Wednesday, May 3, 2017

CloudHealth Technologies Extends its Flagship Platform to Optimize Resources Across VMware and Data Center Environments

 Industry-Leading Cloud Service Management Platform Helps Manage Cost, Optimize Performance, Set Policies and Evaluate Workload Migrations




BOSTON -Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CloudHealth Technologies, the leader in cloud service management, today announced that its industry-leading cloud service management platform for public cloud providers now also manages both VMware and physical server environments. CloudHealth is the industry’s first platform to give visibility, optimization and control across both the data center and the cloud, unlocking all the benefits of the public cloud – such as flexibility and scalability – for the data center.

Hybrid cloud infrastructure is the new normal. Sixty-two percent of public cloud adopters state that they plan to use or are using hosted private cloud, with another 62 percent planning to use or already using internal private cloud, according to Forrester1. And more importantly, this isn't declining. Within the next 12 months, these figures will rise to 81 percent for hosted private usage and 80 percent for internal private cloud usage.

CloudHealth now delivers unprecedented levels of insight, along with integrated analysis across cost, usage and performance in the data center. Enterprises can also use the platform to set policies that govern data center environments, assist in planning migrations from the data center to the cloud and rightsize virtual machine assets.

“The market is evolving rapidly,” said Joe Kinsella, Founder and Chief Technology Officer at CloudHealth Technologies. “This has created a gap between how customers operate, report, manage and govern cloud versus data center infrastructure. Enterprises now require a hybrid approach to maintain flexibility and agility, and to strategically align their on-premises, public cloud and private cloud infrastructures for maximum business benefit. CloudHealth enables them to bridge the gap.”

“Having a consolidated view of our cloud and on-premises environments is invaluable,” said Adam Japhet, Head of Infrastructure at Scholastic. “CloudHealth lets me look at critical assets and resources from a business perspective, so I can align metrics and reporting to business objectives.”

“CloudHealth helped us break through a logjam by providing insight into the performance metrics of existing VMware servers and AWS resources,” said Reed Savory, Director of IT and Operations for Connotate. “CloudHealth takes the guesswork out of the process of migrating to AWS. Before, you never knew if you were buying too much or too little.”

Platform highlights include the following:

    Track and report on data center costs: CloudHealth has extended its cloud cost expertise into the data center to provide insight across the enterprise. Customers can utilize the platform for cost reallocation to enable financial reporting and chargeback, and for budget tracking and reporting.
    Analyze usage, performance and metrics: CloudHealth offers granular, interactive reporting by accounts, functional business groups, services and service items. With agentless integration into VMware vSphere environments or an agent-based approach for physical machines, customers can track usage, inventory, CPU, memory and disk metrics.
    Set policies to govern your environment: Customers can define how to manage the cost, availability and performance of data center infrastructure. They can apply governance rules based on multiple data sources, and choose actions to take when policies are violated.
    Data center migration planning: The platform provides cost analysis for assets that are candidates for cloud migration. The analysis provides rightsized recommendations based on asset types, region and costs based on usage profile of individual assets.

The platform will also include new features that give customers the ability to rightsize virtual machines (VMs) across CPU, memory, network and disk. Customers can optimize infrastructure by identifying when VMs are over-provisioned and receive recommended actions on how to achieve an ideal state.

To learn more about how CloudHealth optimizes hybrid cloud environments, and to participate in a live Q&A session, join us for a webinar on May 11 at 1 p.m. EDT. Registration link.

About CloudHealth Technologies

CloudHealth, the recognized worldwide leader in the growing Cloud Service Management industry, provides integrated reporting, recommendations and active policy management to help companies control the problems associated with “cloud chaos.” Our comprehensive platform gives enterprise companies and MSPs the ability to visualize, optimize and govern their cloud and hybrid environments. By providing analysis and deep insight into historical trends, capacity planning, resource optimization and resource automation, CloudHealth enables stakeholders ranging from C-level executives to engineers, cloud specialists, architects, IT directors and LOB managers to improve performance and drive value through their cloud ecosystems. Well-known organizations that rely on CloudHealth’s capabilities and expertise include Amtrak, Dow Jones, Acquia, and Sumo Logic, among others. Based in Boston, the company is backed by Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, .406 Ventures and Sigma Prime Ventures.

For continuous product updates, industry news and engagement, visit us at www.cloudhealthtech.com or follow us @cloudhealthtech

1 Source: Forrester. Adoption Profile: Public Cloud In North America, Q1 2017. March 1, 2017

Contacts

PAN Communications
Mike O’Connell or Lisa Sorrentino, 617-502-4300
cloudhealth@pancomm.com


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TRUSTECH, The Global Event Dedicated to Trust-Based Technologies, Discloses Its New Edition

PARIS-Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Following a brilliant first edition in Cannes last year, TRUSTECH Pay, Identify, Connect & Secure – will bring together once again the entire payments and identification ecosystem in the Palais des Festivals de Cannes, 28th to 30th November 2017.

The event was first held over thirty years ago under the name «Cartes Secure Connexions», to promote the newborn technology of smartcards. In 2016, it is re-named TRUSTECH to better reflect the way the industry and the event have evolved, and its focus on trust-based technologies.

More than ever, this event is a unique opportunity to meet the whole ecosystem and get an insight into the latest innovations in payments and identification industries.

350+ exhibitors and sponsors are expected – either to present their latest innovations on their stand or to pitch on the Innovation Stage. Among those who have already confirmed their participation: Be2bill, Dermalog, Ingenico, Matica, NBS Technologies, Next Biometrics, NXP Semiconductors, Otto Kuennecke, Spire Payments, Thales E-Security, Verifone, … and many more!

250+ international speakers will share their insights – as Chris VALASEK, Security Lead at UBER, who already confirmed his keynote. He will share his vision of the IoT’s future, and how to reconcile connected objects/cars with security.

CONFERENCE TRACKS

TUESDAY 28 NOVEMBER
    Mobile Payments & Wallets
    Data Protection & Data-Driven Innovation
    Biometrics for Authentification
    Connected Commerce & IoT
    Securing the IoT

WEDNESDAY 29 NOVEMBER
    PayTech Disruption
    eID & eGovernment
    Open Innovation: From Blockchain to Open API
    AI in Payments and Fintech

THURSDAY 30 NOVEMBER
    Commerce & Payments
    Cyber Security & Fraud Management
    Regulatory Challenges & PSD2
    Neo-Banks

TRUSTECH 2017, « BUSINESS BEYOND BORDERS »

The “Business Beyond Borders” initiative was launched by the European Commission to help small and medium enterprises develop their business internationally. In this context, TRUSTECH was chosen to organize free of charge business meetings for all its attendees (exhibitors, sponsors, visitors and delegates) with more than 3500 international buyers.

TRUSTECH 2016 IN FIGURES
                       

13 000



ATTENDANTS

FROM 125
COUNTRIES
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43



STARTUPS

/FINTECH
  .  

350



EXHIBITORS

/SPONSORS
  .  

250



INTERNATIONAL
SPEAKERS

More information and press pass on www.trustech-event.com

Contacts

Vianova Agency
Media contacts:
Lisa Dubreuil, +33 1 53 32 28 37
dubreuil@vianova-rp.com
or
Sandra Codognotto, + 33 1 53 32 28 58
codognotto@vianova-rp.com























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High Street Raises Over $350 Million for Core-Plus Industrial Fund

SAN FRANCISCO -Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On May 1, 2017, High Street Real Estate Fund V, L.P. (the “Fund”) held its final close, reaching its hard cap with total equity commitments of $353 million. Utilizing targeted leverage of 50%, the Fund will seek to acquire approximately $700 million of assets in its target markets.

High Street Realty Company, LLC (“High Street”) formed the Fund to continue its successful strategy of acquiring smaller warehouse distribution assets in the eastern two-thirds of the United States, with a specific focus on Class A and B infill properties fulfilling regional and “last mile” logistics requirements for its tenants. The Fund targets primary distribution markets, including Chicago, Northern New Jersey, Central Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Florida and Texas.

The Fund attracted capital from existing investors and several new top-tier, institutional investor relationships. Investors in the Fund include insurance companies, public and corporate pension funds, foundations and other institutional investors from the United States and Europe.

To date, the Fund has acquired 19 assets that, in aggregate, represent approximately 34% of the Fund’s total commitments. The Fund’s investors are benefiting from the Fund’s focused strategy and High Street’s efficient execution, which allowed for the rapid deployment of a significant portion of the Fund’s capital during the fundraising period.

Accord Capital Partners LLC, along with its affiliate Accord Europe Limited, served as exclusive global capital advisor to High Street.

ABOUT HIGH STREET REALTY COMPANY, LLC

High Street Realty Company, LLC is a recognized private equity real estate investment management company focused exclusively on institutional quality industrial assets in major markets across the eastern two-thirds of the United States. With extensive expertise across all facets of real estate acquisition, finance, development, operations, disposition, portfolio and asset management, it is an experienced, institutional and hands-on operator committed to providing both outstanding service to its tenants and superior risk-adjusted returns to its investors. For further information on the High Street platform, visit: www.hsrealtyco.com/.

ABOUT ACCORD CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC

With headquarters in San Francisco and additional offices in Chicago and London, Accord Group Holdings LLC (“Accord”) harnesses a powerful combination of capital markets, investment management and principal investment capabilities for a wide variety of participants in the real estate private equity industry globally. Through Accord Capital Partners LLC, its broker/dealer affiliate in the United States, Accord provides advisory and capital raising services to its clients. For further information on Accord, visit: www.accord-group.net.

Contacts

ACCORD GROUP HOLDINGS LLC
Desi Co, +1 415-544-7862
Cell: +1 415-999-0574
Managing Partner
dco@accord-group.net

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Sharjah’s Refugee Award Recognises Yemini Humanitarian Foundation Achievements with USD 100,000



SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates -Wednesday, May 3rd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF) in Yemen has been awarded USD 100,000 in recognition of its humanitarian efforts to save lives and restore dignity. In one of the Middle East’s unstable conflict zones, the foundation has provided the basic essentials of water, food and shelter as well as education and integration projects and mine-clearing missions.

The award for its continued services has been presented by the inaugural Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support, an initiative launched by Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. It is organised by the emirate’s Big Heart Foundation, a global humanitarian charity dedicated to helping refugees and people in need worldwide and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Despite facing constant dangers and harsh conditions on a daily basis, SDF, which was founded in 2003 by a small group of volunteers, implemented a spectrum of communal and humanitarian projects in the worst affected districts, providing greater protection to civilians, particularly in rural regions.

The award aims to recognise and pay tribute to those who have made distinguished humanitarian efforts to anyone seeking refuge and displaced families in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. It is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council Ruler of Sharjah, and his wife, Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Chairperson of the Big Heart Foundation, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children.

Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, said: “The foundation’s initiatives are worthy examples for many organisations and entities in the region to follow in order to help the vulnerable, sick and homeless. It is essential that we recognise and reward those who dedicate so much of their time and effort to such noble causes.

“These achievements are a much-needed reminder that the world is fundamentally a good place with good people and the Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support is a sign of respect and appreciation to all those who have extended such a vital helping hand to refugees across the world.”

Contacts

National Network Communications
Fadia Daouk, 052 617 2111
f.daouk@nncpr.com

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Neustar Research Shows A DDoS Attack Can Cost An Organization On Average More Than $2.5 Million in Revenue

 Neustar Building 10Tbps Global Defense Network to Combat Growing Problem

STERLING, Va.-Tuesday, May 2nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Neustar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today released the findings from its fourth annual Worldwide DDoS Attacks and Cyber Insights Research Report. The report documents the frequency and cost of attacks and what measures are being taken to counter these threats.

The Neustar May 2017 Worldwide DDoS Attacks and Cyber Insights Research Report, a 52-page global report, analyzes the responses of more than one thousand CISOs, CSO, CTOs security directors and managers. The report also includes, for the first time, Q1 attack data and trends captured from the Neustar DDoS Security Operations Center.

“Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are the zeitgeist of today's Internet,” said Barrett Lyon, pioneer of the DDoS defense industry and Head of Research and Development at Neustar Security Solutions. “The question organizations must ask now is how they are prepared to manage these highly disruptive events. Are they prepared for the bad day where their customers call and ask why the website is down?”

Highlights from Neustar’s May 2017 Worldwide DDoS Attacks and Cyber Insights Research Report include:

DDoS Attack Trends

    Volumetric attacks getting larger – 45 percent of DDoS attacks were more than 10 gigabits per second (Gbps); and, 15 percent of attacks were at least 50 Gbps, almost double the number reported last year.
    Nowhere to hide – 849 out of 1,010 organizations were attacked with no particular industry spared, an increase of 15 percent since 2016. 727 – 86% of those attacked – were hit more than once.
    Customers take on DDoS monitoring – 40 percent of respondents reported receiving attack alerts from customers, up from 29 percent in 2016.

Business Implication Trends

    It’s a game of risk – 43 percent of organizations report average revenue loss of at least $250,000 per hour, with 51 percent taking at least three hours to detect an attack and 40 percent taking at least three hours to respond.
    It’s a race against crime, rise in Ransomware – The instances of ransomware reported in concert with DDoS attacks increased 53 percent since 2016. 51 percent of attacks involved some sort of loss or theft with a 38 percent increase year over year in customer data, financial and intellectual property thefts.
    What’s in place is not enough – 99 percent of organizations have some sort of DDoS protection in place, yet 90 percent of organizations are investing more than they did a year ago and 36 percent think they should be investing even more.

Neustar and Harris Interactive conducted global, independent research of 1,010 directors, managers, CISOs, CSOs, CTOs, and other c-suite executives to find out how DDoS attacks affect their organizations and what measures are in place to counter these threats. The respondents span many industries, including technology, financial services, retail, healthcare and energy. Nearly half of the organizations reported annual revenues from $500M to $1B per year.

Although Q4 is generally considered “DDoS season”, the Neustar Q1 attack data captured from the Neustar DDoS Security Operations Center highlights a number of key indicators that foreshadow this year will be another challenging one from a DDoS threat landscape perspective.

    The year is off to a fast start – Q1 is generally considered “pre-season,” but Neustar is already seeing significant increases in average attack size and variety of attack vectors.
    Emergence of new attack vectors – Attackers are constantly seeking new ways to turn legitimate infrastructure elements against their owners. Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) based flood attacks and Connectionless Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) reflection attacks are emerging as the new hot attack trends for 2017.
    Attacks continue to get more complex – Multi-vector attacks have become the nearly universal experience for Neustar mitigation operations, demonstrating that attackers continue to launch more sophisticated attacks to penetrate organizations defenses.

Industry Leader Neustar Completes First Phase of Upgrade to 10 Tbps Global DDoS Mitigation Capacity

In conjunction with today’s release, Neustar announces it has tripled its global DDoS mitigation network capacity to 3 Tbps and will continue to significantly increase to 10 Tbps by early 2018. The construction, implementation and capacity of this new network is designed to stay ahead of the changing threat landscape and neutralize new and future volumetric DDoS attacks, as well as easily containing other types of DDoS attack vectors using proprietary DNS and IP intelligence data.

“At Experian, the experience of our end customers is of paramount importance for every interaction either with us directly, or via our global customer base. We have to have confidence that our website infrastructure can stand up to DDoS attacks and attacks on our DNS infrastructure, which is unfortunately a constant threat. Our relationship with Neustar is a significant component of our multi-faceted protection solution,” says Chris Matthews, Head of Operations, Experian Data Quality

“Innovation is in our DNA at Neustar, and we are pushing the limits of what was already considered a standard. We’re going well beyond any of our competitors or visions I had 20 years ago,” said Lyon. “With the completion of our new global constellation of scrubbing centers, we will have the largest, most distributed, and technically advanced DDoS defense network on the planet. We will not only be defending our large enterprise clients but also handling the overflow traffic many other providers will have during large attacks.”

Download Neustar’s Worldwide DDoS Attacks and Cyber Insights Research Report at ddosdefense.neustar.

Learn more about Neustar SiteProtect.

About Neustar
Every day, the world generates roughly 2.5 quadrillion bits of data. Neustar (NYSE: NSR) isolates certain elements and analyzes, simplifies and edits them to make precise and valuable decisions that drive results. As one of the few companies capable of knowing with certainty who is on the other end of every interaction, we’re trusted by the world’s great brands to make critical decisions some 20 billion times a day. We help marketers send timely and relevant messages to the right people. Because we can authoritatively tell a client exactly who is calling or connecting with them, we make critical realtime responses possible. And the same comprehensive information that enables our clients to direct and manage orders also stops attackers. We know when someone isn’t who they claim to be, which helps stop fraud and denial of service before they’re a problem. Because we’re also an experienced manager of some of the world’s most complex databases, we help clients control their online identity, registering and protecting their domain name, and routing traffic to the correct network address. By linking the most essential information with the people who depend on it, we provide more than 11,000 clients worldwide with decisions—not just data. More information is available at https://www.neustar.biz

Contacts

Neustar
Laura Cahill
Laura.cahill@axicom.com

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UAE Icebergs Project to Tip the Scales towards Climate Change in the Region and Transform the Rub’ El Khali Desert (Empty Quarter) into a Thriving Area



ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday, May 2nd 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

The National Advisor Bureau Limited, which plans to tow icebergs from Antarctica to Fujairah coast as a new source of freshwater in the region, revealed that the towed icebergs may cause a significant and radical climate change in the region.

Cold air gushing out from an iceberg close to the shores of the Arabian Sea would cause a trough and rainstorms across the Arabian Gulf and the southern region of the Arabian Peninsula all year round. When icebergs make contact with humid climate (Arabian Sea), moist air is forced to rise. Rising air expands; cools and condenses due to the decrease in air pressure. When enough water vapor is collected in the clouds, they become heavy and fall as rain. Icebergs are expected to cause a tremendous increase in the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere. Clouds approaching from the Arabian Sea will flow around a circular low pressure center above the iceberg and create a vortex. Icebergs off the coast of Fujairah will become a massive and unique tourist attraction; they will cool the East Coast and transform the UAE Desert into thriving meadows within a decade.

Melting icebergs will release fresh water into the Arabian Sea. This would rebuild ecological balance; reduce seawater salinity caused by brine discharge from desalination plants and restore biodiversity.

The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest mass of ice on Earth with ten thousand trillion tons of snow and ice and contains most of the world’s fresh water. Due to global warming, icebergs break off the Arctic ice shelf, drift into warmer waters and eventually melt. An iceberg contains around 20 billion gallons of fresh water. The UAE Icebergs Project aims to tow icebergs to Fujairah and leveraging the resulting fresh water from the melting glaciers.

The UAE Iceberg Project is part of the “Rub’ El Amer” (“Filling The Empty Quarter”) projects, designed to transform the ‘Empty Quarter’ deserts into gardens ‘beneath which rivers flow’, including the Khalifa River Project, designed to connect Pakistan’s rivers to the UAE through undersea pipelines.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnBArsrwnuE

Contacts

National Advisor Bureau Limited (Masdar City – Abu Dhabi)

Abdulla Mohammad Suleiman Al Shehhi

‎Managing Director & Principal Consultant

+ 971 - 4-234-8045

info@National-Advisor.ae


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HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Honours 10 Winners from 8 Countries at Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award

Dubai, United Arab Emirates -Friday, April 28th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, honoured 10 winners from 8 countries at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Award, which is worth USD 1 million. Also present was HH Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The Award was launched by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to encourage research centres, individuals and innovators from around the world to find innovative and sustainable solutions for clean-water scarcity around the world, using solar power. The award is overseen by the UAE Water Aid Foundation (Suqia), under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives. It has three main categories: Innovative Projects Award, Innovative Research and Development Award, and the Innovative Youth Award.

The first place in the Innovative Research and Development Award – National Institutions category, was jointly-shared by Khalifa University for a dual-disinfection-modified biosand filter, coupled with a solar pasteuriser system, and Masdar Institute at Khalifa University for a solar desalination process using a perforated black fabric under a solar collector.

The first place in the Innovative Research and Development Award - International Institutions category, went to the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), in cooperation with the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), for a solar-powered desalination technology based on TNO’s high-efficiency membrane distillation concept.

The first place in the Innovative Projects Award went to the Elemental Water Makers from the Netherlands, for a solar-powered Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant to produce drinking water.

Dr Marta Vivar from Spain won the Innovative Youth Award for a hybrid solar photovoltaic-photochemical system for water disinfection and electricity generation.

Al Tayer noted that hundreds of millions of children won’t have access to clean water in the future, and that girls now spend 200 million hours a day collecting water, which affects their education, according to UNICEF.



Contacts

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority     

Ribal Dayekh or Iman Saeed

+971-4-307-2006 or +971-4-515-0512                     

ribal.dayekh@dewa.gov.ae, iman.saeed@dewa.gov.ae    

                                                

Hattlan Media

Nabil Khoury or Eman Hussein

+971-56-114-1177 or +971-50-736-6990

nabil@hattlan.com, eman@hattlan.com


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