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57  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Camfil turns to Interoute SD-WAN for network & data centre consolidation on: December 13, 2016, 04:56:54 PM
Global air filter company selects Interoute as its worldwide digital infrastructure platform provider, with SD-WAN enabling data centre consolidation.

London, December 13 2016 - Interoute, owner operator of a global cloud services platform and one of Europe's largest networks, is transforming the IT estate of Camfil, the world leader in air filters for ventilation systems.

Headquartered in Sweden and with 26 manufacturing facilities, six R&D facilities and local sales offices worldwide, Camfil’s data network is distributed across more than 130 sites. Camfil is using Interoute’s Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) solution to better manage and consolidate its IT environment and instead focus on its core business of providing clean air.

Tomas Bräne, CIO at Camfil, said: "We have over the years acquired many companies, which means we have developed a vast and heterogeneous IT structure that has left us with a host of outdated hardware that needed to be replaced. We are now together with Interoute taking the critical first step of rolling out a secure, WAN optimised, SD-WAN solution in order to centralise and modernise our IT environment. Interoute is providing us with a cost-effective solution that optimises traffic and improves the experience for our users as well as increasing our cost-control capabilities. At the same time, we have been able to minimise the risks associated with self-managed networks and old equipment.”

Camfil has selected Interoute Cloud Connect (ICC), a converged SD-WAN solution with WAN Optimisation. This manages and optimises data traffic amongst its local offices, as well as to the head office's private cloud and the Interoute enterprise digital platform, into which it is pre-integrated for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Interoute’s low latency, high performance enterprise network also optimises the performance of applications delivered from public clouds.

The ICC device helps prioritise business-critical applications and data that are directed over Interoute’s core MPLS network, while non-business critical traffic can be automatically sent over the public Internet. The cloud-integrated technology brings additional benefits, such as the ability to replace expensive or outdated IT hardware in an enterprise customer’s local access network with the self-same ICC device, and to scale up the bandwidth at data traffic peaks. Another advantage is the possibility to add on Unified Communication (UC) services from Interoute as and when needed.

Using Interoute’s network has also allowed Camfil to considerably increase its available bandwidth in order to quickly move the large volumes of data with high security and minimal delay, facilitating the consolidation of data centres.

Mark Lewis, EVP products at Interoute, said: “Interoute Cloud Connect is an ideal solution for a company such as Camfil, because its meets the demands of the global, distributed nature of their business. It scales to connect all of their offices to the high performance, global Interoute platform efficiently and securely, regardless of how many locations there are or where in the world they are found. The platform also makes it easy to plug in new services as the organisation develops - from Office 365 to Azure and AWS, telephony via Interoute’s Hosted Skype for Business, and other cloud services.”
58  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Sopra Steria selects Enate to orchestrate next generation of BPO services on: December 13, 2016, 04:42:52 PM
London, 13 December 2016 – Sopra Steria, the European leader in digital transformation, has just signed an agreement with UK company Enate, experts in simplified service delivery, to deploy its robotic orchestration platform to underpin Sopra Steria’s BPS offering. The deployment will simplify the management and planning of service delivery for key customers, helping them to speed up their digital transformation journeys.

The agreement will see the Enate platform deployed across different sectors and geographies, including staff in the UK and India, later this month. It will be deployed across finance, and accounting, payroll and HR functions.

This new partnership follows a review of a number of different BPM platforms, in which Sopra Steria was looking for something that would integrate its solution portfolio and provide a dashboard for complete management and visibility of its services.

Key to the decision making process was a pilot project and proof of concept in 2015, whereby Enate supported a Sopra Steria client across payroll services. “During the initial proof of concept we reviewed the functionality of the Enate platform, discovering how transformational it could be, especially in the payroll function,” said Ian Fitzgerald, Head of BPS at Sopra Steria.

“We are delighted to be a partner in Sopra Steria’s next generation of digital BPO services,” said Kit Cox, CEO at Enate. “Enate fits into Sopra Steria’s suite of best of breed technologies, our platform will allow them to deliver greater benefits more quickly supporting their BPaaS services as they move to the cloud.”

Robotic automation will also be a key part of delivery, with Enate’s platform working to help balance robotic process control seamlessly with staff productivity so that people and robots can work together to deliver services better.

“We chose the Enate orchestration platform to accelerate our digital transformation objective and simplify our service offering in the cloud. It will provide a management platform to orchestrate and simplify our customer operations, and as such, we’re positive it will help to deliver the next generation of BPS as we know it,” added Fitzgerald.
59  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Top Five Cloud Trends for 2017 on: December 13, 2016, 04:37:27 PM
Karl Roe, VP Services and Cloud Solutions Nuvias Group, gives his top predictions for cloud developments in 2017.

1. Un-Clouding
We have all witnessed the ‘cloud rush’ of recent years where organisations have been encouraged to move their workloads to the cloud. However, there is a growing recognition among organisations that cloud services are not the be-all and end-all – and certainly not always the most cost effective way to deliver all their IT workloads.

In several cases, the promised cost savings that customers thought they would receive haven’t materialised – in fact it can be quite the opposite when they first see their bill, after failing to be properly advised on their long-term costs. Many IT service providers have been caught up in the vendor hype surrounding cloud services, and encouraged cloud migration despite the end user often not fully understanding the long-term cost implications.

Next year we will see more businesses move workloads out of the cloud and back on-premise, and in the future, we will see a more educated, sensible approach where cloud isn’t the default option for hosting all workloads.

Which, in turn, will lead to…

2. Non-Clouding
In the future, organisations will become better educated when it comes to making the right decisions regarding which workloads should sit in the cloud, as opposed to moving everything over wholesale.

Instead of jumping on the cloud bandwagon, business leaders will be more concerned about which carriage on the bandwagon they’re going to get on.

3. Voice as a Service becomes mainstream
Voice over IP (VoIP) has become increasingly prevalent in the enterprise, with services like Skype growing in popularity. The end of life of ISDN and PSTN will mean we’ll start seeing true mainstream adoption of VoIP, not just in the enterprise but in SMBs too.

Telcos like BT are driving more visibility around the fact that they’re serving time on their ISDN products, and they will need to be replaced. VoIP services will start to become the norm, and users will start consuming them as a service.

4. Real time interaction comes of age
Instant Messaging (IM) and real-time interaction will start to replace email.

Services like Slack and Microsoft Team are becoming prevalent in the workplace, and employees are increasingly choosing instant messaging over email. Email just doesn’t work for us anymore; having presence and real-time interaction on projects will become the norm.

Replacing email as the main form of communication in organisations, next year will see IM take off among businesses. In addition, that interaction can easily then be converged with voice at a click of a button, circling back to the emergence of VoIP.

5. Everybody API
It’s becoming clearer by the day that being good at integrating systems in the old-fashioned way isn’t good enough anymore. True API integration is the new value-add.

Moving forward, any company that wants to add true value to their customer base will have to have API skills and they will have to have some element of development in what they offer. It might not be pure coding, it might be the ability to implement and integrate systems using APIs that delivers that single pane of glass experience.
60  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / SDL Recognized as a Leader by Global Analyst Firm Ovum in Web Experience... on: December 12, 2016, 10:10:25 PM
SDL Recognized as a Leader by Global Analyst Firm Ovum in Web Experience Management Decision Matrix 2016-2017

SDL Web 8 named a market leader in technology and execution categories

Wakefield, MA and Maidenhead, UK – December 12, 2016 – SDL (LSE: SDL) today announced that SDL Web 8 has been recognized as a leader by global analyst firm Ovum in the 2016 Web Experience Management (WEM) Ovum Decision Matrix. The solution was selected for its excellence in helping businesses create and manage multilingual web content to deliver locally relevant experiences while maintaining global brand consistency.

The WEM Ovum Decision Matrix compares leading WEM vendors on multiple dimensions and identifies the top vendors in each. SDL stands out in the Execution category for exceptional scalability and interoperability and in the Technology category for above-average architecture and administration, core capabilities and digital asset management. In particular, SDL scores very high on core capabilities, indicating that its highly focused portfolio offers an advantage versus large, multiple product vendors. Specific strengths that contributed to SDL’s leadership ranking include SDL’s BluePrinting® capabilities that ensure consistent communications and its componentized content management that creates autonomous, reusable components for text, layout, video and more.

“Based on our analysis, SDL’s strong WEM and translation capabilities position the company to be an important part of organizations' global digital marketing strategy,” said Sue Clarke, Senior Analyst, Ovum. “SDL’s best-of-breed approach and focus on WEM and translation solutions has paid dividends, improving their position in this year’s Matrix.”

The WEM Ovum Decision Matrix predicts that SDL Web 8 will continue to gain market share for several reasons. The report states that “the availability of a cloud option will appeal to small organizations, which do not have the budget or the resources to implement a WEM solution on-premise.” Additionally, “SDL has the opportunity to increase its market share from organizations that prefer a best-of-breed approach to customer engagement solutions.”

“We are proud to be named by Ovum as a leader in Web Experience Management,” said Adolfo Hernandez, CEO, SDL. “This recognition underscores our position as a strong partner for businesses of all sizes looking to deliver the best web experiences possible to every customer, regardless of language or location.”

Click here (http://www.sdl.com/OvumWEM) to download a free copy of the WEM Ovum Decision Matrix, or click here (http://blog.sdl.com/digital-experience/sdl-recognized-as-market-leader-in-ovum-wem-decision-matrix/) to read our blog.
61  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Hackathon in support of LGBT+ rights provides solutions to the problem... on: December 12, 2016, 06:45:05 PM
Hackathon in support of LGBT+ rights provides solutions to the problem of hate-crime data and evidence collection globally

Hidden as a contact within the social messaging service Snapchat, the winning concept allows users to upload images and videos, directly connecting with lawyers and activists.

London, December 12, 2016 – LexisNexis announced the winning design of the “Hack the Change” Hackathon challenge. More than 40 coders, developers and designers were brought together over 48 hours, tasked with prototyping solutions to connect lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT+) people with those documenting and fighting discrimination.

The winning concept, the brainchild of the team “Suitcase Hackers”, was the creation of a tool within the application “Snapchat”. Witnesses and victims of hate crime will be able to upload evidence as images, videos and documentation securely through the application. This information will be safely stored in the cloud to allow the evidence to be verified by lawyers and NGOs. To protect user anonymity and safety, the tool will appear as any other contact within the app, making it difficult for anyone searching through the user’s phone to detect.

The event was hosted by LexisNexis and The Human Dignity Trust, and supported by Amazon Web Services, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and Osborne Clarke. The design will now be brought to life by the Human Dignity Trust.

Approximately 4bn people live outside the protection of the rule of law, with both direct discrimination, and poor enforcement of laws and abuses by the state contributing to this figure. This Hackathon for LGBT rights is the first in a series of game-changing Hack the Change events, coordinated by LexisNexis, to help radically change these odds.

LexisNexis Hack the Change lead, Amy Carton, said: “We passionately support combating hate crime by progressing the rule of law globally. Right now, people around the world are routinely attacked, threatened or intimidated simply because of who they are. This results in the oppression of entire communities. 75 countries currently criminalise the lives of LGBT people, representing approximately 40% of the worlds population. This will not be solved overnight – but timely reporting and documenting of these crimes is a vital first step. It was exciting and inspiring to see so many technologists, designers, developers and legal expert come together to make a positive difference in the world. We look forward to seeing the winning design actively impact lives for the better.”

Téa Braun, Legal Director of the Human Dignity Trust said: “We are very inspired by the amazing creativity and dedication on display at the ‘Hack the Change’ Hackathon. Technology can help immensely in finding new ways to document human rights violations faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Timely documentation of human rights violation is a major factor in fighting such violations, but there is a critical gap to be filled especially from areas that are insecure and inaccessible.

Braun continued: “There is need for a tool that allows LGBT people, NGOs and allies to document and tell stories that might otherwise not have been told. We are excited at the prospect of a tool being developed to help fill this gap and to get relevant information to the attention of those who can help. Our sincere thanks go to all the creative minds that have helped to bring vision to what is possible.”

The designs from the four other Hackathon teams included a reporting website disguised as a recipe website, and a portal connecting victims of crime directly to international legal teams.

John Davidson-Kelly, Commercial Partner at Osborne Clarke, said: “This was a great event for us to be part of given Osborne Clarke’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and the fact that it brought together law and technology. It was really interesting to be part of the process, from setting the challenge and then watching how the coders used their creativity and technical ability to developed their solutions and build their products in no time at all, with very little sleep.”

Isabel Parker, Director of Legal Services Innovation at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer said: “We are proud to have been part of the Hackathon, and of our Freshfields team of coders and lawyers for its contribution to fighting discrimination against members of the LGBT+ community, that sadly still subsists in many countries. The levels of creativity and energy at the event were truly inspiring and demonstrate that real change can be achieved through combining smart legal minds and technology solutions.”

Clare Dundon, Innovation & New Ventures Manager at Hogan Lovells, said: "The decision to get involved with 'Hack the Change' was an easy one - it combined our commitment to diversity and inclusion with our passion for innovation and the rule of law. The collaboration between technologists, strategists and lawyers can unlock new possibilities and we were proud to help support 'Hack the Change', the Human Dignity Trust and the teams throughout the weekend."

To discuss the event with our media team or request photographs and a video of this event please contact Sarah Plaka on [email protected].
62  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Increasing GRC Demands and Efficiency Imperatives Will Make End User... on: December 12, 2016, 04:29:00 PM
Increasing GRC Demands and Efficiency Imperatives Will Make End User Computing Risk Management an Important Consideration in 2017

Henry Umney, Director, ClusterSeven, highlights his views on the technology trends in the banking and financial services sector in 2017:

CFOs will drive transformation to align EUC models and enterprise systems

With ever-growing financial regulation, CFOs are under increasing pressure to demonstrate with certainty that they have full knowledge of data sources used for reported statements, to rule out errors and misreporting. However, due to the ubiquitous, uncontrolled and unmonitored use of spreadsheets and end user computing (EUC) applications, many CFOs are struggling to offer such cast-iron guarantees. In 2017, CFOs will drive transformation initiatives to align and integrate EUC models with enterprise systems to achieve end-to-end transparency of business-critical processes – right from the creation of an EUC application by a user, visibility of data lineage between EUCs through to its retirement in the corporate system.

Tangible efficiency-led cost savings will drive automation of business critical financial and compliance processes

With a vast number of day-to-day, but critical operational business processes, being undertaken in often poorly undocumented spreadsheets, the benefits accrued to users is reaching a tipping point whereby the very reasons for using such EUC applications – i.e. flexibility, agility, efficiency and productivity – are negating as they are becoming a drain on the time and resources of users. The latest ClusterSeven survey report entitled, ‘The Spreadsheet is Here to Stay’, finds that internal audit, finance, compliance and risk management professionals spend, on average, 43% of their time monitoring and validating information on spreadsheets. Those in management, spend closer to 47% of their time on this activity. With the use of spreadsheets for business-critical processes slated to grow over the next two years, financial institutions will look to streamline and automate the management of the financial and compliance processes in the EUC environment to optimise the efficiency and productivity gains such applications genuinely offer; and thereby make tangible financial savings as a result of reduced manual effort.

EUC risk management will be a key component of broader GRC strategies of financial institutions

To deliver against stringent governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) reporting and management goals, financial institutions regularly deploy GRC solutions to understand the organisation’s overall operational risk posture. With many regulators demanding transparency around the ecosystem of EUC tools (e.g. BCBS239, CCAR, DFASR) that feed models, in 2017, financial institutions will look to make EUC risk management a key component of their broader GRC strategy. Presently, through enterprise GRC solutions alone, organisations are hampered in their ability to monitor the EUC landscape with the granularity that regulators are expecting.

Momentum will build to move core financial and compliance processes to the secure cloud

Research shows that with the adoption of Microsoft Office 365 in business, a large amount of sensitive data is already (and perhaps inadvertently) stored in the cloud. With employees now collaborating on critical spreadsheets via the cloud, the proliferation of uncontrolled EUCs will likely increase. To meet workforce demands of 24x7 anytime, anywhere and from any device access to business information, financial institutions will be compelled to devise and execute on a broader cloud strategy, in order to formally move business critical spreadsheet and EUC-related operational processes to the secure cloud.

63  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Give the gift of coding to kids this Christmas with UBTECH Robotics’ Jimu Kits on: December 09, 2016, 07:06:58 PM
Play-learning with UBTECH Robotics’ Jimu robots teaches key coding skills to (big) kids of all ages, from 5 to 105!

• Parents want to know more about how to teach kids coding skills at home
• Over two-thirds (68%) of parents think kids know more about tech than adults
• Only 18% of parents know schools are required by law to teach coding to all ages
• 9% think that robots will soon replace footballers and teachers!
• Robots are amongst the best ways of integrating coding into wider learning say experts


09 December 2016 – Robots are this Christmas’ most in-demand tech toys, with today’s “digital first” youngsters being way ahead of their parents when it comes to learning about computer programming and how to code. But, while British parents are desperate to learn more about how to teach their kids coding at home, nearly half (42%) still don’t have the knowledge or confidence to help their children learn these vital skills, according to new consumer research from UBTECH Robotics*. In fact only 18% of parents know schools are required by law to teach coding to all ages.

UBTECH Robotics is behind a number of innovative new robots, including Jimu Robot, an interactive system of building blocks which enables kids to program and share their own robot creations. Created to teach kids Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) skills in a fun way, Jimu’s movements are programmed via intuitive functions and drag-and-drop coding. The build-a-robot kits are an easy and engaging way of children and parents learning together about coding through a shared experience. Despite over two-thirds (68%) of parents thinking kids know more about tech than adults, there’s a no need for parents to feel intimidated.

The new UBTECH Robotics survey also threw up a few surprising results, with nearly one in 10 respondents confident that artificially intelligent robots will replace both human footballers and teachers in the next twenty years! The survey also confirms that parents are increasingly keen for their children to learn how to code using robots in the primary school classroom.

Supporting the research, educational experts are still critical of the confusion around the best ways of teaching coding and programming skills, with many primary schools still unsure as to the most effective ways to teach coding and programming, especially while supporting the wider curriculum. Computing in Schools consultant, David Kirtlan from Elsium Education said: “The challenge for schools is how best to integrate new robots and AI technologies across the curriculum. The STEM agenda is gathering momentum, and making connections between these subject areas is essential if it is going to be a success in schools. Introducing fun, programmable robots into this agenda makes the coding and programming element very engaging to young people – and to adults too!

“If you can build something and bring it to ‘life’, that’s incredibly motivating. For teachers, robotics provides a true cross-curricular activity. And UBTECH Robotics’ recent survey proves one thing that is very clear to anybody involved in teaching these skills in schools, which is that as soon as they introduce basic physical coding games and robotics into the classroom, both the teachers and the children immediately become 100% more engaged and keen to learn these key skills“.

UBTECH Robotics’ JIMU Robot Meebot Kit is exclusively available from the Apple Store and the Alpha 1 and JIMU range is available from Argos, Toy ‘R’ Us and online at www.ubtrobot.com

* Gorkana survey of 1000 British parents
64  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / SNS Solicitors offers high quality service with Eclipse's Proclaim... on: December 08, 2016, 11:13:50 PM
SNS Solicitors offers high quality service with Eclipse's Proclaim Case Management Software solution

Eclipse Legal Systems, the sole Law Society Endorsed legal software provider, is implementing its Proclaim Case Management Software solution at SNS Solicitors, a new start-up firm based in Cheshire.

Founded by Sarah Singh, an experienced solicitor in complex RTAs and litigation, the boutique firm specialises in a range of services across the personal injury sector - from accidents at work and slips and trips, through to RTAs and holiday sickness. Based in the centre of Altrincham, SNS Solicitors is a professional, modern and dynamic firm, priding itself on its ability to deal with claims efficiently and meticulously, ensuring clients receive the best service possible.

As a new start-up, SNS Solicitors needed to implement the right legal software solution to enable streamlined case progression from day one, ultimately serving to establish a sterling reputation right away. With previous experience of the solution, Sarah knew Eclipse’s Proclaim Personal Injury Case Management system could improve case handling and increase the quality of client service, without needing to employ a full team of support staff.

Additionally, Proclaim’s inherent flexibility means the system can be tailored – entirely in-house - to suit SNS Solicitors, and any area of personal injury work.

Sarah Singh, Director of SNS Solicitors, comments:
“We need to be able to continually develop our services in order to meet the needs of our clients, and the dynamic personal injury sector. With previous experience of Proclaim, I knew it was the right legal software for us – geared to streamlining the entire case handling process, and eliminating administration time, it’s perfect in enabling a new start-up to offer high quality client service whilst efficiently increasing case volume.”
65  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / China approves .XYZ on: December 08, 2016, 10:45:07 PM
The Chinese government has accredited .XYZ, distributed exclusively by CentralNic, to host Chinese websites.

London UK, Thursday 8th December 2016. .XYZ, the planet’s most popular new generic Top Level Domain (new gTLD) has been accredited by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). This approval, which is one of the first for new gTLDs, allows companies and people in China to use .XYZ web-addresses to host their websites.

Since its launch in 2014, .XYZ has dominated the new Top-Level Domain space. One in every four new-style web-addresses registered ends in .XYZ. The popularity of .XYZ is such that, not only do millions of small business use them, but so do Google, Mark Zuckerberg and the founders of Skype.

CentralNic Plc, .XYZ’s exclusive global distributor, is also the world-leader in new gTLDs. CentralNic has worked closely with .XYZ to put in place a customised technology platform. The global internet regulator ICANN and China’s MIIT both approved this leading-edge solution. This secures .XYZ’s place among the first batch of non-Chinese “not-COM” domains approved for Chinese citizens.

“Accreditation in China is one of .XYZ's most significant milestones to date” said Daniel Negari, CEO of .XYZ. “CentralNic has been an amazing back end partner of XYZ. It went above and beyond its contractual requirements to help navigate through foreign policies and technical requirements.”

 More retailers (“registrars”) sell XYZ than any other new Top-Level Domain name. It is already a multi-million seller in China. Many Chinese citizens have obtained the .XYZ they wanted in anticipation of the MIIT accreditation.

“I am delighted that our partner .XYZ has received its MIIT accreditation”, said Ben Crawford, CEO at CentralNic. “.XYZ has always been the dominant new TLD, and China the biggest new TLD market. It’s an exciting moment that should see .XYZ grow even faster.”

With over 6.5 million domain names already registered, .XYZ is leading the field in this new but high growth area of the Internet. The addition of MIIT accreditation will make .XYZ web-addresses even more accessible in China.

“CentralNic worked hard to get our solution approved by ICANN and pass critical ICANN testing which is required to implement the solution we developed together” Negari added. “We look forward to our continued partnership with CentralNic to make .XYZ the go-to domain extension for every business and individual in China.”

MIIT-accredited .XYZ web addresses will be available via Chinese domain registrars from the 16th of December 2016.

66  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / UKCloud becomes first UK public sector cloud provider... on: December 08, 2016, 08:01:59 PM
UKCloud becomes first UK public sector cloud provider to support OpenStack Mitaka

Assured cloud services provider joins OpenStack Foundation and becomes one of a select few “CHECK tested” suppliers

London – December 8, 2016 – UKCloud, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud services company, has announced a major upgrade to its entire Cloud Native Infrastructure platform to support the 13th release of OpenStack, Mitaka, making it the first UK public sector public cloud provider to run at this release level. UKCloud supports OpenStack in order to help its UK public sector customers comply with government policy stating that open standards must be used when procuring ICT and delivering any new ICT solutions, ensuring that all government ICT assets are inter-operable.

UKCloud’s Cloud Native Infrastructure (powered by OpenStack) is designed to support the public sector as it continues to digitise services. Supporting this newer release of OpenStack gives UKCloud’s platform even greater functionality, helping developers create cloud native applications which are agile, innovative and cost effective and not locked in to a single cloud provider.

“OpenStack perfectly complements our agile and assured platform; this latest upgrade will help us to deliver scalable public cloud services, offering greater manageability and an enhanced end-user experience,” said Simon Hansford, CEO of UKCloud. “OpenStack Mitaka brings considerable performance improvements to platform orchestration via its HEAT service, these improvements allow OpenStack to scale faster to and be more agile when managing dynamic cloud workloads. These enhancements will play a vital role in the continued digital transformation in the UK public sector.”

UKCloud has also become a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, demonstrating the company’s commitment to both OpenStack and open source. UKCloud’s platform has also passed the OpenStack Interoperability test to prove its openness and compatibility with the ecosystem, along with rigorous security testing (CHECK testing) against the high standards set by the UK government's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG), dispelling the myth that open source software presents a greater security risk due to its collaborative nature.

UKCloud is also evolving its partner ecosystem, collaborating with Red Hat to enable its suite of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat CloudForms services to integrate with UKCloud’s pre-existing Red Hat OpenStack Platform deployment. This will enable developers to more quickly develop, host, and scale applications in a managed cloud environment.

Hansford added: “The public sector is adopting more and more cloud solutions each year, and we’re seeing increasingly complex requirements for big data projects and multi-cloud deployments starting to emerge. Our support of the next generation of OpenStack will help our public sector customers to realise innovative projects in the cloud, while complying with government policy concerning open standards.”

The new release of OpenStack provides developers with granular role based access control of networks and enables UKCloud’s platform to fully integrate with a variety of specialised private government networks, such as the research and education network, Janet; the Restricted LAN Interconnect (RLI); the Public Services Network (PSN) and N3 healthcare communities.

More information can be found at www.ukcloud.com/openstack
67  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Star Micronics and Payleven partner to provide London’s licensed taxi drivers... on: December 08, 2016, 06:37:00 PM
Star Micronics and Payleven partner to provide London’s licensed taxi drivers with TfL-approved All-in-One Payment Bundle

High Wycombe, UK, 8 December 2016
International POS printer manufacturer Star Micronics is pleased to announce that its SM-L200 mobile printer has been selected by Payleven to provide London’s licensed taxi drivers with a TfL-approved all-in-one payment bundle. Following the requirement for taxi drivers to accept card and contactless payments as well as provide receipts for those payments upon request, Payleven has partnered with Star to provide the following bundle that is compatible with TX taxi models:

• Contactless and Chip & PIN card reader
• Star SM-L200 Bluetooth receipt printer
• Card reader mount for passenger compartment
• Printer mount for driver compartment
• Power converter for printer
• 20 receipt rolls

The Payleven solution offers an easy to install bundle that accepts all credit and debit cards. To provide receipts, the compact lightweight SM-L200 Bluetooth printer from Star offers a high print speed, LCD display and 1.2m drop test capability. Its low power usage and ability to auto pair with multiple Apple iOS and Android devices are key features of the SM-L200.

As Annette Tarlton, Marketing Director, Star Micronics EMEA, states: “Star is delighted to be working with Payleven to provide London’s licensed taxi drivers with a reliable and cost effective all-in-one payment bundle.”
68  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Boost for IoT interoperability as open source foundations and projects... on: December 08, 2016, 05:56:13 PM
Boost for IoT interoperability as open source foundations and projects use oneM2M standards

OpenDaylight, OCEAN, ATIS and Eclipse Foundation are among organisations adopting oneM2M specifications in IoT development projects

Sophia Antipolis, France, 8 December 2016. oneM2M, the global standards partnership for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things (IoT), has revealed its standards are being used by a number of independent open source foundations and projects, in addition to commercial deployments, as the industry looks to accelerate take up of IoT products and platforms.

Several open source foundations and projects have been actively using oneM2M standards in various applications and services since the organisation released its first set of specifications in January 2015. oneM2M’s Release 2, was published earlier this year.

Among the foundations using the standards is the open alliance for IoT standard OCEAN, which was established in January 2015 by the Korean government and research institute KETI. It has now attracted 214 members and develops code for the oneM2M-based IoT server platform project Mobius and IoT device platform &Cube.

oneM2M standards are also being used by the Linux Foundation’s popular OpenDaylight project, where a team is developing a oneM2M-based IoT Data Broker to enable authorised applications to retrieve IoT data uploaded by any device. The IOTDM project has been running since December 2014 and code is already available to download and test.

The Eclipse Foundation’s OM2M project, part of Eclipse’s IoT Working Group, offers a flexible oneM2M-based platform to implement horizontal M2M servers, gateways, and devices. It brings forward a modular architecture, running on top of an OSGi container, which is highly extensible via plug-ins. Services are exposed through a lightweight RESTful API supporting HTTP, CoAP, and MQTT bindings combined with XML and JSON formats. In addition to traditional M2M capabilities, OM2M offers advanced features such as Flex Container and Smart Device Template to the community. The OM2M project has been running since May 2014.

Meanwhile, recognising the importance of low-cost and power-efficient IoT clients to support applications like smart cities and wearables, ATIS has started working on developing an open source support for light weight oneM2M compatible client frameworks with a focus on constrained hardware.

“The open source community has become extremely important for a number of industries as technology continues to evolve and the IoT is no different,” said Dr. Omar Elloumi, Technical Plenary Chair, oneM2M, and member of Nokia Bell Labs and CTO group. “Use of the oneM2M standards by these groups is an extremely positive step forward for the IoT industry. It is projects like these that are contributing to our ultimate aim of making IoT applications and products interoperable so that they can achieve the goal of truly enhancing users’ daily lives.”

While open source projects using oneM2M specifications are organised and run independently of oneM2M, oneM2M has made a number of resources available to developers to support those implementing oneM2M specifications.

An e-mail list has been established to answer technical questions from developers and provide a direct link to the experts who wrote the oneM2M specifications. XML code and the oneM2M Application ID registry are additional resources available from oneM2M. All of oneM2M’s specifications are available at: http://www.onem2m.org/technical/published-documents.

Alongside these open source initiatives, commercial implementations of oneM2M standards have also grown since the first one was announced in December 2014, with the latest companies to adopt the standard including NEC Corporation, LG subsidiary LG CNS, C-DOT, HPE, InterDigital and Sensinov. To view the full list of commercial deployments, visit: http://www.onem2m.org/news-events/onem2m-deployment-announcements.
69  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Thales Releases Advanced Encryption Solutions for Secure Docker Containers... on: December 08, 2016, 05:20:01 PM
Thales Releases Advanced Encryption Solutions for Secure Docker Containers, Simplified Deployment and Zero Downtime

Vormetric Data Security Platform expansion includes patented, non-disruptive encryption deployment and advanced Docker encryption

December 8, 2016 – Thales, a leader in critical information systems, cybersecurity and data security, today announced the release of new capabilities for its leading Vormetric Data Security Platform. These advances extend data-at-rest security capabilities with deeply integrated Docker encryption and access controls, the ability to encrypt and re-key data without having to take applications offline, FIPS certified remote administration and management of data security policies and protections, and the ability to accelerate the deployment of tokenization, static data masking and application encryption. Announced today by Thales:

General availability of Vormetric Transparent Encryption Live Data Transformation Extension: A patented solution that enables organisations to deploy and maintain encryption with minimal downtime. Enables initial encryption and rekeying of previously encrypted data while in use. Available previously as a pilot – now generally available.
Vormetric Transparent Encryption Docker Extension: Extends Vormetric Transparent Encryption’s OS-level policy-based encryption, data access controls and data access logging capabilities to internal Docker container users, processes and resource sets. Deploys and protects without the need to alter containers or applications. Enables compliance and best practices for encryption, control of data access, and data access auditing for container accessible information. Find additional information here: https://www.vormetric.com/products/containers.
FIPS 140-2 level 3 certified remote data security management and policy control for Vormetric Data Security Manager V6100 appliance. This innovation enables organisations with the most stringent compliance and best practice requirements to easily manage the full Thales line of Vormetric data security platform solutions without physical visits to data centers.
Batch Data Transformation: Eases initial encryption or tokenization of sensitive database columns in environments that are protected with Vormetric Application Encryption or Vormetric Tokenization. Also supports Static Data Masking requirements.

"IT system downtime is costly for any business, even when it is planned," said Bob Tarzey of UK-based Quocirca. "The financial consequences of IT disruptions arise from lost sales and productivity; in addition, consequent reputational damage can have a longer term knock-on effect," he added. "Downtime need not be caused by system outage, it can be due to data processing, which includes encryption. The idea behind Vormetric's Live Data Transformation is to solve this problem, even for large databases with high transaction volumes. Any organisation which needs to ensure both constant data security and availability should take a look at such technology."

Compliance requirements and best practices increasingly call for organisations to encrypt and control access to sensitive data, while also logging and auditing information about sensitive data access. The company’s recent 2016 Vormetric Data Threat Report revealed that perceived “complexity” is the number-one reason that enterprises do not adopt data security tools and techniques that support these capabilities more widely. These advanced data security controls directly address this problem by enabling enterprises to confidently support their digital transformation more easily and simply, and in more environments, than ever before.

“Thales continues to innovate by providing advanced data security solutions and services that delivers trust wherever information is created, shared, or stored,” said Vice President of Product Management for Thales e-Security, Derek Tumulak. “No other organisation offers the depth and breadth of integrated data security solutions, or enables enterprises to confidently accelerate their organisation’s digital transformation, like Thales.”

Availability: All new offerings are planned to be available in Q1 2017

70  THE TECHNO CLUB [ TECHNOWORLDINC.COM ] / Techno News / Qaiwan Group Latest Dubai Based Trading House to Deploy AspectCTRM on: December 08, 2016, 05:08:00 PM
The oil trading arm of Qaiwan Group, a diversified conglomerate based in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, is to deploy AspectCTRM, the cloud-delivered commodities trade and risk management solution, it is announced today.

Aspect, which pioneered cloud-delivered CTRM, sealed the deal with Qaiwan’s Dubai-based trading operation bringing 2016 to a close with five new customers in Dubai. AspectCTRM is due to begin supporting trading at Qaiwan by April 2017. Aspect’s other 2016 wins in Dubai were all live by the end of September, making Aspect the only CTRM vendor to take any deals from close to live operation in the UAE during 2016.

Qaiwan’s Head of Trading Marco Williams said: “We are growing our team of risk managers and traders and need our new people to be able to hit the ground running. We looked at five alternatives and with Aspect we know we have ordered best of breed. Functionally, AspectCTRM works the way we work, and delivery from the cloud enables Aspect to promise deployment in a matter of weeks from start to go-live, backing up that claim with an impressive list of references both here in Dubai and at other trading centers around the world.”

Qaiwan Group is the largest oil trading company in Kurdistan, operating the Bazian Oil Refinery 25 km from Sulaymaniyah, one of only two refineries in the Kurdistan region and producing 40,000 barrels a day. The refinery is currently the focus of a major modernization and expansion investment program that will see capacity increase to over 125,000 barrels.

Aspect’s Managing Director for the Middle East and Africa Fieras Freijeh said: “This is a landmark deal for us, our second with a Kurdistan trading house and our fifth new customer won by our newly-formed Dubai operation in 2016. We are making a major investment in our Dubai team to ensure that we continue to deliver the quick response so valued by our users in the region.”
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