Friday, May 3, 2019

The Health Industry Summit 2019 takes off in Shanghai, Hangzhou in May

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 (Bernama) -- The Health Industry Summit (tHIS) 2019, organised by Reed Sinopharm, will be launched in Shanghai (May 13 to 17) and Hangzhou (May 8 to 10).

tHIS 2019 will highlight massive health technologies, including medical technology and instruments, medicines, and active pharmaceutical ingredients to a gathering of more than 7,400 exhibitors from over 30 countries and regions.

The China International Medicinal Equipment Fair (CMEF) and PHARMCHINA will be held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center, Shanghai.

Meanwhile, API China China´s leading exhibition for the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector will be held at Hangzhou International Expo Center.

The 81st CMEF will cover the full industrial chain, including medical instruments and medical technologies, while the 81st PHARMCHINA will launch activities such as innovation and marketing forums, and pharmaceutical agent meetings.

API China, as a renowned comprehensive display and business platform of China´s pharmaceutical industry, will work with leading pharmaceutical companies to promote China´s pharmaceutical technology innovation and product upgrade.

As the most influential event in the global health industry, tHIS is committed to providing global customers with all-round support in the Chinese market and maintaining the linkage between the global and the Chinese market.

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Unisys, Dell EMC enhance protection for cyber recovery operations

KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 (Bernama) -- Unisys Corporation has announced its Unisys Stealth security software suite is integrated with Dell EMC Cyber Recovery software to provide enhanced protection to clients’ cyber recovery operations.

The integrated solution will be available, beginning next month, according to a statement.

Unisys and Dell EMC deliver secure solutions to demanding environments, including government, banking, airline reservations and cargo handling, addressing high-transaction environments supporting police, port, defence agencies and commercial enterprises worldwide.

“With Stealth and Dell EMC Cyber Recovery, organisations can be confident in their ability to restore business operations after a cyber attack,” said Unisys (Enterprise Solutions) senior vice-president and president, Eric Hutto.

Stealth, which includes Dynamic Isolation capabilities to quickly isolate devices or users at the first sign of compromise, reduces attack surfaces in these environments by creating dynamic, identity-driven micro-segments called communities of interest (COIs).

By establishing secure COIs, Stealth separates trusted systems, users and data from the untrusted which further reduces attack surfaces by encrypting all communication between Stealth-protected assets and cloaking the assets from unauthorised users.

Stealth will also increase security for users of Dell EMC Cyber Recovery whereby, organisations can resume business operations quickly, following ransomware or destructive cyberattacks.

For more information, visit https://www.unisys.com.

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CLOUDFLARE ANNOUNCES GLOBAL GROWTH IN FIRST QUARTER OF 2019

The company now protects more than 16 million Internet properties and has more than 175 data centers globally

SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloudflare, the leading Internet performance and security company, today announced company momentum and growth from the first quarter of 2019. Cloudflare now protects more than 16 million domains, websites, APIs, mobile applications, and anything connected to the Internet, up from just 8 million one year ago.

“The first quarter is an important one for any company, and we took the opportunity to build out our board, grow our global footprint, and open new offices in key locations around the world,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “Cloudflare has continued to expand its network to bring our services to users everywhere, while continuing to scale our company.”

Board Members

In February, the company announced two appointments to its board of directors, Stan Meresman, former CFO of Silicon Graphics, and Maria Eitel, founder and co-chair of the Nike Foundation. Eitel and Meresman joined Cloudflare’s existing board of directors, which includes NEA Managing Director Scott Sandell, Pelion Venture Managing Partner Carl Ledbetter, Cloudflare Co-Founder and CEO Matthew Prince, and Cloudflare Co-Founder and COO Michelle Zatlyn.

Network Growth

Cloudflare’s network has seen tremendous growth over the last year. In Q1, Cloudflare added 10 new cities, growing its network to 175 data centers across more than 75 countries globally, Cloudflare also increased its network capacity to 30Tbps.

Industry Recognition

Cloudflare was named a “Leader” in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DDoS Prevention Solutions 2019 Vendor Assessment. The IDC MarketScape recognized Cloudflare for its strengths, including rapid onboarding process, unique architecture, flexible pricing options, and unmetered and always-on DDoS protection.

Employees

Cloudflare had 960 employees at the end of Q1, up from 625 just one year ago, and opened an office in Beijing, China, in addition to an office in Sydney, Australia. Cloudflare now has eleven offices globally and continues to grow its engineering, sales, marketing, and support teams worldwide.

To learn more about Cloudflare, please check out the resources below.
About Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (www.cloudflare.com / @cloudflare) is on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers more than 10 trillion requests per month, accounting for 10 percent of all Internet requests. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list, and ranked among the World's 10 Most Innovative Enterprise Companies by Fast Company. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Cloudflare has offices in Austin, TX, Champaign, IL, New York, NY, San Jose, CA, Washington, D.C., London, Munich, Beijing, Singapore, and Sydney.

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Contact
Daniella Vallurupalli
+1 650-741-3104
press@cloudflare.com

Source : Cloudflare, Inc.

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​SOLARWINDS PINGDOM NAMED EXCLUSIVE WEB APM TOOL FOR LOOPIA

Over 500K Loopia customers to receive Pingdom monitoring to help ensure the availability and performance of their websites

AUSTIN, Texas, May 2 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SolarWinds(NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced a partnership with Loopia AB, based in Sweden and one of the largest web and domain hosting providers in the Nordics, whereby the company has selected SolarWinds® Pingdom® as its exclusive web application performance monitoring (APM) solution. Loopia will include Pingdom in its custom package to over 500K business plans, giving Loopia customers the ability to monitor the uptime and availability of their websites and critical web pages.

Pingdom is a web application performance and availability monitoring solution that uses more than 100 global test servers to provide an outside-in user perspective of web experiences. With the Pingdom uptime checks provided by Loopia, users will be able to receive real-time alerts when issues arise, run tests to quickly resolve problems, and spot trends through easy-to-understand reports to proactively manage and avoid potential risks in the future.

“As one of the largest and most popular web hosting companies in Sweden, Loopia recognizes the significance of maintaining website and application uptime for businesses—because every minute down, is a dollar lost,” said Denny LeCompte, general manager, application management, SolarWinds. “Therefore, we are thrilled to be partnering with Loopia to make Pingdom available to their valuable customers and their businesses.”

Loopia AB, which is part of Loopia Group, is one of the Nordics’ largest and fastest-growing web hosting companies with operations in Sweden, Norway, and Serbia. The company offers innovative solutions at a competitive price point for managing domain names, websites, and email services to both private individuals and companies.

“When we set out to include a web APM tool as part of our custom business package, Pingdom was the obvious choice given its longstanding reputation for helping companies deliver the best possible customer experience by ensuring the performance and availability of business-critical websites and applications,” said Jimmie Eriksson, managing director, Loopia. “We look forward to working with SolarWinds and their Pingdom team as we continue to meet and exceed our customers’ needs for monitoring.”

Pingdom is part of the SolarWinds web application performance monitoring (APM) portfolio consisting of AppOpticsLoggly®, and Papertrail. These products can be used individually to help ensure the performance and availability of custom applications and websites, or used together to maintain full-stack visibility.

For more information or to inquire about becoming a SolarWinds partner, please contact partnership@solarwinds.com.

Additional Resources
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#SWIdevops

About SolarWinds
SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT infrastructure management software. Our products give organizations worldwide, regardless of type, size or IT infrastructure complexity, the power to monitor and manage the performance of their IT environments, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid models. We continuously engage with all types of technology professionals—IT operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed service providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures. The insights we gain from engaging with them, in places like our THWACK online community, allow us to build products that solve well-understood IT management challenges in ways that technology professionals want them solved. This focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT performance management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in network management software and MSP solutions. Learn more today at www.solarwinds.com.

The SolarWinds, SolarWinds & Design, Orion, and THWACK trademarks are the exclusive property of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC or its affiliates, are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks, service marks, and logos may be common law marks or are registered or pending registration. All other trademarks mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks of (and may be registered trademarks of) their respective companies.

© 2019 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.

MEDIA CONTACTS:
Emily Mullen
Archetype
Phone: +1-212-331-8422
emily.mullen@archetype.co

Courtney Cantwell
SolarWinds
Phone: +1-512-682-9379
pr@solarwinds.com

Source: SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC.

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​SIGMA SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES SALE OF COMPANY TO HANSEN TECHNOLOGIES

Sigma Systems, a leading global provider of create-sell-deliver software solutions for telecom, media, and high-tech companies, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Australian based billing, data management and customer care company Hansen Technologies

TORONTO, May 2 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sigma Systems, the global leader in catalog-driven software is pleased to announce its acquisition by Hansen Technologies, a leader in billing, data management and customer care solutions for the Energy, Water, Pay-TV, and Telecommunications industries. Upon closing of the sale, Hansen will acquire full ownership of Sigma Systems. Hansen Technologies is a publicly traded company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:HSN).

In today’s highly disruptive environment, service providers are focusing on how to accelerate product and service innovation, transforming their businesses into digital organizations that can more effectively create new innovative offerings, sell them without friction in the customer’s channel of choice, and deliver those services as promised. From digital service innovation through to revenue realization and customer support, the acquisition of Sigma and the resulting combined product offerings of the two companies will further strengthen and expand the value proposition across the Telecom, Media, IoT, Energy and Utilities industries we serve. The combination of these two fast-growing companies creates an even stronger organization with greater expertise, a deeper bench of talented delivery specialist, expanded R&D scale and a broader diversification of our business across industry verticals.

Andrew Hansen, Chief Executive Officer of Hansen Technologies, commented: “It’s with great enthusiasm that I welcome Sigma Systems to the Hansen Technologies Group. The acquisition represents a strategic move to enhance our value proposition to the telecom, pay-tv and energy verticals. Over the course of the last ten years, we have driven an exceptional growth strategy through acquisitions, achieving a compound annual growth rate of 28% over the last 4 years. Bringing Sigma Systems onboard further strengthens our ability to provide valuable solutions to our customer base and creates new expansion opportunities to cross-sell Sigma’s software solutions into our broad base of energy customers.”

Tim Spencer, Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Systems, commented: “With over a 23-year history serving the needs of the telecom industry, it is with great pride that we move to the next chapter in Sigma’s history. In the last year, Sigma has been pursuing an aggressive growth strategy through increased focus on product and cloud adoption, growth through adjacent verticals, and an enhanced go-to-market partner strategy. The acquisition of Sigma by Hansen Technologies represents two strong companies coming together, a strong combined value proposition, and the acceleration of the Sigma strategy. We look forward to the new opportunities in front of us to drive value for Sigma and Hansen customers and shareholders of the company.”

The acquisition of Sigma Systems is set to close on May 31, 2019. For further information about Sigma Systems, its award-winning products and services, and getting Next Done Now visit www.sigma-systems.com or contact us at info@sigma-systems.com.

For further information about Hansen Technologies visit www.hansencx.com.

About Sigma Systems (sigma-systems.com or Twitter @SigmaSystems)

Sigma Systems is the global leader in catalog-driven software solutions for communications, media, and high-tech companies. It serves over 80 customers in 40 countries with its award-winning products. The company’s portfolio spans enterprise-wide Catalog, Configure Price Quote (CPQ), Order Management, Provisioning, Insights and Portfolio Inventory products, and offers a core set of services including professional services, cloud services, and managed services. Sigma utilizes an agile approach to implementing its B/OSS products for its customers. Sigma has offices in North and South America, Europe and Asia Pacific, with technology and integration partners globally.

About Hansen Technologies

Hansen Technologies is a global leader in billing, data management and customer care. With over 40 years’ experience, Hansen Technologies Group employs over 1000 experts. Hansen’s proven and scalable solutions as well as innovative and flexible offerings, enable more than 500 clients to deliver cost-effective end-to-end business initiatives to improve their customers’ experience.

Hansen has offices throughout the world in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, China, Argentina, South Africa and in the USA servicing customers in over 80 countries. www.hansencx.com

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Contact
Adnan Bashir
Senior Corporate Communications Manager
Sigma Systems
+1 647 204 0999

Chloe Purcell
Head of PR
Milner Strategic Marketing Ltd.
+44 1473 633123

Source : Sigma Systems

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Thursday, May 2, 2019

Unisys CloudForte(TM) for Hybrid speeds digital transformation

KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 (Bernama) -- Unisys CloudForte(TM) managed-service solution is now available for hybrid cloud environments, encompassing private and public clouds, as well as conventional data centre resources.
This follows the announcement by Unisys Corporation during the Dell Technologies World 2019 in Las Vegas recently.

CloudForte(TM) for Hybrid provides a guardrail against excessive complexity and expenses as organisations accelerate their digital transformation.
The solution also enables organisations to leverage their existing investments in IT resources while integrating new capabilities to accelerate secure digital transformation.
CloudForte(TM) can also automate cloud operations for anytime, anywhere access to computing resources, speed application modernisation across the integrated environment and streamline governance across the cloud lifecycle.
The solution can be widely used at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure public-cloud environments, which can be integrated securely into the CloudForte for Hybrid ecosystem.
Unisys, Infrastructure Transformation Services Vice-President, Chris Wick said digital transformation and organisation-wide cloud adoption were rapidly accelerating, but could be unexpectedly difficult to govern and optimise.
"CloudForte for Hybrid provides a services-driven offering that empowers organisations to create a cloud-enabled digital IT environment by integrating and managing all their IT resources smoothly, securely and cost-efficiently."
More details at http://www.unisys.com/

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Singapore´s Seletar Business Aviation Centre takes off

KUALA LUMPUR, May 2 (Bernama) -- Universal Aviation Singapore is celebrating the official inauguration of the new Seletar Business Aviation Centre (SBAC) and its new operations offices.

“The official grand opening of the new SBAC is a historic moment in the history of business aviation in Singapore, and will elevate the experience of private operators to the Seletar Airport (WSSL),” said Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc chairman, Greg Evans.

“This beautiful facility will raise the bar for airports in the region by offering an elevated level of privacy, efficiency and luxury for business aviation operators and potentially, positions Singapore as the most business aviation friendly country in the region.”

SBAC operations are co-managed by a joint venture consortium, SATS Seletar Aviation Services Pte Ltd, made up of Universal Aviation Singapore; SATS Ltd; and, Jet Aviation, according to a statement.

“We’ve made significant infrastructure and training investments at Seletar in order to continue to support our clients’ critical missions at this high-traffic and potentially high-stress airport,” said Universal Aviation Singapore managing director, Yvonne Chan.

For more information, contact www.universalaviation.aero/singapore.

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