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Huawei Unveils a New Version of Huawei Cloud Stack to Accelerate Intelligent Upgrade for Enterprises in the Asia-Pacific Market

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HONG KONG, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Huawei today officially unveiled Huawei Cloud Stack 8.2 for the Asia-Pacific market at the Huawei Hong Kong and Macau Partner Summit 2023. The theme of this summit is “Grow Together, Win the Future.” This latest version of Huawei Cloud Stack provides trusted cloud-native infrastructure, rich cloud services, and extensive industry know-how. It is designed to help enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region speed up intelligent upgrade. Also, Huawei announced the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Huawei Cloud Stack Innovation Lab.

Hu Yuhai, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Stack, said, “We hope to leverage Huawei Cloud Stack 8.2 and the Asia-Pacific Huawei Cloud Stack Innovation Lab to bring new vitality to the Asia-Pacific hybrid cloud market while accelerating intelligent upgrade and unleashing digital power for more enterprises.”


Huawei Cloud Stack 8.2, The Preferred Choice for Intelligent Upgrade

Huawei Cloud Stack is a trusted on-premises cloud solution. Deployed on-premises, it improves security and compliance. Synchronized with services from the public cloud, it also allows for continuous iteration. Huawei Cloud Stack has been taking three approaches to inspire technological innovation and create new value for more industries:

Three Visions of Huawei Cloud Stack for Innovation
Three Visions of Huawei Cloud Stack for Innovation

Establish Trusted, Resilient Cloud-native Infrastructure

Robust service resilience is key to cloud migration of all workloads. To enhance resilience of cloud infrastructure, Huawei Cloud Stack provides high reliability, diversified computing power, high security, efficient storage, full-mesh networks, and efficient cloud management.

  • We have provided a range of scenario-specific disaster recovery (DR) solutions, including intra-city active-active and cross-region HA solutions, for automated failover. Plus, DR services and fine-grained DR allow tenants to create custom DR policies.
  • We have designed an end-to-end security protection system consisting of one security operations center and seven layers of protection, which transforms passive response to proactive defense. The system also provides more than 100 detection models and over 50 playbooks. 90% of alarms can be closed in minutes.
  • ManageOne, our intelligent cloud management platform, provides comprehensive management capabilities covering services, operations, and maintenance. Its unique multi-level cloud resource pool management architecture is able to match with intricate organizational structures of enterprises.

Offer Rich Cloud Services to Make Innovation Easier

Huawei Cloud Stack shares the same architecture as the Huawei public cloud, so it is able to continuously evolve cloud services and helps customers use the latest cloud services to promote innovation in data, AI, and applications.

  • We have developed ModelArts, an AI development pipeline. It provides a complete set of AI development tools, including data management, data labeling, algorithm development, model training, and inference deployment. It addresses the problem of inefficient AI application development, caused by fragmentation, lots of customization needs, and isolated environments. Plus, ModelArts helps efficiently operationalize AI in a wide range of industries such as mining, meteorological prediction, and biomedicine.
  • GaussDB, MapReduce Service (MRS), and Data Warehouse Service (DWS) are our three major products designed for data innovation. GaussDB is an online transaction processing (OLTP) database product that provides outstanding performance, reliability, and security. It allows customers to move their core databases to a distributed architecture. MRS provides a high-performance, real-time data lake. DWS provides an enterprise-grade data warehouse service that delivers both T+1 online analytical processing (OLAP) and real-time hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP).
  • In terms of application innovation, Cloud Container Engine (CCE), from Huawei Cloud Stack, is 100% compatible with Kubernetes APIs and provides a one-stop O&M platform to monitor and manage application statuses. ROMA Connect can also be used for efficient governance of data, information, and APIs.

Consolidate Extensive Industry Know-how for Shared Excellence

Huawei Cloud Stack has extensive experience enabling cloud transformation of customers in many industries. We have provided professional services and industry-specific solutions by working with partners to help customers move to, use, and manage cloud with ease.

  • We have released more than 30 industry-specific solutions including national AI cloud, national government cloud, and financial cloud solutions. All of these solutions are pre-integrated and verified on the cloud platform and with partners’ applications. These solutions provide an architecture reference for customers in those industries.
  • We have launched more than 70 professional services, covering multiple phases such as top-level design, implementation, and operational excellence. The services share our professional expertise with customers.

Asia-Pacific Huawei Cloud Stack Innovation Lab

To empower local customers and partners to promote innovation for more scenarios, Huawei Cloud Stack has established an Asia-Pacific innovation lab in Hong Kong, China. The innovation lab will be open to customers and partners and will be used for tasks as diverse as software and hardware verification, POC testing, and talent cultivation.

Accelerate Intelligent Upgrade and Unleash Digital Power for Asia-Pacific Enterprises

Huawei Cloud, constantly innovating by sticking to the vision of “Everything As a Service”, has become a brand trusted by global customers. Backed by the extensive customers and partners, we are now the fifth largest cloud vendor in the world, the second largest cloud vendor in China, and the fastest-growing cloud among the top 5 clouds in emerging markets of Asia.

In Indonesia, Huawei Cloud Stack’s hybrid cloud solution helped CT Corp, one of the local leading groups, deploy a customer data platform (CDP), which reduces TCO by 25% and improves overall business performance by 30%.

In Thailand, Huawei Cloud Stack partnered with Siriraj Hospital, one of leading public hospitals in Thailand, to develop a smart hospital, a hospital that infuses tech advances into nine different hospital scenarios, like AI-powered image reading, unmanned drug delivery vehicles, and 5G-based ambulances.

In China, Huawei Cloud Stack helped Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) deploy a financial data lake with more than 4,000 nodes, the most of any lake in the industry. It moved all of ICBC’s mission-critical applications to the cloud, including those for big data risk control and real-time anti-fraud and anti-money laundering detection.

The Asia-Pacific market has seen a blossoming of digital transformation. It has been imperative for enterprises in the market to dive into cloud innovation. Moving forward, Huawei Cloud Stack intends to continue spearheading innovation, staying focused on industry needs, and joining hands with customers and partners to help enterprises in the Asia-Pacific market accelerate intelligent upgrade and light up a digital future.

Please visit Huawei Cloud official site for more information:
https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/product/huaweicloudstack.html

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University of Technology Sydney wins Australian Sustainability Award with world’s first 3D-printed air diffusion system

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SYDNEY, April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Systems Reef 2 (SR2), a collaboration between UTS and BVN Architecture, reduces the carbon footprint of commercial buildings through energy-efficient design and materials.

A SR2 prototype is currently installed in the BVN Sydney office. Photo supplied.
A SR2 prototype is currently installed in the BVN Sydney office. Photo supplied.

UTS and BVN Architecture have won the Green Building Material/Product Award at the most recent Australian Sustainability Awards for their 3D-printed air diffusion system, designed to reduce the carbon footprint of commercial buildings.

Many buildings currently use traditional air distribution systems which have not seen significant innovations over the last one hundred years. These systems are not tailored to each space, and they cannot be reconfigured to adapt to the changing ways we work or live.

UTS and BVN found inspiration in nature as they redesigned air diffusion from the ground up. Eschewing traditional methods of design and manufacture, the team built a system that mimics the respiratory system of frogs; SR2 uses an aerodynamic design with fine pores to ‘mist’ cool air rather than dump it into one spot.

Informed by a circular economy approach, UTS and BVN chose recycled PETG plastic so that SR2 was fully recyclable at the end of its life.

“The building industry is one of the highest contributors to global waste, one of the biggest consumers of energy and materials and has some of the most significant contributions to CO2 emissions,” says Tim Schork, chief investigator and Adjunct Professor at the UTS School of Architecture.

UTS and BVN designed SR2 for the purpose of retrofitting existing building stock with outdated air distribution systems that use significant amounts of electricity.

“Compared to Australia, there are even more buildings globally whose air diffusion systems need to be renewed. It’d be great to see SR2 implemented in other parts of the world,” Tim says.

Now patented, SR2 is one step closer to market-readiness.

“SR2 can be installed in any office environment, but is not just for these spaces. It can be installed in supermarkets, hotels, commercial stores, and homes where there are many existing air duct systems that can be replaced,” Tim says.

The University of Technology Sydney is a leading university of technology, ranked 15th in the world and 2nd in Australia in the 2022 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. For more information, visit uts.edu.au.

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DEEPX and Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation are collaborating on AI semiconductor-based Robot Platforms

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– Both companies will strategically cooperate in embedding AI chips into robot platforms

– For the past year in the process of examining in advance, various AI algorithms for robots were operated to check for the latest AI algorithm support, excellent AI accuracy, and high computing efficiency of the DEEPX NPU

– “This will be an opportunity for DEEPX’s AI semiconductor to become the mass-production ready core solution in the global smart mobility market”

SEOUL, South Korea, April 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — DEEPX and Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation will cooperate with technology development for on-device AI technology for robot platforms.

DEEPX to work with Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation on AI semiconductor load for robot platforms. On March 24(Friday) at the Uiwang Research Facility of Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation, DEEPX announced its execution of the MOU on AI semiconductor use for robot platforms, with the representatives of both companies including Lok-Won Kim, CEO, and Dong-Jin Hyun, Robotics lab leader of Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation present. (Right: DEEPX CEO Lok-Won Kim, Left: Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation)
DEEPX to work with Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation on AI semiconductor load for robot platforms. On March 24(Friday) at the Uiwang Research Facility of Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation, DEEPX announced its execution of the MOU on AI semiconductor use for robot platforms, with the representatives of both companies including Lok-Won Kim, CEO, and Dong-Jin Hyun, Robotics lab leader of Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation present. (Right: DEEPX CEO Lok-Won Kim, Left: Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation)

On March 24 (Friday) at the Uiwang Research Facility of Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation, DEEPX announced its execution of the MOU on AI semiconductor collaboration use for robot platforms, with the representatives of both companies including Lok-Won Kim CEO, and Dong-Jin Hyun, Robotics Lab leader of Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation.

DEEPX develops AI semiconductors and implements AI technology used in various electronic devices that exist outside of the data center with high-performance and low-power advantages. Currently DEEPX has 4 kinds of AI semiconductors that are optimized for performance and function that can match with various edge and server AI application fields and have secured more than 150 patents, both domestic and international, that are related to fundamental AI semiconductor technology. Domestically, DEEPX is evaluated as the leading AI semiconductor fabless company, and DEEPX is targeting the global edge AI market.

During the Proof-of-Concept (PoC) conducted over the past year by Hyundai Motor Group and Kia Robotics Lab, DEEPX demonstrated outstanding AI performance by providing higher AI accuracy with INT8bit than FP32bit. In addition, it has been proven that various robot application AI algorithms developed by the Robotics Lab can be smoothly operated, making it possible to implement AI models required by robots. In particular, it is evaluated as suitable for mass production of battery-powered robot products due to its exceptionally high AI computational efficiency and low power operation.

This agreement aims to cooperate on the application of DEEPX’s AI semiconductor technology to the robot platform currently under development with the aim of commercialization by Hyundai Motor Group and Kia. To achieve this, the two companies will incorporate AI functions for robots into DEEPX’s AI SoC (System on Chip) products, verify their operability and mass production for deployment in the final products developed by Robotics Lab. In this way, the AI technology can be implemented in the robots developed by the Robotics Lab.

Lok-Won Kim, CEO commented: “According to the global market research data, the size of the global smart mobility is expected to grow to be about 145 billion dollars by the year 2027. For the AI semiconductor, the core technology of this market, there are currently no optimized solutions for each detailed fields, therefore it is possible to lead the market if a mass production-ready solution is prepared. Having technology cooperation with the global market leader Hyundai Motors and Kia Corporation will present DEEPX’s AI semiconductor an opportunity to become the core solution of the future market in the related field. This is a great inspiration for us. DEEPX has succeeded in commercializing NPU IP in 2021, and I am grateful to earn the chance to demonstrate the test for mass-production as soon as we reach NPU development milestone this year”.

Dong-Jin Hyun, leader of the Robotics Lab of Hyundai Motors & Kia Corporation said, “I expect we can lead the excellent robotics service development in both performance and price by combining the SW technology of the Robotics Lab and DEEPX’s HW technology.” He also added, “As soon as we confirm and examine the superiority of DEEPX NPU chip products, we will carry on with further cooperation and apply it to the robot that is under research and development.”

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ActivePort Group (ASX:ATV) secures multimillion-dollar 10-year deal with Lightstorm

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PERTH, Australia, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Announced this week, ActivePort Software has secured a notable 10-year deal with existing customer Lightstorm as they ramp up the next phase of growth and expansion globally. This multimillion-dollar agreement to deliver software-defined networking and cloud orchestration, solidifies the strategic alignment and future evolution of both companies.

Lightstorm is the digital network infrastructure arm of US private equity company I Squared Capital and specialises in building infrastructure for hyperscale networking in Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

With ActivePort’s multi-vendor orchestration solution as a core component, Lightstorm built a network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform called Polarin. This platform allows enterprises to easily manage their network infrastructure and securely deploy a high-availability network in minutes with guaranteed 100% uptime.

ActivePort CEO and MD, Karim Nejaim: ‘We are honoured that Lightstorm have put their trust in our software as a core part of their business and extended our contract both in scope and time. It is almost one year to the day that we began our strategic partnership. During this time, Lightstorm have built a cloud based NaaS platform with ActivePort’s Orchestration solution and end-to-end workflow automation functionality. We look forward to this long-term partnership as we continue to work with Lightstorm to build products and services and be a key part of their success from the Middle East, through India and into Southeast Asia.’

Lightstorm CTIO, Lalit Chowdhary: ‘We could not be happier with ActivePort’s software and support for our business. Lightstorm’s NaaS Polarin platform is ready for general availability and this agreement extends our ongoing relationship with ActivePort to a strategic one as we continue to enrich our platform. We are excited for this next phase of growth and working together with the team at ActivePort as we expand globally.’

About ActivePort

ActivePort software specialises in software-defined networking solutions, including a vendor-agnostic Orchestration platform and the latest in network virtualisation technology. Their software offering includes Orchestration, SD-WAN, SD-Internet, NFV, Bandwidth on Demand, API Integration and Compute.

Having experienced un-precedented global demand, ActivePort is rapidly transforming from start-up to scale-up. To meet this increased customer demand, the company has added more resources, delivery capability and support capacity to ensure they remain leaders in Cloud orchestration.

For more information: www.activeport.com.au

ActivePort Software-Defined Networking Product Suite
ActivePort Software-Defined Networking Product Suite

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Neo4j Hires Google Executive Sudhir Hasbe As Chief Product Officer

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Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure Veteran to Scale Offering as Enterprises Increasingly Turn to Graph as a Cloud Database System of Record

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Neo4j®, the graph database and analytics leader, announced today that Sudhir Hasbe has joined the company’s executive leadership team as Chief Product Officer (CPO). Hasbe will oversee the company’s software portfolio across its native graph database and data science offerings, reporting directly to CEO and Co-Founder Emil Eifrem.

Hasbe previously led Product Management for Google Cloud’s Data Analytics Platform which includes industry-leading products like BigQuery, Looker, Dataproc, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Composer, Data Fusion, and Dataplex. Under Hasbe’s leadership, BigQuery grew to one of the largest analytics platforms with tens of thousands of customers, 110TB of data being processed every second, hundreds of customers with petabyte-scale datasets, and powering more than 700 ISV offerings. Hasbe also led acquisitions of Looker, Dataform, Cask, and CompilerWorks to enhance Google Cloud’s Data Analytics offering. Hasbe was also an executive sponsor of several of Google Cloud’s marquee enterprise customers and ecosystem partners. Prior to Google, Hasbe led software engineering at Zulilly, transforming it into a state-of-the-art data-driven organization. Previous to Zulilly, Hasbe spent seven years at Microsoft where he led product management for Xbox entertainment services, Azure Data Marketplace SQL Azure, and BizTalk Server.

Hasbe succeeds former head of product Philip Rathle, who assumes a new executive leadership role as Chief Technology Officer to help evolve the vision of the company and technology and to expand Neo4j’s relationships across a broader group of stakeholders. Neo4j under Rathle’s ten-year tenure shaped the graph category, grew the company’s offering from a single database product to a full graph stack including native graph storage, data science, analytics, and visualization, and established Neo4j as a leading player in the modern database landscape. The company’s offerings today are used by 75 percent of the Fortune 100 and more than 250,000 data developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, NGOs, and more.

“Sudhir’s track record and innovation with cloud hyperscalers comes to us at a time when graph technology is reshaping the database market and accelerating advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning in ways that are helping enterprises solve their biggest data challenges,” said Emil Eifrem, CEO and Co-Founder of Neo4j. “Sudhir’s expertise builds on what Philip has achieved as we drive the next level of transformation as a company and a category. I couldn’t be happier to have both leaders by my side.”

Hasbe’s appointment follows a series of milestones for Neo4j, which achieved double-digit growth in 2022 after crossing $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2021. This included doubling its enterprise cloud and graph data science offerings. In December 2022, the company was recognized for the first time in the Gartner®️ Magic Quadrant™️ for Cloud Database Management Systems, which also was the first time that native graph vendors more broadly had been included. Neo4j announced its general availability last November of Neo4j 5, the company’s next-generation cloud-ready graph database, the 2023 appointment of Alyson Welch as Chief Revenue Officer, and a major expansion of Neo4j’s graph enterprise deployment offering in March 2023.

“As the world becomes more connected, so does our data, making the relationships between both data and metadata matter more than ever,” said Hasbe. “Graph enables organizations to find hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections. It’s why I’ve come to Neo4j, and why graph will one day be foundational for every modern enterprise.”

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems, By Henry Cook, Merv Adrian, Rick Greenwald, Xingyu Gu, 13 December 2022.

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For additional information about today’s announcement, read our latest blog post, A Warm Welcome to Sudhir Hasbe, Neo4j’s Chief Product Officer.

About Neo4j
Neo4j, the Graph Database & Analytics leader, helps organizations find hidden relationships and patterns across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers leverage the structure of their connected data to reveal new ways of solving their most pressing business problems, from fraud detection, customer 360, knowledge graphs, supply chain, personalization, IoT, network management, and more – even as their data grows. Neo4j’s full graph stack delivers powerful native graph storage, data science, advanced analytics, and visualization, with enterprise-grade security controls, scalable architecture, and ACID compliance. Neo4j’s community of data leaders comprises a vibrant, open-source community of more than 250,000 developers, data scientists, and architects across hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and NGOs. Visit neo4j.com.

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AiDot Passes ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 Audit, Showing Cloud Safety, Privacy Commitments to End-users

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LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — AiDot, an uprising star in smart home ecosystem, announces the successful passes on multiple ISO standard audits, including ISO 27001, the international information security management standard, ISO 27017, the international cloud environment and information security control standard, and ISO 27018, the international cloud privacy protection standard for individual privacy. These certifications show AiDot’s further commitment to cloud safety, data security and privacy protection for all end-users and all WWA (Works With AiDot) partners.

AiDot and WWA(works with AiDot) partners.
AiDot and WWA(works with AiDot) partners.

To earn an ISO 27001 certification, a company shall ensure that all transactions and information exchange with shared partners are securely protected. It helps AiDot give partner organizations and customers greater confidence in their interaction with AiDot.

The ISO 27017 standard is built on the hallmark of ISO 27001 and adds further privacy control requirements on how a cloud service provider generates sensitive user-specific data, and how to store, manage, encrypt, transfer and delete such data while giving full notice to customers. Being Awarded with ISO 27001 certification is the highest level of acknowledgements from BSI, a worlding leading conformity assessment body, to AiDot for always chasing and practicing the best security practices.

The ISO 27018 certificate is directed to cloud-service provider specifically and is designed to stipulate the cloud protection framework for processing and storing Personal Identifiable Information (PII), which can be used to trace a person’s identity or link to a personal account.

AiDot believes that protecting partners and end-user’s privacy is the core of AiDot’s cloud service. Through mapping out applicable law in different countries and regions as well as complying with these global cloud safety hallmarks, AiDot acts as a leading safety compliance player and trusted partner in the cloud service marketplace. As of today, AiDot has gained the compliance of CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in over 120 countries.

As an AiDot cloud operation technology developer pointed out that, cloud service gives enterprises more agility for choosing working partners but it also poses new security and compliance challenge when it comes to cloud transfer and cloud layer governance. Thus, it is of utmost importance for a cloud service provider to offer cloud layer safety, operation security and data safety compliance through an integrated cloud service solution. By following the best security practices throughout the cloud structuring and software developing process, an enterprise would be able to offer a reliable and trustworthy cloud service for their clients and partners, like what AiDot is currently offering for Winees. “That’s why AiDot would always pass the most strict and leading third-party audits. We’re always dedicated to the most forerunning security practices in the industry and we’ll always build the trust between end-users and shared partners.”

About AiDot:

AiDot is a smart home platform that connects devices across brands and ecosystems. With AiDot, your home becomes a connected space that makes your life simpler, safer, and more entertaining.

The AiDot app is the central part of the platform for controlling all smart home devices installed in your home. No matter where you are, you can control “Works with AiDot” devices in your home, including lights, switches, outlets, cameras, sensors and household appliances, or create scenes and automation around your routines.

“Works with AiDot” (WWA) is a mark of interconnectivity across different brands and categories. You can easily control any product featuring the WWA label with AiDot app. Brands that have joined the AiDot ecosystem include well-known smart device brands, such as Linkind, OREiN, Mujoy, Winees, WELOV, Syvio, GoGonova, Ganiza, etc.

About Winees

Winees, a valued WWA partner of AiDot, leverages AiDot’s special edge on cloud safety to offer smart security cameras solution to all end consumers.

For more information, visit: www.AiDot.com

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8×8 Named the Best Performing Vendor 2022 by DANA Indonesia

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CAMPBELL, Calif., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — 8×8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), a leading integrated cloud communications platform provider, today announced that DANA Indonesia, one of Indonesia’s biggest digital wallet providers with over 115 million users, has named 8×8 the Best Performing Vendor 2022. The award recognizes 8×8 as a trusted and reliable communications partner focused on prioritizing exceptional customer service experiences to its customers. DANA Indonesia leverages 8×8 SMS APIs to send one time passwords and notifications, effectively securing all transactions and reinforcing customer trust.

“We are obsessed with helping organizations ensure that their customers always experience top notch service and we are doing everything we can to meet their customer engagement needs,” said Sylvain Chaperon, Global Head of Operations and Support, CPaaS at 8×8, Inc. “We are proud to be named the Best Performing Vendor of 2022 by DANA Indonesia because it underscores this commitment to our customers to maximize business outcomes.”

8×8 CPaaS includes the 8×8 Connect Automation Builder no-code multiple-channel communications management solution, and a portfolio of communication APIs, including SMS, voice, chat apps, video, and performance monitoring. 8×8’s portfolio of communication APIs, are part of the 8×8 XCaaS™ (eXperience Communications as a Service™) cloud contact center, business phone, video meetings, team chat, and SMS single-vendor solution.

About 8×8 Inc.
8×8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) is transforming the future of business communications as a leading Software as a Service provider of 8×8 XCaaS™ (eXperience Communications as a Service™), an integrated contact center, voice communications, video, chat, and API solution built on one global cloud communications platform. 8×8 uniquely eliminates the silos between Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) to power the communications requirements of all employees globally as they work together to deliver differentiated customer experiences. For additional information, visit www.8×8.com, or follow 8×8 on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

8×8®, 8×8 XCaaS™, eXperience Communications as a Service™, eXperience Communications Platform™ are trademarks of 8×8, Inc.

Source: 8×8, Inc.

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International Sourcing Event Returns to Acclaim, Global Sources Exhibitions Celebrate 20th Anniversary, Over 8,000 Booths at Hong Kong Shows this April

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HONG KONG, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The esteemed Global Sources trade shows are poised for a triumphant return to Hong Kong in April, occupying all ten exhibition halls at AsiaWorld-Expo, twice over. Emphasizing prominent trends such as carbon neutrality, the pet economy, and outdoor travel, featuring over 4,000 reputable suppliers and more than 8,000 booths with over 300,000 creative products, innovative technologies, and design concept applications, the two-phase exhibition anticipates an attendance of over 60,000 professional buyers from 150 countries and regions worldwide.

Global Sources Exhibitions in Hong Kong this April:

  • Global Sources Consumer Electronics (April 11–14)
  • Global Sources Mobile Electronics (April 18–21)
  • Global Sources Smart Home & Appliances (April 18–21)
  • Global Sources Lifestyle x Fashion (April 18–21)
  • Global Sources Home & Kitchen(April 18–21)

Global Sources Consumer Electronics
The most comprehensive international sourcing event for consumer electronics products, presenting reputable OEM/ODM suppliers from China and elsewhere in Asia. The exhibition caters to established retailers, e-tailers, and distributors with consumer electronics, computer peripherals, e-sports products, car electronics, outdoor electronics, A/V products, and electronic components, highlighting the latest in-demand and uniquely designed electronics products.

Global Sources Consumer Electronics includes a new audio products pavilion with nearly 500 booths showcasing speakers (including a party speaker section), headphones, home audio products, and other audio products and accessories. The Next-Gen Components Zone features the latest electronic components according to application, covering automotive electronics, smart living, smart security, wearable devices, and the medical, industrial, and robotics sectors. A personal transporter test drive and and outdoor electronics experience zone immerse buyers in the latest technologies.

Global Sources Mobile Electronics
Global Sources Mobile Electronics brings together more than 1,200 leading manufacturers, brand owners, and design companies at over 2,400 booths. The event emphasizes branding, smart technology, and innovative design elements, covering mobile devices, smart wearables, AR/VR, portable audio, charging products, and mobile accessories.

Global Sources Smart Home & Appliances
Global Sources Smart Home & Appliances is a specialized event for manufacturers, solution providers, design companies, and system integrators from the Greater China region. It showcases a broad range of smart home products, including security systems, intelligent alarms and sensors, smart lighting, home automation systems, smart electrical devices, household appliances, and IoT products. The event aims to provide comprehensive smart solutions to building materials dealers, distributors, housing design companies, and online sellers.

The show features a dedicated smart home experience zone, the AIOT Park, which invites mobile carriers and leading IoT solution companies to display their smart home, connected devices, IoT, and AR/VR products and applications.

Global Sources Lifestyle x Fashion
The Global Sources Lifestyle & Fashion Show highlights customized, high-quality, fashionable, and eco-friendly products from China and across Asia. The event features categories such as sports and fitness, everyday apparel and accessories, tech gifts, pet products, and travel, offering cutting-edge trends and innovative products for the post-pandemic era.

This year, a new Pet Products section has been added, featuring major categories such as health and wellness, grooming and cleaning supplies, toys, clothing and accessories. The event also showcases Southeast Asia manufacturing, promoting exhibitors from Southeast Asia and mainland China-based exhibitors with factories in the region. With growing demand from buyers for eco-friendly products, the event will place significant emphasis on sustainable and environmentally friendly elements. The Cool Design Gallery is a display area that focuses on innovative design, advanced technology, quality, and comfort, with a special “Eco-friendly, Green” showcase highlighting buyers’ most sought-after product requirements.

Global Sources Home & Kitchen
The Home & Kitchen show presents a variety of stylish, creative, and eco-friendly products, including home décor, household cleaning supplies, tableware, and kitchenware, catering to global buyers’ pursuit of high-quality living.

The Home & Kitchen theme synergizes with the Smart Home & Appliances theme, featuring products that together create a “More Comfortable, Smarter Living+” overall concept. “Black technology” in daily life will be a highlight of the event, embodied in the integration of technology with fashionable clothing and accessories, tech gifts, everyday household items, and kitchenware.

Hybrid Model
The expo will also feature an online exhibition, which offers live streaming services for overseas buyers unable to attend the event in person. Overseas buyers can virtually exchange name cards via Video on Demand.

20 years in the trade-show business
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Global Sources Exhibitions. As the first stop of the celebration tour, Global Sources Hong Kong shows, world-class professional events certified by the UFI, will host a 20th anniversary thank-you cocktail party and supplier awards ceremony to recognize outstanding performance in exploring overseas markets.

Hong Kong Goodies vouchers for visitors
In collaboration with the Hong Kong Tourism Board, Global Sources will prepare 15,000 Hong Kong Goodies vouchers for buyers from outside Hong Kong, providing them with a complimentary drink (worth over HK$100) at their choice of more than 100 bars, restaurants, and hotels in Hong Kong. Buyers can enjoy HK$100 off at one of over 120 selected restaurants, shops, and attractions and get a free transportation ticket, or redeem a special gift (worth over HK$100) at an attraction or museum in Hong Kong.

Global Sources Exhibitions in Hong Kong
Global Sources Exhibitions in Hong Kong

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U-tec to Launch All-new Smart Home Products at 2023 ISC West

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LAS VEGAS, March 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Leading smart home brand U-tec is set to exhibit its comprehensive product lineup, new products and sub-brands at the 2023 ISC West, the largest security industry trade show in the U.S., which will be held from March 28 to 31 in Las Vegas. The company will be at booth #23067 at the Venetian Expo convention center.

Originally established as a smart lock brand, ULTRALOQ, U-tec has evolved to become a top security and automation system products provider, empowering every product line with innovation with advantages in differentiation. It is committed to creating new smart home products with through innovative technologies to help build a smarter and more convenient life. To date, U-tec has served more than 1 million customers worldwide.

At 2023 ISC West ,  U-tec will present the latest ULTRALOQ series products and solutions, including the new Bolt Series and the ULTRALOQ Air SaaS-based cloud platform.U-tec will debut a new intelligent lightbulb brand, Bright, and a smart home security camera brand named Ulticam, as well as the Power series products including smart switches and plugs.

“We are excited to participate in the 2023 ISC West trade show. U-tec’s growth strategy focuses on leveraging the U-tec whole home control cloud platform as the hub to connect smart locks, lighting, security cameras,switches and plugs, to build a new open and shared smart home ecosystem with the core technologies of AIoT and Cloud,” said Clark Ruan, Vice President of U-tec.

Bright: Smart lighting is a bright idea

Bright is the world’s first Wi-Fi mesh smart lighting bulb that enables users to control the lights from anywhere in the world and program the lights to turn off automatically when the room is empty.

The product is equipped with voice control, radar human detection and multiple controls to build a more secure home. It blends into the home with lights that dim and change color automatically, plus a High Energy Visible (HEV) light to kill bacteria when no one is around.

Ulticam: Your camera, your way

Aiming to achieve the “smartest way to keep your family safe,” U-tec is launching the newest home security camera that will help users to explore around the home regardless of where they are. The Ulticam series will bring a real sense of security to the home with a built-in-AI chip, people/vehicle/object recognition algorithm, that will connect to the mobile U-tec app, to change the way of protecting the home.

Its intuitive user interface makes it a breeze to get notifications to know what’s happening at home from anywhere – see, hear and speak to visitors in real time. The 24/7 monitoring and control sends email or text alerts.

U-tec’s products can be interlinked through IoT and cloud technology, bringing an integrated and comprehensive experience with the mobile app. To further integrate its smart solutions, U-tec is launching ULTRALOQ Air, a cloud-access control platform with unified hardware, software and services that solves the industry pain point of multi-site commercial property management.

“U-tec has come a long way in the security industry. We have the core technologies of Wi-Fi Mesh, Edge AI and battery life to create advanced products, as well as the end-to-end integration of R&D, production, design, sales and services that enables us to grow and make life smarter and better for people,” said Clark Ruan.

For more information, please visit https://u-tec.com.

About U-tec

Located in Silicon Valley, U-tec is setting new standards for smart home security with its best-in-class design and advanced technologies. Every day, U-tec helps keep more than 1 million North American customers and their assets safe.

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Xiaomi’s New Premium AIoT Offerings Come to Malaysia

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Xiaomi recently announced their new smartphone flagship – the Xiaomi 13 series globally and in Malaysia. At their Malaysian launch, however, Xiaomi also unveiled a new array of AIoT offerings which include a new smartwatch, earbuds, a robot cooker and a fleet of robot vacuums.

Xiaomi Buds 4 Pro

Xiaomi isn’t a stranger when it comes to high-quality wireless audio offerings. The company has debuted more than 5 offerings across its Xiaomi and Redmi product lineups. The new Xiaomi Buds 4 Pro comes to their premium Xiaomi lineup with Sony’s LDAC technology in tow. Using this technology, the Buds 4 Pro is able to bring top-of-the-line Hi-Res Audio with data transfer rates of up to 990kbps at bit depths of up to 32-bit. In addition to this, the buds are also equipped with Ambient Noise Cancelling (ANC) technology to zone out and focus. Together with this, the Buds 4 Pro comes with Xiaomi’s take on 360 Audio – Dimensional audio – which gives you a fully immersive audio experience with object-based positional sound.

The Xiaomi Buds 4 Pro is touted to have up to 9 hours of uninterrupted listening and a total of 38 hours of battery life including the charging case. You don’t even need to plug in to top up the charge thanks to wireless charging support. It also comes with dual-device connectivity which allows you to simultaneously connect to two devices at one go.

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The Buds 4 Pro comes with a more premium space capsule design that uses multiple magnets to keep the earbuds in place. You can also get the best fit with Xiaomi’s new “Intelligent Fit Monitoring” feature for maximum comfort. You even get more granular control with Xiaomi’s new Earbuds app which is available on the Google Play Store.

Xiaomi Watch S1 Pro

Together with the Xiaomi Buds 4 Pro, the company also announced the Watch S1 Pro. The new smartwatch is a union of the classic watch design and contemporary smartwatch technology. It comes with a 1.47-inch AMOLED display and a rotatable crown protected by scratch-resistant sapphire crystal glass. The design is punctuated by two colourways – a silver finish with brown leather and a carbon black case finish paired with a fluororubber strap. With Xiaomi’s smartwatch OS, you can further customise the watch to suit your style with over 100 watch faces.

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Source: Xiaomi Malaysia

The Watch S1 Pro is not just about style, it comes with the ability to track over 100 sports activities. Runners have a special added value with 10 pre-built programs that allow you to build endurance, burn fat and more complete with interval training. Of course, the Xiaomi Watch S1 Pro comes with all the features we expect from a smartwatch nowadays including sleep tracking, SPO2 tracking, heart rate tracking and calorie tracking.

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With up to 14 days of battery life, it’s also one of the longest-lasting smartwatches on the market. you can even get 2 more days of battery with just 10 minutes of charge.

Cleaning the Smart Way with Xiaomi Robot Vacuums

Xiaomi’s fleet of popular robot vacuums is also making its official Malaysian debut. The fleet consists of four models this round: the E10, S10, S10+, and X10. The robot vacuums come with a unique complement of features to cater to different price points and needs.

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Source: Xiaomi Malaysia

All of them come with advanced LDS sensors that allow the vacuums to intelligently map your home and react to obstacles intelligently. Xiaomi Robot Vacuum X10 is can store up to 60 full cleans, features 4,000Pa powerful fan blower suction, and can clean up to 3 hours continuously with its 5,200mAh long-lasting battery. The S10+ features dual-pad pressure mopping for better stain removal, and up to 2 hours; The S10 features Zigzag and Y-shape cleaning routes for maximum cleaning efficiency and a smart water tank to protect floors from water damage; Lastly, the E10 is a versatile floor cleaning tool that cleans in one pass.

Xiaomi Smart Cooking Robot

Looking for a sous chef to help with cooking and meal prep? Well, Xiaomi’s smart cooking robot is here to help. It comes with eight specialized cooking features that allow you to cook a myriad of dishes with a single click of a button on the 8-inch display. Speaking of, it comes preloaded with over 200 chef’s recipes.

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Source: Xiaomi Malaysia

It comes with a high-power switched reluctance motor, with a rotation speed that ranges from 40 rpm to 12,000 rpm and 3D induction heating. The combination of these features is complemented by Xiaomi’s CookingIoT algorithm to set and forget as the Robot takes care of everything from grinding to frying and more.

Pricing & Avaliability

The whole stable of AIoT devices is available at Xiaomi stores and even on Shopee and Lazada.

ProductsAvailabilityNormal PriceSpecial Deals
Xiaomi Buds 4 ProNowRM899–
Xiaomi Watch S1 ProNowRM1,399–
Xiaomi Robot Vacuum X10+NowRM3,799RM3,599
Xiaomi Robot Vacuum X10TBARM2,199–
Xiaomi Robot Vacuum S10+NowRM2,099RM1,799
Xiaomi Robot Vacuum S10NowRM1,299RM1,099
Xiaomi Robot Vacuum E10NowRM899–
Xiaomi Smart Cooking RobotNow RM4,599–
Xiaomi Smart DehumidifierNowRM1,399–