KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 (Bernama) -- Aryaka has maintained its position as the largest independent pure play SD-WAN provider by market share and revenues, and continued its march to close the gap on VMware in Q4 2017.
This is according to the latest industry report from IHS Markit, a statement from Aryaka said.
The report, 'IHS Markit's Data Center Network Equipment Quarterly Market Tracker' said Aryaka had garnered 17 per cent share of the SD-WAN market in Q4 2017.
It has once again secured the company's lead over legacy networking vendors like Cisco and Riverbed. Arkaya's market share is listed as only two per cent less than VMware's.
Senior research analyst at IHS Markit, Josh Bancroft highlighted in the report that user experience and security were a key focus for Aryaka's strategy, most notably its partnerships with Zscaler and Radware improving cloud traffic security control and DDoS prevention.
Meanwhile, chief marketing officer at Aryaka Networks, Gary Sevounts said having a laser-like focus on the application performance aspect of SD-WAN enabled the company to deliver a superior experience for corporate users with their voice, video, and data applications, leading to a rapid growth in its customer base globally.
The company's global SD-WAN has quickly become the only viable MPLS replacement solution for global enterprises requiring alternatives to legacy WAN infrastructure for mission-critical application delivery, the statement said.
Mostly recently, Aryaka won the '2018 SD-WAN Leadership Award' from TMC and was named a market leader in the' FeaturedCustomers' 2018 SD-WAN Customer Success Report'.
For more information on Aryaka, visit www.aryaka.com.
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Sabio acquires Bright UK to enhance customer experience
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Sabio, a customer experience
solutions specialist, has acquired Bright UK Ltd, the customer service data and
analysis experts to offer bespoke consultancy and SaaS data solutions.
The solutions deliver insights to contact centres, allowing them to operate more effectively through a unique combination of real-time customer feedback analysis, comparative benchmarking and employee surveys.
The acquisition follows Lyceum Capital´s strategic investment in Sabio, and is part of an ongoing acquisition plan to broaden the company´s solution portfolio.
Adding Bright complements Sabio´s March 2017 acquisition of Rapport, the SaaS software and analysis services vendor, and significantly strengthens Sabio´s insight services portfolio.
This provides an unrivalled holistic approach to analyse customer and employee satisfaction, offering clients both a technological and a professional serviced approach to improving the service experience.
"Sabio is focused on supporting our clients in delivering brilliant experiences across the entire customer journey, " said chief executive officer of Sabio Group, Andy Roberts.
"And the addition of Bright´s solutions and services to our portfolio will support our customers in driving further operational and financial value from their CX programmes, " he added.
Meanwhile, managing director of Bright UK, Mats Rennstam commented that joining Sabio was a smart move for Bright as it gave them the opportunity to not only combine with an innovative customer experience leader, but also to share their data insights with Sabio´s broader global client base.
-- BERNAMA
SOLARWINDS PLACES HIGHEST ON THE ABILITY TO EXECUTE AXIS IN 2018 GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT FOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTICS
AUSTIN, Texas, March 20 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, placed highest on the ability to execute axis in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics[1].
This Gartner report evaluated 22 suppliers of Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics products. The firm’s evaluation criteria for ability to execute included the following: product or service, overall viability, sales execution and pricing, market responsiveness and record, marketing execution, customer experience, and operations. Of all the vendors evaluated in the report, SolarWinds placed highest on the ability to execute axis.
“For three years in a row, Gartner has positioned us as highest on the ability to execute axis in the Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. In our view, this result confirms our commitment to helping our customers manage their network operations with a powerful suite of tools that is simple and affordable to deploy,” said Christoph Pfister, executive vice president of products, SolarWinds. “We will continue listening closely to our loyal base of users around the world, helping them find faster and more efficient ways to optimize their network performance.”
Over 250,000 customers worldwide use SolarWinds’ broad portfolio of network management software, which enables IT professionals to identify and address a complete range of issues. Innovations such as NetPath™, which provides a “hop-by-hop” analysis of network performance, and the PerfStack™ platform, which enables correlation of performance data across systems and applications. These combine to allow broad and powerful IT problem-solving capabilities.
SolarWinds develops its network management software leveraging the Orion® Platform, a modular and highly scalable platform that unifies data from multiple IT layers into an application-centric view. As a result, the platform enables powerful, end-to-end hybrid IT management, delivering complete cloud visibility along with deep on-premises monitoring. It incorporates a simple drag-and-drop dashboard to visualize infrastructure and application relationships, helping IT professionals monitor, troubleshoot, and improve performance across hybrid environments. It also provides the flexibility to add modules as needs grow.
http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=31488
This Gartner report evaluated 22 suppliers of Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics products. The firm’s evaluation criteria for ability to execute included the following: product or service, overall viability, sales execution and pricing, market responsiveness and record, marketing execution, customer experience, and operations. Of all the vendors evaluated in the report, SolarWinds placed highest on the ability to execute axis.
“For three years in a row, Gartner has positioned us as highest on the ability to execute axis in the Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics. In our view, this result confirms our commitment to helping our customers manage their network operations with a powerful suite of tools that is simple and affordable to deploy,” said Christoph Pfister, executive vice president of products, SolarWinds. “We will continue listening closely to our loyal base of users around the world, helping them find faster and more efficient ways to optimize their network performance.”
Over 250,000 customers worldwide use SolarWinds’ broad portfolio of network management software, which enables IT professionals to identify and address a complete range of issues. Innovations such as NetPath™, which provides a “hop-by-hop” analysis of network performance, and the PerfStack™ platform, which enables correlation of performance data across systems and applications. These combine to allow broad and powerful IT problem-solving capabilities.
SolarWinds develops its network management software leveraging the Orion® Platform, a modular and highly scalable platform that unifies data from multiple IT layers into an application-centric view. As a result, the platform enables powerful, end-to-end hybrid IT management, delivering complete cloud visibility along with deep on-premises monitoring. It incorporates a simple drag-and-drop dashboard to visualize infrastructure and application relationships, helping IT professionals monitor, troubleshoot, and improve performance across hybrid environments. It also provides the flexibility to add modules as needs grow.
http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=31488
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
IF YOU PREVIOUSLY PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED CERTAIN PETROBRAS SECURITIES, YOU COULD GET A CASH PAYMENT FROM A CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT
NEW YORK, March 19 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- The following statement is being issued by Pomerantz LLP regarding In re Petrobras Securities Litigation.
Important Legal Notice from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Two proposed settlements have been reached in a securities class action lawsuit brought by investors against Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (“Petrobras”) and certain of its affiliates, underwriters, external auditors, and current and former directors and officers. The Settlements include certain securities issued by Petrobras. Petrobras, the Underwriter Defendants, and PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes (“PwC Brazil”) deny any and all allegations of wrongdoing, and the District Court has not decided who is right. If you requested exclusion in response to the previously mailed notice of pendency of class action dated May 9, 2016, you are included in this Settlement, and you must request exclusion again if you do not want to be included in the Settlement Class. Am I included in the proposed Settlements? You are encouraged to visit the website www.PetrobrasSecuritiesLitigation.com to see if you are included in the Settlement Class. The Settlement Class includes all Persons who: (a) during the time Period between January 22, 2010 and July 28, 2015, inclusive (the “Class Period”), purchased or otherwise acquired Petrobras Securities, including debt securities issued by PifCo and/or PGF, on the New York Stock Exchange or pursuant to other Covered Transactions; and/or (b) purchased or otherwise acquired debt securities issued by Petrobras, PifCo, and/or PGF, in Covered Transactions, directly in, pursuant and/or traceable to a May 13, 2013 public offering registered in the United States and/or a March 10, 2014 public offering registered in the United States before Petrobras made generally available to its security holders an earnings statement covering a period of at least twelve months beginning after the effective date of the offerings (August 11, 2014 in the case of the May 13, 2013 public offering and May 15, 2015 in the case of the March 10, 2014 public offering). For purposes of the Settlements, “Covered Transaction” means any transaction that satisfies any of the following criteria: (i) any transaction in a Petrobras Security listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”); (ii) any transaction in a Petrobras Security that cleared or settled through the Depository Trust Company’s book-entry system; or (iii) any transaction in a Petrobras Security to which the United States securities laws apply, including as applicable pursuant to the Supreme Court’s decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank, 561 U.S. 247 (2010). The full definition of the Settlement Class, as well as full lists of Petrobras Securities eligible to satisfy criteria (i), (ii), and (iii) are available at: www.PetrobrasSecuritiesLitigation.com. http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=31478 |
FINANTIX ACQUIRES ASIAN FINTECH START-UP SMARTFOLIOS
Adding quant-enabled wealth management capabilities to its digital platform
LONDON & SINGAPORE, March 20 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Finantix, global provider of enterprise solutions in WealthTech, InsurTech and RegTech, is proud to announce its acquisition of smartfolios, the creators of quant-enabled investment tools that support the key stages of the digital advisory value chain. With this acquisition, Finantix is set to combine its enterprise-grade technology and its recently launched AI offering with smartfolios quantitative analysis solutions to deliver a peerless digital wealth management platform with a unique breadth of features and real-time thematic-style analytics.
Finantix provides end-to-end digital wealth advisory services and hybrid robo-advisory solutions to wealth managers, top tier private banks and insurers in more than 40 markets. Together, Finantix and smartfolios will harness the power of quantitative analysis to provide an engine that covers the full range of investment processes including: strategy building, house view distribution, robo-personalised portfolios, advanced analytics and continuous portfolio fine tuning. The technology will support an extensive product taxonomy and provide real-time thematic-style analysis.
Ralf Emmerich, Co-founder and Director of Finantix, said: “We are delighted to have smartfolios join the group. The addition of smartfolios will add a critical quantitative analysis element to our well-established digital wealth offering. This acquisition will extend our coverage and support for key actors like CIOs and Investment Strategists and provide a solid foundation for strategic robo-advisory initiatives that don’t follow a low-end formula.”
For Finantix’ clients this acquisition means that they will be able to further tailor their customers’ experience and services and proactively anticipate their needs. In addition, they will be able to understand what’s happening in their book of business across multiple views including: performance, regulatory compliance, house view adherence, customer behaviour, key opportunities and events detection, next best action generation and proposal building, advice reasoning and research personalisation.
Julien Le Noble, Co-founder and CEO of smartfolios, added: “By coming under the Finantix brand, and leveraging Finantix’ API-driven enterprise-grade architecture, we can fully realise our vision to build the market-leading quantitative investment advisory, insight and portfolio management platform.”
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About Finantix
Finantix has a global customer base spanning over 45 countries, acquired over more than 15 years’ experience distilled into his flagship Finantix Components product and supported from eight offices across Europe, North America and Asia. Finantix Components are trusted by some of the world’s largest banks, insurers and wealth managers and offer a broad, solid and proven library of multi-country, multi-jurisdiction, multi-channel, omni-device reusable software modules, widgets, engines, connectors and APIs that help leading financial institutions digitise and transform key processes in the financial services industry.
www.finantix.com
About smartfolios
Smartfolios is a quant enabled advisory and investment platform providing investors access to superior investment portfolios and strategies. The team combines over 40 years of markets and investment experience and with cross disciplinary expertise, deep industry knowledge and astute data science insights, they are able to both anticipate and capitalize on emerging technologies, regulatory developments and financial innovations.
www.smartfolios.com
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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180319005535/en/
Contact
Finantix
Sam Howard
+44 (0)7817 106 155
sam@commscrowd.com
Source : Finantix
LONDON & SINGAPORE, March 20 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Finantix, global provider of enterprise solutions in WealthTech, InsurTech and RegTech, is proud to announce its acquisition of smartfolios, the creators of quant-enabled investment tools that support the key stages of the digital advisory value chain. With this acquisition, Finantix is set to combine its enterprise-grade technology and its recently launched AI offering with smartfolios quantitative analysis solutions to deliver a peerless digital wealth management platform with a unique breadth of features and real-time thematic-style analytics.
Finantix provides end-to-end digital wealth advisory services and hybrid robo-advisory solutions to wealth managers, top tier private banks and insurers in more than 40 markets. Together, Finantix and smartfolios will harness the power of quantitative analysis to provide an engine that covers the full range of investment processes including: strategy building, house view distribution, robo-personalised portfolios, advanced analytics and continuous portfolio fine tuning. The technology will support an extensive product taxonomy and provide real-time thematic-style analysis.
Ralf Emmerich, Co-founder and Director of Finantix, said: “We are delighted to have smartfolios join the group. The addition of smartfolios will add a critical quantitative analysis element to our well-established digital wealth offering. This acquisition will extend our coverage and support for key actors like CIOs and Investment Strategists and provide a solid foundation for strategic robo-advisory initiatives that don’t follow a low-end formula.”
For Finantix’ clients this acquisition means that they will be able to further tailor their customers’ experience and services and proactively anticipate their needs. In addition, they will be able to understand what’s happening in their book of business across multiple views including: performance, regulatory compliance, house view adherence, customer behaviour, key opportunities and events detection, next best action generation and proposal building, advice reasoning and research personalisation.
Julien Le Noble, Co-founder and CEO of smartfolios, added: “By coming under the Finantix brand, and leveraging Finantix’ API-driven enterprise-grade architecture, we can fully realise our vision to build the market-leading quantitative investment advisory, insight and portfolio management platform.”
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About Finantix
Finantix has a global customer base spanning over 45 countries, acquired over more than 15 years’ experience distilled into his flagship Finantix Components product and supported from eight offices across Europe, North America and Asia. Finantix Components are trusted by some of the world’s largest banks, insurers and wealth managers and offer a broad, solid and proven library of multi-country, multi-jurisdiction, multi-channel, omni-device reusable software modules, widgets, engines, connectors and APIs that help leading financial institutions digitise and transform key processes in the financial services industry.
www.finantix.com
About smartfolios
Smartfolios is a quant enabled advisory and investment platform providing investors access to superior investment portfolios and strategies. The team combines over 40 years of markets and investment experience and with cross disciplinary expertise, deep industry knowledge and astute data science insights, they are able to both anticipate and capitalize on emerging technologies, regulatory developments and financial innovations.
www.smartfolios.com
View source version on businesswire.com:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180319005535/en/
Contact
Finantix
Sam Howard
+44 (0)7817 106 155
sam@commscrowd.com
Source : Finantix
Monday, March 19, 2018
CLOUDFLARE AND IBM COLLABORATE TO EXTEND SECURITY AND PERFORMANCE FROM THE CLOUD TO THE NETWORK EDGE
IBM customers using public, private, or hybrid cloud can address security and performance at the network edge
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudflare, the leading Internet performance and security company, today announced a collaboration with IBM that will provide IBM’s enterprise customers with the benefits of Cloudflare’s edge computing solutions.
With this collaboration, IBM becomes an authorized reseller of Cloudflare’s suite of security and performance edge services. Cloudflare’s solutions can be deployed in IBM customer environments, including public, private, hybrid cloud, or on-premise.
Through the collaboration, IBM plans to launch IBM Cloud Internet Services, a one-stop shop for enterprise network edge services. IBM Cloud Internet Services is designed to enable customers to more easily protect and accelerate their Internet properties—domains, applications, and APIs—through an integration of Cloudflare in the IBM Cloud console.
Cyber security threats are increasing in scale and becoming more complex every day, but security should not be a barrier for enterprises entering the cloud. Enterprises crave a cloud and edge security strategy that provides state-of-the-art protection and performance. With IBM Cloud Internet Services, in just a few clicks, enterprises can obtain the benefits of Cloudflare’s massive global network and core DDoS, WAF, DNS, and web caching solutions, in one place, without having to rely on multiple vendors.
“Now IBM enterprise customers can focus on innovating and spend less time worrying about performance issues or potential security incidents,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “We admire IBM’s broad and deep experience with some of the world’s most powerful enterprises, and we view this offering as a great first step in working together.”
“The rate and sophistication of cyber threats is growing daily, but enterprises shouldn’t have to sacrifice performance in order to address the security of their Internet-facing applications,” said John Considine, General Manager, IBM Cloud Infrastructure. “IBM Cloud Internet Services combines IBM’s high value cloud capabilities and Cloudflare’s robust intelligent network to offer our customers an innovative solution.”
http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=31458
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudflare, the leading Internet performance and security company, today announced a collaboration with IBM that will provide IBM’s enterprise customers with the benefits of Cloudflare’s edge computing solutions.
With this collaboration, IBM becomes an authorized reseller of Cloudflare’s suite of security and performance edge services. Cloudflare’s solutions can be deployed in IBM customer environments, including public, private, hybrid cloud, or on-premise.
Through the collaboration, IBM plans to launch IBM Cloud Internet Services, a one-stop shop for enterprise network edge services. IBM Cloud Internet Services is designed to enable customers to more easily protect and accelerate their Internet properties—domains, applications, and APIs—through an integration of Cloudflare in the IBM Cloud console.
Cyber security threats are increasing in scale and becoming more complex every day, but security should not be a barrier for enterprises entering the cloud. Enterprises crave a cloud and edge security strategy that provides state-of-the-art protection and performance. With IBM Cloud Internet Services, in just a few clicks, enterprises can obtain the benefits of Cloudflare’s massive global network and core DDoS, WAF, DNS, and web caching solutions, in one place, without having to rely on multiple vendors.
“Now IBM enterprise customers can focus on innovating and spend less time worrying about performance issues or potential security incidents,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “We admire IBM’s broad and deep experience with some of the world’s most powerful enterprises, and we view this offering as a great first step in working together.”
“The rate and sophistication of cyber threats is growing daily, but enterprises shouldn’t have to sacrifice performance in order to address the security of their Internet-facing applications,” said John Considine, General Manager, IBM Cloud Infrastructure. “IBM Cloud Internet Services combines IBM’s high value cloud capabilities and Cloudflare’s robust intelligent network to offer our customers an innovative solution.”
http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=31458
Friday, March 16, 2018
Miss Talent International Malaysia 2018 Gala Dinner tickets open for sale
KUALA LUMPUR, March 16 (Bernama) -- 28Mall.com has announced the ticket pre-sale for the Miss Talent International Malaysia Competition 2018 Finals Gala Dinner, which will be held on May 13.
The tickets are available online at www.MissTalentMalaysia.com.
Fione Tan, founder of 28Mall.com and the organising chairman of the Miss Talent International Competition Malaysia 2018 said the competition aimed to unveil the talents of Malaysian women to the world.
"This is not another beauty pageant as we are focused on the talents and social media savviness of the contestants so that the winners can be the social media ambassadors and key influencers for 28Mall and our brands and sponsors," she said in a statement today.
The first 100 purchasers of the gala dinner tickets will walk away with gifts and vouchers worth the whole ticket price, while the table sponsors will get free online marketing advertisements worth RM20,000 to build their branding online.
The Miss Talent International Malaysia Competition offers cash and prizes worth RM200,000. Two winners will represent Malaysia in the Global Finals in Hong Kong at the end of May.
Those interested to participate can sign up online and the deadline for entry is March 31. All applicants will receive RM600 worth of shopping vouchers from 28Mall.com.
The tickets are available online at www.MissTalentMalaysia.com.
Fione Tan, founder of 28Mall.com and the organising chairman of the Miss Talent International Competition Malaysia 2018 said the competition aimed to unveil the talents of Malaysian women to the world.
"This is not another beauty pageant as we are focused on the talents and social media savviness of the contestants so that the winners can be the social media ambassadors and key influencers for 28Mall and our brands and sponsors," she said in a statement today.
The first 100 purchasers of the gala dinner tickets will walk away with gifts and vouchers worth the whole ticket price, while the table sponsors will get free online marketing advertisements worth RM20,000 to build their branding online.
The Miss Talent International Malaysia Competition offers cash and prizes worth RM200,000. Two winners will represent Malaysia in the Global Finals in Hong Kong at the end of May.
Those interested to participate can sign up online and the deadline for entry is March 31. All applicants will receive RM600 worth of shopping vouchers from 28Mall.com.
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