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Cordiant Digital Infrastructure looking at "two sizeable opportunities in western Europe"

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Ltd

Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Ltd (LSE:CORD) Chairman of Digital Infrastructure Steven Marshall and chief financial officer Mark Tiner speak to Thomas Warner from Proactive London after releasing final results for the year to 31 March 2023. Tiner highlights the positive reception that the results have received from analysts and investors so far, and describes himself as being "very pleased" with the performance of the business. Marshall goes on to describe the results as "incredible" before looking to the future, saying that talks are ongoing over "two sizeable opportunities in western Europe." Contact Details Proactive UK Ltd +44 20 7989 0813 uk@proactiveinvestors.com

June 22, 2023 11:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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CBTS Named Westcoast GreenLake HPE Solutions Provider of the Year for 2022

CBTS

CBTS, a global provider of IT solutions and services, including Application Modernization, Unified Communications, Managed Hybrid Cloud, Cybersecurity, and Infrastructure Solutions, announces that they have been awarded the Westcoast Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) GreenLake Solutions Provider of the Year 2022 Award. Based on the quality and value of a unified solutions proposal that CBTS presented in collaboration with Westcoast—an IT distributor with nearly four decades in the U.K. market—and the subsequent win, Westcoast recognized CBTS for setting an example for other Managed Service Providers (MSP) in the channel to follow. “We thank the team at CBTS for trusting Westcoast as your HPE GreenLake distribution partner and for the commitment you have demonstrated to selling HPE GreenLake solutions,” said Rayall Thompson, HPE GreenLake Business Development Manager. “CBTS closed the first-ever UK channel partner deal with our client in 2019, and have gone from strength to strength since. CBTS also led and transacted the first colocation deal to go via Westcoast. This absolutely deserves recognition. We look forward to continuing our partnership and building future successes with you in the years ahead.” On this project, CBTS worked with a large provider of financial software and solutions based in the United Kingdom (U.K.) to transfer their services to HPE GreenLake Primera Storage, HPE ProLiant, HPE Relocation and Migration Services, in addition to a five-year HPE GreenLake services agreement with CBTS professional, management, monitoring, advisory, and firmware services. The client’s initial challenges of supporting aging infrastructure in multiple data centers, including the additional expense of doing so, were all resolved by this solution. “Our strategic relationship with HPE and the trust that we have nurtured for more than 30 years underpin our success with HPE solutions like GreenLake,” said Scott Seger, Senior Vice President, Global Accounts, CBTS. “When we bring our best talent to our partnership with Westcoast, it’s clear that we create a winning formula for our clients. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this project and a huge thank you to Westcoast for this recognition.” ABOUT CBTS: CBTS serves enterprise and midmarket clients in all industries across the United States and Canada. CBTS combines deep technical expertise with a full suite of flexible technology solutions—including Application Modernization, Managed Hybrid Cloud, Cybersecurity, Unified Communications, and Infrastructure solutions. From developing and deploying modern applications and the secure, scalable platforms on which they run, to managing, monitoring, and optimizing their operations, CBTS delivers comprehensive technology solutions for its clients’ transformative business initiatives. For more information, please visit www.cbts.com. Contact Details Roger Hamshaw Director, Marketing +1 416-312-6244 roger.hamshaw@cbts.com

June 22, 2023 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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RangeForce Launches Defense Readiness Index™, the World’s First Comprehensive Score Enabling Companies to Easily Gauge, Assess, and Bolster Their Cybersecurity Capabilities

RangeForce

RangeForce, a leading provider of scalable, cloud-based cyber defense upskilling solutions, today announced the launch of the Defense Readiness Index (DRI)™. Integrated into RangeForce’s Threat Centric platform – and with advanced AI underpinnings – the DRI™ is a pioneering score which gauges an organization's readiness to effectively respond to the cyberattacks it is likely to face. The DRI™ empowers organizations to pinpoint specific weaknesses in their team’s cyber capabilities, enables companies to quickly assess any skills gaps and implement strategic recommendations to plug those gaps. It also informs senior management with objective metrics, providing visibility into the strength of their cybersecurity teams. And the DRI™ maps directly to both the MITRE ATT&CK® and D3FEND™ frameworks, so organizations can accurately measure team sophistication when responding to real-world threats. Additionally, the DRI™ draws upon collaborative work with the Department of Defense and NATO. “NATO runs the largest international cybersecurity exercises in the world, and defends against nation-state level attacks,” said Taavi Must, co-founder and CEO, RangeForce. “But we found – when it came to defense – even their teams needed to practice using real tools, in real-time, under stressful conditions. So we developed customized training to provide visibility into skills gaps, and to identify areas for improvement. Then we focused on scaling our platform, extending the same benefits to everyone with the launch of RangeForce. And with the launch of our enhanced Threat Centric platform, we’re taking the next major leap forward.” Today many companies remain unaware of their teams' true readiness to defend against attacks. According to Gartner, by 2025, lack of talent or human failure will be responsible for over half of significant cyber incidents. And increasingly, threat actors see humans as the most vulnerable point of exploitation. RangeForce’s DRI™ was created to provide organizations with data-driven metrics so managers can validate the technical and soft skills of their teams, and to see how well they perform under pressure against real-world attacks. How RangeForce’s DRI™ Works: The DRI™ ranks organizations on a scale of one to five, each with its own set of controls and practices to provide visibility into where cyber-defense teams stand in terms of competency against cyberattacks. It also provides insight into a team’s mix of demonstrated skills, their capabilities to detect and disrupt threats, their ability to collaborate on investigations, where skill gaps exist, the associated costs, and more. The DRI™ provides a roadmap so companies can focus on the skills needed to move up to the next level, or to remain at the same level as the threat landscape evolves over time. Additionally, it enhances assessment and reporting mechanisms – allowing organizations to see the progress their teams are making – and it provides essential data to inform senior management about the objective strength of their security teams. "I’m excited to see a company like RangeForce use D3FEND to help cyber defenders better understand how their products can help them fight adversaries,” said Peter Kaloroumakis, D3FEND Lead and Principal Cybersecurity Engineer MITRE Corporation. “Our D3FEND community continues to grow, and through active community participation, D3FEND will become an even more effective and robust resource for cyber defenders." Augmenting RangeForce’s (AR)² Readiness Program: With the addition of the DRI™ into RangeForce’s wider (AR)² Readiness Program (Assess, Address, Review and Repeat), Rangeforce ensures it can deliver measurable improvements in defense readiness within just 30 days. RangeForce now has the most robust training methodology on the market, which: Helps organizations identify and address skill gaps within their cybersecurity teams. Offers customers an integrated learning experience. Ensures teams have the skills and knowledge necessary to protect against evolving cyber threats. Empowers organizations to build stronger, more resilient cybersecurity defenses by focusing on team skills and expertise. About RangeForce: RangeForce empowers cyber defense readiness at scale. Refine individual and team capabilities against the latest threats with a continuous approach to cybersecurity skills development. See real threats in action and sharpen the skills needed to defend your organization with interactive modules, challenges, and team-based threat exercises that reflect the real world. Visit www.rangeforce.com to learn more. Contact Details Forrest Carman +1 206-859-3118 forrest.carman@gmail.com Company Website https://www.rangeforce.com/

June 22, 2023 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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ST Telemedia Global Data Centres and Firmus Technologies Forge Partnership to Build a Global Network of Sustainable AI Factories

ST Telemedia Global Data Centres

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 22 June 2023 - ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), a leading Singapore-based data centre provider, has announced a significant investment into a global venture with Firmus Technologies (Firmus), a leader in highly scaled immersion cooled computing platforms. The venture is to be based in Singapore and will see the launch of a GPU-centric Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering focused on deep learning AI and visual computing workloads, to be known as Sustainable Metal Cloud (SMC). SMC will deliver bare-metal-service access to high-performance AI clusters, which include some of the world's most advanced workload accelerators including GPUs and high-speed networking from NVIDIA for energy-efficient computing. SMC will leverage Firmus' proprietary, scaled, immersion-cooled platform – the 'HyperCube' – hosted within global STT GDC locations, to deliver Sustainable AI Factories that are all at once sustainable, scalable, high performance and cost effective[1]. Within the HyperCube, Firmus will operate a fleet of high-performance servers in its immersion-cooled environment, provided by OEM partners including Supermicro. Firmus' unlocks access to world-class AI tools and hardware in a highly available way, thanks to industry-standard uptime SLAs, provided and warranted directly by SMC to each customer. Firmus & STT GDC are launching SMC in Singapore, India and Australia in 2023, with the Singapore AZ (SIN01) expected to be live in H2 2023. The combination of Firmus' immersion-cooled computing platform, paired with STT GDC's highly efficient data centre infrastructure, will result in AI workloads running with a lower PUE[2], lower CO 2 emissions and higher petaflops[3] per watt. "We are delighted to have STT GDC as our partner. This venture is a world first and brings together Firmus' world-class scaled immersion-cooled computing platform with STT GDC's global footprint, based on NVIDIA's deep learning and visual computing architecture that is driving the exponential growth in AI. This offering will be underpinned by STT GDC's globally recognised and award-winning data centres," said Ted Pretty, Firmus Technologies Chairman. "The vision of Firmus' founders was to invest in a long-term solution that will break the mould of the traditional data centre model. They imagined the data centre as an entire computing platform – a 'Sustainable AI Factory' – and ensuring that this computing platform is best-in-class in terms of sustainability, operating and capital cost effectiveness. The vision of this venture is to combine STT GDC's strength – being one of the world's largest data centre infrastructure groups – with that of our HyperCube platform to deliver what we believe is a wholly unique proposition in delivering AI & visual computing at scale not seen before in Asia or Europe." "The compound growth in forecasted energy consumption is an existential threat to the data centre sector. Data centre operators and their customers must be prepared to embrace and support new cooling solutions and expand the services they offer beyond traditional air-cooled colocation if they are to host AI GPU platforms in a sustainable manner. The evolution of the data centre into AI factories of the future will fundamentally change the way that all infrastructure operators are thinking about the design and operation of their facilities. STT GDC's foresight and long-term vision made them the ideal global partner for Firmus' highly developed solution," said Pretty. "The future of data centres will rely on the ability to provide both exceptional performance and highly sustainable services at scale. From our beginnings in Singapore almost 10 years ago, we now have scaled the business to cover 10 geographies. We are immensely pleased to enhance our core co-location offering to include the latest GPU-based bare-metal services, empowering our customers with access to the next generation of high-performance computing which will be so critical in the AI revolution. These high-performance services are a key component of the critical infrastructure needed to support the plethora of AI use cases that will be critical to business, governments and society in years to come," said Bruno Lopez, President and Group Chief Executive, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. He continued, "STT GDC, in partnership with Firmus, is committed to providing sustainable and foundational compute infrastructure. Singapore was the location of choice for our first flagship installation given the city's leadership in AI and sustainability. Through our new bare-metal service, customers will have early access to cost-effective and large-scale GPU compute through Firmus' embedded AI compute platform with leading-edge liquid immersion technology. We believe that data centres are critical building blocks of computing, and our investment in Firmus' technology and computing platform will transform our assets into sustainable AI factories, enabling our customers to process demanding workloads efficiently." After the first deployment in Singapore, the subsequent expansion will be into the India market in 2023. In 2024 and beyond, the deployment of Sustainable Metal Cloud availability zones (AZs) will be expanded across the STT GDC portfolio. About Firmus Technologies Firmus Technologies was founded by a young and entrepreneurial Australian team supported by leading local investment funds. Its research facility was established in Australia, where access to renewable-based energy assisted in the development and commercialisation of its scaled immersion cooled computing platform. From this facility Firmus developed the highly scalable system of multiple modularised 1MW HyperCubes that will now be deployed within STT GDC's data centre locations for cloud AZs, or at edge locations that enable high performance AI to exist anywhere the workload is needed. Stand-alone, the HyperCube technology operates within a sub 1.05 PUE envelope, and thanks to its advanced cooling features, extracts up to 30% further efficiency from the compute itself. By Total Usage Effectiveness (TUE) – a modern data centre metric that measures both facility and compute efficiency – HyperCube is amongst the most efficient compute platform in the world, with an engineered and expected TUE of less than 1.15 in Singapore. For more information, visit h ttps://firmus.co/ or https://smc.co/About ST Telemedia Global Data Centres ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) is one of the fastest-growing data centre providers with a global platform serving as a cornerstone of the digital ecosystem that helps the world to connect. Powering a sustainable digital future, STT GDC operates across Singapore, the UK, Germany, India, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines, providing businesses an exceptional foundation that is built for their growth anywhere. For more information, visithttps://www.sttelemediagdc.com/ Contact Details ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Chow Yi +65 9784 6406 yi.chow@sttelemediagdc.com

June 22, 2023 05:55 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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Accesso Technology Group to get "very big jumpstart" from VGS acquisition

Accesso Technology Group PLC

Accesso Technology Group PLC (AIM:ACSO, OTC:LOQPF) CEO Steve Brown speaks to Proactive after announcing the acquisition of VGS, a ticketing and visitor management platform and one of its main rivals in the theme park and attraction software business. Brown highlights the growth opportunity presented by VGS' established presence in the Middle East and Asia, saying that the purchase gives Accesso a "very big jumpstart" in those key growth markets. Contact Details Proactive UK Ltd +44 20 7989 0813 uk@proactiveinvestors.com

June 22, 2023 04:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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Augmented Reality App Aims to Produce Better Images of Donor Organs

United Network for Organ Sharing

Today, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) announced that UNOS Labs, the organization’s experimental incubator that tests innovative products, tools and methods to improve the donation and transplant system, is developing an app that may help increase organ use by providing surgical teams with higher quality images of donor organs. UNOS operates the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under contract with the federal government. Currently, organ photos are not consistent in their positioning, lighting, quality or use of scale. These “procurement photos” are used by surgical teams to assist in determining if they should accept an organ on behalf of their patient. UNOS has heard from surgeons across the country that they need better, more standardized photos, with the ability to measure specific portions of a photographed organ. Based on this feedback, UNOS staff started working on a modern solution to address this pressing community need. The plan employs computer vision technology, 3D modeling and augmented reality to eventually introduce a straightforward, smartphone-based solution to a complex, system-wide problem. “What we’ve found in our research is that a photo of an organ is important for determining clinical viability of the organ and its anatomy,” said Senior Data Scientist Morgan Stuart. “We think that recent advances in augmented reality technology can make these photos even more valuable. While our research continues, we think combining mobile augmented reality with the latest computer vision techniques will help standardize, expedite, and enhance organ allocation.” The tool is currently in the proof-of-concept phase. If early tests prove effective, the long-term goal is to provide organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and surgical teams with a mobile app that can capture high-quality, standardized photos, identify organ type, collect anatomical data, calculate size and annotate images. The tool would also include measurement capabilities, allowing surgeons to measure specific sections of the photographed organ. Overall size and unique measures can help determine if an organ is the best fit for a given patient, making this tool a potential game-changer in how organ offers are accepted and potentially reducing the number of organs recovered for transplant that are not ultimately used. “While still in the early stages, the research, development and hard work that have gone into this tool are a direct result of feedback we received from members of the nation’s organ donation and transplant community,” said UNOS CEO Maureen McBride, Ph.D. “We heard that surgeons had a specific need to improve the way they served their patients. UNOS staff were ready to pursue an innovative solution in response, while simultaneously tackling the very real issue of organ non-use. I look forward to seeing the results as this exciting project continues.” Research has indicated that there is a correlation between access to photographs and the acceptance of kidneys, which continue to be the most transplanted organ. Yet, in 2022, 19% of deceased donor organs recovered for transplant, predominantly kidneys, were not ultimately transplanted. Specifically, analysis conducted by the OPTN suggests that for kidneys with a high kidney donor profile index (KDPI), surgical teams were more inclined to accept these more medically complex but still safe organs if photos were included, when compared to teams that had no access to photos. Researchers determined that the likeliest reason is when a surgical team is considering a more medically complex kidney, photos can provide additional context and opportunities to visually confirm size and scale, making it easier to ultimately accept the offer. Funded by a generous donor, the proof-of-concept phase will last up to 12 weeks. If this phase proves successful, UNOS Labs will begin to host focus groups to gather additional community input. Pulling from that data, staff will then begin to develop the mobile app and launch a six-month pilot program. About UNOS United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is the mission-driven non-profit serving as the nation’s transplant system under contract with the federal government. We lead the network of transplant hospitals, organ procurement organizations, and thousands of volunteers who are dedicated to honoring the gifts of life entrusted to us and to making lifesaving transplants possible for patients in need. Working together, we leverage data and advances in science and technology to continuously strengthen the system, increase the number of organs recovered and the number of transplants performed, and ensure patients across the nation have equitable access to transplant. Contact Details Anne Paschke +1 804-782-4730 anne.paschke@unos.org Company Website https://unos.org

June 21, 2023 02:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time

ARway.ai adds to growing patent portfolio after receiving another provisional patent

ARway

ARway.ai chief product officer Shadnam Khan joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company has been granted a provisional patent for 'Device Localization based on Computer Vision and Visual Inertial Odometry.' That technology follows the previously announced Digital Twin patent and is the second in a series of patents planned to secure the technology. Khan telling Proactive this technology focuses on enabling augmented reality and 3D experiences within digital twins, which are generated from two-dimensional floor plans. The patent also has broader implications as it allows for large-scale location persistence without the need for expensive hardware like beacons, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth. The company's echnology utilizes sensors available in everyday devices, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, odometers, and cameras, to provide accurate positioning and tracking indoors. Contact Details Proactive Investors Canada +1 604-688-8158 na-editorial@proactiveinvestors.com

June 21, 2023 01:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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NowSecure Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Security Certification for 4th Consecutive Year

NowSecure

NowSecure, the recognized experts in mobile security and privacy, announced today that it has completed its latest annual SOC 2 Type 2 security audit – the industry benchmark for independent auditing of security controls for software vendors. This certification covers the NowSecure Platform for automated mobile app security testing. For the fourth consecutive year, NowSecure remains the only enterprise-grade mobile application security testing (MAST) provider with a SOC 2 certified cloud platform. The SOC program is governed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the national organization governing auditors with the CPA credential. Considered by the industry as the gold standard for data security, the program provides standards for meeting specific Trust Services Criteria (Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality or Privacy) and the procedures for auditors to review and report on the effectiveness of an organization’s controls in meeting these criteria. By achieving SOC 2 Type 2, NowSecure has demonstrated its ongoing dedication and adherence to the highest security standards to ensure its employees, solutions and customers are compliant, safe and secure. "We have always ensured our platform's security, but achieving this certification by a third-party auditor further validates that we are doing all the right things to protect our customers," said Alan Snyder, NowSecure CEO. “Our customers are under increasing pressure to prove that they have the proper security controls in place, so it makes sense that they place their trust in NowSecure as the industry’s only SOC 2 validated vendor.” Purpose-built to mitigate the mobile app threat landscape, NowSecure Platform provides a battery of 600+ automated tests using static, dynamic, interactive and API security for testing first party mobile apps in the DevSecOps pipeline and for vetting commercial 3rd party mobile app supply chain risk. Mobile app developers, QA, and security teams utilize NowSecure Platform to uncover security flaws, privacy issues, compliance gaps and app store blockers at scale. NowSecure Platform identifies issues fast and helps developers fix them fast through embedded remediation including evidence, fix recommendations, code examples and links to Android and iOS documentation. NowSecure is committed to implementing strict internal security policies and procedures to safeguard customer data and protect the NowSecure Platform from threats to confidentiality, integrity and availability. Learn more about the new NowSecure SOC 2 certification in our latest blog post by Ted Eull, VP of Privacy and Risk, and fill out this form to request the full report. About NowSecure: As the recognized experts in mobile security and privacy, NowSecure protects the global mobile app economy and safeguards the data of millions of mobile app users. Built on a foundation of standards, NowSecure empowers the world’s most demanding organizations with security automation to release and monetize 30% faster, reduce testing and delivery costs by 30% and reduce appsec risk by 40%. Only NowSecure offers an award winning full solution suite of continuous security testing for DevSecOps, mobile app supply-chain monitoring, expert mobile pen testing as a Service (PTaaS) and training courseware. NowSecure actively contributes and supports the mobile security open-source community, standards and certification including OWASP MASVS, ADA MASA, NIAP and is recognized by IDC, Gartner, Deloitte Fast 500, Cyber Defense Magazine and TAG Cyber. Contact Details Hannah LaCorte +1 202-240-7611 press@nowsecure.com Company Website https://www.nowsecure.com/

June 21, 2023 01:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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Phunware adds artificial intelligence to robust Mobile Engagement solution platform

Phunware Inc

Phunware COO Randall Crowder joins Proactive's Natalie Stoberman to discuss the launch of its AI-enabled Mobile Engagement solution. Crowder says the addition of AI powering its mobile engagement solution means that users will be able to leverage sophisticated machine learning algorithms and AI capabilities to deliver personalized, targeted marketing campaigns that are curated for specific audiences. And with Phunware's platform specializing in helping brands identify, locate and engage the right consumer at the right time, Crowder adds that this new AI enhancement will boost marketing campaigns to evolve past a "one size fits all" approach. Contact Details Proactive Investors +1 347-449-0879 na-editorial@proactiveinvestors.com

June 21, 2023 12:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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