functionality simplifies operations to reduce costs, increase workflows and leverage the WAN and
LAN network for connected security. Juniper offers the most comprehensive array of CPE devices on the market for SD-Branch
deployments, including the SRX family of secure gateways and the NFX family of universal CPEs.

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Logmein Brings Integrated Ai Chatbot And Human Customer Engagement To The
World’s Most Popular Messaging Apps
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LogMeIn announced it is making it easier than ever for customers to engage with businesses on the messaging applications they prefer to use.
Bold360’s latest release helps businesses transform contact centers by offering always-on, scalable, and best-in-class customer engagement on
the most popular global messaging channels including WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, and SMS Text. Messaging apps have become
a preferred platform for personal engagement, with over 41 million messages sent per minute. In response, businesses are aligning their
customer engagement strategies to meet customers where they already are. With Bold360’s robust messaging capabilities, customers have more
choice in how they communicate with businesses. The speed and ease-of-use with messaging apps lowers the barrier to engagement, making it
easier for customers to reach out to customer support on their own schedule. Yet, without the right tools to handle these additional engagements
support teams could become overwhelmed. With Bold360, customers are met with fully integrated chatbot and live agent support no matter
which app they choose to use. The full power of Bold360’s customer engagement solution is on display with messaging. AI-powered chatbots
handle routine queries over all messaging channels freeing human agents to spend more time on complex and higher-value inquiries. Not only
are agents’ workloads reduced by customer-facing bots who handle repeated questions over messaging channels, but agents are further supported
by bots after escalation. Bots look through connected systems and deliver relevant information to the agent’s fingertips. And agents manage
these new channels in a unified, robust workspace with routing capabilities tailored to handle both asynchronous and live conversations,
ensuring optimal efficiency as a business expands the engagement channels it offers customers.

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Cisco Unveils Plan for Building Internet for the Next Decade of Digital Innovation
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Cisco unveiled further details behind its technology strategy for building a new internet — one designed to push digital innovation beyond the
performance, economic and power consumption limitations of current infrastructure. A multi-year approach that is defining the Internet for
decades to come, Cisco’s strategy is already delivering technology breakthroughs to pave the way for the world’s developers to create
applications and services they have only begun to imagine. Cisco introduced its latest innovation including Cisco Silicon OneTM, the industry’s
only networking silicon architecture of its kind; released the new Cisco 8000 Series, the world’s most powerful carrier class routers built on the
new silicon; and announced new purchasing options that enable customers to consume the company’s technology through disaggregated
business models. Over the next decade, digital experiences will be created with advanced technologies — virtual and augmented reality, 16K
streaming, AI, 5G, 10G, quantum computing, adaptive and predictive cybersecurity, intelligent IOT, and others not yet invented. These future
generations of applications will drive complexity beyond the capabilities current internet infrastructure can viably support. For the past five
years, Cisco has driven a technology strategy that is building the internet our customers will need for the future success of their business in an
advanced digital world. Aimed at solving the toughest problems that will emerge as digital transformation taxes current infrastructure to its
breaking point, this strategy will lead to the next-generation of internet infrastructure that combines Cisco’s new silicon architecture with its
next-generation of optics. Cisco’s strategy will change the economics behind how the internet will be built to support the demands of future,
digital applications and will enable customers to operate their businesses with simpler, more cost-effective networks.

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Ericsson and Telstra achieve container-based commercial Evolved Packet Core
milestone
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Ericsson and Australian communications service provider Telstra have successfully deployed the industry’s first live cloud-native
container-based Evolved Packet Core for 4G and 5G services. The achievement is a significant milestone in network orchestration
and automation. The cloud-native container-based Evolved Packet Core has been deployed in Telstra’s production Network
Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVi), provided by Ericsson. It is fully integrated into Telstra’s mobile core network and is
carrying live 4G and 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) traffic. This achievement is a key step in Telstra’s goal to build a web-scale core
network and deliver the full power of 5G to consumers and enterprise customers. The containerization of core network functions
will move communication service providers such as Telstra towards greater orchestration and automation of their networks. This in
turn will help them to create and deliver new services such as enhanced mobile broadband, network slicing, mobile edge
computing, mission critical vertical industry support and advanced enterprise services. Containerized technologies are also
designed to improve network resilience and software upgrade techniques to increase overall network availability for Telstra’s
customers and services. Telstra’s cloud-native Evolved Packet Core includes Ericsson Packet Core Controller and Ericsson Packet
Core Gateway products. They support 4G and 5G Non-standalone (NSA) control and user plane functions in both a centralized
configuration and edge-breakout configurations.

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Fujitsu Begins Shipping Supercomputer Fugaku
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Fujitsu Limited announced that it began shipping the supercomputer Fugaku, which is jointly developed with RIKEN and
promoted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology with the aim of starting general operation
between 2021 and 2022. The first machine to be shipped this time is one of the computer units of Fugaku, a supercomputer
system comprised of over 150,000 high-performance CPUs connected together. Fujitsu will continue to deliver the units to
RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, for installation and tuning. By developing Fugaku, Fujitsu has
accumulated various technologies and know-how, including cutting-edge development, system integration, simulation, and
AI. Utilizing its supercomputing technologies, Fujitsu is contributing to resolve social issues, promote innovative research,
apply such technologies in DX (Digital Transformation), and enhance its industrial competitiveness, including new drug
development and the realization of a safe society through disaster prevention and mitigation. The supercomputer Fugaku is
a very large system, in which more than 150,000 high-performance CPUs A64FX(1) developed by Fujitsu based on the Arm
instruction set architecture are connected by a high-speed network Tofu Interconnect D(2). In pursuit of superior
performance and high reliability, Fujitsu has concentrated its advanced technologies and developed the supercomputer
together with RIKEN.

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Smartsheet Announces Smartsheet Gov Availability on AWS Marketplace
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Smartsheet, the platform for enterprise achievement, announced the availability of Smartsheet Gov on the Amazon Web
Services' AWS Marketplace. Smartsheet Gov provides government organizations with a secure solution to accelerate
innovation and keep pace with the modern workplace. Government agencies are increasingly feeling pressure to deliver
better services and transparency to citizens with limited resources and outdated technology. As a result, we believe many
organizations will seek out flexible, cost-effective solutions that improve efficiency, streamline processes and drive
towards digital transformation. Built on AWS GovCloud (US), Smartsheet Gov is designed for federal departments,
agencies, and bureaus to break down silos across departments, organize and scale programs, and track assets more
effectively. As an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with AWS Government Competency status, customers can be
confident that Smartsheet possesses deep domain expertise in government workplace solutions and will deliver
mission-critical workloads and applications for government customers on AWS. Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) is the
platform for enterprise achievement. By aligning people and technology so organizations can move faster and drive
innovation, Smartsheet enables its 82,000 customers and millions of users to achieve more.

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Sprint Rolls Out Free Service to Help Customers Stop Unwanted Calls and to
Detect and Prevent Malicious Robocalls, Telemarketers and Spam
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Sprint now offers two solutions for customers who are tired of bothersome robocalls, unwanted telemarketers, and annoying scams.
Sprint Call Screener Basic is a new, free service that identifies unwanted malicious calls and permits users to block them. Sprint
also offers a more feature-rich Sprint Call Screener Plus service for just $2.99 per month, per line. Sprint Call Screener Basic
includes the ability to identify and report the highest risk, unwanted callers such as fraudsters. Users can also choose to block these
pesky calls.
Sprint Call Screener Plus provides these additional benefits:
• Displays caller’s name, city and state, even those not listed in contacts.
• Shows texter’s name, even when they are not in contacts.
• Identifies, blocks, and reports additional calls that are lower-risk, but still a nuisance.
• Categorizes incoming calls as spam, robocalls or fraud calls.
• Reports an individual phone number as spam.
• Keeps history of blocked and risky numbers.

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Sumo Logic Expands Global Intelligence Service
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Sumo Logic, a leader in continuous intelligence, continues to follow-through with their strategy to extend the power of continuous intelligence
across different use cases with the introduction of Global Intelligence Service for AWS CloudTrail. This latest offering provides security teams
with valuable real-time security intelligence to scale detection, prioritization, investigation, and workflow to prevent potentially harmful service
configurations that could lead to a costly data breach. As more businesses move to the cloud, IT and security teams are seeing a significant
influx of data from new sources such as virtual machines (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud), identity access management tools and virtual
storage services (Amazon Simple Storage Service). At the same time, they’re challenged with getting real-time visibility into this tsunami of
data while operating in today’s modern cloud architecture. With recent high-profile data breaches determined to be caused by a
misconfiguration, many companies are looking for ways to identify configuration issues that could be used by hackers and cybercriminals to
steal valuable data. According to Sumo Logic research, companies are already using cloud native security services such as AWS CloudTrail
(60%) and VPC Flow Logs (34%) for audit and reporting purposes. However, the challenge facing many security teams today is the time,
resources, and knowledge necessary to extract insights from data generated from these services, as well as how to use these insights to support
their ongoing security efforts.

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Sumo Logic Announces New On-Demand and Archiving Services to Extend “Limitless”
Credit Based Licensing Model for Modern Businesses
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Sumo Logic, a leader in continuous intelligence, announced the beta availability of two new disruptive analytics services that extend its highly
differentiated Cloud Flex credit based licensing strategy. The two new services, Interactive Intelligence Service and Archiving Intelligence Service, extend
the existing set of analytics capabilities that provide real-time actionable insights for monitoring, troubleshooting and threat detection of business-critical
applications for more than 2,000 customers. The combined offerings are designed to change the landscape for how customers collect and analyze all types
of data for operational, security, business intelligence, IoT and other various use cases, by offering limitless choice at varying price points to suit their
diverse use cases and cost needs. legacy and siloed monitoring and analytics vendor licensing models force customers to make a trade-off as their machine
data grows, either by paying runaway license costs or being forced to discard data to control costs creating blind spots. With Sumo Logic, users now have
the ability to address both of these limitations, thus resulting in a more predictable investment and value for their analytics solutions. Organizations will
now be able to dynamically segment their data and tailor the analytics accordingly for real-time insights, frequent or infrequent interactive searching or
troubleshooting and full data archiving. These capabilities enable customers to maximize the value, choice, and flexibility required for operating and
securing their digital businesses. The new Sumo Logic Interactive Intelligence Service enables customers to ingest any log or machine data they desire for
only 10 cents per GB. The data is securely stored in the Sumo Logic service, and is instantly available on-demand for interactive analysis without any
additional data preparation, re-ingestion, or rehydration. This service was designed and is ideal for use cases where users need to quickly and/or
periodically investigate issues, troubleshoot codeor configuration problems or address customer support cases which often rely upon searching over high
volume of data for specific insights.

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TeamViewer introduces Patch Management
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TeamViewer®, a global leader in secure remote connectivity solutions, announced the availability of Patch Management, as part of TeamViewer’s
Monitoring & Asset Management product. Depending on the size of the company, the types of devices in use and the geographic distribution of the
employees that use them, managing the patch management of an entire IT infrastructure can be quite a challenge. Especially when all it takes is one
unpatched device to put the entire IT infrastructure at risk. With Patch Management by TeamViewer, it is now much easier to keep IT systems up to date
and safe by automatically evaluating, testing, and applying patches to operating systems and even 3rd party applications – no matter how large or
geographically dispersed a company is. From now on, users can not only detect outdated software versions with TeamViewer but can easily act and roll out
a necessary patch in no time. With Patch Management, users will never miss an update again.
The key benefits of Patch Management with TeamViewer are:
• Vulnerability detection: Patch Management detects vulnerabilities by automatically scanning for outdated software and operating system versions,
providing users with a more in-depth insight into their IT infrastructure thereby increasing proactive intervention, well before incidents might occur.
• Patch Deployment: With Patch Management, users can remotely deploy patches for 3rd party applications and operating systems. They also have the
possibility to automate this process via their patch management policies.
• TeamViewer integration: Since Patch Management is fully integrated into TeamViewer, users can roll out their patch management solution to their entire
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Enhancements to Virtustream’s Enterprise Cloud Platform Improve Controls for
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Virtustream, an enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies business, announced several significant updates to the Virtustream Enterprise
Cloud platform designed to give customers better control over their IT environments and budget. Major platform enhancements include the expansion of
its existing data protection portfolio, new capabilities for platform backup updates such as image-level backup and on-demand backup, and Virtustream
xStream® management platform updates, improving cost and compute migration visibility. Updates also encompass new functionality and controls for
virtual machine (VM) snapshots. The Virtustream Enterprise Cloud is purpose-built for mission-critical workloads and powered by the Virtustream
xStream management platform with microVM (μVM) technology, providing enterprise customers with a true consumption-based model. Further
expanding its broad data protection portfolio, Virtustream has introduced several new features to provide customers with significantly faster recovery time
objective (RTO) on qualified virtual machines. By incorporating image-level backup into the data protection portfolio, Virtustream can better capture and
restore the operating system and application layers for customers on a daily, weekly, monthly or on-demand basis to precisely accommodate customer
requirements, such as patch deployments.
The new enhancements span:
• Daily backup – automated, overnight full backup capabilities replace the standard weekly cadence, removing the overhead and manual efforts of
incremental backups.
• Faster recovery time objective (RTO) – which significantly reduces the maximum amount of time typically necessary to restore application functionality
in the event of service loss. For VMs using image-based backup, this time period can be reduced from several hours to just minutes.
• Backup on-demand – with backup data stored according to each VM’s existing policies, the new backup on-demand capabilities provide customers the
flexibility to initiate backups on a case-by-case basis without the need to backup their entire environment for a single VM.

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Avaya Wins Frost & Sullivan Product Leadership Award for its Public Safety
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Avaya Holdings Corp., a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, announced it has been awarded with Frost
& Sullivan’s 2019 North America Product Leadership Award in the enterprise safety solutions market for Public Safety Solutions. The firm recognized the
Avaya SENTRY™ solution by 911secure and Avaya’s deployment of the RapidSOS NG911 Public Safety Clearing House in 2019 for empowering public
safety answering point (PSAP) operators with highly accurate location details. The solutions use site-based device discovery and tracking protocols that
provide information from wired/wireless IP device connectivity, analog/digital technology record import, or remote off-premise positioning. When an
emergency call is made, SENTRY™, provided by Avaya, determines the phone’s physical location and immediately collects additional relevant data in the
building. Supplemental information such as specific floor plans and Hazmat information is also pulled and collected. Because of Avaya’s ability to update
the record in near-real-time, the solution dynamically associates numerous data points that further validate the location of the device. Along with its ability
to identify the caller’s precise location, the Avaya SENTRY™ solution by 911secure pushes real-time incident notes to first responders and on-site
managers that include data from virtually any sensor, device, or tabulation without the need for new hardware. The application is available for any PBX
system (hybrid or cloud-based services) and is tailored to each unique facility and environmental circumstance. In order to connect quickly with these first
responders that continue to operate with out-of-date technology based on traditional landlines, Avaya also partnered with RapidSOS, a technology
company that provides a link between connected devices and emergency services. By partnering with RapidSOS, the Avaya SENTRY™ solution by
911secure is able to give highly accurate information to first responders through RapidSOS’s comprehensive database already being used by most public
safety agencies nationwide, providing emergency responders with vital information such as floor plans, points of entry and multimedia from buildings.
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Avaya Receives Customer Value Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan
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Avaya Holdings Corp. announced it has been awarded with Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 Customer Value Leadership Award for Customer Journey
Intelligence, recognizing the advanced AI and other Customer Journey Intelligence innovations that have been built into Avaya’s broad,
industry-leading portfolio of customer and employee engagement solutions. The global research firm recognized Avaya’s early and continuous
investment in AI and its strategic technology partnerships in the areas of customer experience that have placed Avaya at the forefront of AI-infused
solutions to improve the customer journey. In addition, Frost & Sullivan recognized Avaya’s success in enhancing contact center agent’s ability to get
the right information at the right time to deliver powerful business outcomes for its customers. In response to changes in consumer behavior, the
contact center industry seeks to adopt new technology at an increasingly rapid pace. Businesses today struggle to glean actionable intelligence from
their various customer interactions and use that intelligence to better meet and even anticipate customer needs, whether through self-service or live
agent assist, and to similarly assist agents across channels. According to Frost & Sullivan, Avaya understands that there are numerous places where
new technology can have a significant impact on customer experience from the first point of contact a customer has with a business through the
complex landscape of a multi-stage customer journey. Avaya’s customer experience intelligence is highlighted in recent AI portfolio enhancements,
which include real-time agent scripting and new call flow scripting capability that enables call flows to be defined in real-time for both inbound and
outbound calls, providing contact center agents with on-screen, step-by-step guidance throughout the customer interaction. In addition, with Avaya’s
Intelligent Workspace solution, agents have one AI-powered “single pane of glass” for intelligent communication and collaboration management that
is personalized, intuitive, and customizable.
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Evolve IP Completes Flex Certification for WebEx Calling and Meetings
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Evolve IP®, the world’s leading provider of unified, Purpose-Built® cloud solutions, announced that it has been certified to deliver Cisco
WebEx Calling and Meetings under the Cisco Collaboration Flex program. Leveraging the Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan, Evolve IP clients
can purchase Cisco’s meeting, collaboration, voice-calling, and Cisco MPP business phones in the way that makes the most sense for their
business. Businesses can mix and match Cisco and Evolve IP solutions to tailor their deployment and move solutions to the cloud at their
own pace.
Evolve IP’s offering under the Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan includes:
• Full unified communications services including rich meetings, messaging, and calling capabilities.
• Enhanced team collaboration with Cisco Webex Teams integrated into the calling option.
• Cisco’s next generation 6800, 7800, and 8800 series open SIP Multi-Platform Phones (MPP), providing handset users with the latest
features and crystal-clear audio and video calling.
• Purchasing bundles of collaboration applications, devices, and network services in one easy-to-order package.
In addition to the Flex program, Evolve IP continues to leverage its deep experience with Cisco technologies to provide clients with a
variety of infrastructure and security solutions as well as additional cloud services including the Evolve Contact Suite, which was recently
noted for the third consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, North America.
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Fujitsu Honored with IEEE Milestone for High Electron Mobility Transistor
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The high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) developed by Fujitsu Laboratories has been certified as an IEEE milestone. The technology was developed
by the company in 1979 and was recognized for its innovative achievements in improving the performance of radio telescopes and satellite broadcasting
receivers. Fujitsu was awarded with the IEEE Milestone plaque at a ceremony held on December 18 in Tokyo, Japan. With over 420,000 members in more
than 160 countries, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest technical professional society in such fields as
electricity, electronics, information and telecommunications. The IEEE Milestone has recognized historic achievements in these areas that have
successfully contributed to the development of local communities and industries over the past 25 years. The HEMT is a newly structured transistor that can
operate at high speed by creating a two-layer structure that spatially separates the source and travel regions of electrons within the transistor. This feature
enables the transistor to receive weak, high-frequency signals with high sensitivity. In 1985, Fujitsu commercialized the HEMT as a microwave
semiconductor device product with the world's lowest noise level and it was adopted for the radio telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) in
Nagano, Japan. The telescope discovered an unknown interstellar molecule one year later in 1986, significantly contributing to the progress of basic
science. After being installed in satellite broadcasting receivers around the world, the transistors have become an essential part of various microwave and
millimeter-wave devices, such as mobile devices, base stations, GPS receivers, and millimeter-wave radar that prevents collisions between automobiles.
Accordingly, the HEMT has been the fundamental technology supporting the information and communications society.
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Fuze Wins 2019 Aragon Research Innovation and Women in Technology
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Fuze, the leading cloud-based communications platform provider for the modern global enterprise, announced that it has
won two Aragon Research awards––the 2019 Innovation Award for Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC)
and the 2019 Women in Technology Award for Marketing, recognizing Fuze VP of Brand Lisa Walker. The Aragon
Research Innovation Award recognizes Fuze’s commitment to powering enterprise communications for an increasingly
distributed workforce. With a user behavior-driven approach to product design, Fuze enables inclusivity and always-on
collaboration across an enterprise’s entire ecosystem, empowering all employees to connect how and when they want.
Fuze’s unified technology reimagines the modern business communications experience to drive enterprise workforce
productivity and engagement throughout digital transformations. The Aragon award recognizes providers leveraging
visionary use of technology to not only adapt as markets change, but to actively disrupt and inform how their markets
will evolve. Fuze and Lisa Walker were formally presented with their awards on December 5th, 2019 at Aragon
Transform, the annual Aragon Research awards ceremony.
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HPE Living Progress receives multiple international awards for leading-edge
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HPE recognized for a leading-edge global strategy that demonstrates leadership on critical sustainable business issues. HPE’s
winning culture has evolved in countless ways during the last year or two, enhancing our morale and building a well-earned
reputation as a company committed to advancing the way people live and work. One area of which I am especially proud is the
way in which we have come to use sustainability as a driver of innovation and competitive advantage — creating disruptive
solutions that enable our customers to transform industries and markets, while also enabling HPE to grow and prosper. That’s
why I was excited to learn that over the last quarter of 2019, HPE was recognized for three very prestigious global awards,
which validate these efforts. These awards demonstrate HPE’s leadership on critical sustainable business issues, including our
commitment to transparency, our contribution to accelerating a circular economy, and our best-in-class environmental, social,
and governance (ESG) performance. Good ESG performance has driven improved financial performance, resulting in a
substantial increase in investor consideration over the past few years. Our response to these critical issues — from managing
climate risks, to building a trusted and secure supply chain, to creating a culture of innovation — differentiates HPE as a
responsible business poised for long-term growth.
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HPE nets five CRN Product of the Year Awards for 2019
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Partner communities nominate HPE products and solutions as winners across the board. CRN recognized the groundbreaking capabilities of HPE products across three
distinct sets of criteria: technology, revenue & profit, and customer demand. Winning in all three of these buckets lands an Overall Winner rating, of which HPE
snagged three for IoT and Edge, Enterprise Software and General Purpose Servers. HPE also landed wins in two subcategories for the HPE Nimble Storage and HPE
SimpliVity platforms. HPE InfoSight won the overall Enterprise Software category, and won the General Purpose Servers category specifically for its use on HPE
ProLiant 325 servers. But before we get to the specifics of the awards, let’s talk for a moment about what HPE InfoSight is. Put simply, HPE InfoSight is the industry’s
most advanced AI for infrastructure, and its AI-driven operations and insights are completely transforming IT’s approach to infrastructure management. HPE InfoSight
has led the industry away from what was essentially a reactive management model to an intelligent, predictive model — and saved customers hours of lost productivity
by proactively fixing issues before they impact operations. By extending the predictive analytics and recommendation capabilities of HPE InfoSight to HPE servers,
we are enabling smarter, self-monitoring infrastructure for our customers.
CRN recognized the groundbreaking capabilities of HPE InfoSight from three distinct perspectives:
• As an innovative and easily integrated Technology. HPE InfoSight’s cloud-based machine learning and deep telemetry — having analyzed more than 1,250 trillion
data points since 2010 — provide a seamless, global intelligence across environments to deliver autonomous IT.
• As a driver of Revenue and Profit. Industry analysts ESG found that, among real-world customers, HPE InfoSight predictive analytics drove an average 79% drop in
operational expenses, cut trouble tickets by 73%, and mean time to resolution by 69%. HPE InfoSight also delivers significant business value well beyond support,
like the ability to predict and prevent issues before they occur, and accelerate application performance.
• As a unique product that answers Customer Demand. HPE InfoSight’s demonstrated ability to enable infrastructure that is self-managing, self-optimizing, and
self-healing while supporting hundreds of apps and thousands of workloads has radically changed customer expectations.
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Lenovo Honoured in HKICPA Best Corporate Governance Awards 2019
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Lenovo has been honoured with two Platinum Awards in the annual Best Corporate Governance Awards by the
Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“HKICPA”) – the first for Corporate Governance and the
second for Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting. This is the seventh consecutive year that Lenovo
has been presented with the Corporate Governance award and the second consecutive year receiving the
Sustainability and Social Responsibility reporting award, highlighting once again the company’s outstanding
efforts and commitment in corporate governance and in ESG (environmental, social and governance) reporting.
Over the past two decades, the prestigious Best Corporate Governance Awards have become a recognized and
respected yardstick of corporate governance standards and, more recently also, of sustainability and social
responsibility reporting standards, in both the private and public sectors in Hong Kong. The awards look beyond
the minimum legal and regulatory requirements to identify best practices that set a high bar. The Awards promote
a culture of good corporate governance and sustainable business practices, a priority that aligns well with
Lenovo’s continuous efforts in this area.
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MacStadium Achieves ISO/IEC 27018 Certification for Cloud Privacy
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MacStadium, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud solutions for Apple Mac infrastructure, announced it has
achieved certification for ISO/IEC 27018:2019 as well as renewed its ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification as an organization
across all of its data centers. In addition to ISO 27001 and 27018, MacStadium is SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, and Privacy
Shield certified. Published by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO/IEC 27018 is a code of practice for
the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds. The ISO/IEC 27018 standard establishes
objectives, controls, and guidelines to ensure that PII data is adequately protected when processed by a cloud service
provider, providing a common compliance framework for cloud service providers operating in multinational markets. To
achieve ISO 27018 certification, MacStadium underwent an external audit performed by Coalfire Controls, LLC.
MacStadium provides private cloud solutions built on Apple Mac infrastructure to organizations around the world. Powered
by MacStadium, Orka (Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple) is the only virtualization layer available for Mac build
infrastructure based on Docker and Kubernetes technology. MacStadium, a Summit Partners portfolio company, is
headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with growing operations in Las Vegas, Silicon Valley, Dublin, Ireland, and Frankfurt,
Germany.
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Nutanix Once Again (and Again) Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant
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Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced it has been named a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in the November
2019 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Nutanix has been recognized in all editions of this Magic
Quadrant since Gartner started it. Nutanix was also designated as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
vendor for hyperconverged infrastructure. Based on detailed feedback from 264 customer ratings, Nutanix has an average
rating of 4.7 out of 5. Additionally, 92% of respondents identified as willing to recommend Nutanix. Nutanix believes that
enterprises continue to choose its products over competitors for its simplicity and flexibility, as well as the company’s
exceptional customer service. Specifically:
• Simplicity: Nutanix’s products allow enterprises to deliver all applications, at any scale, with simple one-click
deployment, upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting and more.
• Choice: By offering customers flexible licensing and consumption models, as well as the ability to choose among many
hardware and virtualization vendors, Nutanix provides customers the flexibility needed to grow, scale and achieve their
business goals.
• Customer Focus: Nutanix’s obsession on ensuring the success of its customers has resulted in the company achieving an
average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 90 for the past five years.
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Samsung Research Centers Around the World Take First Place in Prestigious AI
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Samsung Electronics’ Global Research & Development (R&D) Centers play a key part in developing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for real-world
usage. A credit to the work this advanced R&D branch of Samsung undertakes, both Samsung R&D Institute Poland and Samsung Research America AI
Center have recently won two prestigious global challenges. 2019 marks the third year in a row that Samsung R&D Institute Poland, in partnership with
the U.K.’s University of Edinburgh (UEDIN), has received accolades at the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), one of the
top two global workshops on automatic language translation, along with the Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT). This year, Samsung R&D Institute
Poland won first place in two categories, the first being text-to-text translation from English to Czech and the second – an end-to-end system translating
English speech into German text. For the text-to-text translation category, researchers worked to develop a model to translate the transcript of a spoken
English-language TED Talk into Czech. Developing their winning model required the Samsung team to develop large, filtered corpora from which to work
and generate as much synthetic data as possible. The work done by the Samsung R&D Institute Poland team, together with additional modeling help from
UEDIN, was selected as the best in the challenge by human evaluators. This means that the translations produced by Samsung R&D Institute Poland’s
system scored the highest both in fluency and adequacy. Samsung R&D Institute Poland’s participation in their second winning category this year, the
end-to-end translation system from English to German, was a first for the team. The task was to produce a German-language transcription of an
English-language TED Talk audio recording. This task required the development of a single model that could take an audio file input and subsequently
produce a translated transcription. It was made more difficult by the deficiency of the provided audio sources, compared to typical speech recognition task.
Samsung R&D Institute Poland proposed several innovative methods for end-to-end speech translation that mitigated this source paucity, obtaining a
state-of-the-art result with their final system that won them first place in the challenge.
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SevOne Announces ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Certification by DEKRA
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SevOne, a leading provider of network management solutions that was acquired by Turbonomic, announced that it has
successfully achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 information security certification. Issued by global certification body
DEKRA Certification, Inc., this information security management standard is used to manage and control information
security risks, as well as safeguard confidentiality and integrity of critical information. Specifically, the certificate reads,
“The scope of the ISO 27001:2013 certification is limited to the SevOne Information Security Management System
(ISMS) which encompasses the business processes that develop, deliver and support the SevOne software products
located in Newark, DE and Boston, MA.” A Turbonomic company, SevOne provides modern monitoring and analytics
solutions that large organizations need to monitor their networks today, tomorrow and beyond. SevOne simplifies the
extraction and enrichment of metric, flow, log and streaming telemetry data across multi-vendor networks enabling
enterprises, carriers and managed services providers to ensure optimal network visibility and performance. With SaaS,
public cloud and on-prem offerings, including several pre-built solutions specifically designed to solve SD-WAN, SDN,
NFV and enterprise Wi-Fi challenges, SevOne helps customers compete and win in the connected world. SevOne is
privately held and is headquartered in Boston, Mass.
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Informacast Fusion Wins Gold Astors Award For Mass Notification
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Singlewire Software has won a Gold ASTORS Award from American Security in the Best Mass Notification System –
Application category for InformaCast Fusion. The annual award program is the largest and most comprehensive in the industry,
highlighting cutting-edge and forward-thinking security solutions. The awards help inform readers about the tools they can
implement to stay on top of industry trends and keep their people safe. Awards were presented during a luncheon at ISC East.
InformaCast Fusion was recognized for its unparalleled mass notification capabilities. Using a single interface, organizations
manage and send notifications to on-premises and mobile devices using a wide array of formats. InformaCast can serve as the
backbone for communication and safety connecting all of an organization’s devices and systems, including IP speakers, IP
phones, digital signage, desktop computers, mobile phones, access control, panic button buttons, Microsoft Teams, Cisco
Webex Teams, and more. Messages can be delivered as live or recorded audio, SMS text, computer pop-ups, phone calls,
flashing lights and more to ensure everyone receives a message during an emergency. This is the fourth award win for
InformaCast in 2019 and the seventh award win for Singlewire Software. InformaCast was previously recognized with a 2019
Campus Safety BEST Award from Campus Safety Magazine, a 2019 New Product of the Year Award from Security Today, and
a 2019 IoT Integrator Award from Commercial Integrator Magazine. Singlewire Software was also recognized as one of the
best places to work by Madison Magazine and Inc. Magazine, and an ISV Solution Partner of the Year in the South by Cisco.
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Smartsheet Recognized for Best Company Culture, Best CEO, and Best Company for
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Smartsheet, the platform for enterprise achievement, announced it has won three Comparably Awards recognizing its company
culture and CEO. The company was among the winners in the Best Company Culture, Best CEOs, and Best Companies for
Diversity categories from Comparably this quarter. Smartsheet has been recognized by Comparably several times over the
course of 2019, taking home awards across nine categories including Happiest Employees, Professional Development, and Best
CEOs for Diversity and Women during 2019. In addition, the company was named as one of Seattle Business Magazine’s 100
Best Companies to Work For 2019 and Boston Business Journal’s 2019 Best Places to Work. Smartsheet (NYSE: SMAR) is the
platform for enterprise achievement. By aligning people and technology so organizations can move faster and drive innovation,
Smartsheet enables its 83,000 customers and millions of users to achieve more. Comparably is a leading workplace culture and
compensation site with a mission to make work more transparent and rewarding. Employees can access the platform’s salary
comparison tool, rate their companies and CEOs, and see what workplaces are really like through the lens of comprehensive
and structured data based on gender, ethnicity, age, experience, department, location, education, and company size. With 10
million ratings from employees across 50,000 U.S. companies since its 2016 launch, Comparably has become one of the most
trusted third party sites for workplace culture and a fast growing SaaS solution for employer branding.
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Softcat Wins ‘Workplace Mental Health’Award At Thames Valley Business Awards 2019
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During a glittering black-tie gala at the Madejski Stadium in Reading, hosted by TV personality Vernon Kay,
Softcat collected the award for 'Workplace Mental Health.' The Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards is
open to every company in the Thames Valley area and recognises not only profitability, innovation, and
employment but also the contribution made to the local economic community and the provision of support to
culture and charities in the region. Softcat was a finalist in the same category for the 2018 awards, where they
also picked up the 'Best Company to Work For' award. Collecting the award for Softcat, Softcat Head of Talent,
Engagement and Diversity, said: "We are delighted to have won such an important award to highlight that we
are helping break down the barriers that are associated to talking about mental health. Our mental health first
aiders who help our employees and the individuals who have shared their personal stories have made such a
huge difference in ensuring we create a safe space where we can openly talk about mental health."
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Sprint Named to the FORTUNE 2019 list of the 100 Best Workplaces for Diversity
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Sprint has been honored by FORTUNE and Great Place to Work® as one of the 100 Best Workplaces for Diversity©. To determine the Best
Workplaces for Diversity, FORTUNE partnered with the people analytics firm, Great Place to Work®, to analyze anonymous survey feedback
representing more than 4.4 million US employees. The ranking is based on what employees report in a 60-question Trust Index© survey about
the trust, pride and camaraderie they experience in their workplace, and how those experiences compare to their colleagues’ reports of the same
workplaces. Great Place to Work also consider employees’ daily experiences of innovation, the company’s values, and the effectiveness of their
leaders, to ensure they’re consistently experienced, as well. The remaining 15 percent of the rank is based on the diversity of the company’s
overall workforce and its management representation, taking into account industry trends. Sprint employee surveys underscored the company’s
strong commitment to workplace safety, fair treatment regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation, and allowing employees to be
themselves. Sprint’s seven Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) include over 5,000 members worldwide and are open to all employees. The
groups focus on the development of African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, LGBTQA employees, individuals with disabilities, veterans and
women. ERGs offer opportunities for networking, professional and personal development through mentoring, coaching and leadership curricula,
and avenues to share ideas and drive business. In addition to employee programs, supplier diversity is also a key focus for Sprint. In fiscal year
2019, Sprint will spend approximately $1.4 Billion with small and diverse suppliers.
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StarTech.com Named One of Canada’s Best Employers
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StarTech.com, a leading manufacturer of hard-to-find IT connectivity accessories, is proud to announce that they have been certified as a
Kincentric Best Employer in Canada. The Kincentric Best Employers program (formerly a part of Aon) collects data from 15 million
employees across the world to recognize leading employers for their focus on consistently improving the workplace to create an “amazing
employee experience.” Organizations are evaluated based on four “people factors”: Employee Engagement, Agility, Engaging Leadership,
and Talent Focus. Kincentric states their research shows that the employers who make the list “drive consistent long-term performance
through effective leadership, a profoundly agile organization, an exceptional talent focus and ultimately, through high employee
engagement.” Best Employers also enjoy 86% higher sales growth than average companies according to Kincentric. StarTech.com is
passionate about embracing a team spirit and creating a culture that inspires curiosity, compassion and a drive for excellence. Through the
implementation of diversity programs, encouraging innovation and professional development and ensuring that fun remains a critical part of
the office culture, StarTech.com has grown from humble roots to a global employer with over 500 employees in 23 countries worldwide.
This marks the sixth time that StarTech.com has made the list of Best Employers and is a testament to the organization’s focus on creating
an empowering environment that encourages curiosity, fun and continuous development.
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Sumo Logic Achieves AWS Container Competency Status
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Sumo Logic, a leader in continuous intelligence, announced it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Container Competency
status recognizing the company’s success in supporting AWS customers with real-time, actionable insights they can use to efficiently
run their containerized workloads. Achieving the AWS Container Competency differentiates Sumo Logic as an AWS Partner Network
(APN) member that provides specialized monitoring and logging technology enabling customers to collect metrics, analytics, and
debugging information from their containerized workloads, including container orchestration. These solutions allow for visualization of
real-time events and alerting capabilities beyond the native integration with Amazon Cloudwatch. The Sumo Logic Continuous
Intelligence Platform delivers near real-time, actionable insights from structured and unstructured data across the entire application
lifecycle and stack to provide companies with full visibility across their AWS environment to eliminate operational blind spots and
improve application and infrastructure performance. Recently, Sumo Logic also announced new innovations for Amazon Elastic
Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) as well as support for AWS FireLens for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that
helps AWS customers faster leverage continuous intelligence to monitor and troubleshoot their mission-critical production applications
running on AWS Fargate and Amazon ECS.
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NETWAYS Selects 6WIND Turbo IPsec vRouter for Secure Managed Services
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6WIND, a high-performance networking software company, announced that NETWAYS Managed Services GmbH, a Managed
Service and Hosting Provider based in Germany, selected 6WIND’s Turbo IPsec virtual routers (vRouters) to provide secure VPN
services for its customers. NETWAYS has been supporting companies for more than 20 years in the setup, monitoring, automation
and management of their IT infrastructures based on open source. Its data centers cover the entire range of cloud and hosting
services with guarantees for security and performance. Key to NETWAYS’ selection of 6WIND Turbo IPsec vRouters were:
• Routing and IPsec VPN Performance in VMs: 6WIND Turbo IPsec met NETWAYS’ software performance requirement to run as
a virtual machine (VM) at 5 Gbps. Future growth plans to 10 Gbps and beyond is possible with a simple license key update.
• High Availability IPsec: 6WIND Turbo IPsec deployed in HA mode offers Hot Standby High Availability for seamless failover
across VPN tunnels, all in software.
• Cloud-Init and NETCONF/YANG APIs for Automation: NETWAYS tested Cloud-Init deployment and integration with the
NETCONF/YANG-based management engine for automated orchestration.
• Open Source Compatibility: NETWAYS confirmed interoperability with 6WIND Turbo IPsec running as a VM connected to an
existing strongSwan endpoint VM for compatibility within its existing open source infrastructure.
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KoreKontrol Selects 6WIND vRouter for Data Center Services
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6WIND, a high-performance networking software company, announced that KoreKontrol Germany GmbH, a systems integration and managed
hosting services company based in Berlin, selected 6WIND’s Turbo Router appliances, which are virtual routers (vRouters), for its data center
edge deployments. KoreKontrol has been supporting customers, such as Rocket Internet, Wimdu and Zalando, for nearly 20 years with its
cloud-based data center services. Its engineers are ready to configure and recommend new services through white box strategies that include
public and private clouds with software-defined networking (SDN) applications on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. Key to
KoreKontrol’s selection of 6WIND vRouters were:
• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Analysis: KoreKontrol confirmed 6WIND vRouters running on COTS hardware including Dell® PowerEdge
R620 servers, Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® NICs offered performance, features and value that exceeded all other router solutions that
the company evaluated.
• Full-feature BGP Edge Router: KoreKontrol leverages 6WIND’s suite of features including BGP routing with ECMP, VXLAN, NAT, Packet
Filtering and VRRP.
• NETCONF/YANG APIs for Automation: 6WIND APIs provide easy-to-use configurations for KoreKontrol engineers who have experience
with dedicated hardware network appliances. Integration between 6WIND vRouters and KoreKontrol’s management stack will be seamless
without requiring any additional expertise for a smooth transition from hardware to software-based routing.
• Linux Compatibility: KoreKontrol is a Linux-based company. 6WIND’s vRouter allows KoreKontrol to continue using its existing Linux
architecture to streamline configuration and testing without any additional training.
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Industry Leader Braskem selects CenturyLink SD-WAN Solution for Global
Operations
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Braskem, the largest thermoplastics resins producer in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers in the world, selected global technology provider CenturyLink, Inc. to deliver a
global SD-WAN network solution to more than 50 of its locations across Latin America, North America, Europe and Asia. This SD-WAN network will go through more than 130 balanced
MPLS and dedicated internet links with a connection to the private cloud through CenturyLink Cloud Connect Solutions. This provides Braskem with a positive user experience and an
efficient, secure way to access applications and transport business data. CenturyLink will provide Braskem with a software-defined wide area network that can quickly deploy branch sites,
deliver cost savings with private and public networks, and provide optimized cloud connectivity and application-aware routing. To support this complex structure, Braskem will also use
CenturyLink Network Management Service. This will help provide continuous and attentive network monitoring with proactive and preventive actions, as well as data extraction and
consolidation for analysis, reporting and improvement recommendations. CenturyLink SD-WAN provides Braskem with the ability to create safe, private networks over a mix of public and
private infrastructure, with site-to-site encryption regardless of access or transport technology used. The solution also provides centralized management and control to steer traffic on an
application-by-application basis or by access type, enabling the connection of disparate sites across a variety of backbone connections. The CenturyLink SD-WAN solution with hybrid
connectivity has the flexibility to meet Braskem's needs, react at a moment's notice and evolve to support their digital business growth.
Key facts about CenturyLink SD-WAN:
• CenturyLink offers a comprehensive, flexible SD-WAN solutions portfolio featuring Versa Networks, Cisco Meraki and Cisco Viptela technologies.
• We offer flexible pricing and packages with the ability to sell and deliver SD-WAN Over-the-Top (OTT), bundled with CenturyLink transport, seamlessly integrating multiple underlying
connectivity options including MPLS/IP VPN, Broadband, dedicated internet, LTE and Ethernet.
• We offer network and SD-WAN consulting resources to ease the burden of SD-WAN adoption and transformation, helping organizations standardize, modernize and optimize their
networks.
• For the second time in three years, CenturyLink was named the Global SD-WAN Service Provider of the Year by Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and, this year, received that same
recognition for North America.
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Ericsson’s Cloud Packet Core to strengthen SK Telecom’s 5G network
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Ericsson was selected to deliver a Cloud Packet Core for SK Telecom’s 5G network. Ericsson’s Cloud Packet
Core, part of the company’s Cloud Core portfolio, helps service providers to smoothly migrate to 5G Core (5GC)
stand-alone architecture. Ericsson’s Cloud Packet Core is at the business end of mobile broadband and IoT
networks. It creates value, visibility and control of traffic and applications by determining the optimal quality of a
service, then enforcing it through appropriate policy. SK Telecom switched on its commercial 5G network in
December 2018 after selecting Ericsson as one of its primary 5G vendors. Previously, Ericsson provided radio
access network (RAN) products, including mid-band Massive MIMO. Ericsson enables communications service
providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services,
Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency
and find new revenue streams. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and
mobile broadband to billions of people around the world. The Ericsson stock is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and
on Nasdaq New York.
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Orange opts for Ericsson Operations Engine in managed services extension
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Ericsson has been re-selected by Orange as its managed services provider in five European countries in a deal that will also see the
deployment of Ericsson Operations Engine. The deal covers Orange operations in Spain, Belgium, Romania, Slovakia and
Moldova, supporting about 40 million customers. Under the three-year contract, that can be extended to five years, Ericsson will
provide a fully managed end-to-end operations service to include network operations, field support, and maintenance, as well as a
spare parts management service for Orange's fixed-line access, 2G, 3G, 4G and future 5G access. Network performance,
optimization and network expansion are optional components and delivered in some of the countries. As part of the agreement,
Ericsson will further transform operations by deploying Ericsson Operations Engine to capitalize on previous automation. The new
AI-based Ericsson Operations Engine managed services model transforms operations to become data-driven, predictive and
proactive. The advanced automation tools will allow Orange to increase operational network efficiency and further enhance
customer experiences for its subscribers across the five countries. Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture
the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging
Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency and find new revenue streams. Ericsson’s investments
in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world. The Ericsson
stock is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and on Nasdaq New York.
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Avaya OneCloud Secure UCaaS Solutions Now Offered by SYNNEX Corporation to Address
Secure Communications and Collaboration Needs of U.S. Government
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Avaya Holdings Corp. announced that its distribution partner, SYNNEX Corporation now offers Avaya OneCloud Secure
unified communications as a service (UCaaS) solutions to its extensive network of partners serving the public sector market,
including education, federal, state and local government organizations across the U.S. Through its channel network and
go-to-market capabilities, SYNNEX is able to increase the velocity of adoption for Avaya OneCloud Secure solutions in the
large and growing government market in the U.S. Avaya OneCloud Secure is a FedRAMP-authorized communication platform
designed to help meet the needs of government customers as they seek to adopt the flexibility and efficiencies of cloud-based
as-a-service models. Avaya OneCloud Secure provides greater security and is a robust cloud communications and collaboration
platform that includes voice, collaboration, video, unified messaging, and voicemail, with Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS)
solutions coming in early 2020. FedRAMP authorization for cloud offerings indicates that the solutions meet the U.S. Federal
Government's stringent requirements for cloud products and services. Avaya is recognized throughout the U.S. Federal
Government as one of the leading providers of secure and reliable communications infrastructure, enabling increasingly
flexible, reliable, and secure government operations. Avaya and SYNNEX can leverage FedRAMP and other compliance and
certification capabilities to expand availability and adoption of Avaya OneCloud Secure in the government market.
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Damart Bridges Analogue-Digital Divide with Avaya
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Damart, a leading European fashion brand, has revamped its customer experience, so that even the most traditional order
methods – such as those using the postal service – are digitally integrated, using technology from Avaya Holdings Corp. As one
of Europe’s leading multichannel brands for over-55 year olds, 80 percent of Damart’s orders are made by traditional post or
phone. This is consistent with Avaya’s SuperServe research, which shows that the 55+ age bracket of respondents are 12
percent more likely than 18 to34 year olds to use a phone call to a call centre to contact an organisation. Those 55 and over are
also nearly a fifth (19%) more likely to be concerned about organisations’ adherence to data privacy laws and not sharing data
with third parties. Alongside these demographic trends, Damart has faced a changing regulatory environment placing additional
strains on its contact center. Legislation, including Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, has meant that customer
service agents should no longer hear customer card numbers or key them in on the customer’s behalf, so new processes were
needed to enable customers to provide this information easily and securely. With the Avaya IX Contact Center solutions,
Damart not only has the ability to process and add audit trails to letters received by post – for example by scanning them in and
immediately directing them to the contact centre – but it can also add additional features to phone-based conversations,
including voice recording and speech analytics, as well as KPI dashboards and trend analysis thanks to the digitalisation and
unification of the customer experience process. The solution also creates a platform for further innovation in the future,
enabling Damart to keep pace with new channels as communications preferences change.
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Fastly Empowers Media & Entertainment Brands Across Europe with
High-Performance Content at the Edge
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Fastly, Inc. provider of a global edge cloud platform,reports expanded adoption of its edge offerings and services across leading European media
and entertainment brands. Fastly customers, such as Paradox Interactive, PRISA, RCS MediaGroup, and ZEIT ONLINE, employ Fastly’s
high-density points of presence to power gaming, streaming or over-the-top (OTT) video, breaking news, and more as the need to support high
volumes of simultaneous viewers, gamers, and readers with high-quality experiences increases. High impact streaming and media services that
prevent lag and latency are essential for brands to successfully serve a global customer base. As media companies continue to evolve from their
traditional print and broadcast models, they are leveraging new services and technologies to help them scale and monetize new digital models.
This evolution has allowed more viewers, gamers, and readers to access media content, but higher traffic can also lead to a host of user
experience issues, including challenges associated with a sudden influx of traffic requesting the same source. Fastly’s modern network
architecture and edge capabilities, like request collapsing and load balancing, help large and growing media companies support live and high
volume traffic, even during spikes due to breaking news, prime gaming windows, or a big sporting event. Amidst these increasing end user
expectations for content consumption, live streaming has come into its heyday, bringing with it a new set of delivery and quality of experience
challenges. For media companies that offer live streaming, Fastly’s Media Shield continues to bolster performance and availability by caching
more content in high-density data centers, thereby reducing startup times and playback interruptions. Media Shield – a multi-CDN deployment
optimization service that sits between a company’s CDN deployments and its central cloud or on-premise infrastructure – also reduces egress
costs and total cost of ownership (TCO) by eliminating extraneous requests. The solution allows for flexible deployments, can be used with or
without Fastly for edge delivery, and does not require you to re-evaluate existing contractual commitments with other CDNs.
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HMS delivers the 7,000,000th Anybus product to IAI Corporation
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HMS Networks (HMS) has shipped its seven millionth Anybus product to IAI Corporation (IAI). IAI uses Anybus
embedded technology from HMS to connect their robot and motion controllers to various industrial networks in
factories around the world. The Anybus embedded products offer multi-network connectivity to all major fieldbus
and industrial Ethernet networks, and come in Chip, Brick and Module formats to match different integration needs
among customers. Currently, the main product used by IAI is the Anybus CompactCom interchangeable
communication modules. The first Anybus module was developed in 1994. The number of fieldbuses increased
rapidly and the Anybus embedded concept allowed device manufacturers to connect to any industrial network in an
easy way. Over the last decade, the evolution of industrial networks has continued, and many industrial Ethernet
protocols with high performance have been introduced. With full fieldbus and industrial Ethernet connectivity,
IT-features and solutions for functional safety and security, the Anybus technology has always been in the forefront,
now also covering wireless technologies. Today, seven million Anybus products are deployed in the field. The
multi-network connectivity offered by the Anybus concept is still the key benefit to the user.
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Orange Poland Selects Juniper Networks for Major Core Network Upgrade to Optimize
Traffic Management and Increase Network Resilience
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Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, has been chosen by Orange Poland to enhance the resilience and automation capabilities of its IP network
core. This will ensure Orange Poland is ready to meet the growing demands of its fixed and mobile network users, specifically in preparation for the roll-out of 5G.
Orange Poland’s core network is based on Juniper Networks® MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform that includes MX2020, MX2010, MX10003 and MX960.
Additionally, with the deployment of NorthStar Controller, Juniper’s WAN controller for software-defined traffic optimization, Orange Poland will deliver a powerful
and flexible traffic-engineering solution that enables granular visibility into and control over IP/MPLS flows in their network. Furthermore, with the expected addition
of Juniper’s Contrail HealthBot next year, Orange Poland’s WAN network will have an automated toolset for visibility into operational performance and infrastructure
resources. This will allow Orange Poland to leverage big-data analytics and machine learning in a distributed architecture that puts the power of self-driving
infrastructure at the core of Orange Poland’s cloud.
News highlights:
This deployment will provide a host of benefits, including:
• The automation of Orange Poland’s WAN, enhancing the management of label-switched paths (LSP), redirecting LSPs for maintaining the network resilience in case
of failures and maintenance windows
• The optimization of its infrastructure by monitoring telemetry data, combined with planning tools, to help create explicit routing paths dynamically using a global
view based on user-defined constraints
• Increased network utilization and enabling a customized and programmable networking experience for the creation of traffic-engineering paths across the network
• Once Contrail HealthBot is in place, Orange Poland will be able to utilise its telemetry and management features to improve service delivery across its network. In
addition, real-time and historic monitoring, performance visibility and dynamic optimization features improve cloud orchestration, security, accounting and planning.
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Juniper Networks Helps CERN Peer into the Origins of the Universe, Ready for the Next
Wave of Scientific Discovery
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Juniper Networks, a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, announced that CERN (European Organization for Nuclear
Research), one of the world’s largest and most respected centers for scientific research, has deployed Juniper’s
networking solutions to increase the capacity of its data centers and technical network to adapt to increasing research
requirements. CERN deployed Juniper Networks®QFX Series switches, EX Series Ethernet Switches and is evaluating
Tungsten Fabric to create a network built for extreme computing. CERN’s mission is to learn more about how the
universe works. Home to the world-renowned Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN is advancing the boundaries of
human knowledge through breakthrough research in fundamental physics. CERN chose Juniper Networks for powerful,
high-density switching that is ready to help unlock the mysteries of the universe. The LHC experiments are designed to
observe up to 1.7 billion proton-proton collisions per second and produce a data volume of more than 7.5 terabytes per
second. Only some of these events lead to new discoveries, therefore the flow of data is filtered and reduced to a
manageable level. The LHC experiments’ Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems handle data filtering, collection and
infrastructure monitoring. Juniper’s switching portfolio provides high-throughput connectivity to support the data
collection and infrastructure monitoring.
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NetApp, ENS-Inc Secure California Data Center Modernization Contract
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NetApp, the leader in cloud data services, announced that Enterprise Networking Solutions, Inc. (ENS-Inc), which develops and
deploys scalable solutions to help organizations maximize their IT investments, has been awarded an exclusive three-year contract by
the State of California Department of General Services (DGS) to deliver NetApp’s industry-leading data center modernization and
hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions to the State of California. For this contract, ENS-Inc serves as the sole provider of a complete
catalog of all NetApp® enterprise technology to the State of California, including data center equipment and associated data center
hardware (for example, servers, storage, converged and hyperconverged systems, on-campus networking, and fabric). State and local
government agencies are moving to the cloud, but on-premises infrastructure is needed for workloads that cannot be migrated to the
public cloud. ENS-Inc can now deliver NetApp’s open and scalable on-premises hybrid cloud infrastructure to the State of California,
while also enabling California agencies and departments to use their data fabric to control, integrate, move, and consistently manage
their data across their public cloud and on-premises data center environments. This flexibility will allow California to design its data
fabric to deliver information where, when, and how it is needed for citizen services. NetApp is the leader in cloud data services,
empowering global organizations to change their world with data. Together with our partners, we are the only ones who can help you
build your unique data fabric. Simplify hybrid multiclouds and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right
people at the right time.
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Nokia wins Deutsche Bahn tender to deliver and test the world’s first 5G-based network
for automated rail operation
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Nokia has won a tender to test and deliver the world’s first standalone (SA) 5G system for automated rail operation in Hamburg,
Germany. The project is part of Deutsche Bahn’s highly automated S-Bahn operation project. The proof-of-concept will test whether
5G technology is mature enough to be used as the connectivity layer for future, digitalized rail operations. The project constitutes an
early and important step in the development of the Future Railway Mobile Communications System (FRMCS) standard, based on 5G,
and sets the stage for the digital transformation of railway operations. Nokia is a leader in this market with extensive experience in
providing GSM-R systems to rail operators in 22 countries, covering 109,000 km of track. Overall, Nokia has provided networking,
cybersecurity, IoT and analytics solutions to 110+ operators for both mainline and metro rail. This project to deliver the first 5G SA
solution for rail operation, further emphasizes Nokia’s leadership position. By 2021, as part of the project “Digitale S-Bahn Hamburg”,
highly automated trains (with train drivers on board who keep safety responsibility) are expected to operate on a 23-kilometer section
of the S-Bahn Line 21, starting at Berliner Tor, one of the main transport hubs in Hamburg. Part of the demonstration will include fully
driverless shunting of empty trains in an area near Bergedorf station, based on the transmission of train control information over the
Nokia 5G mobile network. The Nokia 5G solution is based on 3GPP standards for 5G mobile networks, allowing highly or fully
automated trains to exchange relevant data with trackside equipment by 5G radio. This will have positive effects on cross-border
operation, capacity of rail infrastructure, punctuality of trains and also on customer experience.
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Nokia signs contract with TIM Brazil to launch IoT offer
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Nokia has signed a contract with telecommunications giant TIM to provide Internet of Things (IoT) services to its enterprise customers
in Brazil. Using the fully virtualized Nokia Worldwide IoT Network Grid (WING) managed service offer, TIM and its enterprise
customers across industries,such as automotive and agriculture, will be able to capture IoT opportunities faster and more securely. The
Brazilian market is the largest IoT market in Latin America, with widespread adoption of IoT technologies estimated to add USD 200
billion to the country’s economy by 2025. Nokia’s first WING deal in Latin America enables TIM to leverage new business models to
tap this opportunity and generate additional revenue streams. Additionally, incremental services, such as device management and
analytics, will help TIM extend SIM management capabilities to create value added opportunities. WING will enable local and
multinational companies to benefit from global IoT services. It features a distributed architecture that maintains all user data in-country,
such as in Brazil, to remain compliant with data sovereignty and privacy laws. TIM’s enterprise customers will be able to monitor and
manage in real-time their devices, ranging from asset tracking and status sensors for logistics industries to the fully connected car with
on-board diagnostics and telematics. As part of the deployment, the Nokia IMPACT IoT platform, which simplifies the process of
bringing and scaling multiple applications onto a single platform, will provide IoT device management and service capability exposure.
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Ericsson strengthens its 5G research and development with NIB
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Ericsson is announcing that it has signed an agreement for credit facility with the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) for USD 150
million, maturing in 2025. Of these new funds, 98 million will replace credit with NIB that was set to mature in 2021. In addition to
strengthening Ericsson’s balance sheet and financial flexibility, the loan has been granted for the purpose of financing Ericsson to
support investments in research and development (R&D) in relation to the development of 5G technology during the years
2020-2022. Key for success in the telecom industry is the delivery of future-proof, high-quality networks and solutions. To build on
its technology leadership, Ericsson invested SEK 38 billion in R&D in 2018. This has enabled the company to be the leading
contributor in the development of open telecom standards, with some 49,000 patents. Ericsson enables communications service
providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services,
and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency and find new revenue streams.
Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around
the world. The Ericsson stock is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm and on Nasdaq New York.
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BridgeClimb Reaches the Cloud with RingCentral’s Cloud Communications and
Contact Centre Solutions
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BridgeClimb, the operator of Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge experience, has selected RingCentral Australia Pty Ltd, a leading
provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, and contact centre solutions and a wholly owned subsidiary of
RingCentral, Inc., to enable multichannel communications and customer service. Looking to replace its legacy on-premise
infrastructure, BridgeClimb has deployed RingCentral Office® and RingCentral Contact Centre™ solutions across its entire staff.
The implementation and cutover took place in October 2019. The RingCentral Office solution provides voice, video, online
meetings and team messaging to support the communications needs for all BridgeClimb’s staff members. With this solution,
BridgeClimb has replaced at least five different internal systems that they had been running previously to provide these various
capabilities. RingCentral Contact Centre provides BridgeClimb’s customer service team multichannel capabilities with email,
phone and chat in a universal queue. It is integrated with RingCentral Office and provides extensive performance reporting and
analytics across the entire platform. RingCentral’s Professional Services team completed the design, configuration and
implementation of the unified communications and contact centre solutions. It took just seven weeks from the initial meeting
between RingCentral and BridgeClimb to complete the cutover of the new solution.
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SiriusXM chooses Slack for companywide collaboration
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Slack Technologies, Inc. announced that SiriusXM, the world’s largest audio entertainment company, is rolling out Slack
companywide. SiriusXM expects to use Slack as part of its audio production, event management and marketing to bring together
people and applications. With the acquisition earlier this year of Pandora Media, the most popular music streaming app in the U.S.,
SiriusXM employee ranks have expanded. SiriusXM and Pandora now reach more than 100 million people with their audio
products and services. The introduction of Slack as SiriusXM’s choice of a technology and productivity tools is an important part
of the company’s continuing efforts to integrate its geographically diverse workforce. Slack is where work happens. Slack is a new
layer of the business technology stack that brings together people, applications and data—a hub for collaboration where people can
effectively work together, access critical applications and services, and find important information to do their best work. People
around the world use Slack to connect their teams, unify their systems and drive their business forward. Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
(NASDAQ: SIRI) is the world’s largest audio entertainment company, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription-
and advertising-supported audio products. With the addition of Pandora, the largest streaming music provider in the U.S., SiriusXM
reaches more than 100 million people with its audio products.
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Tacton Configures New Approach To Digital Transformation With Sumo
Logic
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Sumo Logic, a leader in continuous intelligence, announced that Tacton, a global leader in enabling smart commerce for manufacturers, has
adopted Sumo Logic as part of a digital transformation initiative taking place across software development, product delivery and business
operations. Using Sumo Logic, the Tacton team has transitioned its business model from being a traditional on-premise software vendor
over to becoming a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, as well as improving its operations and team productivity. In the move, Tacton
achieved efficiency savings for trouble-shooting and reduced time to reconcile data, saving an estimated 30 minutes each time log data was
reconciled compared to previous approaches every time the activity was needed. With multiple logging and analytics tasks required all the
time, this quickly added up to a substantial time saving for Tacton’s developers. Secondly, Tacton achieved full visibility across the
company’s IT infrastructure and stack for the first time, providing vital business intelligence data to the company’s product leadership team,
opening up new revenue and product development opportunities. Tacton is a market leader in the Configure Price Quote (CPQ) sector,
helping manufacturers improve their efficiency when it comes to building and selling their products. Using CPQ, these companies can
streamline their work with customers and ship their goods both faster and to meet planned profitability goals. Since 1998, the Tacton team
has developed product configuration products that help manufacturers improve their sales processes and deliver their products. However,
the company’s leadership team sought to change the business model to one based on SaaS.
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Boldon James Data Classification Solution To Be Included In BAKOTECH
Portfolio
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BAKOTECH Group announces the new partnership with Boldon James, the industry leader in data classification, and the
start of distributing the company’s Classifier solution to the markets of Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia,
Moldova, the Baltic states, and Central Asia. Boldon James Classifier protects your data throughout its lifecycle, and
contains everything users need to start classifying, starting from the standard Office applications, whether using Windows
or MacOS to CAD design documents, and many other file types. It also supports classification on mobile devices.
Successful implementation of the user-defined classification process using the Boldon James tools results in a significant
increase in operational efficiency and return on investment from the company’s information security and data management
solutions. Boldon James supports integration with the widest range of technology partners including Forcepoint, Digital
Guardian, McAfee, Varonis, Citrix, Veritas, Microsoft, and many more. Over 1,000 customers trust Boldon James to protect
their data, including leading organisations in the pharmaceutical, manufacturing, financial and professional services sectors,
system integrators, defence forces and governments.
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Citrix Deepens Ties to Amazon Web Services
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Hybrid environments are the reality of computing today. And Citrix Systems, Inc. is making it easier than ever to manage
them. The company announced that it is deepening its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide businesses
with greater flexibility and choice in deploying Citrix® ADC in hybrid environments and a convenient and easy way to
deliver a secure, reliable experience that engages users and allows them to perform at their best. The news came during
AWS re:Invent 2019, which is taking place in Las Vegas this week. The move to the cloud is on. But not everything can go
there. From regulatory and compliance requirements to latency issues and local processing needs, some apps need to stay
on premises. As a newly validated AWS Outposts solution, Citrix ADC can be used to bring native AWS services,
infrastructure, and operating models to on-premises facilities in a simple, cost-effective way and deliver a consistent hybrid
experience. Companies want the flexibility to control the routing path of their traffic and ability to direct traffic through
virtual appliances of their choice. But it hasn’t been easy to achieve. Until now. Leveraging new Amazon Virtual Private
Cloud (Amazon VPC) ingress routing features, companies can redirect traffic flowing in and out of a VPC through Citrix
ADC to ensure highly available and reliable performance. Amazon VPC Ingress Routing is a service that helps customers
simplify the integration of network and security appliances within their network topology.
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Densify Joins the AWS Partner Network Global Startup Program
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Densify the leader in the Cloud & Container Resource Management software market, announced that it has joined the Amazon Web
Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Global Startup Program. The APN Global Startup is a unique “white glove” support and
go-to-market (GTM) Program for selected startup APN Partners, so that they can build on their AWS expertise, better serve shared
customers, and accelerate their growth. To be selected for the APN Global Startup Program, Densify has to meet pre-defined criteria,
including a clear, demonstrated product market fit for an innovative enterprise tech product, be backed and recommended by a top-tier
venture capital firm, and have a strategic commitment to building their AWS and cloud expertise. The APN Global Startup Program enables
qualifying startups to gain product design wins, visibility, exposure, leads, and commercial opportunities made possible with exclusive APN
resources and dedicated Startup Partner Development Managers (PDM) with deep AWS knowledge and startup business experience, that
guide startups in their growth journey with APN. By becoming an APN Global Startup Partner, Densify will receive benefits ranging from a
tailor-made plan for mapping the startup needs and opportunities to a selection of AWS services and APN programs, promotion support to
drive visibility and awareness around the startup offering, to resources for helping startups sell and deploy innovative solutions on behalf of
AWS shared end-customers. Densify provides cloud and container resource management using patented machine learning that learns the
user’s cloud workloads’ usage patterns and makes recommendations on precisely which type of workloads to purchase. With pre-packaged
reporting and analysis, customers gain immediate visibility into their cloud and container spend and usage, are able to run applications
better, and select the right workloads. Densify’s relationship with AWS can help customers to be kept up to date with the latest
developments from AWS while achieving a continually optimized cloud process.
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Azercell and Ericsson partner to develop 5G in Azerbaijan
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Ericsson and Azercell have already partnered to deliver a test 5G network in the city center of the capital,
Baku, and a pre-commercial 5G pilot zone in the popular Fountains Square area of downtown Baku. The
2020-22 MoU will include the extension of the pilot zone, including 5G use cases, as well as the introduction
of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the mining industry, agriculture, manufacturing, housing and
communal services. Ericsson currently has more than 75 commercial 5G agreements or contracts with unique
communication service providers, of which 24 are live networks. President, Azercell Telecom LLC, says:
“Together with Ericsson, Azercell has launched the first 5G pilot network in the country and this fact puts our
company on a par with the world leaders of the mobile market. We believe that 5G along with being a major
step forward for mobile internet connectivity, will also open new possibilities for enterprises and industries to
deliver greater efficiencies, productivity and empower user experiences.”
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Ericsson and TDC drive 5G commercialization in Denmark with new pilot
network
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The pilot network went live during a joint Ericsson-TDC in event in Helsingør that featured multiple 5G
demonstrations including an immersive gaming experience. The network is built using Ericsson’s commercial
5G hardware and software, including Massive MIMO radio (AIR 6488) from Ericsson Radio System, and
represents an important milestone in Denmark’s journey towards commercial 5G and global Industry 4.0
opportunities. In March 2019, Ericsson was chosen by TDC for the rollout of commercial 5G (including
managed services) as part of a major network overhaul. The 5G pilot network is successfully underway in its
trial phase, operating on a 3.5 GHz test license. President of Europe and Latin America, Ericsson, says: “The
success of this 5G pilot signals great things in store not just for Helsingør but for Denmark as a whole. The
benefits of 5G’s high speeds, low latency, and superior reliability will make a real difference. Ericsson is
leading the way on 5G in Europe, so we are pleased to work with partners such as TDC to ensure that their
customers in turn also benefit from that leadership and expertise.”
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Ericsson and Microsoft team up for the next generation of connected cars
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Ericsson and Microsoft are bringing their connected vehicle expertise together. Ericsson is building its Connected Vehicle Cloud on
top of the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform that is running on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The integrated solution
allows automakers to deploy and scale global vehicle services such as fleet management, over-the-air software updates and
connected safety services much easier and faster while reducing costs. It provides flexibility through modular design and multiple
deployment options. Ericsson’s Connected Vehicle Cloud connects more than 4 million vehicles across 180 countries worldwide -
approximately 10 percent of the connected vehicle market. The platform is tailored to fit vehicle manufacturers’ growing demand
for scalability and flexibility with the capability of supporting any connected vehicle service. Ericsson’s Connected Vehicle Cloud
offloads vehicle manufacturers' complexity of global 24/7 operations and lifecycle management related to connected vehicles with
a guaranteed service-level agreement. The Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform (MCVP) empowers automotive companies to
accelerate the delivery of safe, comfortable and personalized connected driving experiences. It combines cloud infrastructure, edge
technology as well as AI and IoT services with a diverse partner ecosystem. With MCVP, Microsoft offers a consistent,
cloud-connected platform across all digital scenarios on top of which customer-facing solutions can be built, including in-vehicle
infotainment, advanced navigation, autonomous driving, telematics and prediction services, and over-the-air updates. MCVP
includes the hyperscale, global availability, and regulatory compliance that comes with Microsoft Azure.
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Avaya Selects SYNNEX Corporation as a Master Agent for Delivering New Avaya
Cloud Office UCaaS Solution
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Avaya Holdings Corp., a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, announced that
SYNNEX Corporation, a leading business process services company, now offers the new Avaya Cloud Office UCaaS solution
through its extensive partner network as part of the Avaya Master Agent program. Avaya continues to work to address the evolving
needs of its large customer base with new UC and CC cloud solutions provided through a global partner ecosystem. This includes
Avaya Cloud Office, a world-class public UC-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solution developed by Avaya and RingCentral as part of their
recently announced strategic partnership. Avaya Cloud Office, coming in the first quarter of 2020, is intended to provide customer’s
with a seamless journey to cloud-based unified communications built on the industry’s leading UCaaS platform combined with
Avaya-only capabilities including unique features, device interoperability and migration tools. As an industry-leading distribution
partner, SYNNEX is able to drive Avaya cloud communications solutions through its nationwide network of sales agents.
SYNNEX sales agents can offer an industry-leading solution to customers which includes unified communications services fully
hosted by Avaya; contact center solutions; bundled carrier services such as minutes and SIP Trunks; desktop options; delivery,
management, and support; and monthly subscription-based billing. SYNNEX is the newest cloud Master Agent for Avaya.
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Fujitsu Laboratories and Aichi Cancer Center in Japan Sign Comprehensive Joint Research
Agreement to Drive Advances in Cancer Genomic Medicine with AI Technology
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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Aichi Cancer Center(1) have successfully concluded a comprehensive cooperative research agreement to
leverage newly developed AI technology to improve the efficiency of cancer genome information analysis and contribute to advances
in the field of cancer genomic medicine(2). The joint research, which builds on Fujitsu Laboratories' recent collaborative efforts with
the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo and AI technologies cultivated by Fujitsu Laboratories(3), will draw on
knowledge and issues identified through the research and clinical studies of cancer genome medical care at Aichi Cancer Center, as
well as large-scale genomic data and medical records held by the Center. Ultimately, the results of the joint research by Aichi Cancer
Center and Fujitsu will lead to the development of various AI technologies that offer the potential to innovate cancer genome medical
care at Aichi Cancer Center and affiliated medical institutions. The Aichi Cancer Center in Japan aims to establish a system that links
the results of multigene panel testing for cancer(4) to future, advanced medical care for cancer patients. In the emergent field of
genomic cancer medicine, a board of molecular tumor specialists interprets the results of a patient's cancer gene profile to formulate
appropriate treatment plans based on their unique circumstances. This process remains very time consuming, however, proving a
challenge for the Aichi Cancer Center and other institutions engaged in this field-as the number of genetic tests increases, the burden on
doctors, who must interpret results on an individual basis, continues to mount.
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Fujitsu Takes Key Step Toward Implementing SAP S/4HANA® Manufacturing for Production Engineering
and Operations to Streamline Aircraft Production at Kawasaki Heavy Industries
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Fujitsu Limited and SAP Japan announced that Fujitsu has successfully completed design efforts in preparation for the full-scale
implementation of the SAP S/4HANA® Manufacturing solution for production engineering and operations. 1 With a planned launch date of
July 2020, the solution will play an instrumental role in the integration of design and manufacturing processes conducted by the Aerospace
Systems Company under Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. (KHI). To date, KHI has manually performed tasks that arise in its manufacturing
work processes, relying on paper documents. In its efforts to provide greater detail in traceability and disclosure of information for its
customers, however, KHI faced challenges with the digitalization of massive quantities of materials and enhancing efficiency in its
operations. To help KHI overcome these issues, Fujitsu will implement SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for production engineering and
operations(1), contributing to the digitalization of its paper documents and streamlining its manufacturing work processes. Manufacturing a
single aircraft involves the small-lot production of numerous product types with various required specifications. This is exemplified by the
fact that designs differ for each aircraft, and that the number of aircraft units produced is predetermined to some degree. This means that it
remains difficult to automate aircraft manufacturing processes, and a majority of the tasks involved still depend on the manual work of
veteran engineers. Moreover, manufacturing processes take on a greater level of complexity because of the need to collaborate closely with
numerous partner companies, while certification agencies demand strict management of manufacturing records and inspection records to
ensure traceability. Another challenge lies in improving the efficiency of systems that provide manufacturing sites with accurate and
thorough information-this remains essential to quickly accommodating various technical requests, including sudden changes to design
drawings or specifications.
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Fuze Partners with Snap Recordings to Personalize Contact Centers
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Fuze, the leading cloud-based communications provider for the modern global enterprise, announced a partnership with Snap Recordings, a
leader in professional voice recordings for business phone systems. The partnership empowers Fuze cloud contact centers with automated
voice recordings for a more personalized and streamlined customer experience, ultimately creating the human connection that is critical to
customer loyalty and satisfaction. In an effort to operate more efficiently and optimize business communications, organizations are
increasingly turning to automation. According to a report from Gartner, workplace automation is anticipated to deliver $2.9 trillion of
business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally. Automation is used to deliver smarter interactions and create template
responses for call center agents to approve and distribute, saving them time and freeing them up to complete other important tasks. Snap
Recordings provides professional voice recordings that enhance the features and benefits of business phone systems. Partnering with the
world’s top business phone system providers, Snap Recordings offers an intuitive online ordering platform, more than 100 industry leading
voice talents, and over 1000 pre-licensed music tracks. Fuze is a global cloud communications provider for the enterprise. Our intuitive
unified communications and contact center platform enables seamless transition between calling, meeting, chatting, and sharing powered by
the industry-leading cloud voice for the enterprise. Fuze empowers the digital and distributed workforce to communicate anywhere,
anytime, and across any device. Founded in 2006, Fuze is headquartered in Boston, MA with offices around the world.
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Garland Technology Announces TLS Decryption Network Security Solution with
A10 Networks
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Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker, and cloud visibility solutions,
announced it is working with A10 Networks to develop a solution that addresses the large gap in visibility for encrypted
traffic, which was recently integrated for ToyoTech, a mutual technology partner, in Tokyo, Japan. A10 Networks has
worked with Garland Technology to provide an inline security layer without compromising network uptime. A10
Networks’ Thunder® SSLi eliminates blind spots by creating a secure decrypt zone within the network to enhance the
efficiency and efficacy of security devices. Garland Technology’s Inline Edge Security solutions deliver bypass
technology that also sends the SSL decrypted traffic from Thunder SSLi to application performance monitoring tools,
adding seamless SSL decryption to necessary workflows. Garland is committed to educating all organizations and
individuals on the benefits of having a strong foundation of network visibility and access. Seeing every bit, byte and
packet is critical. Garland’s unique educational-based approach provides your team with the best monitoring and
security solutions to meet your needs.
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HPAccelerates Shift to Contractual with New Multi‐Vendor Financing Model
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HP Inc. announced it has expanded its financing and leasing options for channel partners and customers. Through an extended
partnership agreement with HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) and a new strategic program with global finance company DLL
Group (DLL), HP Integrated Financial Solutions will help accelerate and enhance the financing experience for customers and
enable channel partners to grow their services-based businesses. As the industry increasingly moves to XaaS
(Everything-as-a-Service) models, leasing and financing underpins HP’s approach to contractual selling—helping the company
accelerate and augment services and solutions. By moving to a multi-vendor financing model with both HPEFS and DLL, HP
Integrated Financial Solutions will help channel partners secure recurring revenue from their client base and offer more competitive
payment options resulting in stronger customer engagement and the ability to bundle products and maximize opportunities. Since
2015, HPEFS has been a trusted HP financing partner, and will remain so supporting HP’s direct led sales with public, corporate
and enterprise business customers, its Graphics and 3D businesses globally, and its indirect Managed Print Services (MPS)
business in EMEA. HPEFS is also HP’s sole partner for North American and Latin American markets. The three-year extension to
the partnership agreement reinforces the commitment and value the two companies can provide to HP’s customers and partners. HP
plans to extend the multi-vendor model in 2020 with the addition of new local and regional finance partners to ensure country
coverage across emerging markets.
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Inspur and Intel Jointly Release Industry-Leading All-flash Storage with Dual-Port
Optane SSD
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Inspur and Intel jointly launched its midrange all-flash storage AS5000G5-F series with dual-port Optane SSD. The AS5000G5-F series offers up to 8
million IOPS and 0.1ms latency, making it one of the highest performance midrange storage platforms in the industry. Consisting of four models including
AS5300G5-F, AS5500G5-F, AS5600G5-F and AS5800G5-F, the midrange all-flash AS5000G5-F series from Inspur drives performance improvements in
both software and hardware. In addition, Inspur also offers a software defined storage solution, AS13000G5, which supports single-port Optane SSD. On
the hardware side, Inspur's midrange all-flash storage AS5000G5-F adopts the second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and uses an extreme
performance dual-port Optane SSD as its cache layer. Offering a single-disk performance up to 560k IOPS or 2.4GB/s bandwidth and a read response time
of 22 microseconds, the Optane SSD can bridge the performance and capacity gap between memory and traditional storage media. Also, leveraging the
medium advantage of 3D Xpoint, the dual-port Optane SSD provides a DWPD up to 30, which is 30-60 times the life of TLC 3D NAND SSD. At the same
time, compared with SAS protocol, NVMe is a high-performance protocol especially designed for flash media, which is capable of running a large number
of parallel IO operations. On the software side, the AS5000G5-F series delivers improved performance and all-flash medium service efficiency by utilizing
innovative technologies such as InTier intelligent layering, real-time compression/re-delete, space recycle and intelligent medium life detection. Using
intelligent layering as an example, data is divided into four tiers, i.e. boiling, hot, warm and cold. The data hotspot degree is precisely located through
AI-based intelligent hotspot identification, sequence flow identification and accurate cold data elimination algorithm. 3D Xpoint’s advantages are
leveraged by facilitating intelligent data flow within different media such as high-performance Optane SSD, NAND SSD and high-capacity HDD to
optimize performance based on data type. For example, the AS5000G5-F series would store metadata, a typical type of boiling point data, on
high-performance, low-latency Optane SSD to accelerate metadata access.
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Intel and MediaTek Partner to Deliver 5G on the PC
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Intel is partnering with MediaTek on the development, certification and support of 5G modem solutions for the next generation of PC
experiences. As part of the partnership, Intel will define a 5G solution specification, including a 5G modem to be developed and
delivered by MediaTek. Intel will also provide optimization and validation across the platform and lend system integration and
co-engineering support to further enable its OEM partners. The first products are targeting availability in early 2021. Dell and HP are
expected to be among the first OEMs to deliver laptops enabled with Intel and MediaTek’s 5G solution. 5G will be the most significant
network transformation in history. It represents the convergence of computing and communications, and it will open the door for new
PC experiences and the way we connect with the world around us. Intel believes that the future’s best PCs will deliver experiences that
help people do more of what they set out to achieve, and next-generation technologies like 5G are powerful building blocks in bringing
those experiences to life. Intel is the volume leader in both wireless and cellular connected PCs today with its Intel Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) and
LTE solutions optimized across consumer and commercial segments. Underscoring Intel’s commitment to enabling powerful PC
platforms for the data-centric era, including its Project Athena innovation program, this partnership expands Intel’s portfolio of
leadership connectivity products to deliver 5G on future generations of advanced laptops.
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Vodafone Idea Business Services And Ibm Collaborate To Launch Secure Device
Management Solution
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Vodafone Idea Business Services (VIBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone Idea Ltd. (VIL), country’s leading telecom operator, announced the launch of Vodafone Secure
Device Manager (VSDM), powered by IBM Security MaaS360, a Unified End-point Management (UEM). VSDM UEM enables trusted apps and content on any device,
on-the-go delivering mobile security for the way people work. As part of the agreement with IBM, VIBS will leverage IBM Security MaaS360 to deliver an AI approach to
UEM to enable endpoints, end-users, and everything in between — including apps, content, and data. As more and more organizations move towards a digital workplace,
companies need to enable employees with any time and anywhere connectivity - delivered through a secure environment. VSDM empowers companies with a wide array of
functionalities like containerization, secure access to company apps while on the go, ability to push policies, control access to apps while at work, provide content that
employees need to be productive while maintaining data security and personal privacy. Through VSDM, enterprises can increase employee productivity by optimizing the
functionality and security of devices within the enterprise. All this, while maintaining complete security, visibility and control over each and every device.
KEY FEATURES
• AI capability for malware & threat management
• Industries best user interface for Apps & Workspace container
• Single Sign-on (SSO) with cloud identity to Web and SaaS apps on mobile
• Business Dashboard with App intelligence and reporting
The platform, leveraging IBM Security MaaS360 is designed to secure emails, protect devices containing company information used for automating the field sales force, and
securing company data and apps on Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scenario, all while respecting the personal privacy of the employees. The platform is flexible and can
be customized to each company’s security policies with the option of different policies for different employee profiles. The platform provides AI insights and contextual
analytics, capabilities to proactively defend against malware and other threats, Single Sign On (SSO) to Web & SaaS Apps on devices and Business Dashboard for Apps. It
also comes with a top-notch user interface for Apps and workspace containers.
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Mozilla and BMZ Announce Cooperation to Open Up Voice Technology for African
Languages
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Mozilla and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) have announced to join forces in the collection of open speech
data in local languages, as well as the development of local innovation ecosystems for voice-enabled products and technologies. The initiative builds
on the pilot project, which our Open Innovation team and the Machine Learning Group started together with the organization “Digital Umuganda”
earlier this year. The Rwandan start-up collects language data in Kinyarwanda, an African language spoken by over 12 million people. Further
languages in Africa and Asia are going to be added. Mozilla’s projects Common Voice and Deep Speech will be the heart of the joint initiative, which
aims at collecting diverse voice data and opening up a common, public database. Mozilla and the BMZ are planning to partner and collaborate with
African start-ups, which need respective training data in order to develop locally suitable, voice-enabled products or technologies that are relevant to
their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Mozilla and the BMZ are also inviting like-minded companies and identifying further countries
interested in joining their efforts to open up language data. The German Ministry and Mozilla share a similar vision and work towards the responsible
use of automated decision-making and artificial intelligence for sustainable development on scale. Supporting partner countries in reaching the SDGs,
today, the BMZ is carrying out more than 470 digitally enhanced projects in over 90 countries around the world. As part of the National Strategy for
Artificial Intelligence, the Federal German Government has agreed to support developing countries in building up capacities and knowledge on
opportunities and challenges of AI – an area of expertise that the Mozilla Foundation has heavily invested in with their work on trustworthy AI.
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Nokia builds strategic ecosystem partnership to bring 5G and IoT to enterprises in
Japan
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Nokia announced that it is building out its strategic partnership ecosystem to bring local 5G/private wireless LTE to industrial and government
customers in Japan. Spectrum designated for local 5G will be released in Japan at the end of 2019 for enterprise use. Taking advantage of this new
spectrum and together with its industry leading partners, Nokia will help accelerate IoT for industries in Japan by uniquely offering an end-to-end
industrial grade private wireless portfolio. The Japanese government is releasing 5G spectrum designated for individual companies and local
governments (known in Japan as local 5G) at the end of 2019. This will enable enterprises, regional authorities and other organizations in Japan to
deploy the next-generation of industrial-strength wireless connectivity based on LTE and 5G technologies to create local private, reliable networks.
Nokia has built a partnership eco-system with five industry leading companies spanning multiple segments, including NS Solutions for factory IoT,
Marubeni for global IoT, Internet Initiative Japan for Full MVNO, Equinix for multi-cloud and global data centers, and Hitachi Kokusai Electric for
smart social infrastructure and smart cities with video solutions. Through these partnerships, enterprise customers can explore end to end, secure,
reliable, low-latency connectivity powered by Nokia’s technologies and solutions. Nokia’s local 5G/private wireless LTE portfolio offers
ultra-reliable and secure broadband wireless connectivity that delivers near spotless coverage across industrial sites. The industrial-grade solutions
also seamlessly expand the enterprise's business footprint to support new applications as they embrace the move to Industry 4.0.
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SETAR and Nokia bring 5G to Aruba in end-to-end deal
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SETAR, the leading communications provider in Aruba, has expanded its current partnership with Nokia with an agreement to provide
a full end-to-end 5G network transformation. In a phased approach, the deal will see Nokia upgrading RAN access and modernizing
elements of the core and data management systems. This is the first end-to-end 5G deal for Nokia in Latin America. SETAR is the
incumbent communications service provider in Aruba and the leader in all segments of communications, including mobile, cable TV,
fixed and broadband. The upgrade to its network will future-proof its infrastructure and offer new business services in areas like
hospitality, healthcare and gaming. By working with Nokia’s end-to-end portfolio, SETAR benefits from accelerated time-to-market
and improved total cost of ownership. Nokia already works with SETAR to run a 4.5G Pro-based island-wide network using Single
RAN Advanced AirScale technology – a flexible network that ensures easy re-farming of spectrum as needed. SETAR 4.5G Pro is the
fastest mobile network in Latin America, currently holding 16th and 4th positions in downlink and uplink speeds respectively in the
global mobile network ranking (according to Ookla speed ranking). SETAR moved up more than 30 positions in downlink speeds and
more than 50 positions in uplink speeds rankings after completing the network modernization with Nokia in June 2019.
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Westcon Becomes RingCentral Platinum Partner
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Westcon, the global technology distributor, announced that it has been named a Platinum Partner of RingCentral UK Ltd., a leading
provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration, and contact centre solutions and a wholly-owned subsidiary of
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG). Being named a Platinum Partner cements Westcon’s status as one of RingCentral’s most strategic
partners. This news follows the announcement earlier this year that Westcon is now a Master Agent for RingCentral in the UK and
Ireland, making the value-added distributor RingCentral’s lead partner in its new master agency model for Europe. Through its
partnership with RingCentral, Westcon offers its customers a differentiated and seamless communications and collaboration solution.
RingCentral provides a single cloud platform with multi-modal communications capabilities including voice, video, online meetings,
team messaging, and digital customer engagement. RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE:RNG) is a leading provider of global enterprise cloud
communications, collaboration, and contact centre solutions. More flexible and cost-effective than legacy on-premises systems, the
RingCentral platform empowers employees to work better together, from any location, on any device, and via any mode to serve
customers, improving business efficiency and customer satisfaction. The company provides unified voice, video meetings, team
messaging, digital customer engagement, and integrated contact centre solutions for enterprises globally. RingCentral’s open platform
integrates with leading business apps and enables customers to easily customise business workflows. RingCentral is headquartered in
Belmont, California, and has offices around the world.
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Rogers and University of Waterloo Partner to Build Made-In-Canada 5G
Technology
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Rogers Communications and the University of Waterloo announced a three-year, multi-million dollar partnership agreement
to advance 5G research in the Toronto-Waterloo tech corridor. Together they will create the first 5G smart campus in central
Canada. The partnership will focus on 5G research in the areas of engineering, network design, applied mathematics and
artificial intelligence. Rogers and the University will also build a 5G network on campus that will test network
infrastructure, frequencies and applications in a real world Canadian environment. Establishing the first wave of research
projects and construction of the smart campus will begin in early 2020. As part of the partnership, Rogers is a founding
partner of the Gateway for Enterprises to Discover Innovation at the University of Waterloo (GEDI), a central place for
companies to access the full potential of Waterloo’s research, talent and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Rogers also announced
it is the first wireless provider to work with ENCQOR 5G, a $400-million partnership led by the governments of Canada,
Ontario and Quebec. ENCQOR has established the first pre-commercial 5G telecommunications corridor in Canada and
brings together a vast network of companies, organizations and researchers who want to innovate by using the full potential
of 5G. Through ENCQOR, Rogers will support small and medium-sized enterprises as they work toward unlocking the
technological promise of 5G.
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Rackspace Expands Professional and Managed Services to Accelerate Customer
Cloud Adoption with Amazon Web Services
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Rackspace accelerates its growth as a full stack service provider by expanding its portfolio of Rackspace Service Blocks™. This news expands
Rackspace’s leadership in providing professional and managed services for Amazon Web Services (AWS). With the expansion of the Service
Blocks portfolio, Rackspace further empowers customers to keep pace with innovation and capitalize on new services and features like Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), and Serverless Computing. Rackspace Service Blocks is the modular cloud
services portfolio comprised of discrete, customizable services provided on a flexible consumption model, which allows customers to only pay
for the cloud services they need, optimizing IT economics. Today’s newly introduced Rackspace Service Block patterns are designed to
streamline the adoption of AWS by consolidating broad expertise across infrastructure, applications, data, strategy and integration. This expertise
is distilled into solution roadmaps designed to help customers deploy three key types of solutions:
• Container Services Journey – A combination of Professional Services, Managed Cloud and Advanced Kubernetes Management Service Blocks,
this offering helps customers outline their container strategy, build containerized applications and transition them into ongoing management.
• Hybrid Transformation with VMware Cloud on AWS – A grouping of managed and professional services designed to provide customers with
the tools and expertise needed to make a smooth transition to hybrid cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS.
• Data Modernization – This configuration helps customers streamline analytics processes, uncover deficiencies within processes and derive
meaning from data to enable better data-driven business decisions and serve their customers with accurate and timely data.
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Audiokinetic Inc: Leading global provider for cross-platform audio solutions,
launches subsidiary in Shanghai, China.
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Audiokinetic Inc., the leading global provider of cross-platform audio solutions for the interactive media and gaming
industries, launches Audiokinetic Shanghai Technology Co, Ltd. in China. Not new to China, Audiokinetic’s clients
include some of the most reputable game developers from Indies to AAA, as well as some of China’s largest
technology companies, such as Alibaba, Kingsoft, NetEase, and Tencent. Audiokinetic celebrated the launch of its
China subsidiary during its Wwise Tour, Shanghai event, 2019. The Wwise Tour is a highly anticipated industry
event during which some of the very best game audio teams around the world share their projects and expertise. At
this year’s event, the Wwise Tour features presentations from Bandai Namco Studios and YOOZOO Games. While
Audiokinetic’s Wwise engine has made its mark in the interactive media and gaming world, it is now facilitating the
advancement of interactive audio across multiple sectors. Audiokinetic sets new standards in audio production for
interactive media and games. The company’s middleware solutions, including the award-winning Wwise® and
SoundSeed®, empower sound designers and audio programmers with a cost effective, comprehensive authoring tool
and audio engine for creating innovative interactive experiences. Audiokinetic is headquartered in Montréal, QC,
Canada, has subsidiaries in Tokyo, Japan, and Shanghai, China, as well as Product Experts in Europe.
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Upcoming Events - Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
SPLUNK 4 ROOKIES - LONDON
Splunk4Rookies sessions are a great opportunity for
you to discover the value of Splunk hands-on in a
matter of hours.
Hosted By : Softcat
London,UK
9 Jan, 2020
https://www.softcat.com/events/splunk-4-rookies-london-82183500061/
Captive Eight Seattle
Join us for our 168th Captive Eight event where we
combine an Executive Meet-up with Business
Speed-Networking to create a casual and highly
valuable experience.
Hosted By : Captive8
Seattle, USA
14 Jan, 2020
https://captiveeight.com/calendar-event/it-event-168/
Palo Alto, CA
Join us for our 169th Captive Eight event where we combine
an Executive Meet-up with Business Speed-Networking to
create a casual and highly valuable experience.
Hosted By : Captive8
Palo Alto, USA
15 Jan, 2020
https://captiveeight.com/calendar-event/it-event-169/
Fujitsu Storage Days
Fujitsu and the 10th Storage Days now stand not only for
these values, but also for the continuous adaptation and
integration of innovations in the Fujitsu storage solution
portfolio and thus always adapted to the requirements of
today and tomorrow.
Hosted By : Fujitsu
Hannover, Germany
28 Jan, 2020
https://www.fujitsu.com/de/microsite/storage-days-2020/
Fujitsu Storage Days
Fujitsu and the 10th Storage Days now stand not only for
these values, but also for the continuous adaptation and
integration of innovations in the Fujitsu storage solution
portfolio and thus always adapted to the requirements of
today and tomorrow.
Hosted By : Fujitsu
Dresden, Germany
30 Jan, 2020
https://www.fujitsu.com/de/microsite/storage-days-2020/
Fabasoft egovday 2020
The time has come again in January! The Fabasoft egovdays stop
in Munich. Fabasoft is presenting innovations, trends and
highlights from the e-government sector for the 16th time. The
Fabasoft egovdays are again all about individual solutions and
target group-specific applications for public administration.
Hosted By : Fabasoft
Munich, Germany
21 Jan, 2020
https://www.fabasoft.com/en/news/events/fabasoft-egovday-2020-vienna
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Fabasoft egovday 2020
The time has come again in January! The Fabasoft egovdays stop
in Munich. Fabasoft is presenting innovations, trends and
highlights from the e-government sector for the 16th time. The
Fabasoft egovdays are again all about individual solutions and
target group-specific applications for public administration.
Hosted By : Fabasoft
Vienna, Germany
24 Jan, 2020
https://www.fabasoft.com/en/news/events/fabasoft-egovday-2020-vienna
CES
CES is the world's gathering place for all those who thrive on the
business of consumer technologies. It has served as the proving
ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for 50
years — the global stage where next-generation innovations are
introduced to the marketplace.
Hosted By : CES
Nevada, USA
7-10 Jan, 2020
https://www.ces.tech/
DistribuTECH
This year, DISTRIBUTECH International is excited to
partner with our host utility, CPS Energy, to provide the
perfect platform for learning and networking on the
exhibit floor.
Hosted By : Clarion Events
Texas, USA
28-30 Jan,
https://www.distributech.com/index.html
Pax South
PAX Rising showcases engaging games developed by
smaller teams. The folks at PAX believe these titles have a
chance to rise above their modest beginnings, by growing as
a company, establishing a fan base or pushing the industry.
Hosted By : Penny Arcade
Texas, USA
17-19 Jan, 2020
https://south.paxsite.com/
helpLine User Group Meeting
It offers all participants the ideal platform to receive
first-hand information, to speak personally with experts and
to exchange ideas with like-minded people.
Hosted By : ontrex
Zurich, Germany
23 Jan, 2020
https://www.ontrex.ch/unternehmen/events/misc/helpline-ugm-2020/?src=sl
ICIOTCC 2020 - Fifth International Conference on Internet of Things and
Cloud Computing 2020
The International Conference on Internet of Things and Cloud Computing 2020 (ICIOTCC
2020), aims to bring researchers, scientists, engineers and research scholar together to
exchange and share their experiences, new ideas and the research outcome of all possible
aspects of Internet of Things and Cloud Computing. So, considering the recent advancements
and others the conference tiled has been selected. IoT systems are becoming increasingly
complex.
Hosted By : ASDF
New delhi, USA
3-4 Jan, 2020
https://confintl.org/iciotcc/
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