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Panasonic Launches Value Version Of Its 7 Inch Rugged Tablet

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Bracknell, UK 1ST April 2014 - Panasonic today announced a Value version of its 7” fanless Fully-rugged Windows tablet, the Toughpad FZ-M1. Ideal for industry sectors using light applications and looking to replace their ageing business PDA’s, this Value version with its energy efficient and mobility-designed Intel® Celeron® Processor is an affordable and more flexible mobile solution.

“This latest Value version of the Toughpad FZ-M1 is the perfect replacement for mobile workers with business PDA’s in industries such as transport, logistics, warehousing, hospitality and public safety,” said Jan Kaempfer, Head of European Marketing, at Panasonic Computer Product Solutions. “This product is a latest example of our approach to develop a range of flexible mobile devices that can be optimised for different business and mobile worker needs.”

The Toughpad FZ-M1 Value device is powered by the latest generation Intel® Celeron® Processor. The dual core Intel® Celeron® N2807 Processor was carefully selected for its high performance, combined with efficient power use and specialist design for mobile devices. It also ensures heat generation is kept to a minimum for the Toughpad tablet’s fanless design.

“The new Intel® Celeron® Processor Series offers outstanding performance, long battery life and great user experiences and enhances how people can use their devices.” said Maurizio Riva, MNCs Sales Director of Intel® EMEA. “By using this new SoC, Panasonic’s new tablet will provide a great mobile computing experience to its users”.

The Toughpad FZ-M1 Value tablet comes with 2GB RAM (4GB optional) and 128GB SSD and is equipped with the Windows 8.1 operating system.

Weighing in at just 540g, and 18mm thin, the Toughpad FZ-M1 is also highly flexible with its configuration ports and its integrated business expansion module. The device can be configured exactly for the needs of the business and transformed from a tablet into a mobile tool for vertical applications. Configurable integrated options include 4G mobile broadband, GPS and vehicle pass through antenna. The integrated business expansion module options include True Serial, LAN, NFC, Smartcard Reader, 1D/2D Barcode Reader, UHF RFID and battery hot swap capabilities. As standard, the Toughpad FZ-M1 includes a full size USB 3.0, Micro SD, Headset, DC-In and microSIM.

Unrivalled viewing quality
Using the latest LCD technology the Toughpad FZ-M1 offers unrivalled levels of viewing quality for 7” tablet users working inside or outside. Offering extra wide viewing angles, strengthened glass, high contrast ratio and 500cd/m² high brightness paired with a Panasonic anti-reflection layer, the WXGA (1280x800) Resolution screen is purpose built to perform in any light conditions with ten finger capacitive touch screen capabilities.

Small but no less rugged
The Toughpad family meets similar durability standards to Panasonic’s Fully Rugged Toughbook product line. The Toughpad FZ-M1 is drop tested to 150cm as well as having an IP65 ingress protection rating for resistance to dust and water and it will operate effectively in temperatures ranging from -10 to +50°C.

Long battery life and hot swap option
With built-in battery saving technology such as its ambient light sensor, the Toughpad FZ-M1 can operate for 8.0 hours on its replaceable battery on 2.5 hour charge time. For those who need to work longer, a hot swappable battery set-up can be established using the configurable port options.

Cameras and comms to suit
For users needing live video conference or capture photographic images of documentation in the field, the FZ-M1 is equipped with a 2 megapixel front web camera with stereo mic and 5 megapixel rear camera. An additional 8 megapixel rear camera is also available as an option.

Built for today but with the future in mind, the Toughpad FZ-M1 is optimised for connectivity whatever the location and includes the optional Gobi 5000 module for 4G/LTE downwards, as well as Bluetooth® v4.0 and Wireless LAN. The optional dual pass through antenna connector enables wireless connectivity to be routed through to vehicle docks for enhanced and more stable wireless performance. Using the desktop cradle accessory the FZ-M1 has the flexibility to become a full desktop replacement.

Accessories to get the best from your Toughpad
To ensure mobile workers can make the best of their Toughpad FZ-M1, a full array of purpose built accessories will be available at launch including desktop cradle, vehicle dock, multi battery charger, shoulder, hand and rotate straps, carry cases and a passive pen.

Launched simultaneously at SITL, the international trade show for transport and logistics in Paris, France; and the British APCO public safety show in Manchester, UK; the Value version will be available from June 2014 with a recommended £739.00 +VAT.


The Prime Challenge Discovers a Prime Number Over 342,000 Digits Long

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The Prime Challenge, launched by Microsoft Azure in November last year (291113) came to an end on Saturday (2903) with the user registered as PHunterLau being declared the winner. Over 400 people signed up to the challenge, but it was PHunterLau who emerged as the winner after discovering a prime number that was over 342,000 digits long.

“Thanks to everyone that took part in The Prime Challenge, and of course huge congratulations to the winner - PHunterLau,” said Steve Plank, Cloud Computing and STEM Evangelist at Microsoft. “We’ve shown that with a bit of determination, some computing resource and possibly a bit of luck here and there, we can advance knowledge in mathematics.”

“However, as an industry and a nation we must do more to maintain the interest in maths, as well as science, technology and engineering. We mustn’t allow the interest in STEM skills to continue to decline,” continued Plank. “This challenge has shown a critical intersection between technological components and skills.”

The Prime Challenge was designed as a platform to introduce people to the way complex computing will all be done in the future: in the cloud. It catered to people with a casual interest in the topic, through to mathematically skilled coders. In fact, many of the participants of The Prime Challenge had never used cloud computing before, yet with their free Microsoft Azure subscriptions they were building and configuring servers. On the other end of the scale while many entrants used mathematical tools that already existed, such as Marcel Martin’s Primo, some wrote their own code.

“A challenge like this, which gives people a brief view in to how complex computing will be done from now on gives a window on the future and hopefully captures future generations of students who are currently turning away from the core skills required to drive the technology sector forward,” continued Plank. “These STEM skills drive the modern economy and the STEM experts will become the future business leaders.”

One example of the importance of maths in modern business is the role prime numbers play. Amongst other things, they are used to create public key cryptography algorithms and it is these algorithms that are used to secure nearly all online data transfers, including email encryption and bank card security. Almost every online purchase that is made will use prime numbers in its security process.

STEM skills are vital for the UK economy. Not only are there a growing number of jobs that directly require these skills - jobs in technology, science and R&D - but more and more of the economy now relies on the internet and other technology. Online shopping, banking and search means that modern commerce is effectively powered by STEM skills.

To highlight the huge gaps in the number space that The Prime Challenge hoped to explore Shoothill (www.shoothill.com) developed a deep zoom image (http://www.shoothill.com/DeepZoomPrime/). Using this visualization you can see when the record-breaking prime numbers have been discovered, the advances that have been made and the huge gaps between them.

The Microsoft Azure Prime Challenge was launched on 29th November (291113 - itself a prime number) to offer an interesting and exciting opportunity to have fun with maths. The objective was to find the “lost primes”; those prime numbers that have remained undiscovered in the race to always find the biggest prime. The challenge, which closed on 29th March (2903 - another prime number), was also intended to generate additional interest in STEM skills in an innovative way.

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Evolution not revolution helps distribution

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The new Internet naming convention, where websites can end in almost any characters rather than the old style .com, .net and .org, has been seen by many as a playground for fresh thinking and innovation on the Internet.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which regulates Internet names, cites the capacity for innovation as one of the reasons that has led to the expansion in the namespace, known as the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) program. ICANN long ago made sure that Registries (who own the names) can only sell to Registrants (who buy the names) through accredited intermediaries known as Registrars, these are companies such as GoDaddy and 1and1 that you may have seen advertising recently on TV.

Over recent months, the Domain Name Industry has seen a variety of weird and wacky go-to-market strategies. There have been registries proposing a variety of pricing mechanisms ranging from $10 to $50,000 for a single web address. Other registries have opted for a hyperbolic price increase model over time jumping to tens of thousands of dollars per domain name in only a few years.

Some gTLD applicants have spent a huge amount of time, effort and resources building their own back-end registry systems while others have been spending similar efforts in a bid to try to bypass the registrar channel so that they can benefit from undiluted revenues.

While Famous Four Media is highly supportive of innovation in the domain name world, it believes that there is a time and a place for everything. At such a critical juncture of the Internet, Famous Four Media is convinced that now is the time for ‘evolution’ and not ‘revolution’ in this industry.

So, while others have been drawing up plans to take over the domain name world with ‘killer’ business paradigms and radical pricing mechanisms, Famous Four Media has quietly gone about its business and secured what it believes to be the most extensive Registrar distribution network in the new gTLD industry, in time for the 31 March 2014 Sunrise launch of its first three gTLDs .BID, .TRADE and .WEBCAM.

“We are delighted to be bringing our new gTLD registries to market through such an incredible and well established distribution network,” said Geir Rasmussen CEO, Famous Four Media. “The fact that we have 82 Registry Registrar Agreements signed in time for the launch of our first gTLDs is not only testament to the hard work, expertise and dedication of our staff but also to the desire of ICANN accredited Registrars to work in partnership with us to bring great domain names to market”

The 82 signed agreements will allow nearly 450 ICANN accredited registrars to market all of Famous Four Media’s 59 Top Level Domains globally as well as tens of thousands of resellers that work hand- in-hand with the Famous Four Media registrar network. This means that if you want to set your website apart with a descriptive web address, such as http://www.mycool.webcam/ or http://www.lowprice.bid/ or even http://www.londontax.accountant/, you will be able to get one from almost any registrar anywhere in the world.

OMV Group selects Active Risk Manager for integrated Audit Assurance

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Maidenhead, UK. 1 April 2014 – Sword Active Risk, a supplier of specialist risk management software and services, has been selected by international oil and gas company OMV Group to supply an integrated audit assurance solution. An existing user of Active Risk Manager (ARM) for enterprise risk management, the new solution, ARM 7 which was officially launched on 31 March, will replace the company’s current audit solution.  ARM 7 will be used for audit assurance globally from three hubs in Vienna, Austria; Bucharest, Romania; and Istanbul, Turkey.  ARM 7 was selected for its automation of audit recommendations and its full integration with enterprise risk management which will provide the organization with ‘one source of the truth’ for all audit and risk information.

SVP Ernst PETRI, CAE at OMV stated; “Sword Active Risk’s commitment to the oil and gas sector means that they are in a good position to develop this combined solution.  ARM 7 will help us to streamline the management of our audit recommendations and enable us to combine risk information to support management decisions.”

Nick Scully, COO of Sword Active Risk commented; “We are delighted to be working with OMV to supply a solution for their audit requirements. For organizations looking to bring their audit and risk operations together, Sword Active Risk now has the ideal solution. Furthermore, this latest agreement within the oil and gas sector reinforces the fact that Sword Active Risk is fast becoming a market leader in this industry.”

Notes to Editors

About OMV
With Group sales of EUR 42.42 bn and a workforce of around 27,000 employees in 2013, OMV Aktiengesellschaft is Austria’s largest listed industrial company. The Exploration and Production business segment has a strong base in Romania and Austria and a growing international portfolio. 2013 daily production stood at approx. 288,000 boe/d.

In Gas and Power, OMV sold approximately 425 TWh of gas in 2013. OMV operates a gas pipeline network in Austria and gas storage facilities in Austria and Germany with a capacity of 2.6 bcm.

In Refining and Marketing OMV has an annual refining capacity of 17.4 mn tonnes and as of the end of 2013 approximately 4,200 filling stations in 11 countries including Turkey.

For more information please visit: http://www.omv.com/portal/01/com/omv/OMVgroup/About_OMV

About Sword Active Risk
Sword Active Risk makes risk management simple, valuable and personal. Sword Active Risk provides the world’s first risk management software that drives business performance by enhancing visibility, accountability and confidence at project, program and enterprise levels. Active Risk Manager (ARM) is the first solution available which integrates Risk Management, Cost Management and Schedule Management to show the real impact of risk, to enable better-informed decisions, and the ability to leverage risk to create competitive advantage. 

Sword Active Risk is the project risk software provider of choice for the world’s leading Energy, Infrastructure and Defense projects, working with organizations like the US Air Force, Bechtel, Crossrail, US Federal Aviation Administration, Lockheed Martin, Rio Tinto and Skanska to manage project risk worldwide.

Sword Active Risk has offices in the UK, USA and Australia, servicing customers worldwide directly and through a growing network of partners.

In September 2013 Active Risk was acquired by Sword Group. For more information please visit:www.sword-group.com

For further information and a detailed view of Sword Active Risk and ARM please visit: www.activerisk.com

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Emulex Announces Ethernet Networking and Converged Network Adapters for the Open Compute Project

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Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management and a proud member of the Open Compute Project (OCP), today announced it has released its next generation of high performance Ethernet connectivity solutions to the open source community. Now, data centres are able to utilise Emulex 10Gb Ethernet and 40Gb Ethernet (10GbE/40GbE) adapters on OCP based hardware platforms that support global cloud platforms running OpenStack or CloudStack. The new Emulex OneConnect® OCm14000-OCP 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet (10/40GbE) Network Adapters and 10GbE Converged Network Adapters (CNAs), enable higher virtual machine (VM) densities, support the cloud with Overlay Network offloads, leverage a new RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) based low latency architecture delivering application acceleration, and integrate with next generation software-defined networking (SDN) solutions.

The Emulex OCm14000-OCP adapters are also the first CNAs available for OCP based platforms that feature fully offloaded Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI, providing performance and higher server efficiencies that are superior to software initiator-based adapters. This brings the power and flexibility of network convergence to the OCP community and allows data centres built on the OCP model to realise the full performance benefits and cabling and power consumption reductions that come with it.

"We have been working with the OCP community to provide an open, flexible and scalable I/O platform that maximises server efficiency and scales networking connectivity, while increasing application support in enterprise and hyperscale infrastructures," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, Emulex. "Emulex OCm14000-OCP adapters are ideal for hyperscale and enterprise data centres that require I/O optimisation for delivering compute power, energy efficiency and scalability."

The Emulex OCm14000-OCP adapters are optimised to meet the needs of enterprises and cloud providers who are building an open infrastructure while delivering a powerful set of features and capabilities, including:

  • Open Enablement of Software-defined Networking: The recently introduced Emulex SURF open API provides the tools needed to implement SDN technology that can be optimised for next generation applications and new industry standards, such as OpenStack, CloudStack and OpenFlow.
  • High-Performance Virtualisation: OCm14000-OCP adapters use highly efficient and scalable hardware offload technology to transfer the overhead of virtual networking, providing up to 50 per cent better CPU utilisation[1] compared to standard NICs when used for VMware VirtualWire connection, thereby increasing the number of VMs that can be supported per server. In addition, the OCm14000- OCP adapters deliver a fundamental 4x performance increase in small packet network performance,[2] which is required to scale transaction-heavy and clustered applications.
  • Rapid, Secure and Scalable Cloud Connectivity: Emulex Virtual Network Exceleration™ (VNeX) offload technology provides up to 70 per cent better performance[1] vs. software-only implementations of emerging Overlay Network standards such asNetwork Virtualisation using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) used by Microsoft Hyper-V Network Virtualization and Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) used in VMware's NSX. These Overlay Network standards enable virtual and cloud environments to scale beyond the limitations of Layer 2 networks and support seamless migration from anywhere to anywhere.
  • Optimised Application Delivery with Advanced RoCE Architecture: The OCm14000-OCP adapters are based on a low-latency RoCE architecture that help enterprise IT and cloud data centres optimise unstructured and file-based storage environments, which are based on Windows Server SMB Direct and Linux NFS protocols.
  • Increased Block Protocol Performance: The OCm14000-OCP adapters increase total block protocol IOPS by 50 percent over previous generation CNAs[2] and build upon the proven history of enterprise-class storage reliability at Emulex.

"As we move closer to making the disaggregated data centre a reality, we welcome design contributions that enable us to design and build scalable, more efficient technologies," said Cole Crawford, executive director of the Open Compute Project Foundation. "By open sourcing its OneConnect family of network adapters through the OCP community, Emulex provides customers with high-performing solutions that can be tailored to their needs."

Emulex is sampling OCm14000-OCP adapters with leading OCP solution providers. Emulex will be showcasing OCm14000-OCP adapters at Interop Las Vegas in booth #1158 this week.

  • 1. Based on Emulex Implementers Lab blog
  • 2. Based on Emulex Labs testing

Read our Emulex Labs blog on today's news here - http://blogs.emulex.com/blogs/labs/?p=2197

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UK Businesses Concerned About the Lifecycle of Their Clouds as Warmer Weather Set to Continue

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London, U.K. – 1st April, 2014 – With temperatures set to soar by the end of the month, UK businesses using cloud computing are concerned about the blue skies and sunny spells ahead. The Met Office has predicted temperatures of 23 degrees for April and a severe lack of clouds in South-East England, where a large number of UK cloud providers are based. 

With this in mind, UK businesses are being encouraged to look to the skies and assess the forecasts when making decisions about where to store their mission-critical data at this time.

Campbell Williams, group strategy and marketing director or Six Degrees Group (6DG), said: "Working closely with a cloud services provider that can put in place a multiple location solution is vital for businesses that want to ensure the safety of their data and optimise cloud performance. If one cloud in a warmer area disappears, the secondary site can be ready to take over operations. "

He continued: “At 6DG we have implemented a unique ‘don’t follow the sun’ solution. Our cloud teams are experts at moving workloads to locations with the right meteorological conditions. Temperature control is also in our DNA, it’s in our name. Six degrees is the ideal temperature for cloud formation so we’re the logical choice of supplier for UK businesses.”

About Six Degrees Group:
Six Degrees Group is a privately owned managed data services provider serving UK mid-market customers. The Group has a converged services portfolio – including data centre, connectivity, voice and cloud offerings – designed to help companies meet the challenges of a connected, always-on world.

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One cloud provider does not fit all - UK market confirms a multi-provider cloud strategy is the futu

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London, UK – 1st April, 2014 – With hundreds of cloud services providers operating in the UK market and 75% of UK businesses officially ‘in the cloud’1, Adapt today announced results from a survey that illustrates the current UK cloud marketplace.*

The results of the survey show that two thirds (62%) of businesses are using more than one provider. Two thirds (65%) of businesses surveyed use private cloud, whilst nearly half (43%) are using public cloud. A quarter (23%) are using community cloud and a third (31%) are using a blended hybrid cloud.2 With over half (53%) agreeing that one cloud provider cannot do it all, it is clear that UK businesses realise that to achieve the right cloud strategy they have to use multiple providers.

The statistics go on to show that there is a mismatch between what businesses currently get from their cloud providers and what they need. This becomes particularly apparent when planning for future growth:

  • Half (48%) expect to make big changes to their cloud platforms in the next 12 months to accommodate growth
  • A quarter (25%) don’t expect their cloud provider to be meeting their business needs in 12 months 
  • Only 26 per cent of UK businesses feel their cloud provider really understands their business needs

With more than 60 per cent of businesses using cloud for both business-critical and general production activities, it is clear that businesses are looking to the cloud to support a wide mix of requirements. But the cloud still represents a huge opportunity as the majority (93%) have not yet been able to utilise the cloud fully.

Stewart Smythe, CEO at Adapt said: “UK businesses are dealing with multiple suppliers in order to get a right-fit cloud strategy but there are two main outcomes from this process. Firstly, from a management point of view, dealing with multiple suppliers is an inefficient balancing-act. Secondly, each separate supplier is left with an incomplete picture of the customer and the platforms provided therefore do not align with the customer’s long-term growth strategy. This is leading to businesses constantly striving for something that cannot be achieved and ultimately the feeling that they need to change providers.”

Philip Carse, Principle Analyst, Megabuyte said: “Providers that can bundle the most appropriate multi-provider services together under one contract, twinned with a real understanding of the customer’s strategy, will be the providers to make significant progress in the market space. These ‘integrators’ will act as a point of contact for ongoing management, support, consultancy and service development. The cloud market itself is an active one, with around 200 service providers operating in the space and M&As regularly taking place. It’s possible that those providers that can’t offer the high-level management layer necessary will be absorbed by others operating as ‘cloud integrators’ in the next five years.”

Smythe concluded: “The research illustrates how UK businesses are trying to create the right cloud model to match their needs. But it is clear that using an increasing number of different cloud platforms simultaneously can attract a series of problems. Adapt believes that this signals the need for a cloud integrator to help a customer manage the right platforms efficiently and ultimately improve their competitive advantage.”

* The survey was conducted by EasyInsites on behalf of Adapt.  It comprised 102 respondents from commercial organisations with 200 plus employees in the UK.

To find out more about how to pick the right cloud for your business take Adapt’s easy to use interactive survey:http://www.adapt.com/services/cloud-services/right-fit-cloud.html

About Adapt
Adapt is an award-winning, end-to-end managed services provider and cloud integrator.  We help customers make the transition to highly secure, scalable, enterprise-class IT that delivers real-world advantage, enabling change and innovation.

Adapt services increase agility. Our integrated offering spans the entire IT infrastructure from end-to-end infrastructure management and cloud-based services through to colocation, hosting and complex world-class networking solutions, underpinned by flexible, OPEX-based commercial models. www.adapt.com   

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1 Cloud Industry Forum, 2013.

2 Private cloud is described as ‘business cloud – dedicated or shared’. Public cloud is described as ‘consumer cloud – shared’ (i.e. by providers including Amazon, Microsoft, Google.). Community cloud  is ‘cloud shared between several organisations from a specific community with common concerns’, and hybrid cloud is ‘a blend of two or more clouds that remain unique entities, but are bound together’.

Prank programs, altruistic malware and stoned viruses: Kaspersky Lab remembers 'benign' malware

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To mark April Fools’ Day, Kaspersky Lab looks back at the ‘benign malware’ which has previously spread over the Internet. In the history of malware writing and hunting, there are a number of unusual stories involving programs which looked like typical malware, but did nothing more damaging than putting a smile on users’ faces. In a few extraordinary cases, viruses were even seen getting rid of dangerous malware or optimising the computer’s resources.

The first known computer virus in history was a harmless specimen. It was called Creeper, and it appeared in 1971, written by an employee at the US Ministry of Defense’s ‘Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’. This primitive worm looked for other computers on the network – which back then was a small, localised affair, copied itself to them and displayed the following message: “I'M THE CREEPER: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.” If Creeper found an existing copy of itself on a computer, it simply ‘jumped over’ to another computer but did not cause any harm to the system.

Stoned was another ‘fun’ virus whose main purpose was to promote a message to the user. It was first detected in 1988 in New Zealand. The original version of this virus landed on a computer system via the floppy disk drive, and, just like Creeper, did not cause any harm to the computer. It simply displayed the message on the screen: “Your computer is now stoned. Legalise Marijuana.”

The ‘prank virus’ title is deservedly held by HPS, a program which was created specifically for the Windows 98 operating system but in fact spread months before this environment was released. One of the odd things about this virus was that it was only active on Saturdays: once a week it reversed non-compressed bitmap graphic objects. In other words, it mirrored the entire display on the monitor.

The Cruncher virus also turned out to be absolutely benign. On the face of it, it was a regular resident file virus, and used an algorithm to compress data and pack the infected file, so the infected file was shorter than the original. This freed up room on the user’s hard drive. Moreover, it turned out that Cruncher used a compression algorithm from the then-popular utility DIET 1.10, so the user could use this absolutely legal program to unpack the files infected by the virus and regain access to the data, while still enjoying the extra space created on the hard drive.

The Welchia virus also became famous for its good deeds. This was one of the most unusual worms in the history of cyber threats. Although its creators designed it to be malicious, Welchia did not in fact cause any harm. On the contrary, it helped to remove the dangerous Lovesan worm, also known as Blaster, from the system. By imitating the behavior of this malicious program, Welchia penetrated a computer using vulnerabilities in legal software. Then it checked if Blaster was present in the processor memory: if so, it stopped its operation and deleted the entire malicious file from the disk. This was not the end of Welchia’s mercy mission: after eliminating the malware, the benign virus checked if there was an update in the system to patch the vulnerability through which the worm penetrated the system. If not, the virus initiated a download from the manufacturer’s site. Welchia then destroyed itself after completing all these operations.

“These examples of funny, innocuous and even helpful viruses are of course very rare exceptions to the general rule, and are essentially tales from bygone days. Modern malware writers are no longer cyber pranksters or newbie hackers learning the ropes in a new sphere of activity. Today, practically 100 per cent of viruses are written with just one goal in mind: stealing money or confidential data,” said Alexander Gostev, Chief Security Expert at Global Research & Analysis Team, Kaspersky Lab.

About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 16-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 300 million users worldwide. Learn more at www.kaspersky.co.uk.

* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2012. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2013–2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares (IDC #242618, August 2013). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2012.


Digital signatures come to Office365 & SharePoint online

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Haarlem, Netherlands, April 1, 2014 - ARX, the market leader in digital signature solutions, will showcase the latest addition to its long list of integrations with leading document systems – the CoSign Connector for SharePoint Online – at the Office 365 Connect Conference in Haarlem, Netherlands (April 1-2, 2014).

CoSign Central and CoSign Cloud customers who use Office 365 will now be able to add fully-featured digital signatures to their documents from any computer or mobile device, just like they do today with their on-premises SharePoint system.

Users will be able to:

  • Sign directly from the SharePoint Online user interface
  • Digitally sign Word, Excel and PDF documents
  • Preview documents before signing them
  • Verify the signature’s integrity and the signer’s identity
  • Manage their CoSign profile (creating graphical signatures, setting default signing reasons, etc.)

"As the only digital signature solution that is seamlessly integrated with SharePoint, we are pleased to present the latest addition to our SharePoint Connector family. This product release is especially notable since our CoSign Central and CoSign Cloud customers will now be able to digitally sign documents using both their on-premises SharePoint ystem and their SharePoint Online account," said Tal Yas'ur, VP Products, ARX.

About CoSign by ARX
CoSign by ARX, the most widely used digital signature solution, was recognized as “the strongest digital signature solution” in the Forrester Wave: E-Signatures, Q2 2013 report. Millions of signers at companies, governments and cloud services around the world use CoSign on their computers and mobile devices to easily add secure digital signatures to documents in including Word, Excel, PDF and many other formats/applications.

CoSign is the only digital signature solution that can be seamlessly integrated with any document-related workflow, application or service across the organization, including SharePoint, OpenText, Oracle, Alfresco, K2 and Nintex. Our customers quickly transform slow and expensive signature-dependent processes into quick and efficient paper-free ones, rapidly reaching ROI through reductions in process times and paper-related costs, while ensuring integrity, control and compliance across their business and IT environments.

Visit our web site to learn more about how your organization can benefit from the CoSign digital signature solution.

CoSign is a registered trademark of Algorithmic Research, Ltd. All other trade names and trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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BARBRI Selects FirstSpirit CMS to Drive Major Website Redesign

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e-Spirit Inc., a leading supplier of content management solutions, today announced that BARBRI, Inc. has selected the FirstSpirit content management system as the basis for a comprehensive redesign of its website to further improve customer experience and support anticipated growth requirements. BARBRI is the nation’s preeminent legal education company and has helped more than 1 million lawyers pass the bar exam.

Since the launch of its first website in 1995, BARBRI has continued to offer more and more of its course content and services online to the point where the website is now central to its business. Particularly during critical pre-testing periods, website availability is critical. Therefore, when it came to selecting its first Web CMS solution to replace an internally developed system, high availability and performance were high on the list of requirements. BARBRI also needed a CMS with the flexibility to support its evolving mix of services and online content delivery models.

To ensure website availability, BARBRI maintains two fully redundant data centres with rapid fail-over capability. “We needed to have a Web content management solution as robust and reliable as our data centres,” said Mark Kaplan, Director of IT Infrastructure for BARBRI. “We evaluated several alternatives before making our selection and in the end it was clear that FirstSpirit was best equipped to help us increase operational efficiency, ensure reliable operation, and provide an exceptional experience for our users and content creation teams.”

The first phase of the website rollout around FirstSpirit is anticipated for June for a redesigned front-end. Additional enhancements such as increased personalisation and back end upgrades will take place over the next two years. Founded in 1967, BARBRI is headquartered in Dallas with offices throughout the United States. The site is located at http://www.BARBRI.com.

“BARBRI has an impressive vision for what it wants accomplish with its website coupled with stringent requirements for performance and reliability,” said Robert Bredlau, Chief Operating Officer for e-Spirit Inc. “FirstSpirit is well-suited to fulfilling these requirement given our strong track of supporting numerous large-scale websites while helping our customers lower ongoing infrastructure and maintenance costs.” 

Think Money Group turns to Sabio for improved customer contact centre performance

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Innovative financial services provider Think Money Group is working with Sabio to deploy a best practice customer contact solution to further improve service provision for the Group's 175,000 plus customer base.

Think Money Group uses Sabio in each of its four business areas – debt advice and solutions, insurance broking, loans and mortgages and the innovative thinkmoney Personal Account. Sabio's new solution features the company's innovative Thin Client CTI application that ensures that Think Money Group's contact centre agents always have access to relevant customer details for each call. For Personal Account customers this saves around 15 seconds per interaction, unlocking significant cumulative savings for thinkmoney, while also removing considerable frustration for customers.

Think Money Group was keen to build a customer engagement platform that would support its customer contact requirements as the business continues to expand over the next five years. Sabio's solution for the Group is powered by a core Avaya Aura® Communication Manager infrastructure and - in addition to Thin Client CTI and an upgraded voice portal for 24-hour self-service; will feature a resilient SIP-enabled networking environment for increased agility as well as a new Avaya Proactive Contact dialler system. Sabio will also advise Think Money on approaches for new contact channels.

"Having a reliable contact centre platform is business-critical for Think Money Group, so in choosing a specialist partner to upgrade our Avaya communications platform we were also looking for a technology expert that could help us deploy a more integrated approach to our overall customer engagement," commented Tony Szczepanek, Think Money Group's Chief Information Officer. "With its proven Avaya skills, broad contact centre technology expertise as well as comprehensive support capabilities, Sabio was best equipped to support our best practice customer contact strategy."

Commenting on the partnership, Sabio Founding Director Kenneth Hitchen, added: "Think Money has experienced impressive growth, and we're delighted that they've chosen to work with Sabio to upgrade their customer contact infrastructure to support the next stage of their business development. All our innovations - whether it's optimising the performance of thinkmoney's Avaya platform, helping them manage their connectivity costs through SIP networking, or improving self-service interactions - are all aimed at making it quicker and easier for customers to engage with the business."

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Sunnyvale, Calif., and Bryanston, South Africa – April 2, 2014 – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, and Internet Solutions, a leading pan-African telecommunications provider, announced today the deployment of the Infinera DTN-X platform across the company’s South African long distance network. The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution, featuring the DTN-X packet optical transport networking platform, enables Internet Solutions to differentiate its services, and manage costs as they scale their network.

Internet Solutions, a division of Dimension Data and part of the NTT group, provides telecommunications services to public and private sector companies across South Africa and serves more than 80% of companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Using the Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution, Internet Solutions can now offer 10, 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet services to its clients across the long distance fibres it manages across South Africa with short lead times, leading prices and excellent reliability.

Internet Solutions’ clients will benefit from its newly enhanced transport network through faster provisioning of bandwidth, as well as quicker fault resolution timeframes, as a result of Internet Solutions now having complete control of the network, end to end. This networking solution delivers the industry’s only commercially available 500 gigabit per second (Gb/s) FlexCoherent super-channels based on Infinera's widely deployed photonic integrated circuits and is a first for South Africa and the African continent.  

The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution provides Internet Solutions with a system integrating dense wavelength division multiplexing optical transmission and five terabit per second non-blocking OTN switching in a single platform. Infinera's intelligent software combined with this converged platform automates manual operations to lower operational costs and enable faster service delivery. The Infinera DTN-X is designed to scale without compromise to enable future upgrades to terabit super-channels and Terabit Ethernet.

"The Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution provides us with a cutting edge optical transport solution, allowing us to offer the highest lit capacity in a South African backbone," said Prenesh Padayachee, CTO at Internet Solutions. "Internet Solutions is at the forefront of utilising the latest technology that will ensure reliable and rapid service delivery to our clients and it is critical that our vendors are able to deliver the latest and most cutting edge technology. Infinera has delivered this through their intelligent transport network system.”

"Internet Solutions’ selection of an Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solution underscores the value of the Intelligent Transport Network for service providers around the world," said Chris Champion, senior vice president, EMEA sales. "Deploying the first 500 Gb/s super-channels across South Africa with Internet Solutions significantly increases the capacity available to business and consumers in the region.”

About Infinera
Infinera provides Intelligent Transport Networks to help carriers exploit the increasing demand for cloud-based services and data center connectivity as they advance into the Terabit Era. Infinera is unique in its use of breakthrough semiconductor technology to deliver large scale Photonic Integrated Circuit (PICs) and the application of PICs to vertically integrated optical networking solutions that deliver the industry’s only commercially available 500 Gb/s FlexCoherent super-channels. Infinera Intelligent Transport Network solutions include the DTN-X, DTN and ATN platforms. Find more at www.infinera.com.

About Internet Solutions
Internet Solutions is a pan-African communications services provider of IP-based connectivity, communication, data centre and carrier services.  The company is Southern Africa’s most established and experienced Internet Service Provider. Since 1993 Internet Solutions has been providing innovative end-to-end connectivity solutions and related services across the African continent. Delivering services across the African market and for African clients into the global market,  IS provides services to large public and private sector organisations, medium sized organisations, across the African continent and to African clients into the global market.    Internet Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimension Data, part of the NTT Group.

This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements relating to Infinera product capabilities, advantages, and the current and planned future functionality including: that the Intelligent Transport Network enables customers to differentiate their services, protect their investment and manage cost as they scale their network; that Infinera's platform automates manual operations to lower operational costs and enable faster service delivery; that the DTN-X is designed to scale without compromise to enable future upgrades to terabit super-channels and Terabit Ethernet and that deploying the first 500 Gb/s super-channels across South Africa with Internet Solutions significantly increases the capacity available to business and consumers in the region.  These forward looking statements are based on our current expectations.  Actual results may vary materially from these expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties. Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks and uncertainties that affect our business, is contained in the risk factors section and other sections of our annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 21, 2014, as well as any subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the SEC.  These reports are available on our website at www.infinera.com and the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Infinera assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements.

John Brown
Speed Communications
john.brown@speedcomms.com
020 7842 3200

LANINET Solutions provides highly secure cloud logins with SecurEnvoy

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Stockholm/Frankfurt/London, 02 April 2014 – SecurEnvoy works closely with the distribution partner LANINET Solutions in Scandinavia. SecurEnvoy’s solutions, such as SecurAccess, have now been added to the Swedish IT company’s security portfolio. The aim of the two partners is to expand the market presence of SecurEnvoy in Sweden. Tokenless two-factor authentication enables small and medium-sized companies to perform secure and fast cloud logins among other things. It also allows them to save on the operating costs of a token-based authentication solution. Together, the partners provide training and seminars in order to highlight the advantages of the tokenless method live.

Small and medium-sized businesses generally implement a number of security precautions with regard to cloud access, such as only allowing authorised employees to access internal company data in the cloud. Many businesses use tokens for authentication purposes, but these often involve significant operating costs. With its tokenless two-factor authentication method, SecurEnvoy solves this problem. Swedish IT distributor LANINET is now offering the solution through its resellers, to end users in fields such as finance, insurance, healthcare, government and municipalities, industry, telecommunications, energy and logistics.

Goodbye tokens
SecurEnvoy's technology allows employees to carry out their logins without the need for an additional token, as staff prove their identities using a combination of personal login details and a passcode. Users can receive this code via SMS, e-mail, voice call or a soft token app. The new One Swipe method also speeds up the authentication process significantly as it can work completely offline. Users generate a QR code in the soft token app for smartphones and then enter their login information and scan the QR code using the webcam within the smart device or laptop. This allows them to prove their identities in seconds, enhancing the user experience.

"The market for tokenless authentication continues to grow," explains Roland Andersson, CEO of LANINET Solutions. "Our plan for 2014 is to further establish SecurEnvoy on the Swedish market. Tokenless two-factor authentication is also a very important part of our cloud concepts. Our customers and resellers were already showing a high level of interest in the SecurEnvoy products and services last year and, in our new go-to-market plan, we are combining various strategies in order to strengthen market penetration in 2014.“

"LANINET Solutions is an important partner in our European network," says Steve Watts, Sales and Marketing Director at SecurEnvoy. "Especially in the Scandinavian market where we want to ensure that customers are even more firmly convinced of the benefits of the tokenless authentication method. With its large reseller and customerbase in Sweden, the distributor LANINET can help us achieve our goals in this region."

Further information about the various tokenless authentication options available is provided at https://www.securenvoy.com/two-factor-authentication/token-types.shtm.

About SecurEnvoy plc:
SecurEnvoy is the creator of patented tokenless solutions for two-factor authentication. Millions of global users already benefit from the fastest mobile authentication process available that doesn’t require a token. The process uses common devices like mobile and smartphones, tablets and laptops to provide the passcode required for authentication. Even without mobile phone reception or an internet connection, the user can retrieve the code via voice call or use identification with the One Swipe technology that is based on a QR code scan. The product range of the company based in London (UK), Frankfurt (D), New York and San Diego (USA) includes the SecurAccess solution. The administration tools can be easily integrated into existing IT infrastructures and allow administrators to add up to 100,000 users per hour. SC Magazine awarded the solution ‘Best Buy’, and the company was classed as a leading visionary in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. SecurEnvoy has a customer base in all vertical segments, including banking, finance, insurance, government, manufacturing, marketing, retail, telecoms, charity, law and construction. The authentication expert collaborates with partners such as AEP, Astaro, Cisco, Checkpoint, Citrix, Juniper, F5, Palo Alto, Sophos, etc. See www.SecurEnvoy.com for further information.

Further information:
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Steve Watts
Sales Director
E-mail: swatts@securenvoy.com
Internet: www.securenvoy.com

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Merlin House
Brunel Road
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SecurEnvoy
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SecurEnvoy
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Couchbase Launches Enterprise Grade NoSQL Training Courses

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Couchbase, the fastest-growing provider of enterprise class NoSQL databases and technologies, today announced the launch of a new Learning Services program to address the growing need to develop and expand the NoSQL talent pool.   As part of the program, Couchbase will begin offering classroom-based courses that will provide multi-day, instructor-led, hands-on training in core NoSQL skills. 

Couchbase Learning Services’ new courses will focus on teaching students the technical skills they need to build, deploy and manage modern NoSQL databases.  The first two courses offered provide students with qualifications that will make them eligible for the highest demand NoSQL job roles: NoSQL application developers and NoSQL server system administrators. Open enrollment begins today, for the new classes starting in June.

"Developer interest in NoSQL database technologies is substantial, but there is still a need to develop the pool of trained and certified talent that enterprises will be looking for to take NoSQL into production," commented Matt Aslett, research director, data platforms and analytics, 451 Research. "The Couchbase Learning Services program will help address this need in relation to both server deployment and application development."

Couchbase Learning Services
Industry veteran Peter Childers is leading the new Couchbase Learning Services group. Peter has 18 years experience leading growth and change in open source, learning and performance, sales enablement, online strategy and operations. As an early Red Hat employee, Peter designed and launched the renowned Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) training and certification program. Over seven years Peter grew Red Hat's learning services division into a $60 million worldwide operation, becoming the world’s largest Linux and open source training business, a leader in performance-based testing, and one of Red Hat’s most successful brands.

“Enterprise adoption of NoSQL is on the rise, and as companies increasingly run mission critical, applications on NoSQL infrastructure, they are challenged by a shortage of well trained talent,” said Pete Childers, Vice President, Learning and Strategic Development at Couchbase.   “By offering the most in depth, comprehensive NoSQL training available today, Couchbase will accelerate the growth and experience of professional, technical resources who are capable of managing high scale, modern infrastructure.”

Couchbase Learning Services courses are designed so that students spend at least 60 percent of class time working on instructor-led, hands-on lab training.  Students will learn the most important administrative tasks, such as how to install and configure Couchbase, how to run benchmark testing against a real cluster while monitoring its health, backup and restore a cluster, add and remove nodes, and troubleshoot a live cluster.  Graduates of Couchbase Learning Services courses will be well trained to support and maintain highly interactive, mission critical NoSQL deployments.

The first application developer course, Developing Couchbase NoSQL Applications, provides training through hands-on Couchbase Server application development experience, which leverages the Couchbase Client Java SDK, Gson/JSON, and the CrudRepository pattern. As part of the course, students will build a production NoSQL application.  Through the instructor-led development process, students will learn new skills and gain experience in NoSQL application design, and denormalization with JSON documents, as well as how to fully leverage Couchbase Server features and capabilities.

The first system administrator course, Couchbase NoSQL Server Administration, is a fast-paced, lab-intensive course that makes students immediately productive with Couchbase Server 2.5.  During this course, each student will gain comprehensive and relevant skills through hands-on activities, building and administering their own prototype enterprise NoSQL cluster environment.  This unique learning experience gives students the opportunity to handle high scale workloads and realistic technical scenarios using best practices for high performance NoSQL server operations.

Registration for the new courses is available now at http://www.couchbase.com/training.  The first course sessions start in June 2014.

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Massimo Zanetti Optimizes Maintenance Efficiency with Infor

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Farnborough – April 2, 2014 – Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced that Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA, manufacturer of leading coffee brands such as Kauai Coffee®, Chock full o'Nuts® and Hills Bros.®, has selected Infor Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) for the Food & Beverage industry. The Infor application will deliver real-time visibility into assets and equipment, helping the company increase efficiency by providing a more accurate picture of resources, reliability and potential risk. This will help Massimo Zanetti to improve its preventive maintenance and more accurately assess asset needs to help extend asset lifespans and promote cost savings.

Having a consolidated database in an asset management system is critical to Massimo Zanetti's manufacturing operation, particularly when managing information regarding previously performed maintenance and equipment history. Infor EAM delivers the ability to capture and analyse data on an individual asset basis, promoting better business decisions based on real-time visibility into operations. This capability will also provide the company a greater capacity to gauge workflow, employee movement and daily task management data, which will help supervisors pinpoint areas where workforce efficiency can be improved.

"Our challenge to Infor was to find a solution that could fill voids in our data and reduce the amount of work necessary for corrective and preventative maintenance," said Ron Garner, maintenance manager, Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA. "With Infor EAM, we are providing users with fast, easy access to the information they need, and simultaneously giving decision-makers the necessary visibility to help increase efficiency and reduce costs."

With built-in workflows to track downtime and automatically generated alerts to detect potential issues, Massimo Zanetti will have greater insight into its equipment use. Infor EAM will enable improved tracking of parts, allowing users to determine which parts and quantities are actually necessary. This will help Massimo Zanetti optimize inventory levels and save money by reducing unnecessary or overstocked parts.

Massimo Zanetti will also use Infor EAM Mobile to provide users with access to asset information via iPad. Maintenance technicians away from their desks will be able to complete tasks faster through real-time insight into critical equipment data.

"Infor EAM is designed to help food and beverage companies like Massimo Zanetti make better predictions about the behaviour of their assets," said Kevin Price, product director, Infor EAM. "With greater insight into equipment reliability and potential risks, customers can make preventative maintenance part of their overall business strategy and avoid costly downtime in their operations."

For more information on Infor solutions for the Food & Beverage industry, please visit www.infor.com/industries/food-beverage/.

For more information about Infor's state-of-the-art enterprise asset management solutions, please visit www.infor.com/solutions/eam/.

About Massimo Zanetti Beverage USA
MZB USA is headquartered in Portsmouth, Va., and has state-of-the art manufacturing facilities in Suffolk, Va. and Moonachie, N.J. In addition to well-known consumer brands such as Chock full o'Nuts®, Kauai Coffee®, Hills Bros.® Coffee and Hills Bros® Cappuccino, MZB USA also produces proprietary coffee for some of the largest foodservice and convenience store chains in North America. MZB USA franchises Chock full o'Nuts® Coffee Shops and Segafredo Zanetti Espresso® Cafés. MZB USA is part of the family-owned Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group, based in Treviso, Italy, and is the world's largest and only privately-held, vertically integrated coffee company. For more information, visit www.mzb-usa.com.

About Infor
Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 70,000 customers in more than 200 countries and territories improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant. Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.

Infor customers include:

  • 19 of the top 20 aerospace companies
  • 12 of the top 13 high tech companies
  • 10 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies
  • 21 of the 25 largest US health delivery networks
  • 16 of the 20 largest US cities
  • 84 of the top 100 automotive suppliers
  • 31 of the top 50 industrial distributors
  • 5 of the top 9 brewers

Staffvetting.com selects Becrypt End Point Protection security solution as part of Quality ISO270001

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London, UK, 2 April, 2014 – Staffvetting.com, the UK’s leading accredited provider of vetting services to the private, public and third sector, has selected Becrypt disk encryption to protect its data. The company is deploying Becrypt’s certified Disk Protect CPA  (Commercial Product Assurance) product across its estate of PCs and laptops to ensure all data is protected to OFFICIAL tier, one of the three new levels of classification for information which have been introduced to replace the UK Government Protective Marking Scheme. Staffvetting.com has invested in Becrypt’s Enterprise End Point Protection solution as part of its ISO270001 Accreditation process as well as its ISO9001 Continuous Improvement Programme.

Data security is a top priority for Staffvetting.com, of which a core element is meeting the ISO27001 Information Security Standard. Becrypt’s solution provides two-factor authentication and encryption ensuring all data is fully secured. Staffvetting.com selected Disk Protect CPA for its ability to be deployed and managed centrally via Becrypt Enterprise Manager. This both reduces management costs and has no impact on the user.

Stephen Brown, Managing Director at Staffvetting.com said; “It is absolutely vital in our business that we maintain the highest quality secure service and we implement many different security measures to ensure we protect our data.

“Achieving ISO27001 provides our customers with peace of mind and we selected Becrypt’s solution as a best of breed product to support this. Becrypt’s Disk Protect CPA encryption product ticks all of the boxes relating to protecting data against potential theft or loss and being CESG approved, ensures our data is safely encrypted at the required levels.”

Dr Bernard Parsons, CEO at Becrypt, said: “Staffvetting.com has built up a reputation for excellence and outstanding customer service with accreditations for quality and vetting to British Standards. Becrypt’s Disk Protect CPA supports the company’s business need to secure data and comply with security standards. It has been designed to be cost effective and easy to deploy, with no impact on the user, making it the ideal solution to achieve high data security efficiently and effectively.”

For more information about Becrypt and Becrypt solutions, please visit: www.becrypt.com

Notes to Editors

About Staff vetting.com
Staffvetting.com is the UK’s leading Quality Provider of background screening services,  an accredited provider of vetting (pre-employment screening) services to the public, private and third sector.

It has been delivering these services since 2002 and has built up a reputation for excellence and outstanding customer service. Staffvetting.com is ISO9001 NSi Gold accredited and NQA3000 accredited for BS7858:2012 vetting. It is also a corporate member of the International Professional Security Association (IPSA) and the National Association of Professional Background Screeners (NAPBS).

All its background checks and vetting services are carried out in full compliance with the Data Protection Act and all the information handled is protected in a secure system and processed with complete confidentiality. All staff at staffvetting.com have been vetted to BS7858 standard, the British Standard that specifies a Code of Practice for security screening of individuals and third party individuals to be employed in a security environment by an organisation, prior to their employment.

For more information, visit:  www.staffvetting.com

About Becrypt
Becrypt is a leading supplier of innovative mobile security solutions and services that are Government-certified, and suitable for many industry sectors. Becrypt provides a range of Cyber Security solutions to protect data at rest and data in use, across a broad range of platforms, from Laptops to Smartphones, from Windows to iOS and Android. Becrypt’s secure thin client technology supports virtual data infrastructure (VDI) access, enabling secure and rapid IT transformation within the Enterprise, as well as cost effective remote access.

Through its focus on product assurance, multiple platforms and centralised management, Becrypt’s solutions enable the most security conscious organisations to deliver cost effective compliance, whilst maintaining flexibility, choice and usability for their users.

As a leading supplier of encryption technology to the UK Government, Ministry of Defence and UK Police, Becrypt also offers Cyber Security Consultancy and bespoke systems.

Becrypt has offices in London, UK, and McLean, VA, USA. For more information visit: www.becrypt.com

Editors Contacts
Dr. Bernard Parsons
CEO
Becrypt
Tel: 0845 838 2050
Email: bparsons@becrypt.com

Andreina West/Mary Phillips
PR Artistry Limited
Tel: +44 (0) 1491 639500
Email: andreina@pra-ltd.co.uk

Advanced Computer Software Group plc acquires ConsultCRM

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Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced), a leading provider of healthcare and business management software and services, today announces that it has acquired Microsoft Dynamics CRM practice, ConsultCRM.

This acquisition means that Microsoft Dynamics CRM will now be available to Advanced’s customers as part of the Advanced Business Solutions commercial product suite, which includes: accounting, payroll, HR, document management, supply chain management, and membership and fundraising solutions.

ConsultCRM, based in Camberley, Surrey, provides a range of implementation services to support businesses at all stages of the CRM process, whether using Microsoft Dynamics CRM online, on-premise or via a private cloud. The business is one of the top 5% of all Microsoft partners globally and in 2013 was awarded Microsoft President’s Club status for the second year running. 

Vin Murria, CEO, Advanced Computer Software Group says, “Microsoft Dynamics CRM is recognised globally as a leading CRM solution and this acquisition will enhance our CRM offering across all sectors. 

“Significantly, the acquisition complements Advanced’s existing back office product portfolio, providing customers with a broader solution set and single point of supply. It strengthens Advanced’s CRM expertise and enables the group to provide a complete end-to-end solution in vertical markets such as the not-for-profit sector.”

ConsultCRM has clients in a range of sectors including: finance, professional services, construction, technology, manufacturing, defence and membership. Its consultants work with businesses to help them develop more profitable customer relationships, improve operational metrics and streamline the client management cycle.

Advanced is already a Microsoft Gold Partner with considerable expertise in developing and deploying Microsoft solutions in order to generate real, tangible and measurable business value for its clients.

Note to editors

About ConsultCRM
ConsultCRM is positioned in the top 5% of all Microsoft partners globally. We specialise in helping organisations implement, integrate and optimise Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

As a Tier One, Gold Certified, Strategic Microsoft Partner, our pedigree in CRM spans a decade working with Microsoft CRM since the first version came to market in 2004. The business is professionally managed, and has shown consistent growth every year since its inception. ConsultCRM was awarded Microsoft Presidents Club status in 2013 for the second year running. This places us in the top 5% of Microsoft partners globally and reinforces the trust placed in ConsultCRM by both Microsoft and our clients.

About Advanced Computer Software Group plc www.advancedcomputersoftware.com  
Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced) is a leading supplier, to both public and private sectors, of software and IT services which assist organisations to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

The Group operates as three divisions:

Advanced Health & Care sells a range of products to the NHS and private healthcare sector including patient workflow management for urgent and unplanned care providers; patient case management for social care providers; mobile applications for care in the community providers and rostering applications for social care settings.

Advanced Business Solutions provides accounting, payroll, HR, CRM and document management solutions to local authorities, healthcare organisations, law firms and private sector businesses including banks, manufacturers, retailers, charities and travel companies.

Advanced 365 delivers managed services to support Group products and to a wide range of customers including banks and financial institutions, membership bodies and healthcare organisations. Services can be delivered either on-premise or as cloud-based models depending on customers' requirements.

Contacts:
Angela Mycock
Advanced Computer Software Group
pr@advancedcomputersoftware.com 
+44(0)1625 856 513

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Pyxalis adopts Cortus APS cores for smart CMOS image sensors

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Montpellier, France and Grenoble, France, 2nd April 2014 – Cortus, a technology leader in low power, silicon efficient, 32-bit processor IP, and CMOS image sensor solution company, Pyxalis, announce that Pyxalis has been using Cortus APS cores in multiple design projects.

In a range of high performance image sensor designs, Pyxalis has used Cortus processor subsystems for a high level of software integration dedicated to sensor operation management. The processors offer the possibility to integrate more application-specific image processing functions such as auto-white balance, auto-exposure control, etc.

“By using Cortus processor cores we have been able to offer our customers very flexible sensor operation enabling a lot of different modes depending on the applications”, says Philippe Rommeveaux, CEO of Pyxalis. He adds, “Cortus processor cores, with their small silicon footprint, complement our Pyxalis IP allowing us to efficiently deliver designs for different market segments”.

“We are honoured to be chosen by Pyxalis for their high performance image sensors”, says Michael Chapman, CEO and President of Cortus, “Their approach of adding intelligence close to the sensor is an emerging trend in the industry”. He adds, “Using a processor core not only offers programmability to end users, but helps the Pyxalis design team efficiency by making derivative designs easier to implement”.

The Cortus family of APS processors starts with the world’s smallest 32-bit core, the APS1, and goes up to the floating point FPS6. All cores interface to Cortus’ peripherals including Ethernet 10/100 MAC, USB 2.0 Device and USB 2.0 OTG via the efficient APS bus. They also share the simple vectored interrupt structure which ensures rapid, real time interrupt response, with low software overhead.

The APS toolchain and IDE (for C and C++) is available to licensees free of charge, and which can be customised and branded for final customer use. Ports of various RTOSs are available such as FreeRTOS, Micrium ?C/OSII and ?CLinux.

To date over 500 million devices have been manufactured containing Cortus processor cores.

About Cortus:
Cortus S.A.S. is a technology enabler for rapidly growing applications including Internet of Things (IoT), wearable electronic devices, smart sensors and security. It has specialised in 32-bit processor cores which can significantly reduce manufacturing costs while achieving computational performance and power constraints. Integrated circuits containing Cortus cores have been manufactured in high volumes for a wide range of applications including automotive, CMOS imaging, M2M controllers, secure execution, sensors, SIM cards, PayTV cards, smart metering and wireless.

http://www.cortus.com

Cortus Contact:
Roddy Urquhart
tel: +44 753 158 7023
e-mail: roddy.urquhart[at]cortus[dot]com

About Pyxalis:
Pyxalis SAS (Grenoble-France) is a leading company in CMOS image sensor custom solutions development, serving a wide range of applications in both niche and medium volume markets like medical, machine vision, security, photography, aerospace and more. Pyxalis key strengths are extensive industrial experience, in-depth application knowledge, optimized design methodologies, extended IP portfolio and major innovation capabilities in pixel, analog design, on-chip image digital control and processing.

This major asset has contributed to build an impressive track record of right-first-time innovative image sensors that’s are now reference products on the market.

http://www.pyxalis.com

Pyxalis Contact:
Philippe Rommeveaux
tel: +33 607 860 885
e-mail: philippe.rommeveaux[at]pyxalis[dot]com

Distributed on behalf of Cortus S.A.S. by NeonDrum news distribution service (http://www.neondrum.com)

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Kenshoo Named Winner for Best PPC Management Software in European Search Awards

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Kenshoo Search earns top honours in international competition as Kenshoo hosts digital marketing innovation forum 

London - April 2, 2014 - Kenshoo (www.kenshoo.com), the global leader in predictive media optimisation technology, has been recognised for the Best PPC Management Software 2014 in the European Search Awards.  The award win coincides with Kenshoo hosting its K² London forum event this week, bringing leading brands and agencies together to discuss digital marketing innovation.

The award-winning software, Kenshoo Search, is the leading solution for national and global search engine marketing (SEM) campaign management across AOL, Google, Baidu, Bing and Yahoo!.  Built to handle the most complex and large-scale campaigns, Kenshoo gives advertisers and agencies the control, automation, and results needed to make better investment decisions across search marketing and online advertising. The proprietary algorithms powering Kenshoo's solution constantly recalibrate to optimally invest budgets while giving marketers full visibility into performance of each ad placement.

Rob Coyne, Managing Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Kenshoo said: "At Kenshoo we have a rich heritage of innovation, underpinned by a strong research-driven methodology that ensures our technology and products stay at the cutting edge of the rapidly evolving digital marketing marketplace.  It's fantastic to see our drive to deliver excellence receive this official seal of approval from the European Search Awards.  And being able to announce the award in the same week as we host our K² London event really helps to underline our commitment to innovation in digital marketing. "

The European Search Awards is an international competition that celebrate the very best in SEO, PPC, Digital and Content Marketing in Europe. The awards are judged by an esteemed panel of industry leaders and experts, the judging is a rigorous two stage process including pre-scoring to determine shortlists and a judging meeting where entries are discussed and evaluated in detail to decide the winning entries. Previously, Kenshoo earned top honours for Best PPC Management Software in the US Search Awards.

Courion and Ping Identity to Explore Cyber Security Threats and Access Risk at London Event

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London, UK, April 2nd, 2014 - Courion, a leading provider of intelligent identity and access management solutions, today announced that it will be hosting an event on cyber security threats and access risk in collaboration with Ping Identity. Leading security expert, esteemed journalist and author, Frank Gardner, will be the guest speaker at the event, which is taking place at Altitude 360, on the 29th floor of Milbank Tower in London on April 10th.

The event will explore the increasing cyber security threats that organisations are facing, and the steps that they need to take to better understand and mitigate these risks.

Keynote speaker Frank Gardner will share his insight into the most pressing issues in cyber terrorism, cyber espionage and cyber crime and will provide a real world view on how vulnerable organisations are to a potential security risks.

Courion and Ping Identity will explore how to improve controls for identity and access management to provide a broader array of strategies to better identify, mitigate and remediate risks and vulnerabilities from identity and access.

A panel of Courion, Ping Identity and industry experts will address the most challenging questions on cyber security and identity and access, as well as the most effective strategies and solutions.

Courion recently announced a partnership with Ping Identity to deliver a unified solution for intelligent management of access risk across cloud and traditional on-premise environments.

Courion provides identity and access management solutions that uniquely leverage the big data generated from user identities to provide insight that informs and improves provisioning capabilities and enables continuous compliance.

For live updates from the event, visit @CourionEMEA.

To register for the event, visit http://www.courion.com/page/courion-and-ping-identity-seminar.

Further event details:
When: Thursday 10th April 2014, 09:00 – 13:00
Where: Altitude 360, 29th Floor, Milbank Tower, 21-24 Milbank, London SW1P 4QP
Who: Senior Executives and IT Security & Business Professionals responsible for protecting their companies' IT assets from illegal, destructive use
Registration: http://www.courion.com/page/courion-and-ping-identity-seminar

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