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Entrust Datacard Lauded by Frost & Sullivan for Managing Risk and Protecting People and Systems with its Broad Security Solution Portfolio

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Entrust Datacard’s portfolio of high assurance TLS/SSL certificates secures sensitive information as well as transforms clients’ certificate ecosystem

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Based on its recent analysis of the global transport layer security (TLS) certificate market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Entrust Datacard with the 2020 Global Customer Value Leadership Award. Entrust Datacard, with its customer-focused approach, goes beyond certificate issuance and management. Its comprehensive portfolio of products and services helps organizations seamlessly transition to cloud and hybrid IT ecosystems, manage trusted identities, and secure sensitive information, assets, and digital interactions. With its value-added features in flexible packaging, it has gained significant revenue shares and more importantly, customers’ trust.

Entrust Datacard
Entrust Datacard

A leader in trusted identity and secure transaction technologies, Entrust Datacard offers a broad portfolio of high assurance TLS/secure socket layer (SSL) certificates such as organization-validated (OV) and extended validation (EV) certificates. These solutions secure sensitive information, assets, and digital interactions; reduce error-prone manual processes; and offer certificate lifecycle management.

“Entrust Datacard helps customers find rogue or out-of-scope certificates across locations and export them to its Certificate Hub central management console. Its certificate recycling subscription model provides the customer security team with the flexibility to select specific certificate expiry dates and reuse certificate licenses to predict costs and plan ahead. The expired certificate license is sent to a certificate pool to be used later,” said Swetha R K Industry Analyst. “Furthermore, Entrust Datacard provides tools to enable customers to automatically install certificates, decrease errors, and eliminate manual installation time.”

Entrust Datacard offers automation tools that blends DevOps methodologies and the security features that information security teams require, without taxing resources or undermining the DevOps culture. As a result, it is the first certificate authority to develop an Ansible module that automates certificate deployment at scale onto an unlimited number of endpoints, enabling a DevSecOps experience for TLS/SSL. Entrust Datacard also is the first commercial CA to integrate its platform with ServiceNow, an IT Service Management tool. This integration enables customers to integrate their certificate management workflow with other IT management operations.

“Entrust Datacard has an excellent track record for transitioning customers to meet new compliance requirements. It guides customers through the public key infrastructure (PKI) and identity management journey, helping them establish next level public and private trust,” noted Swetha. “Its client-focused product innovations and forward-looking strategies are expected to set it up for continued success in the global market.”

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers with a focus on improving the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products. The award recognizes the company’s unique focus on augmenting the value that its customers receive, beyond simply good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and customer base expansion.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Entrust Datacard Corporation

Consumers, citizens and employees increasingly expect anywhere-anytime experiences — whether they are making purchases, crossing borders, accessing e-gov services or logging onto corporate networks. Entrust Datacard offers the trusted identity and secure issuance technologies that make those experiences reliable and secure. Solutions range from the physical world of financial cards, passports and ID cards to the digital realm of authentication, certificates and secure communications. With more than 2,500 Entrust Datacard colleagues around the world, and a network of strong global partners, the company serves customers in 150 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.entrustdatacard.com.

Ken Kadet
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About Frost & Sullivan

For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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Icertis Contributes to Haffkine Institute in Support of the Fight Against COVID-19

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Contract Management Leader Donates INR 15 Lakhs to Renowned Biomedical Research Institute to Test Anti-Tuberculosis (BCG) Vaccine as COVID-19 Treatment

PUNE, India, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Icertis, the leading provider of enterprise contract management in the cloud, today announced a contribution of INR 15 Lakhs to Haffkine Institute to support their efforts in testing an anti-tuberculosis vaccine as a treatment for COVID-19. This donation will cover insurance costs to patients, indemnity to nurses, doctors and investigators, drug supplies, and consumables for patient sample testing in the clinical trials of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine as a means to neutralize the effects of COVID-19.

Icertis Contributes to Haffkine Institute in Support of the Fight Against COVID-19
Icertis Contributes to Haffkine Institute in Support of the Fight Against COVID-19

At this time, when there are no vaccines to stop the pandemic spread nor established curative treatment methods, the need to develop effective treatments has become critical. Heeding to the efforts of the Indian government to curtail further growth of the pandemic, Haffkine Institute is working on the development of new treatment modalities for COVID-19. The Institute is working with the state government, various government-run hospitals and Pune’s BJ Medical College to test potential cures for COVID-19. The trial that Icertis is funding will assess whether BCG can help bolster the immune system of patients.

“The Haffkine Institute has been a center for scientific and industrial research since its inception in 1896,” said Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee, Secretary, Medical Education & Drugs Department, Government of Maharashtra. “We are grateful to Icertis for the generous contribution towards the Institute’s efforts to tackle the spread of COVID-19. We are constantly working on ways to develop new treatments for COVID-19 and this contribution will help our teams immensely as we unite to win this battle against the virus.”

The Haffkine Institute is an autonomous research institute with an illustrious history. Established in 1896 and named after the inventor of the plague vaccine, Dr. Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, it has operated as a public trust supported by the State of Maharashtra since 1975, focused on training, research and testing to prevent and cure communicable diseases. Much of its research has been focused on testing, monitoring, prevention and treatment of communicable diseases like Influenza, H1N1 and Rabies.

“As the world comes to terms with the enormity of the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to come together to find a cure,” said Monish Darda, CTO & Co-founder Icertis. “Helping to take care of our community is part of the Four Rings of Responsibility that every Icertian wears proudly. And with the Haffkine Institute, there is a personal connection to me and Pune as well – I remember the stories my grandfather used to tell me about life during the plague that hit Mumbai and Pune, and the development of the plague vaccine. We are thankful to Haffkine Institute for working tirelessly to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and are proud to play a small part in the global fight to beat COVID-19.”

Icertis’ gift was made possible by voluntary reductions in pay to CEO and Co-founder Samir Bodas, CTO and Co-founder Monish Darda and continues Icertis’ efforts to address the needs of the community. Last month, Icertis donated INR 25 lakh to ensure the safety of brave doctors, nurses, and hospital staff of Naidu Hospital, Pune, with personal protection equipment, including N95 masks, gowns, and gloves, hand sanitizer dispensers, and viral transport media (VTM) kits, which protect test samples in transit to the lab. Since the start of this pandemic, Icertis has contributed more than US$200,000 to the organizations worldwide, including the University of Washington, the German Red Cross and the Seattle Alliance for Education in its effort to contribute to the communities in which it operates.

For more information about Icertis’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic, visit www.icertis.com/covid-19-resources/.

About Icertis

Icertis, the leading enterprise contract management platform in the cloud, solves the hardest contract management problems on the easiest to use platform. With Icertis, companies accelerate their business by increasing contract velocity, protect against risk by ensuring regulatory and policy compliance, and optimize their commercial relationships by maximizing revenue and reducing costs. The AI-infused Icertis Contract Management (ICM) platform is used by companies like Airbus, Cognizant, Daimler, Microsoft and Sanofi to manage 6.5 million contracts in 40+ languages across 90+ countries. Today, the analyst-validated industry leader serves 5 of the top 10 most valuable companies, 5 of the top 8 pharmaceutical companies, 4 of the top 7 software companies, 3 of the top 5 manufacturing companies and 4 of the top 8 consulting services companies.

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AirHost Awarded by Booking.com as a Premier Connectivity Partner

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SINGAPORE, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — AirHost, a leading Hospitality Management Software (HMS) company in Japan with a growing presence in the ASEAN region, received recognition by Booking.com, the world’s leading online reservation platform, as a Premier Connectivity Partner for 2020. AirHost is proud to be amongst the 76 organisations that earned this prestigious recognition. 

AirHost Awarded by Booking.com as a Premier Connectivity Partner
AirHost Awarded by Booking.com as a Premier Connectivity Partner

Booking.com’s Connectivity Partner Programme is designed to stimulate and elevate the partnership with connectivity service providers to ensure growth in their business. The ‘Premier’ status of the program is awarded to their top and highest-value connectivity service providers. This status acknowledges that these providers have a high-quality connection. It also highlights the service provider’s most advanced systems, with the widest range of products and services. 

AirHost is being acknowledged by Booking.com as its Premier Connectivity Partner based on several stringent performance benchmarks. Some of the benchmarks exhibited included the integrity of their innovative framework, security of their infrastructure, and excellent support for their interconnectivity with more OTA connections to platforms such as Booking.com.

Being recognised as a Premier Connectivity Partner also reflects on AirHost’s enthusiasm in benefiting the properties that they work with. AirHost is also dedicated to the growth and improved performance of these properties and the experience provided to their guests. AirHost provides a quality onboarding process regardless of whether their clients are transitioning from a previous platform or trying out a Hospitality Management System (HMS) for the first time. Their comprehensive interface eases the learning curve for their clients, making it easy for them to focus on the increase in their revenue and conversions. As a responsible HMS service provider, AirHost’s team is determined to provide a secure system whilst remaining devoted to building a strong and dependable relationship with their clients.

AirHost has a wide variety of accommodation partners ranging from small boutique hotels to enterprise hotels. AirHost is constantly striving to connect their clients with OTAs. Through AirHost’s endeavours, properties can easily increase their sales on Booking.com as AirHost provides unique features and seamless integration to Booking.com.

Besides their seamless connection to OTAs, AirHost is a one-stop solution for their accommodation partners. As a Hospitality Management Software provider, AirHost’s one-stop solution features their Channel Manager, Property Management System (PMS), Smart Check-In, as well as Booking Engine. All of which can be easily integrated into their client’s property management system to ensure that they have their own booking website. 

About AirHost

Founded in 2015, AirHost started their Hospitality Management Software journey as a property management agency. This has given them the opportunity to better understand their partners and clients. AirHost is constantly improving their products and services by helping their clients manage their properties effectively through automation of their daily routines and maximising their revenue. In addition to that, AirHost has an excellent customer support team.

About Booking.com

Founded in 1996 in Amsterdam, Booking.com has grown from a small Dutch startup to one of the world’s leading digital travel companies. Booking.com’s mission is to “make it easier for everyone to experience the world”. Booking.com is available in 43 languages and offers more than 28 million total reported accommodation listings, including over 6.2 million listings alone of homes, apartments and other unique places to stay. As one of the world’s largest travel marketplaces for both established brands and entrepreneurs of all sizes, Booking.com enables properties all over the world to reach a global audience and grow their businesses.

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FlowForma & MicrotechDPS Join Forces, To Support APAC Region With Process Automation Tools

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DUBLIN, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — FlowForma®, the leading provider of Process Automation tools for Microsoft Office® 365, today announced an exciting new partnership with MicrotechDPS, to deliver the award-winning FlowForma Process Automation tool to organizations in Australia and the greater APAC region.

Olivia Bushe, Chief Executive Officer, FlowForma.
Olivia Bushe, Chief Executive Officer, FlowForma.

A Microsoft partner, MicrotechDPS provide its clients with an extensive range of IT solutions and services to assist and enhance in the day-to-day running of their business. Looking to add a process automation solution to their list of offerings, MicrotechDPS came across the FlowForma Process Automation tool, and quickly sought a demonstration to discover its capabilities.

Upon seeing the tool in action, MicrotechDPS were confident they had found the right process automation app to supply to its clients. A 3-in-1 tool combining forms, workflow and document generation that could sit on top of Office 365 was their ideal preference. FlowForma Process Automation’s no-code methodology and rapid prototyping capabilities only further rubber-stamped their decision.

Having a long history of delivering successful process automation projects, MicrotechDPS wanted to be able to combine its skills in this area by helping organizations leverage and build on top of any existing Microsoft Office 365 platform clients may have. FlowForma Process Automation was the perfect solution for them to deliver process automation to those who already have, or are considering moving to, SharePoint Online.

The new partnership emphasizes FlowForma’s commitment to empowering its global customer base, with the company excited to ramp-up operations in Australia and surrounding countries in the APAC region. From initial conversations, it became clear that both FlowForma and MicrotechDPS hold similar cultural and business values, meaning a partnership was the obvious and natural choice for both parties.

“We are thrilled to be working alongside FlowForma to provide our clients across Australia and the APAC region with a powerful process automation tool, to automate their business processes. From our initial conversations we could clearly see similarities in our customer base and the industries with which we serve, it was a unanimous decision,” said Joel Steers, General Manager, MicrotechDPS.

Olivia Bushe, CEO, FlowForma added: “It gives me great pleasure to announce MicrotechDPS as a FlowForma partner. We are truly excited of the potential opportunities this partnership can bring to construction, healthcare, finance and public organizations across the APAC region, helping them to digitize processes and prepare for a paperless and social distancing world.” 

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About FlowForma

FlowForma, the leading provider of Process Automation tools for Microsoft Office 365® has been revolutionizing the traditional BPM space with an innovative approach to developing award winning products that empower users to create and streamline processes smarter and faster, utilizing the familiar SharePoint platform, without any coding.

FlowForma is a Gold Microsoft Partner, with over 150,000 users across Europe, America, and Asia. The company is headquartered in Dublin with offices in London and Boston and is motivated by its values to innovate, evolve, and achieve with employees, customers and partners.

For further information or a 14-day free trial, visit www.flowforma.com

About MicrotechDPS

Established in 2004, MicrotechDPS provide a full suite of business technology services. Its holistic approach makes MicrotechDPS unique as a technology business partner by managing the lifecycle of a company’s IT & Print investments, from planning to procurement through to installation, training, and ongoing support. MicrotechDPS build long term relationships with its clients by learning and understanding what it is they do, and then match solutions to the activity that drives their business.

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VeChain and I-Dante Partnered to Create Blockchain Enabled Medical Data Management Platform for Healthcare Provider in Cyprus

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SHANGHAI, May 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — With more than 4.6 million infections, 300 thousand deaths and counting caused by COVID-19, national governments, healthcare systems regardless of region and continent have been scrambling to respond to it, and the pandemic has highlighted the increasing demand for digital technologies to replace our old way of communication. VeChain is at the frontier of this digital transformation, solving the problems of the management of healthcare data by utilizing solutions powered by blockchain technology.

With the aim of enabling digital transformation in the healthcare sector, VeChain, together with I-Dante co-developed a blockchain-enabled medical data management platform named The E-NewHealthLife. Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus, a hospital under the General Healthcare System of the Republic of Cyprus (GHS) is the first hospital to adopt this application.

Healthcare System Advancement
 There have been efforts to modernize the technological infrastructure in the healthcare sector, but the problems include the administrative and technical difficulties of pooling data from different digital systems, the increasing cost, and the balance of health imperatives and privacy concerns, have greatly hampered the efforts. This dilemma has led to an urgent need for a low-cost yet highly-efficient digital solution.

With proven advantages in terms of secured data storage and efficient information sharing between multiple parties, blockchain technology has emerged as the best option in hand.

Blockchainized Actions In Response To The Challenges
There is a strong and urgent demand to deliver better and more efficient healthcare solutions that can achieve excellent patient-centric healthcare provision, secured data sharing, while complying with regulations on the use and sharing of patient data, which is solved in this case by the introduction of the E-NewHealthLife Web App in the Emergency Department of the hospital as the first phase of this project.

Powered by VeChain ToolChainTM, the Digital Healthcare Passport is an encrypted NFC Card that can be assigned to any patient of the hospital. The NFC Cards will allow the patients to identify themselves automatically at the Emergency Room registration desk, check their queue on mobile phone, manage their own medical records safely with the E-NewHealthLife Web App.

The blockchain powered application can serve both the hospitals internally and also end users. As The E-NewHealthLife fully complies with the GDPR (EU’s General Data Protection Regulation), the App enables the owner to have complete control over their profile and medical records. Data can only be shared to 3rd parties with the permission of the owner.

Bridging Trust In The Healthcare Sector
 Blockchain is being posited as the next frontier in healthcare that will help solve the industry’s interoperability challenges. According to a report by BIS Research, the global healthcare market spending and investment on blockchain-based technologies is expected to hit $5.61 billion by 2025. The adoption of blockchain technology could save the healthcare industry up to $100–$150 billion per year by 2025.

Based on concrete cases of multi party collaboration in various industries, VeChain has been accumulating experience in bridging trust and bringing in transparency into business while being compliant with local authorities and regulators. Given the huge potential of blockchain technology in the medical and healthcare sector, VeChain will continue to develop solutions for all stakeholders and pursue more opportunities in the near future.

About Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus

The Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus is a modern private health care institution, one of the largest in Cyprus, with a mission to provide to all the citizens and the visitors of the country safe and high quality medical services 24/7. The founder of the Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus, Dr. Andreas Panayiotou has set as a goal the development and the establishment of a reliable infirmary, with flexible operational mechanisms, in order to gain the trust and recognition for the quality of its services from everybody. Mediterranean Hospital of Cyprus is the first private hospital that joined Cyprus’ General HealthCare System (GHS).

Website: www.medihospital.com.cy/en/

About I-DANTE LTD

Founded in December of 2019 by Etna Digital Growth (a consultancy- software house company in Italy) and CircleServus LTD (a consultancy company in Cyprus) in order to build digital healthcare solutions leveraging the power of the VeChainThor Blockchain.

Website: www.i-dante.com/

About VeChain

Launched in 2015, VeChain connects blockchain technology to the real world by providing a comprehensive governance structure, a robust economic model, and IoT integration. VeChain is the pioneer of real-world applications using public blockchain technology, with international operations in Singapore, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. Together with our strategic partners PwC and DNV GL, we have established cooperative relations with many leading enterprises in different industries, including Walmart China, BMW, BYD Auto, Haier, H&M, LVMH, D.I.G, ENN, AWS, PICC, ASI etc.

Website: www.vechain.com 

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Raise3D announces an all-in-one software solution for a seamless production workflow

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IRVINE, Calif., May 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Raise3D, the global designer and manufacturer of 3D printers and provider of 3D printing solutions, announces the launch of ideaMaker Library as the latest addition to their Software Portfolio. The brand’s new webpage stores Slicing Profiles (.Bin) for Raise3D or third party printers and materials, as well as Model Files (.Stl) and Print Files (.Gcode), which can be downloaded and imported into ideaMaker.

The combination of Raise3D software portfolio allows for a seamless production workflow. 

As the industry grows and moves forward, the needs of customers also change and become more demanding. Productivity and ease of use are some of the features that users look for the most and Raise3D, as always, has listened to the market’s requirements. During the past weeks, these requirements have become very significant, as the 3D printing community has been continuously producing PPE items, and Raise3D has come up with a solution for a smooth, reliable workflow to help increase production.

The combination of Raise3D slicing and Print Management software – ideaMaker and RaiseCloud – has allowed users to send their model to their 3D printer and easily monitor the print process. Now, the process has been further enhanced, with fewer steps being needed.

With the latest version of ideaMaker 3.6.0, users can download and import Model Files from the ideaMaker Library, along with the Slicing Profile best-suited for their Raise3D or third-party 3D printer and filament. This will help users ensure they are always using optimized settings for their model. In order to send the file to print and monitor the print process of one or several printers, users can log straight into their Raise3D account from the ideaMaker interface and upload the print files to RaiseCloud with a single click. They can continue to remotely control the prints of an entire team at a glance, both from the website or the app.

Edward Feng, CEO at Raise3D, said “we keep working towards the goal of delivering an all-in-one solution that increases productivity. With ideaMaker Library as a new valuable asset, and the combination of ideaMaker and RaiseCloud, we are glad we can now provide this full solution and smooth workflow that will be a game changer for the manufacturing industry”.

The whole process is quick and effortless, as shown on the Software webpage of Raise3D, where additional information can be found.

Raise3D's provides you with the Software Solution for a Seamless Production Workflow
Raise3D’s provides you with the Software Solution for a Seamless Production Workflow

The result of this combination of Raise3D’s software portfolio, consisting of ideaMaker, ideaMaker Library and RaiseCloud, is an all-in-one solution for managing files, 3D printers, and users across a company, school, or team, that can considerably improve the print process and achieves a seamless production workflow that most customers have been looking for, especially those within the manufacturing industry.

Raise 3D’s Software portfolio can be downloaded here:
https://www.raise3d.com/software/

If you have any questions, please send an email to inquiry@raise3d.com.

About Raise3D

Raise3D designs and manufactures top-performing 3D printers and 3D printing solutions for corporations. With offices in California, Rotterdam, and Shanghai, Raise3D is positioned to be a leader in developing flexible manufacturing solutions with desktop 3D printing.

#Raise3D #ideaMaker #RaiseCloud #AdditiveManufacturing

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Bespin Global is named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, Worldwide

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SEOUL, South Korea, May 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Bespin Global was positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the first time as a Niche Player in 2017, positioned as a Challenger in 2019, and is now recognized as a Leader in 2020.

Bespin Global listed in Leaders quadrant of Gartner Magic Quadrant Public Cloud MSP
Bespin Global listed in Leaders quadrant of Gartner Magic Quadrant Public Cloud MSP

As a global leader, Bespin Global provides systematic and reliable cloud IT services in Korea and China with a large number of skilled workforce and key partnerships in the Pan-Asian region, and is committed to expanding its business around the world. With a customer-centric multi-cloud approach, Bespin Global supports a wide range of CSPs such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, and Tencent Cloud. Recognized for its innovation, Bespin Global has proven processes and automation tools and developed its proprietary cloud management platform (OpsNow).

“Bespin Global is delighted to be in the Leaders quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Service Providers, Worldwide. Being in the Leaders quadrant means for us that an impartial and trusted IT source recognizes our cloud capabilities and market leadership. From our view, it is truly exciting that Gartner places a 5-year-old born-in-the-cloud startup like us in the Magic Quadrant and evaluates us in terms of the ability to execute and completeness of vision,” said Bespin Global’s co-founder Hoon Park. “All Bespineers are thrilled about what we have achieved. We are more than ever committed to becoming the trusted partner for successful cloud adoption for companies in Asia and around the world.”

Gartner is a trusted source for business leaders and technology executives who seek an impartial view of the technology landscape. Gartner publishes annual Magic Quadrant reports on various sectors including “Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Service Providers, Worldwide”. The report positions 20 global leaders of a sector in four quadrants: Niche Players, Visionaries, Challengers, and Leaders. Following a uniform set of evaluation criteria, Gartner provides a neutral analysis of how each vendor aligns with its criteria on completeness of vision and ability to execute. This easy-to-read visualization allows readers to quickly understand the landscape and discover what makes Bespin Global a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Service Providers, Worldwide, among other vendors.

To read the full report, please refer to this link: https://en.bespinglobal.com/gartner-magic-quadrant-2020/

Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure Professional and Managed Services, Worldwide, Craig Lowery, To Chee Eng, et al., 4 May 2020.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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TUV Rheinland Certifies Taiwan’s First Outdoor e-Parking System at Nantou Service Area

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TAIPEI, May 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Whenever there is a surge in weekend or holiday traffic, it means heavy demand for parking at highway rest areas. People can often be seen circling endlessly in the parking lots for a parking space, wasting time and money. Sometimes, individuals will stop to rest at a service area but then forget where they have parked their car. The Central Region Branch Office of the Freeway Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and Communications (hereafter referred to as “CRBO”) has taken the lead in installing an e-parking system to help people with their parking needs. The system will alleviate parking stress at rest areas during public holidays and improve the turnover rate for service area parking.

Certificate handover by CRBO Director Huan-Ju Peng (right 4) and Kevin Wu (left 3), Vice General Manager of Mobility Service, TUV Rheinland
Certificate handover by CRBO Director Huan-Ju Peng (right 4) and Kevin Wu (left 3), Vice General Manager of Mobility Service, TUV Rheinland

The smart parking directions system at the Nantou Service Area was certified after 1.5 months of system verification and testing. TUV Rheinland conducted 42 actual vehicle testing and verification tasks covering license plate recognition for streams of traffic, eTag detection, parking capacity monitoring, software and hardware functionality, and vehicle search functions. The system was validated against the project specifications and a certificate of conformity was subsequently issued on May 14. At the certification ceremony the two parties were represented by CRBO Director Huan-Ju Peng and Kevin Wu, Vice General Manager of Mobility Service, TUV Rheinland.

The purpose of the e-parking system is to help drivers find open parking spaces and to find their cars at rest areas more quickly. What distinguishes the e-parking system at the Nantou Service Area from traditional service areas is its ability to not only monitor traffic volumes but also to dynamically divert and balance traffic based on parking capacity. Vehicles can be directed to suitable sectors so they don’t all crowd near the retail area, stop in non-parking areas, or cause traffic jams at intersections while drivers try to find parking.

An outdoor e-parking system is more challenging to design than indoor systems (e.g., the parking lots at department stores or high-rises). Outdoor e-parking must take into account weather, environment, signal transmission, and whether monitoring may be affected by the glare from license plates. The introduction of e-parking at the Nantou Service Area will not only maximize the benefits of eTag but also set a precedent for outdoor e-parking in Taiwan.

The Central Region Branch Office, Freeway Bureau has transformed the Nantou service area into a large outdoor smart parking guidance field on the highway. To ensure that the e-parking system will continue to function correctly once it is formally launched, an international third-party certification body was introduced by the CRBO to verify the system before it is commissioned. The independent verification and validation (IV&V) plan developed by TUV Rheinland helped to ensure that the system will be more suitable for real-world conditions. The system integrates parking directions and management, traffic statistics, and vehicle search functions to get drivers from entrance to exit quicker and safer. If they happen to forget where they have parked their vehicle, they can simply enter their license plate at the traffic condition kiosk in the service area and it will display the vehicle’s location.

Local cultural motifs such as purple crow butterflies and owls have also been incorporated into the design of the Nantou Service Area. The CRBO will continue to monitor and refine the e-parking system’s functionality, safety, and accuracy in order to improve traffic flow and user satisfaction within the service area.

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Supermicro Expands Portfolio with Fully Integrated NVIDIA A100 GPU-Powered Systems Delivering 5 PetaFLOPS of AI Performance in a Single 4U Server

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SAN JOSE, California, May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Super Micro Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, today announced two new systems designed for artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning applications that fully leverage the third-generation NVIDIA HGX™ technology with the new NVIDIA A100™ Tensor Core GPUs as well as full support for the new NVIDIA A100 GPUs across the company’s broad portfolio of 1U, 2U, 4U and 10U GPU servers. NVIDIA A100 is the first elastic, multi-instance GPU that unifies training, inference, HPC, and analytics.

“Expanding upon our industry-leading portfolio of GPU systems and NVIDIA HGX-2 system technology, Supermicro is introducing a new 2U system implementing the new NVIDIA HGX™ A100 4 GPU board (formerly codenamed Redstone) and a new 4U system based on the new NVIDIA HGX A100 8 GPU board (formerly codenamed Delta) delivering 5 PetaFLOPS of AI performance,” said Charles Liang, CEO and president of Supermicro. “As GPU accelerated computing evolves and continues to transform data centers, Supermicro will provide customers the very latest system advancements to help them achieve maximum acceleration at every scale while optimizing GPU utilization. These new systems will significantly boost performance on all accelerated workloads for HPC, data analytics, deep learning training and deep learning inference.”

As a balanced data center platform for HPC and AI applications, Supermicro’s new 2U system leverages the NVIDIA HGX A100 4 GPU board with four direct-attached NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs using PCI-E 4.0 for maximum performance and NVIDIA NVLink™ for high-speed GPU-to-GPU interconnects. This advanced GPU system accelerates compute, networking and storage performance with support for one PCI-E 4.0 x8 and up to four PCI-E 4.0 x16 expansion slots for GPUDirect RDMA high-speed network cards and storage such as InfiniBand™ HDR™, which supports up to 200Gb per second bandwidth.

“AI models are exploding in complexity as they take on next-level challenges such as accurate conversational AI, deep recommender systems and personalized medicine,” said Ian Buck, general manager and VP of accelerated computing at NVIDIA. “By implementing the NVIDIA HGX A100 platform into their new servers, Supermicro provides customers the powerful performance and massive scalability that enable researchers to train the most complex AI networks at unprecedented speed.”

Optimized for AI and machine learning, Supermicro’s new 4U system supports eight A100 Tensor Core GPUs. The 4U form factor with eight GPUs is ideal for customers that want to scale their deployment as their processing requirements expand. The new 4U system will have one NVIDIA HGX A100 8 GPU board with eight A100 GPUs all-to-all connected with NVIDIA NVSwitch™ for up to 600GB per second GPU-to-GPU bandwidth and eight expansion slots for GPUDirect RDMA high-speed network cards. Ideal for deep learning training, data centers can use this scale-up platform to create next-gen AI and maximize data scientists’ productivity with support for ten x16 expansion slots.

Customers can expect a significant performance boost across Supermicro’s extensive portfolio of 1U, 2U, 4U and 10U multi-GPU servers when they are equipped with the new NVIDIA A100 GPUs.  For maximum acceleration, Supermicro’s new A+ GPU system supports up to eight full-height double-wide (or single-wide) GPUs via direct-attach PCI-E 4.0 x16 CPU-to-GPU lanes without any PCI-E switch for the lowest latency and highest bandwidth. The system also supports up to three additional high-performance PCI-E 4.0 expansion slots for a variety of uses, including high-performance networking connectivity up to 100G. An additional AIOM slot supports a Supermicro AIOM card or an OCP 3.0 mezzanine card.

As the leader in AI system technology, Supermicro offers multi-GPU optimized thermal designs that provide the highest performance and reliability for AI, Deep Learning, and HPC applications. With 1U, 2U, 4U, and 10U rackmount GPU systems; Utra, BigTwin™, and embedded systems supporting GPUs; as well as GPU blade modules for our 8U SuperBlade® , Supermicro offers the industry’s widest and deepest selection of GPU systems to power applications from Edge to Cloud.

To deliver enhanced security and unprecedented performance at the edge, Supermicro plans to add the new NVIDIA EGX™ A100 configuration to its edge server portfolio. The EGX A100 converged accelerator combines an NVIDIA Mellanox SmartNIC with GPUs powered by the new NVIDIA Ampere architecture, so enterprises can run AI at the edge more securely.

For more on Supermicro’s new GPU systems, please visit www.supermicro.com/A100.

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iQIYI Launches Virtual Tour of Mt. Everest via QIYU All-in-one VR Headset

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BEIJING, May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — iQIYI Inc. (NASDAQ: IQ) (“iQIYI” or the “Company”), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, today announced that it has launched a virtual tour (the “Tour”) of  Mt. Everest via its QIYU all-in-one VR headset in partnership with Xinhua News Agency, one of the most influential media organizations in China.

iQIYI Launches Virtual Tour of Mt. Everest via QIYU All-in-one VR Headset
iQIYI Launches Virtual Tour of Mt. Everest via QIYU All-in-one VR Headset

iQIYI, as the official VR partner of Xinhua News Agency in its live coverage of the 2020 Mt. Everest Elevation Survey, will live stream the event in 4K high definition through VR using 5G technology on the QIYU all-in-one VR headset. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first successful summit of the world’s tallest mountain from the north face and the 45th anniversary of China’s first survey of Mt. Everest’s elevation and publication of its new height reading. In terms of elevation, the Tour represents China’s highest VR livestream to date.

Through its partnership with Xinhua News Agency, iQIYI has leveraged its innovative technology to live stream the 2020 Mt. Everest Elevation Survey in 5G+VR+4K format, enabling iQIYI users to witness this significant event in human history through the iQIYI App and QIYU all-in-one VR headset. The QIYU all-in-one VR headset supports 4K resolution and 360-degree free conversion of viewing angles, giving users a more immersive VR viewing experience.

iQIYI also ensures the smoothness and quality of livestreams through its leading EPASS360 panoramic video streaming media system based on AI technology, which optimizes the bit rate according to different user experience settings and better allocates the bit rate based on the accurate monitoring and analysis of the streaming process. On March 2020, iQIYI together with Peking University and Microsoft Research, jointly published a paper titled EPASS360: QoE-aware 360-degree Video Streaming over Mobile Devices. The paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), a top international journal in the field of Mobile Computing. 

Since 2017, iQIYI has been developing its VR and AR capabilities in the areas of hardware, technology, and content. Chongqing iQIYI Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. (“iQIYI Intelligence”), which is incubated and operated by iQIYI, has released QIYU all-in-one VR headsets, and completed a RMB100 million Series A financing in November 2019. iQIYI Intelligence has also developed iQIYI Ultimate Theater (iQUT) and VR 8K panoramic live streaming solutions. According to the latest available data from the Chinese spring festival period in 2020, the average daily viewing time of iQIYI QIYU VR users increased by more than 50% compared with the same period last year. 

iQIYI has also explored various opportunities to commercialize its VR capabilities and expand the ecosystem. For example, the Company has worked with hotels on the placement of iQIYI VR products in hotel rooms, while also having been featured in events including Beijing International Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival and curating the LANVIN VR runway show.

About iQIYI, Inc.

iQIYI, Inc. is an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China. Its corporate DNA combines creative talent with technology, fostering an environment for continuous innovation and the production of blockbuster content. iQIYI’s platform features highly popular original content, as well as a comprehensive library of other professionally-produced content, partner-generated content and user generated content. The Company distinguishes itself in the online entertainment industry by its leading technology platform powered by advanced AI, big data analytics and other core proprietary technologies. iQIYI attracts a massive user base with tremendous user engagement, and has developed a diversified monetization model including membership services, online advertising services, content distribution, live broadcasting, online games, IP licensing, online literature and e-commerce.

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