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Data Center Construction Market in Africa to Witness Investment Opportunities of $2.53 Billion by 2029 - Arizton

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

The South African data center construction market is one of the major data center markets in the African region.

Key Points: 
  • The South African data center construction market is one of the major data center markets in the African region.
  • The major data center companies involved in development include NTT DATA, Vantage Data Centers, Africa Data Centres, Equinix, Digital Realty (Teraco), and Open Access Data Centres (OADC).
  • Several major data center operators, such as 21st Century Technologies, Africa Data Centres, IXAFRICA DATA CENTRE, Digital Realty, Raxio Data Centres, Rack Centre Equinix, and others, are among the major investors in the Africa data center market.
  • The Africa Data Center Construction Market Report Encompasses Crucial Data, including:
    CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) during the forecast period: This metric provides insights into the annual growth rate of the Africa data center construction market over the specified time frame.

Bravent drives business technology transformation in manufacturing, supply chain and energy industries in the United States

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

The technology consulting firm, has as its main objective to position itself among the most prominent in North America, offering IT services designed for supply chain, manufacturing and energy sectors.

Key Points: 
  • The technology consulting firm, has as its main objective to position itself among the most prominent in North America, offering IT services designed for supply chain, manufacturing and energy sectors.
  • "We are focused on generating business and attracting new clients in the United States, specially in Florida, where we have focused our efforts over the last year," explains López Baratas .
  • "We have a solid team which is committed to innovation and excellence in delivering customized technology solutions."
  • Bravent offers customized solutions, a highly qualified multidisciplinary team, flexible methodologies, as well as a deep knowledge of the manufacturing, energy and supply chain sectors.

Seemplicity Partners with Orca Security to Accelerate Cloud Security Remediation Operations

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Seemplicity Security, the first risk reduction and productivity platform for modern security teams, today announced a technology partnership with Orca Security to transform how organizations respond to and remediate cloud security risks and vulnerabilities. Through this partnership security, CloudOps and DevOps teams can accelerate response and remediation times, increase efficiency, and improve their cloud security posture with end-to-end workflow automation for critical AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud security risk findings.

Key Points: 
  • Through this partnership security, CloudOps and DevOps teams can accelerate response and remediation times, increase efficiency, and improve their cloud security posture with end-to-end workflow automation for critical AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud security risk findings.
  • "As cloud adoption continues to grow, security teams become increasingly inundated with findings, making managing effective, scalable cloud remediation operations a near-impossible task," said Yoran Sirkis, CEO and co-founder, Seemplicity.
  • Our API-level integration with The Orca Platform directly addresses these issues, offering customers a way to expedite their security remediation operations across cloud, code, and infrastructure."
  • The combined capabilities of Orca Security's cutting-edge cloud visibility and security platform and Seemplicity's innovative approach to remediation operations management allows organizations to address a broader range of cloud security risks with greater speed and precision.

CyberRatings.org Announces Test Results for Cloud Network Firewall

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CyberRatings.org (CyberRatings), the non-profit entity dedicated to providing confidence in cybersecurity products and services through its research and testing programs, has completed an independent test of eleven market leading Cloud Network Firewall vendors. Six products were Recommended, one product received a Neutral rating, and four received a Caution rating.

Key Points: 
  • Cloud network firewalls are considered to be the first line of defense when deployed in public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the public cloud service chosen to run the test.
  • "We have been testing firewalls for years, and more recently cloud network firewalls," said Vikram Phatak, CEO of CyberRatings.org.
  • As part of the cloud firewall test, CyberRatings also checked to see if products were secure by default.

Zand Bank Subscribes to Infosys Finacle's Corporate Banking Suite on Microsoft Cloud to Deliver New-Age Banking Experiences

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

With Infosys Finacle, Zand builds on its solid technological foundation and positions itself at the industry's cutting edge.

Key Points: 
  • With Infosys Finacle, Zand builds on its solid technological foundation and positions itself at the industry's cutting edge.
  • Sajit Vijayakumar, Chief Business Officer, Infosys Finacle, said, "A digital revolution is shaking up the corporate banking sector, paving the way for modern, customer-centric models.
  • We are delighted that Zand, as a trailblazer in this domain, has chosen Infosys Finacle for their ambitious project to redefine corporate banking excellence.
  • Our collaboration with the bank is yet another testimony to the flexibility of the Infosys Finacle Corporate Banking Suite and the enduring trust that banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council place in us."

Zand Bank Subscribes to Infosys Finacle's Corporate Banking Suite on Microsoft Cloud to Deliver New-Age Banking Experiences

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

With Infosys Finacle, Zand builds on its solid technological foundation and positions itself at the industry's cutting edge.

Key Points: 
  • With Infosys Finacle, Zand builds on its solid technological foundation and positions itself at the industry's cutting edge.
  • Sajit Vijayakumar, Chief Business Officer, Infosys Finacle, said, "A digital revolution is shaking up the corporate banking sector, paving the way for modern, customer-centric models.
  • We are delighted that Zand, as a trailblazer in this domain, has chosen Infosys Finacle for their ambitious project to redefine corporate banking excellence.
  • Our collaboration with the bank is yet another testimony to the flexibility of the Infosys Finacle Corporate Banking Suite and the enduring trust that banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council place in us."

LightEdge to Acquire Connectria, Enhancing Hybrid IT Infrastructure Capabilities

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

DES MOINES, Iowa, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LightEdge, a leading provider of secure cloud and colocation for nearly three decades, has entered into an agreement to acquire Connectria, a provider of multi-cloud infrastructure and managed hosting solutions serving mission-critical workloads for more than 400 customers. Connectria adds six data center locations to LightEdge's existing footprint of 12 highly interconnected facilities across eight U.S. markets. The acquisition — LightEdge's fourth since GI Partners' investment in 2021 — is the latest demonstration of LightEdge's strong and growing leadership role in the data center and cloud infrastructure sector.

Key Points: 
  • The acquisition — LightEdge's fourth since GI Partners' investment in 2021 — is the latest demonstration of LightEdge's strong and growing leadership role in the data center and cloud infrastructure sector.
  • "With this acquisition, LightEdge becomes one of the only secure and compliant infrastructure providers in the country offering both hybrid colocation and tailored multi-cloud solutions," said LightEdge CEO Jim Masterson.
  • "Both LightEdge and Connectria have established themselves as successful, fast-growing innovators that put security first within their product sets," he said.
  • "Connectria's IBM and public cloud capabilities provide LightEdge with additional avenues for future growth."

OCTOAI UNVEILS INDUSTRY-FIRST GENERATIVE AI PRODUCTION STACK FOR THE ENTERPRISE

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

SEATTLE, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OctoAI (formerly OctoML) today announced OctoStack, the industry's first complete technology stack to serve generative AI models anywhere. With OctoStack, organizations have a turn-key production platform that delivers highly-optimized inference, model customization and asset management at enterprise scale. Now, companies can achieve total AI autonomy when building and running Generative AI applications directly within their own environments.

Key Points: 
  • SEATTLE, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OctoAI (formerly OctoML) today announced OctoStack, the industry's first complete technology stack to serve generative AI models anywhere.
  • Now, companies can achieve total AI autonomy when building and running Generative AI applications directly within their own environments.
  • The OctoAI SaaS platform is already in use by high-growth generative AI companies—including Apate.ai, Otherside AI, Latitude Games, and Capitol AI.
  • OctoStack has been designed to place companies firmly in control, delivering AI autonomy with a seamless, maintenance-free serving stack for running Generative AI applications.

China Medical University Hospital, Collaborated with Microsoft Taiwan, Launched GenAI: gHi System

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

TAICHUNG, Taiwan, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) and Microsoft Taiwan announced the Generative Healthcare Intelligent (gHi) System, which is being applied to the hospital's medical records. According to CMUH, gHi is not only the world's first GenAI medical record system constructed mainly in Mandarin, but also has been referred to as "the Mandarin version of Nuance applications."Nuance, a Microsoft company, is the pioneer and leader in conversational AI and ambient intelligence with solutions to alleviate the burden of clinical documentation and empower providers to deliver better patient experiences."gHi" system captures and recognizes verbal input from healthcare professionals, and efficiently generates medical records using its AI engine. "CMUH has successfully developed gHi, a Chinese speech AI engine application for medical institutions in Taiwan, utilizing the Microsoft Azure platform. The AI engine greatly reduces time spent on the manual maintenance of medical records by 75%. It can be used in recording discussions with new patients, verbal information from nurses, preparing inpatient medical records, exporting examination reports, and even handling customized requests. " Superintendent Der-Yang Cho of CMUH stated.

Key Points: 
  • TAICHUNG, Taiwan, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) and Microsoft Taiwan announced the Generative Healthcare Intelligent (gHi) System, which is being applied to the hospital's medical records.
  • "CMUH has successfully developed gHi, a Chinese speech AI engine application for medical institutions in Taiwan, utilizing the Microsoft Azure platform.
  • gHi system is beneficial in improving medical record quality, as well as facilitating interdisciplinary cooperation and communication.
  • Medical professionals can easily complete records through voice recording using gHi system, and to improve the efficiency and accuracy of medical record maintenance.Significantly, the gHi system can reduce the time medical experts spend on maintaining medical records by 75% compared to traditional methods.

DCIG Evaluates Two Hyperconverged Edge Solutions in Latest Competitive Comparison Research

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024

BRISTOL, England, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- StorMagic®, solving the world's edge data problems, announced today the availability of a new third-party Competitive Intelligence Report from DCIG, LLC titled, "A Comparison of How StorMagic SvSAN and Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Deliver on SMB and Edge Computing Storage Requirements." The research findings will educate enterprise and SMB edge customers as they review two hyperconverged (HCI) solutions that are optimized for small sites.

Key Points: 
  • The research findings will educate enterprise and SMB edge customers as they review two hyperconverged (HCI) solutions that are optimized for small sites.
  • BRISTOL, England, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- StorMagic® , solving the world's edge data problems, announced today the availability of a new third-party Competitive Intelligence Report from DCIG, LLC titled, "A Comparison of How StorMagic SvSAN and Microsoft Azure Stack HCI Deliver on SMB and Edge Computing Storage Requirements."
  • The research findings will educate enterprise and SMB edge customers as they review two hyperconverged (HCI) solutions that are optimized for small sites.
  • "StorMagic SvSAN's flexibility and affordability make it an excellent choice for edge computing customers who are facing these challenges," said Jerome Wendt, president and founder, DCIG, LLC.