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Core Specialty Leads the Way in Innovation with Duck Creek's Cloud-based SaaS Solutions via Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Duck Creek Technologies, the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of property and casualty (P&C) and general insurance, highlights Core Specialty as its inaugural customer transacting its Duck Creek OnDemand subscription on Microsoft’s commercial marketplace to use its existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC). Duck Creek and Microsoft are enhancing customer experience and streamlining transactions for technology-centric insurers such as Core Specialty. As a forward-facing leader in the insurance industry, Core Specialty recognizes the strategic value of acquiring software-as-a-service (SaaS) products through the Azure Marketplace. This approach allows Core Specialty to apply its Duck Creek SaaS fee payments as a credit to its MACC and simplifies the billing process through a consolidated invoice. As a technology-focused insurer immersed in continuous product innovation and business expansion, Core Specialty benefits from Duck Creek's presence in the commercial marketplace. This relationship between Duck Creek and Microsoft drives impactful results for insurers with regard to scalability, security, and sustainability, as well as getting to market quickly with innovative and emerging technologies. “We take pride in championing Core Specialty on their path to growth, innovation, and service excellence for both their customers and distribution partners through our world-class solutions and industry expertise,” said Mike Jackowski, Chief Executive Officer, Duck Creek Technologies. “The decision to make Duck Creek solutions available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace is a strategic move and adds substantial value for insurers by aligning their Duck Creek and Microsoft relationship and investments with impactful results." “Duck Creek’s win with Core Specialty Insurance demonstrates the immense partner opportunity of building on Microsoft Azure and selling solutions via the Azure Marketplace, resulting in streamlining Core Specialty’s cloud transformation strategy across SaaS and transactable solutions. This underscores the power of collaboration, where forward-thinking technology providers and insurers come together to drive innovation, enhance customer experiences, and transform the insurance landscape. As we continue to empower the financial services industry, relationships like these exemplify the true potential of the cloud and the Microsoft partner ecosystem,” said Karen Del Vescovo, CVP Financial Services, Microsoft. "At Core Specialty, our dedication to meeting the needs of our customers and brokers is unwavering,” said Jeff Consolino, Founder, President & Chief Executive Officer, Core Specialty. “Through our relationship with Duck Creek and Microsoft, we have heightened our emphasis on using technology to elevate the customer experience. This relationship empowers us to uphold our commitment to delivering exceptional service and innovative solutions." Learn more about the Azure Marketplace and how insurers with Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) credits can use their spend towards Duck Creek’s OnDemand solutions, including policy, rating, billing, claims, producer, insights, distribution management, and industry content.
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Perifery and Amove Partner to Enhance Remote Production Collaboration and Storage Management
Perifery™, a division of DataCore, and Amove today announced their partnership to simplify video production collaboration and storage management from any location. The integration enables instant access to users' digital assets stored on Perifery's Object Matrix via the Amove desktop application. "Our partnership with Amove empowers customers with seamless, non-proprietary access to their content," commented Peter Watling, Sales Director at Perifery. "Perifery's solutions are built to enable the efficient management of media assets, and by integrating with Amove's storage-agnostic tools, we are able to extend the capabilities of workflows further. It's great to have this relationship with a vendor who is so strongly aligned with our own goals." Perifery's Object Matrix is a media-focused object storage platform designed to enhance media workflow capabilities with an array of features, including self-serve access to content, robust security measurements, and enhanced metadata and business rules support. Implemented as a stand-alone or as a part of a unified storage platform, Object Matrix delivers financial and operational efficiencies, full digital content governance, and multiple media-based workflows, providing secure access to all archive content from anywhere, at any time. Amove takes an agnostic approach as a single source for all cloud storage and file management, supporting any size team collaboration. Designed to integrate with any storage endpoint, Amove allows users to instantly access their cloud buckets and large files from any location with no system lock-in, directly from the desktop. Features include remote video production collaboration, instant local access to any cloud storage, unlimited drives and backups, file/bucket deduplication, file sharing, constant syncing across clouds and devices, and robust, high-speed cloud-to-cloud migrations. Patrick Kennedy, CEO at Amove says, "With continued exponential content growth in video production and remote media workflows, having the most intuitive, flexible, and powerful tools to efficiently manage storage and files is critical. Both Amove and Object Matrix technologies focus on ecosystem, simplicity, performance, and cost-efficiency. We're pleased to be working with Perifery to offer this integration to data-conscious organizations and innovative remote teams." Perifery will be exhibiting in booth SL2089 at the 2024 NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 14-17. For more information about Perifery, and to schedule a meeting at NAB, visit perifery.com
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Zoom launches Zoom Workplace in AWS Marketplace
Today, Zoom announced that Zoom Workplace, Zoom’s AI-powered collaboration platform, is now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now customers can seamlessly purchase Zoom Workplace products –- such as Meetings, Team Chat, Phone, Whiteboard, Spaces — as well as Zoom Contact Center and Revenue Accelerator in AWS Marketplace. Building on Zoom's more than two years of success serving the Public Sector as an AWS independent software vendor (ISV), Zoom recognizes that it is crucial to equip customers with the right resources and opportunities to enhance their collaboration and communications in today’s digital-first world. This streamlined purchasing option of Zoom Workplace can help AWS customers consolidate their technology purchasing and billing of Zoom solutions, discover partners that can facilitate deployment, and maximize their usage of AWS committed resources. “By making Zoom available through a private offer in AWS Marketplace, we are able to reach more customers and are better equipped to enable IT teams to consolidate their technology,” said Graeme Geddes, chief growth officer at Zoom. “At Zoom, we are excited to build upon our already strong relationship with AWS and work together further to help meet the business and technology needs of our customers.” Zoom incorporates over 40 different AWS services, including compute, storage, and encryption capabilities. Zoom’s Customer Managed Key offering allows customers to bring their own encryption keys using AWS Key Management Service to help protect certain data. Additionally, AWS AppFabric integrates with the Zoom Developer Platform to help businesses break down data silos, improve cross-application workflows, enhance security observability, and support employee productivity. In 2023, AWS named Zoom as a NAMER finalist for its 2023 Geo and Global AWS Partner Award within the Education Partners of the Year category. For Zoom channel partners that already participate in the Channel Partner Private Offer (CPPO) feature in AWS Marketplace, please reach out to your Zoom point of contact to express interest in working with Zoom on this in the future. To access Zoom Workplace in AWS Marketplace, please visit this link. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-dnojftiabnvnc Some features and products may not be available for all regions and industry verticals at launch.
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Lantronix Announces Percepxion, Its New Cloud Software Platform for IoT Devices
Lantronix Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a global provider of compute and connectivity IoT solutions, today announced Percepxion™, its new Cloud IoT Edge Solutions platform. Percepxion is pre-configured into Lantronix’s award-winning IoT gateways, routers, trackers and switches to provide secure, comprehensive device lifecycle management. The Percepxion platform efficiently scales edge deployments from regional to global and is managed through an intuitive single pane of glass. “The Percepxion platform provides our customers with an easy-to-deploy IoT solution that comes pre-configured on our connect and compute products,” said Jacques Issa, vice president of Marketing at Lantronix Inc. “Percepxion’s multi-tenant feature enables a B2B solution, generating incremental revenue streams for our end customers.” Remote installation of Lantronix devices includes zero-touch automated provisioning managed through Percepxion. Site-required firmware, configuration and certificates are remotely loaded to ensure secure data communication and compliant devices. It is ideal for critical infrastructure management, fleet management, smart cities and other end-to-end IoT edge solutions. Key Percepxion features include: Robust Security. Percepxion simplifies software updates for maintaining robust device cybersecurity. The cloud platform complies with complex security requirements from corporate security offices for devices, data access and users, ensuring integrity and confidentiality across entire solutions. Real-Time Device Operation. Percepxion enables real-time remote access for diagnosing and troubleshooting as well as over-the-air updates with select grouping and automated monitoring that generate alerts and notifications to minimize system downtime. Powerful Data Integration and Analysis. Percepxion’s custom dashboards provide on-demand visibility of device telemetry data. Trend analysis provides edge insights to improve efficiency and create predictive maintenance applications. Enterprise use cases can access data using Percepxion API services for headless operation. Percepxion's holistic approach to IoT edge solutions accelerates time to revenue by simplifying edge management and maintenance while providing customers with assistance and long-term assurance. The Percepxion Service for Lantronix Devices Delivered as a service, the Percepxion multi-tenant cloud platform provides businesses with comprehensive device lifecycle management through Web and mobile apps. It is offered with bundled Level Technical Support, limited warranty and other optional services To learn more about Percepxion and review the 60-day free trial offer, visit https://www.lantronix.com/percepxion/
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Meltwater joins forces with Microsoft to bring to market the next-generation, AI-powered communication insights solution built on Microsoft Azure
Meltwater, a leading global provider of media, social, and consumer intelligence, today announced the launch of a market-making collaboration with Microsoft. Microsoft has signed with Meltwater as a provider of media, social, and consumer intelligence on a global scale. In turn, Microsoft will work with Meltwater to deliver an integrated communications insights solution, harnessing the capabilities of Meltwater's leading listening tools alongside Microsoft’s technology stack, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Teams. This solution will combine Microsoft’s advanced AI services with user-centric design to redefine the customer experience by turning data into dialogue, enabling better collaboration and quick action on business-critical news, market shifts, trends, and competitive intelligence. Meltwater also agreed to a multi-year commitment to make Microsoft Azure its preferred cloud platform for future Microsoft customer deployments. In the era of AI, organizations need easy-to-use solutions that enable them to be more productive, more efficient, and more creative. Meltwater is taking its world-class data set and building on Microsoft’s industry-leading AI technologies to unlock data-driven insights and power better decision making. Together, they will develop a new generative AI-powered offering, with customer value at the center to solve critical customer challenges—faster. The new solution will allow enterprise users of Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams who are Meltwater customers to engage conversationally with Meltwater's global data set, providing easy access to real-time insights such as brand mentions, sentiment analysis, key issues, and competitive benchmarking. This means that the right insight is not just a simple request away, but also presented in an easy-to-action, accessible way that drives strategic decisions, integrated directly inside of Teams. This builds on Meltwater’s existing integration with Teams, which is already bringing value to more than 1500 Meltwater customers with seamless delivery of AI-powered alerts right into Teams. “By harnessing the power of Microsoft’s technology stack and AI capabilities, we're pushing the boundaries of our existing integration further, allowing users to interact with Meltwater’s analytics tools through intuitive dialogue, asking questions and receiving insights as if they were conversing with a data-savvy colleague. Our aim is to transform the way insights are accessed and actioned, embedding Meltwater's deep listening capabilities into the daily rhythm of business communications,” added John Box, CEO of Meltwater. With this collaboration, Meltwater becomes a global provider of Microsoft’s media, social and consumer intelligence needs, enabling the Microsoft Communications organization and its internal stakeholders to access real-time insights across teams and geographies. “Our goal is to reinvent Communications using AI. We wanted to work with a partner that could help us deliver deeper insights using Microsoft’s AI technology in the place where our teams get their work done with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams. Meltwater’s leading technology and intuitive platform made them the best partner to help us build a solution that goes beyond hindsight reporting, delivering real time and AI-powered predictive insights.” said Steve Clayton, Vice President of Communications Strategy at Microsoft. Meltwater will also be featured in the Azure Marketplace for all Microsoft customers to easily deploy Meltwater solutions, unlocking the power of the company’s deep data insights and coupled with the trusted Azure cloud platform. Meltwater will also participate in the Microsoft ISV Co-Sell Partner Program. “Meltwater is extremely excited to begin this powerful partnership with Microsoft, where the real winners will be our joint customers, who have access to market leading solutions run on the leading cloud platform,” said Doug Balut, SVP of Global Alliances and Partnerships at Meltwater.
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AI-Media's LEXI Tool Kit Expanded with LEXI Recorded - Breakthrough Solution for the Growing VOD Market
AI-Media is excited to announce the launch of its VOD automated captioning solution, LEXI Recorded. This groundbreaking product, created initially for a major sporting franchise, utilizes the cutting-edge AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology of their flagship LEXI product. LEXI Recorded will address the ever-increasing demand for high volume, fast turnaround and easy captioning of recorded content, while ensuring high accuracy and cost-effectiveness. It is also capable of seamlessly integrating with a customer's media management system, to become an end-to-end media production workflow, and delivering a more efficient and hands off recorded captioning process. AI-Media's Chief Product Officer, Bill McLaughlin says: “LEXI Recorded represents a significant leap forward in the world of automated captioning for recorded media, providing unparalleled speed, accuracy, and cost efficiency. With LEXI Recorded, we are not just meeting but exceeding the demands for high-volume, quick, and precise captioning of recorded content. With accuracy comparable to human captioning, the ability to seamlessly integrate into diverse production workflows and priced from $0.20USD per minute, this is a gamechanger for high volume broadcasters of content. We are proud to continue our legacy of innovation and leadership in the captioning space. LEXI Recorded is a testament to our commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions that empower organizations to enhance accessibility with efficiency in media production.” Key Features of LEXI Recorded include: Speed and Efficiency: LEXI Recorded ensures the rapid turnaround of captioned files, enabling organizations to meet tight deadlines and deliver content promptly to their audiences. Files can be turned around, in a variety of formats, in as little as the length of the video. High Accuracy: Powered by advanced AI technology, LEXI Recorded offers excellent accuracy at 98% NER, and even higher with the use of custom dictionaries or topic models. Cost Efficiency: The automated nature of LEXI Recorded significantly reduces operational costs, providing a cost-effective solution for organizations of all sizes. From as little as $0.20USD per minute, LEXI Recorded has the potential to provide our customers with substantive cost savings over traditional human captioning of recorded content. Flexible Integration Patterns for Diverse Workflows: Recognizing the diversity of production workflows, AI-Media offers flexible integration patterns, allowing organizations to tailor their integration with LEXI Recorded according to their unique needs. Options include API-based integration, shared folder-based integration, and custom integration, catering to organizations with varying software development capabilities. API Integration for Seamless Workflows: At the core of LEXI Recorded's integration capabilities is AI-Media's Orders API. This developer-friendly API adheres to industry standards, including REST, JSON, API key, HTTPS, and TLS, making it easy to navigate and work with. The API also supports both AI-fulfilled LEXI Recorded and captioner-fulfilled Premium Recorded order types, ensuring a smooth transition between AI and human-based captioning without disruption. Instant Language Translation: Submit orders with source audio in over 30 languages and receive either same-language captions or AI translated subtitles. Flexible interface options: Choose between ad hoc use of the LEXI Recorded online portal or for high volume users; a bespoke, integration set-up to manage super-fast, low touch turnaround of content. AI-Media also offers 24/7 global support backed by best-in-class engineering excellence. LEXI Recorded is yet another solution in AI-Media's LEXI Tool Kit now cementing the company as the global leader in captioning technology and solutions. The AI-Media team will be showcasing the LEXI Recorded solution from 14-17 April at the NAB Show 2024 in Las Vegas; the world's largest broadcast and media trade convention. To book a 1:1 session at NAB Show to learn more about LEXI Recorded or our other solutions click HERE. For more information about LEXI Recorded visit the LEXI Recorded page on the AI-Media site.
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Personalized AI Chat for Instagram and Snapchat Launches
Iconic Hearts (iconichearts.com), the company behind leading apps including Noteit, Starmatch and Locksmith, today announced that its popular Sendit app has launched a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) feature that chats with your friends for you, marking groundbreaking advancement in social technology. Sendit currently has over 25M active monthly users. With the new, free tool, a user can easily create a digital replica of themselves. Users feed the AI with answers to various questions, which the system then uses to generate a comprehensive and dynamic AI replica that acts and sounds just like its owner. Iconic Hearts believes that this isn't just a new product; it's a paradigm shift in our digital social landscape, offering a more nuanced and profound way of understanding and learning about the preferences and behaviors of people we care about. These AI replicas are designed to be an interactive way to learn more about the people around you, in an engaging chat format. Friends, colleagues, and even strangers can learn about people by asking their AI’s questions like, “What’s your favorite song?”, “What do you like to do for fun?”, “Who’s your best friend?”. Each person has full control over their own AI, having the ability to verify, edit, and delete answers at any time. “We're now all familiar with general GPTs that search the entire web. We’re seeing a different opportunity. What we’ve built at Sendit is a personalized GPT for each of our users, like a digital twin designed to mirror your exact knowledge and behavior”, said Hunter Rice, founder of Iconic Hearts. “In the future, search queries about people won't occur on a general search engine like ChatGPT, but instead on individual AI's operated and monitored by their owners.” Sendit allows users to post prompts and receive questions from their community of friends. Currently the app has over 1.4M reviews on the App Store (apps.apple.com/us/app/sendit-get-it-now/id1439623630) with a 4.8 rating and over 5M downloads on Google Play (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fullsenders.sendit), making it the top Gen Alpha social networking app available. Sendit is currently experiencing massive engagement and recently announced that two of its newest games, “2023 Recap” and “Report Card” received massive engagement in 2023. Report Card was played more than 80 million times and reached 1.5 billion views around the world. 2023 Recap was viewed 1 billion times. Sendit is easy to use. Simply choose a prompt (or icebreaker game), and receive questions from friends that you can play from your Sendit profile. Questions can range from “what’s your biggest fear” and “who is your favorite band” to “are you single” or “who is your celebrity crush.” The range of questions is only limited to the users’ imagination.
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Perifery Partners with ERA to Deliver Cloud-Based Archive and Backup Services
Perifery™, a division of DataCore, today announced that it has partnered with ERA, a leading independent provider of IT workflow solutions, to offer a fully managed cloud service for ERA customers and users in the media and entertainment (M&E) industry. Using Perifery's media-focused Object Matrix platform on ERA infrastructure provides companies with the highest levels of data protection and simple, uninterrupted access to valuable media assets. The Object Matrix integration forms part of ERA's Coeus archive system, giving object storage functionality via an intuitive interface to its customers. "With the ever-increasing need to ensure content is secure, protected, and easily accessible, it is critical for any company to have access to the most cutting-edge services that offer highly available archive and backup workflows that are also cost-effective," said Peter Watling, Senior Sales Director, EMEA, for Perifery. "The new service provided by ERA based on Object Matrix redefines how cloud storage can be utilized by any organization, offering exceptional value, seamless integrations, and unrivalled access without being prohibitive to use." Perifery's Object Matrix platform is specifically designed for media workflows. Used by the biggest media organizations across the globe, Object Matrix is not only the most secure storage platform available but is also the most flexible. It comes with a suite of applications including asset management, analytics, and file system and is tightly integrated into most media third parties, including Avid and Adobe. The integration enables ERA to provide cloud-based archive and back-up services with specific media functionality to its customers. "We're excited to team up with Perifery and offer a media-based cloud storage service with unparalleled scalability, availability, and security," said Sean Baker, Managing Director at ERA. "Combining Perifery's decades of data management experience with our expert support, deep industry knowledge, and highly skilled engineers will help elevate M&E storage workflows to new levels of efficiency." Perifery and ERA will share more details about their fully managed object storage service during a webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 24. To sign up for the webinar, visit: attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7444713403751302752 More information about Perifery is available at www.perifery.com
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Just Add Power To Debut New 4K60 AV-over-IP Solutions at ISE 2024
Just Add Power, a leader in AV-over-IP distribution, is set to showcase its latest solutions at ISE 2024. Integrators visiting Just Add Power's booth 2Q500 will have the first look at the new additions to the company's award-winning video-over-IP portfolio. This includes the MC-QX MaxColor 4K60 Tiling and Warping Transmitter featuring the company's award-winning Warp Engine and Tiler software, the introduction of the MC-TX3 MaxColor 4K60 Series Transmitter with AES767 compatibility, and the EU debut of the 3G Ultra 767AES transmitter. "At ISE 2023, we introduced our MaxColor Series 2 with phenomenal success — but we are far from done," said Ed Qualls, CEO of Just Add Power. "For 2024, we're expanding the MaxColor lineup to bring even more versatility and distribution power to installations. Whether you have a video wall project with robust resolution, artistic video wall layout needs, or support for AES67 audio, we have you covered." Making its global debut at ISE 2024, the Just Add Power MC-QX MaxColor 4K60 Tiling and Warping Transmitter combines MaxColor 4K60 features with the company's innovative Tiling Transmitter and Warp Engine technology. It allows 4K60 source devices to be displayed on a single screen instantly along with Warp Engine's source rotation capabilities. Users can simultaneously watch four 4K60 video sources in multiple formats, including single-screen, video wall, or tiled video. With the Warp Engine, installers can rotate any source image in a Just Add Power matrix — cable boxes, media players, game systems, cameras, and more — in 0.1-degree increments in real time with incredibly low latency. The rotated image can then be sent to an unlimited number of receivers in the network, allowing for the creation of massive artistic video walls using a single Warp Engine. Being shown for the first time at ISE 2024, the MC-TX3 MaxColor 4K60 Series Transmitter natively supports 4K60 in and out, allowing end-users to play Ultra HD video from the growing number of 4K sources and devices now available, along with compatibility for AES67 audio systems. With MC-TX3, video at 12-bit color and 4:4:4 chroma can be distributed over existing Cat5/Cat6 cable, eliminating the expense of upgrading to fiber and buying costly network switches. In addition, the transmitter supports MPEG downstreaming for connected devices, such as a laptop or tablet. It features HDMI loopout that provides compatibility for AES67 audio systems with any Just Add Power AV distribution system as well as input for LPCM audio up to eight channels, AES67 audio send and receive up to eight channels, and AES67 audio injection into any Just Add Power network. Like many other transmitters in the Just Add Power lineup, it includes HDMI pass-through; control of endpoints via RS-232, IR, and CEC; and Image Pull, which allows users to preview an image from any source or display from any web browser or control system at up to 10 fps. Also making its EU debut at the show is the Just Add Power 3G Ultra 767AES transmitter. The 4K transmitter features an HDMI loopout that provides compatibility for AES67 audio systems with any Just Add Power AV distribution system. It features input for LPCM audio up to eight channels, AES67 audio send and receive up to eight channels, and AES67 audio injection into any Just Add Power network. Like many other transmitters in the Just Add Power lineup, it includes HDMI pass-through; control of endpoints via RS-232, IR, and CEC; and Image Pull, which allows users to preview an image from any source or display from any web browser or control system at up to 10 fps. Like the other models in the 3G Ultra family, the 767AES transmitter can be mixed and matched with any Just Add Power 3G, 3G+AVP, 2GΩ/3G, and 2GΩ/3G+ models for interoperability with leading audio-over-IP technologies, including Dante devices. More information on Just Add Power and its products is available at www.justaddpower.com
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DataCore Recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage Report
DataCore Software announced that it has been recognized in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage1. "In the face of continued uncertainty in market conditions, IT leaders are putting even greater emphasis on cost-efficient, scalable, and versatile solutions to address key data challenges. These include rapid growth of unstructured data across disparate silos, management complexity, cyberthreats and ransomware, and difficulty in deriving value from their data." DataCore Swarm revolutionizes and streamlines IT operations, offering a single, massively scalable platform to manage a multitude of data workloads. This software-defined, all-encompassing solution enables enterprises to oversee data confidently and efficiently on a grand scale. It empowers organizations to continuously unlock the potential of their data through quick, on-demand access. This is achieved while ensuring uninterrupted availability, thanks to its exceptional object storage solution. It fortifies data resilience and consistency and eradicates the need for disruptive upgrades. "We believe that the inclusion in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage validates our investment and commitment to manage our customer's data." said Abhi Dey, General Manager of Perifery, a DataCore company. "According to us, this achievement recognizes our strong commitment to cyber-resilience, disaster recovery, and data protection for Kubernetes-based, on-premises, cloud and edge deployments." "A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market's competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner's market view."** Perifery, a division of DataCore, brings focus and ingenuity to high-growth markets, such as media and entertainment and healthcare, by creating and developing innovative solutions that streamline and enhance digital workflows. Through core technology products like Swarm and Object Matrix, strategic acquisitions, and relationships with key partners, Perifery revolutionizes workflows, propelling them beyond conventional limits, as it turbocharges and broadens the customer journey from the core to the edge and the boundless realm of the cloud. Learn more about DataCore's positioning in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and where the company is going next, visit the DataCore website. ### Gartner Research Methodologies, " Gartner Magic Quadrant", "November 6, 2023", https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/magic-quadrants-research 1 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage by Chandra Mukhyala, Julia Palmer, Jeff Vogel. Published Nov. 2, 2023
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Alibaba Cloud Launches Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 and Industry-specific Models to Support Customers Reap Benefits of Generative AI
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today announced the launch of Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, its latest large language model (LLM), along with new industry-specific models at its annual flagship tech event Apsara Conference. This release signifies another significant progress in Alibaba Cloud's pursuit of cutting-edge AI innovation and its ongoing commitment to fuel digital transformation in businesses. In response to the surging demand for powerful infrastructure supporting generative AI development, Alibaba Cloud also unveiled an AI model training platform and a series of innovative cloud products. New initiatives to bolster the open-source AI model community and global AI startups were also unveiled during the Conference. These resources are designed to enable customers, partners, developers, startups, and the wider community to fully harness the potential of generative AI. "Currently, 80% of China's technology companies and half of large model companies run on Alibaba Cloud. We aim to be the most open cloud in the era of AI. We hope that through this cloud, it will become easier and affordable for everyone to develop and use AI, so we can help, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, to turn AI into huge productivity," said Joe Tsai, Chairman of Alibaba Group. Tongyi Qianwen 2.0: A Leap Forward in LLMs Tongyi Qianwen 2.0, a generic LLM with a few hundreds of billions of parameters, represents a substantial upgrade from its predecessor launched in April. The model successfully exceeds some leading LLMs in benchmarks across domains ranging from language understanding, arithmetic problem solving, to question-answering. With an expanded model size and improved alignment technique, Tongyi Qianwen 2.0 demonstrates remarkable capabilities in understanding complex instructions, copywriting, reasoning, memorizing, and preventing hallucinations. The model is now accessible to the public via its website and mobile applications, and available for developers through APIs. Industry-specific Models: AI for Enhanced Business Performance In addition, Alibaba Cloud also released new industry-specific models to help businesses unlock the transformative potential of generative AI across sectors for enhanced business performance. These sectors include customer support, legal counselling, healthcare, finance, documentation management, audio & video management, code development, and character creation. "Large language models hold immense potential to revolutionize industries. We're committed to using cutting-edge technologies, including generative AI, to help our customers capture the growth momentum forward," said Jingren Zhou, CTO of Alibaba Cloud. "To help businesses better reap the benefits of generative AI in a cost-effective way, we are launching a more powerful foundation model as well as industry-specific models to tackle domain-specific challenges. Through these initiatives, we hope that our proprietary models can deliver real values to our customers to improve operation efficiency and stay competitive." GenAI Service Platform: A Comprehensive AI Model Building Platform To cater to the burgeoning demand for generative AI, Alibaba Cloud introduced GenAI Service Platform, an all-in-one AI model building platform aimed at streamlining the model development and application building process. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for data management, model deployment and valuation, and prompt engineering, making it easier for enterprises of all sectors to develop their enterprise-specific AI models. Innovative Cloud Products to Drive Generative AI Development To support the increasing computing and data processing needs required in generative AI development, Alibaba Cloud has launched a series of innovative cloud products across machine learning, container and database. To improve efficiency of LLM models training and inference, Alibaba Cloud has upgraded its Platform for Artificial Intelligence (PAI), featuring enhanced computing power, network, storage, computing, container, model training and inference capabilities. AI and metaverse technology firm Futureverse has been training its text-to-music generation model on PAI leveraging its high performance and easy-to-scale capabilities to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. To expedite the process of building customized generative AI applications, Alibaba Cloud has enhanced its full range of database solutions - including cloud-native database PolarDB, cloud-native data warehouse AnalyticDB, and cloud-native multi-model database Lindorm - with its proprietary vector engine. It has also introduced LLM-powered database ecosystem tools, including the intelligent data analytics assistant Data Management Service (DMS) Data Copilot. To enable a more scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure for application development, Alibaba Cloud unveiled Alibaba Cloud Container Compute Service (ACS), a pioneering serverless solution that integrates container services with its cloud computing resources. ACS enables businesses and developers to deploy the resources of Kubernetes, a container-centric management software, in a more cost-effective and user-friendly way. Community Programs to Foster AI Development In a bid to support the broader AI community, Alibaba Cloud has pledged to contribute more to open-source communities, including ModelScope, the company-initiated AI community with over 100 million model downloads since its inception a year ago. The cloud pioneer plans to opensource its 72 billion-parameter version of Tongyi Qianwen later this year. Alibaba Cloud also announced the Alibaba Cloud Startup Catalyst Program, offering cloud computing resources, including cloud credit support of up to USD $120,000, free online learning memberships, and networking opportunities to promising global startups including AI companies.
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Leading Japanese Telecommunications Carrier SoftBank Corp. Deploys Synchronoss Personal Cloud
Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (“Synchronoss” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SNCR), a global leader and innovator in cloud, messaging, and digital products and platforms, today announced that SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”), one of Japan’s largest telecommunication carriers, has deployed Synchronoss Personal Cloud to power its Anshin Data Box service. Anshin Data Box allows customers to backup and restore photos, videos, and files stored on mobile phones and other devices. Additionally, the platform’s artificial intelligence features provide the capability to optimize low resolution photos and create new types of content through a series of effects and stylizers. Available in November across multiple distribution channels, SoftBank’s Anshin Data Box will include 500 gigabytes of storage per month. Additionally, the personal cloud service will be integrated into new devices, allowing customers to easily activate it during the onboarding process. SoftBank will also deliver Anshin Data Box through its retail stores and digital buy flow. “We continue to empower telecom operators and mobile service providers with strategic tools to improve customer value,” said Jeff Miller, President and CEO of Synchronoss. “This new Cloud launch with SoftBank further extends our long-standing relationship with them and our presence in Japan. It also reinforces our cloud-first strategy, which represents new growth opportunities for the Synchronoss Personal Cloud platform.”
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Novidea helps E&S Wholesale Pathpoint Achieve 20% Growth
Novidea, creator of the cloud-based, data-driven enterprise insurance management platform, today announced that Pathpoint, the modern wholesaler where insurance agents can get bindable small commercial Excess & Surplus (E&S) quotes in just a few minutes, has increased its number of registered agents to over 14,000 and grown its submission volume by 20% compounded monthly since becoming a Novidea customer. Thousands of insurance agents use Pathpoint to quote, bind, issue, pay, and manage non-admitted risks in minutes, bind coverage, and have policies issued – all in one place, with 24/7 access. Founded in 2017, the fast-growing E&S wholesaler prides itself on its customer responsiveness, diversity of coverage, data-driven decision-making, and ability to scale. Aligned with this high standard, Pathpoint is leveraging Novidea’s cloud-based insurance management platform to deliver near-instant quotes in a seamless digital experience. Its underwriting and sales teams rely on the Novidea platform daily to turn around bindable quotes with the click of a button. “We evaluated other platforms, but Novidea was the only insurance management solution that fit our unique needs,” said Ralph Blust, president and chief revenue officer at Pathpoint. “Novidea enabled the integration of data and applications across our underwriting, account, sales, and operations teams, so everyone accesses a single source of accurate information. The ability to connect the front, middle, and back offices and streamline workflows has empowered us to deliver a winning customer experience. That has made all the difference, as we have added more than 7,000 retail agencies and increased the number of submissions to more than 4,000 per month. Novidea helped us achieve greater efficiency at scale, greatly contributing to our remarkable growth over the last four years.” Novidea helps insurance organizations like Pathpoint gain a competitive advantage by streamlining and automating workflows, eliminating the need for agents and support staff to complete repetitive tasks, such as data entry, and increasing data accuracy. Operational efficiency can be achieved with the consolidation of approval processes, next-level task management capabilities, and reduced “busywork.” “Pathpoint is evolving the E&S sector with their modern approach to service delivery," said Eric Ayala, managing director, Americas at Novidea. "They bring great value to their clients, saving them time and money. Their insurance management platform needed to deliver the same for their business. We're honored to be Pathpoint’s insurance management platform of choice and look forward to their next exciting growth milestone.” Learn more about the Novidea enterprise insurance management platform live at InsureTech Connect 2023, October 31 - November 2, 2023, at the Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas – Booth #2320.
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Infinaxis Data Centre Platform Breaks Ground on Its Inaugural Data Centre in Cyberjaya
Infinaxis Data Centre Platform, a joint venture formed by a fund managed by Gaw Capital Partners and its partners, celebrated the groundbreaking on 25 October as it officially marked the commencement of its first data centre project ——Infinaxis Data Centre in the tech hub of Cyberjaya. Infinaxis Data Centre Platform was formed in February 2023, to invest into greenfield assets across key markets in the Southeast Asia region, with the aim to create a portfolio of Tier-3 certified data centre assets. Located in Cyberjaya, one of the largest IDC hubs in Malaysia, the seed investment consists of two greenfield sites with a combined plot area of 12,490 square meters. The business plan is to develop a 12 MW IT Load IDC facility with the GFA of 17,427 sqm on one of the plots. The construction is expected to complete in Q2 2025. The IT capacity potentially will be doubled in the future, with the second plot to be developed as an expansion site. More than 80% of phase 1 has been committed via signed leases and customer letters of intent prior to construction commencement, with the remaining space to be leased to wholesale colocation customers. Kenneth Gaw, President and Managing Principal of Gaw Capital Partners, commented, "We are thrilled to witness this remarkable moment of groundbreaking of the inaugural infinaxis data centre with our esteemed guests, partners and teams. It is a significant step for the Platform and a testament to our commitment to Malaysia's growing digital economy. We believe in the Malaysia's growing economy and its potential and look forward to participating in fostering digital transformation in Malaysia and Southeast Asia." Asia represents as one of the geographic frontiers in the data centre space with greater opportunities. The Gaw Capital data centre platform will also comprise data centres located in China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Malaysia. About Gaw Capital Partners Gaw Capital Partners is a uniquely positioned private equity fund management company focusing on real estate markets in Asia Pacific and other high barrier-to-entry markets globally. Specializing in adding strategic value to under-utilized real estate through redesign and repositioning, Gaw Capital runs an integrated business model with its own in-house asset management operating platforms in commercial, hospitality, property development, logistics, IDC and Education. The firm's investments span the entire spectrum of real estate sectors, including residential development, offices, retail malls, serviced apartments, hotels, logistics warehouses and IDC projects. Gaw Capital has raised seven commingled funds targeting the APAC region since 2005. The firm also manages value-add/opportunistic funds in the US, a Pan-Asia hospitality fund, a European hospitality fund, a Growth Equity Fund and it also provides services for credit investments and separate account direct investments globally. Gaw Capital has raised equity of US$22.1 billion since 2005 and commanded assets of US$35.2 billion under management as of Q2 2023.
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Software AG redefines enterprise integration to manage growing chaos of connectivity in hybrid multi-cloud environments
Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW), is re-defining enterprise integration with the launch of the 'Super iPaaS' – a new category of integration platform necessary to meet the changing needs of large, modern businesses. The 'Super iPaaS' will help manage the chaos of connectivity caused by rapid digital expansion: a growing and formidable challenge for today's businesses that current integration tools cannot tackle because they are too focused on only one or two relevant capabilities and cannot handle hybrid multi-cloud environments. A Super iPaaS helps large enterprises maintain good IT governance while giving them ways to become more agile and productive. In order to do this, it must have five key components, the inclusion of which is what makes the Super iPaaS different from all integration tools that came before. The five capabilities are: Integrates Applications + Data + APIs + B2B + Event streams. Enterprise end-to-end hybrid integration: mainframe to cloud. Global to meet data sovereignty laws yet managed centrally to assure governance. A common user-interface across all aspects of the platform. Leverages the power of generative AI to drive agility and productivity. Software AG fulfils the criteria for the Super iPaaS with its webMethods.io and StreamSets products. Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of Software AG commented: "Every company wants to innovate; but every company feels some kind of pain when they try. We are more reliant on data and insight than ever before and yet even the largest organizations in the world are forced to use old-gen tools to try and unlock the true value in their data. We're here to change that. We're here with an enterprise integration proposition that doesn't exist anywhere else. Integrate anything. Anywhere. Anyhow. Businesses don't have this freedom to operate as they need to today. But they will now, with the Super iPaaS." Nicolas Betbeder, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific Japan, shared insights on the impact of the Super iPaaS in the region, stating: "Integration helps Enterprises become more productive and innovative by tying their modern and legacy systems like in the case of Komatsu. Our hyprid integration platform brings capabilities that address current enterprise integration challenges. Super iPaaS will facilitate organizations' long-term objectives of providing delightful experiences to their customers, employees and partners, driving digital transformation and fostering a more connected digital future." The Super iPaaS helps organizations find benefits in three key areas: It enables organizations to be more agile: Organizations become able to adapt as quickly as the technology landscape changes and work the way they want. With a unified platform across data and application integration, they get a seamless flow of data so they can make decisions using their data and put them into action immediately. They can develop integrations anyway and anyhow their teams prefer, and then deploy them in any cloud or region in a click. It lets organizations be more productive and get more done: With a unified integration platform, teams need to learn less and can collaborate more. They can build applications and experiences and deploy them as APIs in one motion. It lets business technologists automate workflows using generative AI but manage them centrally to avoid shadow integrations. It gives organizations control to reduce their risk: With centralized control and distributed execution, integrations can run anywhere. With a "single pane of glass" across their integrations, APIs and data pipelines for end-to-end visibility across transactions, organizations have a unified experience for all integrations that delivers complete observability and offers compliance without adding chaos.
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NetApp and Equinix Deliver Industry’s Most Comprehensive Bare Metal-as-a-Service Solution for Cloud Adjacent Experience
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global cloud-led, data centric software company, today announced their new joint Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaaS) solution, NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal. NetApp Storage integrated with Equinix Metal is delivered as an as-a-service model through NetApp Keystone®, which offers a real hybrid cloud experience--in a single subscription--so users can choose the storage capacity and performance they need without overprovisioning. Keystone® greatly reduces upfront costs with the flexibility to add more storage on demand as business needs dictate. NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal provides customers with a full stack of compute, networking and storage infrastructure with low-latency interconnection to all major public clouds. This environment can be either single tenant or dedicated, and meets most stringent performance requirements, provides elasticity, and is packaged, priced, billed and supported under a single agreement. "Today's rapid pace of cloud innovation enables companies to move more workload types to the hybrid multi-cloud more easily and in greater numbers than ever before," said Sandeep Singh, Senior Vice President and GM of Enterprise Storage at NetApp. "NetApp is a leader in delivering native cloud and first-party solutions on all three major public clouds that provide a unified hybrid multicloud experience for customers. NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal further illustrates the industry value of our partnership and our collective commitment to providing as-a-service, hybrid multicloud solutions with higher performance, scalability, and simplified management." "As organizations in Asia Pacific accelerate their cloud journey, they need to build a robust data infrastructure for a flexible and secure hybrid multicloud experience on-premises, in any cloud, and anywhere in between," said Matthew Swinbourne, CTO, Cloud Architecture, NetApp Asia Pacific. "We are excited to introduce this enterprise-grade flash as-a-service solution that is seamlessly integrated with Equinix Metal. With NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal, organizations will be able to better focus on driving innovations and business critical tasks." Key benefits of NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal include: Integrated Solution: NetApp Storage is fully integrated with Equinix Metal's infrastructure, ensuring a cohesive full stack experience for storage (file, block, and object), compute, and networking as-a-Service under a single subscription. Cloud Adjacent: Customers can choose how they want to build their hybrid multicloud experience while maintaining control of their data in a low latency, high performance environment—on premises, in the cloud, or anywhere in between—on all three major public clouds. Higher performance for demanding workloads: When NetApp Storage is combined with Equinix Metal's high-performance dedicated bare metal servers, users unlock fast data access, minimal latency, and the ability to handle the most demanding workloads with ease. Scalable Capacity and Performance On-Demand: With NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal, customers can scale their storage resources as required to meet evolving business needs. Superior Data Security: NetApp Storage delivers industry-leading encryption, ransomware, and security features, and enables customers to receive industry-leading physical and environmental security in an Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX®) data center to help ensure customer data remains protected. NetApp's proactive ransomware detection capabilities can identify potential cybersecurity threats and automatically perform an additional immutable back up of data if a threat is suspected. Global Reach: Equinix's extensive global footprint lets users take advantage of NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal in Equinix IBX data centers across the world. As of June 2023, Equinix has a total of 250 IBX data centers globally in 71 metros with 26 Equinix Metal locations. Simplified Management: NetApp's unified control plane for storage and data services provides customers with comprehensive control and visibility over their data no matter where it resides. Equinix Metal's automated provisioning platform further simplifies deployment and management. "The growth of cloud adoption, the acceleration of AI, and the desire to derive real-time insights from data puts significant pressure on customers to optimize data management to gain a competitive advantage," said Brian Stein, Senior Vice President, Edge Infrastructure Services at Equinix. "Achieving our goal of an integrated, full stack, solution is another milestone that provides enterprise customers low latency access to all clouds while keeping control of their data. This cloud adjacency helps transform how companies deploy applications, design their own solutions, and generate new revenue streams while simplifying operations and containing costs." NetApp Storage on Equinix Metal is a strategic expansion of NetApp's Cloud strategy, adding a true hybrid multicloud experience. NetApp can now deliver the entire stack in Equinix IBX data centers outfitted with Equinix Metal. The solution provides an optimized connection to most major public clouds through local, high-speed connectivity through on ramps. On Equinix' global dedicated bare metal equipment, users have full access to NetApp cloud services such as Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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Avalue HPM-SRSDE High-Performance Computing Propels AI Development
Avalue Technology Inc. (TAIEX: 3479-TW), a global industrial PC solution provider and a Titanium member of the Intel® Internet of Things Solutions Alliance, endeavors to provide a complete range of smart retail, smart healthcare, smart manufacturing, smart transportation and embedded solutions. With the rise and rapid growth of artificial intelligence, deep learning and reinforced neural network, and model development and improvement, have enabled the potential of artificial intelligence and its commercial applications to extend to manufacturing, transportation, medical biochemistry, finance, military, etc. To ensure artificial intelligence provides the solution for real-time complex system automation, the construction and evolution of these large-size models require more complex and greater number of parameters, and time-consuming adjustments. In fact, this critical demand for computing power is what essentially drives the high-performance computing market. Avalue HPM-SRSDE solution is specifically designed for high-performance computing applications. With two built-in 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors, HPM-SRSD server motherboard is not only capable of high-speed data processing and complex computing, the utilization of digital technology itself realizes Avalue’s objective of sustainable business development. Avalue HPM-SRSDE high-performance computing solution propels operational performance and sustainable business in smart city, smart manufacturing, healthcare and transportation. Supporting two 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids), Avalue HPM-SRSDE server motherboard has the most built-in accelerators in the world, providing exceptional data throughput. Its outstanding power supply and power consumption management also help customers lay the groundwork for sustainable computing. Twice as fast as the previous specifications, PCIe 5.0 delivers high-performance data transfer rate. HPM-SRSDE server motherboard is equipped with up to seven sets of PCIe 5.0 x 16 slots, supports dual-channel GPU card, supports up to 12 sets of DDR5 4800/4400 RDIMM memory, and up to 3TB capacity, doubling DDR4 bandwidth. With three sets of SlimSAS 8i (SFF-8654) connectors supporting U.2, and one set of Mini-SAS HD 4i connectors which can be converted to four SATA or one set of x4 NVME interface, transmission density is increased while providing greater design flexibility with multifunctional connectors. Dual 10-GbE, one 2.5GbE and 1 GbE Ethernet ports increase transmission speed between compute nodes, reducing latency and optimizing connectivity. Furthermore, IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) 2.0 enables remote system management/ upgrading, real-time system diagnostics and maintenance scheduling. Avalue HPM-SRSDE server motherboard empowers IoT, edge computing and cloud architecture with its exceptional high-performance computing. The adoption of AI, machine learning and large language model not only changes the way businesses are run, it also increases agility and profit-making ability, and lays the foundation for carbon-neutrality. In other words, when businesses optimize their operations and embrace sustainable development through Avalue HPM-SRSDE server motherboard’s high-performance computing solution, it not only helps cut costs and introduce new business opportunities, but also benefits the environment, enabling businesses to realize their sustainability goals. Visit www.avalue.com.tw for more information on Avalue products, or contact sales@avalue.com.tw to talk to our sales team.
