Reference architecture

ACORD Releases Update to the Reference Architecture

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Wednesday, August 2, 2023

NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ACORD, the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, today released an update to the ACORD Reference Architecture. This release covers the three data-related facets of the Reference Architecture: the Data Model, Information Model, and Business Glossary.

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  • NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ACORD , the standards-setting body for the global insurance industry, today released an update to the ACORD Reference Architecture.
  • The ACORD Reference Architecture provides an enterprise architecture framework for the insurance industry.
  • The complete ACORD Reference Architecture, as well as its individual components, are available by subscription to both ACORD members and non-members.
  • To download release version 2.11, or for more information about the ACORD Reference Architecture, please visit www.acord.org/RA .

Juniper Networks’ New Beyond Labs Initiative Seeks to Solve Biggest Challenges of the Experience-First Networking Era

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Juniper Beyond Labs will leverage innovation centers in Sunnyvale, Bengaluru, India and Westford, Massachusetts.

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  • Juniper Beyond Labs will leverage innovation centers in Sunnyvale, Bengaluru, India and Westford, Massachusetts.
  • Juniper Beyond Labs will help incubate big ideas and innovative solutions to the world’s toughest technology challenges.
  • Our engagement with Juniper has been both rewarding and inspiring, providing us with valuable insights and knowledge.
  • We are thrilled to have the opportunity to continue this collaboration through the Juniper Beyond Labs program.”

DDN Expands AI Computing Collaborations to Simplify and De-Risk Enterprise Adoption

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

DALLAS, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SC22, Booth #2828 -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, today announced at SC22, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, a new Reference Architecture in collaboration with Atos. DDN also introduced enhancements to its scalable and flexible monitoring interface, DDN Insight, to streamline and simplify management and support of HPC and AI infrastructures at-scale.

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  • New enhancements to DDN Insight scalable monitoring streamlines the management of large data repositories and facilitates enterprise adoption of AI accelerators.
  • DDN also introduced enhancements to its scalable and flexible monitoring interface, DDN Insight , to streamline and simplify management and support of HPC and AI infrastructures at-scale.
  • DDN worked in tight collaboration with Atos on this new Reference Architecture to advance DDN's goal of simplifying the adoption of advanced AI infrastructure for enterprises and research institutions.
  • "DDN systems address some of the largest data challenges on earth," said Dr. James Coomer, senior vice president of product at DDN.

Venafi Introduces Control Plane for Machine Identity Management

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

“Venafi partners with the largest, most complex organizations in the world, and our solutions secure the vast majority of the digital infrastructure that runs our modern world,” said Jeff Hudson, CEO of Venafi. “These partnerships have given us a deep understanding of the complexity created by digital transformation and the shift to hybrid and cloud native architectures. Today, a typical global organization has hundreds of thousands of machines – which include applications, APIs, containers and microservices, in addition to physical devices -- spread across a wide variety of environments. Each one of these machines requires an identity. At Venafi, we know how costly and slow it is to build identity-based, zero trust architectures in these complicated, rapidly changing environments. The Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities is unmatched in reducing complexity and increasing the speed of development, while at the same time increasing security for machine identities which are the foundation of trust in our modern world.”

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  • Venafi , the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, today unveiled the Venafi Control Plane for Machine Identities.
  • The Venafi Control Plane unifies machine identity management across all identity types: in data centers, cloud, hybrid environments and at the edge.
  • The Venafi Control Plane is the only control plane for machine identity management designed to deliver observability, consistency, reliability and freedom of choice across clouds, hybrid environments, data centers and the edge.
  • Attend the Machine Identity Management Summit 2022 , Oct. 11 13, a free virtual event to hear dozens of industry experts discuss the machine identity management challenges and use cases that the Venafi Control Plane addresses.

TurbineOne Announces Strategic Partnership with Doodle Labs to Deliver New AI/ML in Communications-Contested Environments

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Wednesday, August 31, 2022

TurbineOne embraces this vision in order to keep all personnel safe, even in the most challenging environments on earth.

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  • TurbineOne embraces this vision in order to keep all personnel safe, even in the most challenging environments on earth.
  • TurbineOne is leading the way in this regard through its strategic partnership with Doodle Labs.
  • Doodle Labs is the leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art wireless broadband solutions to enable Private Wireless Mesh Networks.
  • Doodle Labs is committed to empowering the public sector heroes serving on our nations frontlines, said Amol Parikh, Doodle Labs VP of Marketing.

Monkton released Balanced, a mobile app for the United States Air Force

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Thursday, June 23, 2022

TYSONS, Va., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Monkton, the market leader for secure, NIAP Compliant mobile apps, pleased to announce the deployment of a secure mobile app, Balanced, developed in conjunction with the United States Air Force Special Operations Command using Monkton's MATTER IDIQ to perform weight and balance calculations. This development effort leverages a first cloud native implementation of the Department of Defense DevSecOps Playbook Reference Architecture for mobility.

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  • Monkton releases a secure mobile app, Balanced, developed in conjunction with the United States Air Force Special Operations Command to assist United States Air Force Load Masters in securely loading aircraft
    TYSONS, Va., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Monkton , the market leader for secure, NIAP Compliant mobile apps, pleased to announce the deployment of a secure mobile app, Balanced, developed in conjunction with the United States Air Force Special Operations Command using Monkton's MATTER IDIQ to perform weight and balance calculations.
  • This development effort leverages a first cloud native implementation of the Department of Defense DevSecOps Playbook Reference Architecture for mobility.
  • "This application build out and deployment effort continues to strengthen Monkton's expertise of creating mobile apps that adhere to NSA's NIAP criteria.
  • In 2020, Monkton was awarded a $500m Phase 3 SBIR IDIQ to deliver secure edge solutions to the Department of Defense.

ISA Leading Development of Electric Energy Operational Technology Security Profile for IEC 62443 Standard

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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

DURHAM, N.C., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), global equipment suppliers, and other stakeholders announced the establishment of the Electric Energy OT Security Profile working group hosted by the International Society of Automation™ ISA99 standards committee.

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  • Global stakeholders are now collaborating on an initiative to align electric energy operational technology (OT) cybersecurity application guides with mapping to the IEC 62443 standards.
  • The Electric Energy OT Security Profile will be a cybersecurity work product utilizing the ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards.
  • DOE's Securing Energy Infrastructure Executive Task Force (SEI ETF) evaluated available industry standards and recommended the electric energy OT applications be formalized as ISA/IEC 62443-5 security profile applicationsgaining international energy sector consensus on applying ISA/IEC 62443 to electric energy OT applications.
  • The Electric Energy OT Security Profile will be publicly available at no charge for asset owners, manufacturers, standards organizations, and other industry stakeholders.

New DDN Storage Appliance Doubles Performance for NVIDIA DGX AI Solutions and Speeds Up Analytics and Machine Learning in the Cloud by 100%

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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

CHATSWORTH, Calif., March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DDN®, the global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions, today announced its next-generation flash and hybrid data platforms for NVIDIA DGX POD™ and  DGX SuperPOD™ AI, analytics and deep learning computing infrastructure.

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  • The DDN A 3 I AI400X2 system delivers real-world performance of more than 90 GB/s and 3 million IOPS to an NVIDIA DGX A100 system.
  • NVIDIA DGX systems with DDN storage solutions have been implemented successfully by IT organizations worldwide.
  • In 2021, DDN delivered more than 2.5 exabytes of AI, analytics and deep learning flash and hybrid storage solutions in the cloud and customers' data centers.
  • DDN is working closely with NVIDIA on next-generation Reference Architecture documents that integrate DDN AI400X2 appliances with NVIDIA DGX A100 systems.

DDN Advances Powerful Enterprise AI Breakthroughs with Its Latest AI Storage Platform

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

"We designed this next generation of A3I solutions to give customers the most efficient, scalable and reliable AI data platform," said Dr. James Coomer, senior VP of products, DDN.

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  • "We designed this next generation of A3I solutions to give customers the most efficient, scalable and reliable AI data platform," said Dr. James Coomer, senior VP of products, DDN.
  • AI is a powerful business enabler, and the AI400X2 will help customers get into production faster and reduce time to results."
  • "High-performance storage is essential to AI infrastructure, and DDN's newest storage appliance, the AI400X2, provides a platform that can rapidly supply data for the most demanding AI development requirements on NVIDIA DGX systems."
  • DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale.

The Open Group October Virtual Event To Celebrate 25 Years of Open Technology Standards

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The Open Group , the vendor-neutral technology standards consortium, is hosting its upcoming Open Digital Standards event October 25 27, 2021.

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  • The Open Group , the vendor-neutral technology standards consortium, is hosting its upcoming Open Digital Standards event October 25 27, 2021.
  • The Open Digital Standards event will bring together vendors and end-user organizations from across the globe to discuss how the cross-industry development of open standards is helping businesses become digital-first.
  • The virtual event will start at 11:30 am Shanghai local time on Tuesday October 26 (8:30 pm PDT October 25), and finish at 1:30 pm local time in Boston on Wednesday October 27.
  • On Wednesday, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from The Open Group CDO Dave Lounsbury and Micro Focus CTO Dr. Lars Rossen about open standards for the digital enterprise and agile world.