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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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TeamViewer introduces Patch Management
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TeamViewer®, a global leader in secure remote connectivity solutions, announced the availability of Patch Management, as part of TeamViewer’s
Monitoring & Asset Management product. Depending on the size of the company, the types of devices in use and the geographic distribution of the
employees that use them, managing the patch management of an entire IT infrastructure can be quite a challenge. Especially when all it takes is one
unpatched device to put the entire IT infrastructure at risk. With Patch Management by TeamViewer, it is now much easier to keep IT systems up to date
and safe by automatically evaluating, testing, and applying patches to operating systems and even 3rd party applications – no matter how large or
geographically dispersed a company is. From now on, users can not only detect outdated software versions with TeamViewer but can easily act and roll out
a necessary patch in no time. With Patch Management, users will never miss an update again.
The key benefits of Patch Management with TeamViewer are:
• Vulnerability detection: Patch Management detects vulnerabilities by automatically scanning for outdated software and operating system versions,
providing users with a more in-depth insight into their IT infrastructure thereby increasing proactive intervention, well before incidents might occur.
• Patch Deployment: With Patch Management, users can remotely deploy patches for 3rd party applications and operating systems. They also have the
possibility to automate this process via their patch management policies.
• TeamViewer integration: Since Patch Management is fully integrated into TeamViewer, users can roll out their patch management solution to their entire
network effortlessly with just a few clicks, through the TeamViewer Management Console.

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Enhancements to Virtustream’s Enterprise Cloud Platform Improve Controls for
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Virtustream, an enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies business, announced several significant updates to the Virtustream Enterprise
Cloud platform designed to give customers better control over their IT environments and budget. Major platform enhancements include the expansion of
its existing data protection portfolio, new capabilities for platform backup updates such as image-level backup and on-demand backup, and Virtustream
xStream® management platform updates, improving cost and compute migration visibility. Updates also encompass new functionality and controls for
virtual machine (VM) snapshots. The Virtustream Enterprise Cloud is purpose-built for mission-critical workloads and powered by the Virtustream
xStream management platform with microVM (μVM) technology, providing enterprise customers with a true consumption-based model. Further
expanding its broad data protection portfolio, Virtustream has introduced several new features to provide customers with significantly faster recovery time
objective (RTO) on qualified virtual machines. By incorporating image-level backup into the data protection portfolio, Virtustream can better capture and
restore the operating system and application layers for customers on a daily, weekly, monthly or on-demand basis to precisely accommodate customer
requirements, such as patch deployments.
The new enhancements span:
• Daily backup – automated, overnight full backup capabilities replace the standard weekly cadence, removing the overhead and manual efforts of
incremental backups.
• Faster recovery time objective (RTO) – which significantly reduces the maximum amount of time typically necessary to restore application functionality
in the event of service loss. For VMs using image-based backup, this time period can be reduced from several hours to just minutes.
• Backup on-demand – with backup data stored according to each VM’s existing policies, the new backup on-demand capabilities provide customers the
flexibility to initiate backups on a case-by-case basis without the need to backup their entire environment for a single VM.

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Avaya Wins Frost & Sullivan Product Leadership Award for its Public Safety
Solutions
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Avaya Holdings Corp., a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, announced it has been awarded with Frost
& Sullivan’s 2019 North America Product Leadership Award in the enterprise safety solutions market for Public Safety Solutions. The firm recognized the
Avaya SENTRY™ solution by 911secure and Avaya’s deployment of the RapidSOS NG911 Public Safety Clearing House in 2019 for empowering public
safety answering point (PSAP) operators with highly accurate location details. The solutions use site-based device discovery and tracking protocols that
provide information from wired/wireless IP device connectivity, analog/digital technology record import, or remote off-premise positioning. When an
emergency call is made, SENTRY™, provided by Avaya, determines the phone’s physical location and immediately collects additional relevant data in the
building. Supplemental information such as specific floor plans and Hazmat information is also pulled and collected. Because of Avaya’s ability to update
the record in near-real-time, the solution dynamically associates numerous data points that further validate the location of the device. Along with its ability
to identify the caller’s precise location, the Avaya SENTRY™ solution by 911secure pushes real-time incident notes to first responders and on-site
managers that include data from virtually any sensor, device, or tabulation without the need for new hardware. The application is available for any PBX
system (hybrid or cloud-based services) and is tailored to each unique facility and environmental circumstance. In order to connect quickly with these first
responders that continue to operate with out-of-date technology based on traditional landlines, Avaya also partnered with RapidSOS, a technology
company that provides a link between connected devices and emergency services. By partnering with RapidSOS, the Avaya SENTRY™ solution by
911secure is able to give highly accurate information to first responders through RapidSOS’s comprehensive database already being used by most public
safety agencies nationwide, providing emergency responders with vital information such as floor plans, points of entry and multimedia from buildings.
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Avaya Receives Customer Value Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan
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Avaya Holdings Corp. announced it has been awarded with Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 Customer Value Leadership Award for Customer Journey
Intelligence, recognizing the advanced AI and other Customer Journey Intelligence innovations that have been built into Avaya’s broad,
industry-leading portfolio of customer and employee engagement solutions. The global research firm recognized Avaya’s early and continuous
investment in AI and its strategic technology partnerships in the areas of customer experience that have placed Avaya at the forefront of AI-infused
solutions to improve the customer journey. In addition, Frost & Sullivan recognized Avaya’s success in enhancing contact center agent’s ability to get
the right information at the right time to deliver powerful business outcomes for its customers. In response to changes in consumer behavior, the
contact center industry seeks to adopt new technology at an increasingly rapid pace. Businesses today struggle to glean actionable intelligence from
their various customer interactions and use that intelligence to better meet and even anticipate customer needs, whether through self-service or live
agent assist, and to similarly assist agents across channels. According to Frost & Sullivan, Avaya understands that there are numerous places where
new technology can have a significant impact on customer experience from the first point of contact a customer has with a business through the
complex landscape of a multi-stage customer journey. Avaya’s customer experience intelligence is highlighted in recent AI portfolio enhancements,
which include real-time agent scripting and new call flow scripting capability that enables call flows to be defined in real-time for both inbound and
outbound calls, providing contact center agents with on-screen, step-by-step guidance throughout the customer interaction. In addition, with Avaya’s
Intelligent Workspace solution, agents have one AI-powered “single pane of glass” for intelligent communication and collaboration management that
is personalized, intuitive, and customizable.
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Evolve IP Completes Flex Certification for WebEx Calling and Meetings
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Evolve IP®, the world’s leading provider of unified, Purpose-Built® cloud solutions, announced that it has been certified to deliver Cisco
WebEx Calling and Meetings under the Cisco Collaboration Flex program. Leveraging the Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan, Evolve IP clients
can purchase Cisco’s meeting, collaboration, voice-calling, and Cisco MPP business phones in the way that makes the most sense for their
business. Businesses can mix and match Cisco and Evolve IP solutions to tailor their deployment and move solutions to the cloud at their
own pace.
Evolve IP’s offering under the Cisco Collaboration Flex Plan includes:
• Full unified communications services including rich meetings, messaging, and calling capabilities.
• Enhanced team collaboration with Cisco Webex Teams integrated into the calling option.
• Cisco’s next generation 6800, 7800, and 8800 series open SIP Multi-Platform Phones (MPP), providing handset users with the latest
features and crystal-clear audio and video calling.
• Purchasing bundles of collaboration applications, devices, and network services in one easy-to-order package.
In addition to the Flex program, Evolve IP continues to leverage its deep experience with Cisco technologies to provide clients with a
variety of infrastructure and security solutions as well as additional cloud services including the Evolve Contact Suite, which was recently
noted for the third consecutive year in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, North America.
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Fujitsu Honored with IEEE Milestone for High Electron Mobility Transistor
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The high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) developed by Fujitsu Laboratories has been certified as an IEEE milestone. The technology was developed
by the company in 1979 and was recognized for its innovative achievements in improving the performance of radio telescopes and satellite broadcasting
receivers. Fujitsu was awarded with the IEEE Milestone plaque at a ceremony held on December 18 in Tokyo, Japan. With over 420,000 members in more
than 160 countries, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world's largest technical professional society in such fields as
electricity, electronics, information and telecommunications. The IEEE Milestone has recognized historic achievements in these areas that have
successfully contributed to the development of local communities and industries over the past 25 years. The HEMT is a newly structured transistor that can
operate at high speed by creating a two-layer structure that spatially separates the source and travel regions of electrons within the transistor. This feature
enables the transistor to receive weak, high-frequency signals with high sensitivity. In 1985, Fujitsu commercialized the HEMT as a microwave
semiconductor device product with the world's lowest noise level and it was adopted for the radio telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) in
Nagano, Japan. The telescope discovered an unknown interstellar molecule one year later in 1986, significantly contributing to the progress of basic
science. After being installed in satellite broadcasting receivers around the world, the transistors have become an essential part of various microwave and
millimeter-wave devices, such as mobile devices, base stations, GPS receivers, and millimeter-wave radar that prevents collisions between automobiles.
Accordingly, the HEMT has been the fundamental technology supporting the information and communications society.
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Fuze Wins 2019 Aragon Research Innovation and Women in Technology
Awards
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Fuze, the leading cloud-based communications platform provider for the modern global enterprise, announced that it has
won two Aragon Research awards––the 2019 Innovation Award for Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC)
and the 2019 Women in Technology Award for Marketing, recognizing Fuze VP of Brand Lisa Walker. The Aragon
Research Innovation Award recognizes Fuze’s commitment to powering enterprise communications for an increasingly
distributed workforce. With a user behavior-driven approach to product design, Fuze enables inclusivity and always-on
collaboration across an enterprise’s entire ecosystem, empowering all employees to connect how and when they want.
Fuze’s unified technology reimagines the modern business communications experience to drive enterprise workforce
productivity and engagement throughout digital transformations. The Aragon award recognizes providers leveraging
visionary use of technology to not only adapt as markets change, but to actively disrupt and inform how their markets
will evolve. Fuze and Lisa Walker were formally presented with their awards on December 5th, 2019 at Aragon
Transform, the annual Aragon Research awards ceremony.
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HPE Living Progress receives multiple international awards for leading-edge
global strategy
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HPE recognized for a leading-edge global strategy that demonstrates leadership on critical sustainable business issues. HPE’s
winning culture has evolved in countless ways during the last year or two, enhancing our morale and building a well-earned
reputation as a company committed to advancing the way people live and work. One area of which I am especially proud is the
way in which we have come to use sustainability as a driver of innovation and competitive advantage — creating disruptive
solutions that enable our customers to transform industries and markets, while also enabling HPE to grow and prosper. That’s
why I was excited to learn that over the last quarter of 2019, HPE was recognized for three very prestigious global awards,
which validate these efforts. These awards demonstrate HPE’s leadership on critical sustainable business issues, including our
commitment to transparency, our contribution to accelerating a circular economy, and our best-in-class environmental, social,
and governance (ESG) performance. Good ESG performance has driven improved financial performance, resulting in a
substantial increase in investor consideration over the past few years. Our response to these critical issues — from managing
climate risks, to building a trusted and secure supply chain, to creating a culture of innovation — differentiates HPE as a
responsible business poised for long-term growth.
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HPE nets five CRN Product of the Year Awards for 2019
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Partner communities nominate HPE products and solutions as winners across the board. CRN recognized the groundbreaking capabilities of HPE products across three
distinct sets of criteria: technology, revenue & profit, and customer demand. Winning in all three of these buckets lands an Overall Winner rating, of which HPE
snagged three for IoT and Edge, Enterprise Software and General Purpose Servers. HPE also landed wins in two subcategories for the HPE Nimble Storage and HPE
SimpliVity platforms. HPE InfoSight won the overall Enterprise Software category, and won the General Purpose Servers category specifically for its use on HPE
ProLiant 325 servers. But before we get to the specifics of the awards, let’s talk for a moment about what HPE InfoSight is. Put simply, HPE InfoSight is the industry’s
most advanced AI for infrastructure, and its AI-driven operations and insights are completely transforming IT’s approach to infrastructure management. HPE InfoSight
has led the industry away from what was essentially a reactive management model to an intelligent, predictive model — and saved customers hours of lost productivity
by proactively fixing issues before they impact operations. By extending the predictive analytics and recommendation capabilities of HPE InfoSight to HPE servers,
we are enabling smarter, self-monitoring infrastructure for our customers.
CRN recognized the groundbreaking capabilities of HPE InfoSight from three distinct perspectives:
• As an innovative and easily integrated Technology. HPE InfoSight’s cloud-based machine learning and deep telemetry — having analyzed more than 1,250 trillion
data points since 2010 — provide a seamless, global intelligence across environments to deliver autonomous IT.
• As a driver of Revenue and Profit. Industry analysts ESG found that, among real-world customers, HPE InfoSight predictive analytics drove an average 79% drop in
operational expenses, cut trouble tickets by 73%, and mean time to resolution by 69%. HPE InfoSight also delivers significant business value well beyond support,
like the ability to predict and prevent issues before they occur, and accelerate application performance.
• As a unique product that answers Customer Demand. HPE InfoSight’s demonstrated ability to enable infrastructure that is self-managing, self-optimizing, and
self-healing while supporting hundreds of apps and thousands of workloads has radically changed customer expectations.
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Lenovo Honoured in HKICPA Best Corporate Governance Awards 2019
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Lenovo has been honoured with two Platinum Awards in the annual Best Corporate Governance Awards by the
Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“HKICPA”) – the first for Corporate Governance and the
second for Sustainability and Social Responsibility Reporting. This is the seventh consecutive year that Lenovo
has been presented with the Corporate Governance award and the second consecutive year receiving the
Sustainability and Social Responsibility reporting award, highlighting once again the company’s outstanding
efforts and commitment in corporate governance and in ESG (environmental, social and governance) reporting.
Over the past two decades, the prestigious Best Corporate Governance Awards have become a recognized and
respected yardstick of corporate governance standards and, more recently also, of sustainability and social
responsibility reporting standards, in both the private and public sectors in Hong Kong. The awards look beyond
the minimum legal and regulatory requirements to identify best practices that set a high bar. The Awards promote
a culture of good corporate governance and sustainable business practices, a priority that aligns well with
Lenovo’s continuous efforts in this area.
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MacStadium Achieves ISO/IEC 27018 Certification for Cloud Privacy
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MacStadium, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise-class cloud solutions for Apple Mac infrastructure, announced it has
achieved certification for ISO/IEC 27018:2019 as well as renewed its ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification as an organization
across all of its data centers. In addition to ISO 27001 and 27018, MacStadium is SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, and Privacy
Shield certified. Published by the International Organization for Standardization, ISO/IEC 27018 is a code of practice for
the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds. The ISO/IEC 27018 standard establishes
objectives, controls, and guidelines to ensure that PII data is adequately protected when processed by a cloud service
provider, providing a common compliance framework for cloud service providers operating in multinational markets. To
achieve ISO 27018 certification, MacStadium underwent an external audit performed by Coalfire Controls, LLC.
MacStadium provides private cloud solutions built on Apple Mac infrastructure to organizations around the world. Powered
by MacStadium, Orka (Orchestration with Kubernetes on Apple) is the only virtualization layer available for Mac build
infrastructure based on Docker and Kubernetes technology. MacStadium, a Summit Partners portfolio company, is
headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with growing operations in Las Vegas, Silicon Valley, Dublin, Ireland, and Frankfurt,
Germany.
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Nutanix Once Again (and Again) Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant
for Hyperconverged Infrastructure
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Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced it has been named a Leader by Gartner, Inc. in the November
2019 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Nutanix has been recognized in all editions of this Magic
Quadrant since Gartner started it. Nutanix was also designated as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
vendor for hyperconverged infrastructure. Based on detailed feedback from 264 customer ratings, Nutanix has an average
rating of 4.7 out of 5. Additionally, 92% of respondents identified as willing to recommend Nutanix. Nutanix believes that
enterprises continue to choose its products over competitors for its simplicity and flexibility, as well as the company’s
exceptional customer service. Specifically:
• Simplicity: Nutanix’s products allow enterprises to deliver all applications, at any scale, with simple one-click
deployment, upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting and more.
• Choice: By offering customers flexible licensing and consumption models, as well as the ability to choose among many
hardware and virtualization vendors, Nutanix provides customers the flexibility needed to grow, scale and achieve their
business goals.
• Customer Focus: Nutanix’s obsession on ensuring the success of its customers has resulted in the company achieving an
average Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 90 for the past five years.
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