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Fire Restaurant at Kuda Villingili Resort Maldives Earns 2024 Wine Spectator Restaurant Award of Excellence

Kuda Villingili Resort, Maldives (July 2024) — Fire Restaurant has been honored for its outstanding wine program in Wine Spectator’s 2024 Restaurant Awards, which celebrate the world’s best restaurants for wine.

Fire Restaurant at Kuda Villingili Resort Maldives Earns 2024 Wine Spectator Restaurant Award of Excellence

“We are immensely delighted to receive the Wine Spectator’s 2024 Award of Excellence,” said Amjad Thaufeeq, Commercial Director of Kuda Villingili. This award is a testament to our team’s dedication to providing our guests with an outstanding dining experience and a wide range of wine choices. Our wine program is designed to cater to both connoisseurs and casual wine lovers, ensuring that every guest finds something to enjoy.”

“The restaurant industry is growing and thriving, with restaurant openings surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time. To take advantage of the uptick, restaurateurs are re-investing in their wine programs,” said Marvin R. Shanken, Editor and Publisher, Wine Spectator. “Restaurants that make wine a priority are what the Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards program is all about. I’m pleased to congratulate all 3,777 restaurants for their dedication to wine and exemplary wine lists.”

Launched in 1981, the Restaurant Awards represent the world’s only program focused exclusively on restaurant wine service. They are assigned on three levels: the Award of Excellence, the Best of Award of Excellence, and the Grand Award, with 2,150; 1,531; and 96 winners this year in each respective category.

Fire Restaurant has won the Award of Excellence

The Award of Excellence recognizes restaurants whose wine lists feature a well-chosen assortment of quality producers along with a thematic match to the menu in both price and style.

About Fire Restaurant, Kuda Villingili Resort, Maldives

FIRE is inspired by the all-time classic American steakhouse experience, and the concept explores the art of grilling meat to perfection. A team of talented chefs, under the guidance of Executive Chef Lalith Sharma, delivers the finest prime-cut meat plated succulently alongside mouthwatering condiments and a selection of homemade sauces. This fine-dining experience is enhanced further with organic, free-trade certified, and free-range ingredients sourced from around the world. Each plate served is a heartily rich enhancement of timeless flavors. Nestled within the chic and well-balanced ambience of The Restaurant, Fire opens for lunch and dinner while the salty breeze and the gently lapping waves perfect this partially overwater experience.

The Wine list at Fire is intended to reflect the diversity of producers’ terroirs and grape varietals, showcasing an exquisite selection of wines ranging from classic to rustic and modern to vibrant. A particular importance was given to ensuring a balanced and generous sampling of the diverse flavors of both the Old World and the New World with exceptionally high quality and value, encouraging guests to experiment throughout their stay.

About Kuda Villingili Resort, Maldives

Kuda Villingili Resort Maldives is an exclusively private island, promising guests of all ages and personalities the opportunity to redefine time and space and the independence to discover themselves while strengthening bonds of togetherness and creating unique experiences. Located at a convenient 30-minute speedboat ride in the picturesque North Male Atoll, this picturesque slice of paradise offers 75 spacious villas sprawled on the beachfront and over the turquoise lagoon. The resort offers a diverse array of gastronomic experiences, from casual Hawker-style to fine dining on the beach, with three diverse dining venues and three unique concepts sure to appeal to everyone’s taste buds.

About Wine Spectator

Wine Spectator is the world’s leading authority on wine. Anchored by Wine Spectator magazine, a print publication that reaches around 3 million readers worldwide, the brand also encompasses the Web’s most comprehensive wine site (WineSpectator.com), mobile platforms, and a series of signature events. Wine Spectator examines the world of wine from the vineyard to the table, exploring wine’s role in contemporary culture and delivering expert reviews. Parent company M. Shanken Communications, Inc., also publishes Cigar Aficionado, Whisky Advocate, Market Watch, Shanken News Daily, and Shanken’s Impact Newsletter.

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New Data Back Bictegravir for HIV/HBV in Asia

Jun 27, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #ART-naïve, #Dr. Chia-Jui Yang, #Gilead Sciences, #HIV/HBV, #HIV/HBV in Asia, #Hong Kong, #Inc., #New Data Back Bictegravir

HONG KONG, June 27, 2024 — Gilead Sciences, Inc. unveiled findings from two comprehensive studies examining the effectiveness and tolerability of the B/F/TAF single-tablet regimen for the treatment of adults with HIV who are treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced, as well as ART-naïve, HIV/HBV co-infected adults of Asian descent. The data selected for presentation at the hybrid Asia-Pacific AIDS and Co-Infections Conference (APACC) 2024, taking place 27 June to 29 June in Hong Kong, marks the first time that these findings have been featured at a regional conference.

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BICtegravir Single Tablet Regimen Asia (BICSTaR Asia), which is one of two Asian-specific real-world investigations, is a 24-month study that aims to showcase the effectiveness and tolerability of B/F/TAF in the real-world setting, evaluating outcomes for both treatment-naïve individuals and those previously treated with other HIV regimens. Additionally, BICSTaR Asia seeks to examine the efficacy, safety, and patient-reported outcomes of B/F/TAF outside controlled clinical trial settings across Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore. Results confirm B/F/TAF is highly effective at suppressing HIV viral load among Asians, with less than 1% discontinuation due to drug-related adverse events and no serious drug-related adverse events reported over the entire 24-month study period.

Notably, the outcomes from BICSTaR Asia also indicate an enhancement in the mental component summary (MCS) score and high treatment satisfaction among individuals who are treatment-experienced on stable antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens other than B/F/TAF who switched to B/F/TAF, suggesting additional benefits of B/F/TAF beyond viral suppression for people with HIV. The results underline the importance of patient-reported outcomes as a person-centered approach to HIV research and can help us to better understand the impact on health-related quality of life and specifically, mental health status of people with HIV. This could help inform treatment strategies for this group.

Dr. Chia-Jui Yang, Director of the Infection Control Center at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in Taiwan, emphasized, “These studies highlight the critical need for providing specific data for people with HIV of Asian descent, enabling a better understanding of how treatments affect different ethnic groups. This facilitates healthcare equity and efficacy for all patient populations, bridging a significant gap in HIV treatment research and ensuring personalized, effective care for this demographic.”

Gilead will also present outcomes from a sub-analysis of an ongoing Phase 3 randomized controlled trial (ALLIANCE Asia) in an oral presentation. The Week 96 results, which evaluate B/F/TAF as compared to dolutegravir + emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (DTG + F/TDF) in adults of Asian descent with HIV-1/HBV-coinfection initiating treatment, confirmed the high efficacy of B/F/TAF in suppressing both HIV and HBV among Asians. Compared with DTG + F/TDF, B/F/TAF was associated with significantly higher rates of HBsAg loss, HBeAg loss, and HBeAg seroconversion.

ALLIANCE Asia is a landmark clinical trial, investigating the specific treatment responses of adults of Asian descent with HIV/HBV co-infection,” said Anchalee Avihingsanon, MD, PhD, Senior Researcher, HIV–NAT, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center, Thailand. “Emerging HIV epidemics in areas of high HBV rates such as Asia are expanding the number of people with HIV/HBV coinfection. This representative study enrolled and treated participants from multiple different countries in the Asia region, driving the availability of data from within those communities most impacted.”

“Gilead is committed in further advancing HIV care in Asia. We recognize the critical importance of providing tailored data for Asian patients, ensuring accurate understanding on how treatments affect different ethnic groups,” said Caroline Choi, Senior Director, Asia 5 Medical Affairs, Gilead Sciences. “Hence, Asian specific data regarding B/F/TAF aims to understand the benefits that single tablet regimen can bring to Asian people with HIV. It will fill a significant gap in HIV treatment research, ensuring personalized, effective care for this population and help facilitate healthcare equity for all patient populations.”

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MoneyGram Partners with Rashid Khan to Promote Trusted Services

Jun 18, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #Head of Field Marketing Asia Pacific and South Asia, #Inc., #MoneyGram, #MoneyGram International, #MoneyGram Online, #MoneyGram Partners with Rashid Khan, #Promote Trusted Services, #Rashid Khan, #Sabrina Chan, #Singapore

SINGAPORE, June 18, 2024 — MoneyGram International, Inc. (“MoneyGram” or the “Company”), a leading global financial technology company that connects the world’s communities, announced a partnership with esteemed Afghan cricketer, Rashid Khan. This association with Rashid will help the Company continue to expand its global presence and promote its trusted and reliable services in Afghanistan and around the world. The collaboration was recently formalized via a signing ceremony in Ahmedabad, India.

“I am thrilled to officially announce my endorsement of the MoneyGram brand,” shared Rashid. “MoneyGram helps bring families closer through reliable and fast global money transfers, and I am delighted to share more about MoneyGram with my numerous cricket fans around the globe. I look forward to our long-term partnership.”

This partnership comes as the Company continues to expand its presence in Afghanistan. Senders across Europe, Canada and the United States can visit MoneyGram Online, the Company’s leading website and mobile app, or one of its hundreds of thousands of agent locations to send funds to loved ones in Afghanistan. Receivers in Afghanistan can pick up funds in either USD of AFN from one of the Company’s 200+ agent locations across the country.

“As the captain of the Afghanistan national team, he understands the value of teamwork and has a strong commitment to excellence. These qualities closely align with MoneyGram’s values, emphasizing the Company’s commitment to providing best-in-class services to our customers.” Said Sabrina Chan, Head of Field Marketing Asia Pacific and South Asia.

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Supermicro Expands Manufacturing for AI and Liquid-Cooled Solutions

Jun 18, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, #CA, #Calif., #Charles Liang, #Inc., #Liquid-cooled data centers, #Manufacturing for AI and Liquid-Cooled Solutions, #Matt Mahan, #Mayor of San Jose, #president and CEO of Supermicro, #SAN JOSE, #Silicon Valley., #Supermicro

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2024 — Supermicro, Inc. , a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, continues to expand in Silicon Valley with new campuses as the demand for liquid-cooled data center increases. The new facilities will be part of the new liquid-cooled ecosystem, reducing the time needed to deliver to customers worldwide. These new facilities will focus on delivering entire plug-and-play liquid-cooled solutions, from systems to racks to water towers. With AI factories becoming more prevalent, liquid-cooled data centers are critical to meet these increasing customer demands for AI-focused workloads. Liquid-cooled data centers increase the amount of AI compute performance per watt, resulting in more performance per data center. In addition, electricity consumption and environmental impact are reduced, and operational expenses can be up to 40% lower compared to traditional, air-cooled data centers.

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“Supermicro has the highest performing generative deep learning and inferencing AI platform and clusters which benefit from liquid-cooled technologies,” said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. “Many data center owners are looking for electricity saving Direct Liquid-Cooled solutions. Supermicro is developing building block liquid-cooled solutions for AI factories and the HPC market. We anticipate that liquid-cooled data centers will grow from historically less than 1% to an expected 15% and up to 30% of all data center installations in the next two years. This expansion positions us to capture the majority share of that growth. New data centers will run more efficiently, reducing their carbon footprint, and can be virtually free, compared to air-cooled data centers, with significant operational savings realized through lower electricity use over time.”

“We are thrilled that Supermicro is expanding in San Jose and leading the charge to reduce the impact of data centers,” said Matt Mahan, Mayor of San Jose, CA. “Supermicro represents the best of Silicon Valley as a company that continues to push the boundaries of both technology and sustainability.”

Supermicro, as a total solution provider, supplies all the components needed for an efficient and optimized liquid-cooled solution. From the Supermicro optimized cold plates to the coolant distribution manifolds (CDMs) to the redundant coolant distribution units (CDUs) and even the external cooling tower, the entire end-to-end solution is designed and tested by Supermicro engineers, which results in a higher quality solution, enabling organizations to get more productive sooner.

Many Supermicro servers are explicitly designed for high-performance NVIDIA GPUs for AI processing, such as the very high-density 4U-8GPU systems, the Intel CPU-based SYS-421GE-TNHR2-LCC, or the AMD CPU-based AS -4125GS-TNHR2-LCC. In addition, many Supermicro servers, such as the popular 8U-8GPU systems, are liquid-cooled ready, as well as NVIDIA-based 1U ARS-111GL-NHR-LCC, which includes the Grace Hopper Superchip. Liquid-cooled servers include the 8U-20-node SuperBlade®, which provides the highest CPU and GPU computing density available today. The 2U-4 node Supermicro BigTwin® and the 4U-8 node FatTwin® multi-node servers are optimized for liquid cooling and are in high volume production today.

Supermicro continues to work closely with data center operators to match the right server technology to the demanding workloads, which are unique to each organization and cloud service provider. Many of these application-optimized servers are designed to be liquid-cooled, which reduces the overall operational cost of the data center.

Many customers have limited experience handling liquid inside data centers, requiring vendors to perform the installation and acceptance testing along with future maintenance and warranty service. On-site support is critical, and Supermicro’s service organization is highly trained in liquid-cooling deployments.

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American Power Systems unveils Toyota Land Cruiser 300 dual alternator bracket kit at Eurosatory 2024

Jun 17, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #American Power Systems, #APS President & CEO Amy Lank, #Eurosatory 2024, #Inc., #Paris, #Toyota Land Cruiser 300 dual alternator bracket kit, #US-based power solutions manufacturer American Power Systems

PARIS, June 17, 2024 — US-based power solutions manufacturer American Power Systems, Inc. (APS) has developed a dual alternator bracket kit for Toyota Land Cruiser 300 vehicles with a 3.5L twin turbo petrol (gas) engine. APS debuted the latest product in its LC300 series at Eurosatory 2024, a global defense and security trade show held June 17-21 in Paris.

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The new dual alternator bracket kit allows users to add additional power to the Toyota Land Cruiser 300 with minimal changes to the OE under-the-hood configuration. Specifically, end users can add APS’ 12-, 24-, or 48-volt high output alternators for 12-12, 12-24, or 12-48 secondary system configurations.

Launched by Toyota Motor Corporation in August 2021, the all-terrain Land Cruiser 300 Series is a complete redesign of the outgoing 200 Series. The Toyota Land Cruiser platform has a reputation for reliability, durability, and off-road performance, making it a popular transportation choice in rugged environments.

More power to stay safe & connected in the field

“As security or defense vehicles, various Toyota platforms are often fitted with armor and/or special equipment such as anti-IED jammers, communication systems, satellite equipment, cooling systems and more that allows end-users to stay connected, collect information and even perform silent watch activities,” explained APS President & CEO Amy Lank. “However, all this equipment adds to the vehicle’s weight and creates current draw that OEM systems cannot meet. Having this additional power available via a dual alternator set-up makes the Toyota Land Cruiser 300 vehicles mission-ready while helping end-users to stay safe in the field.”

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MongoDB Unveils Program for Enterprises to Develop Modern Apps with Advanced AI

May 2, 2024 by Sujata Muguda 0 Comments #Abe Kuruvilla, #ACI Worldwide, #AI-driven innovation, #Alan Chhabra, #Chris Grusz, #Develop Modern Apps with Advanced AI, #Elio Narciso, #Global ISV Commercial Solutions at Microsoft, #Inc., #Joe Croney, #MAAP, #MongoDB, #MongoDB AI Applications Program, #MongoDB customers, #New Delhi

New Delhi—May 2, 2024—MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) announced the MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP) that is designed to help organizations rapidly build and deploy modern applications enriched with generative AI technology at enterprise scale. MAAP provides customers with strategic advisory, professional services, and an integrated end-to-end technology stack from MongoDB and its partners. MAAP launch partners include industry-leading consultancies and foundation model (FM), cloud infrastructure, and generative AI framework and model hosting providers that together with MongoDB help customers identify business problems that can be solved with advanced AI-powered applications. MAAP is designed to be a one-stop solution for enterprises that want to quickly and effectively embed generative AI into applications with the required technology stack and expertise in place.

“We’ve seen tremendous enthusiasm for generative AI among our customers, from agile startups to established global enterprises,” said Alan Chhabra, EVP of Worldwide Partners at MongoDB. “These organizations leverage MongoDB’s cutting-edge technology and comprehensive services to transform innovative concepts into real-world applications. However, some are still navigating how best to integrate generative AI to solve the right business problems. That’s where the MongoDB AI Applications Program comes in. This program combines our robust developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, with our own expertise, professional services, and strategic partnerships with leaders in generative AI technologies to provide comprehensive roadmaps for organizations of all sizes to confidently adopt and implement generative AI. With the MongoDB AI Applications Program, we and our partners help customers use generative AI to enhance productivity, revolutionize customer interactions, and drive industry advancements.”

Generative AI-driven innovation has set a clear imperative for every organization—to compete, they need to modernize their applications to meet and exceed customer expectations. Organizations of every size across industries want to immediately take advantage of this technological shift, but are unsure if they have the right data strategy and technology in place that will lead to success in building, deploying, and scaling new classes of applications securely and reliably. Many organizations are stuck with ineffective ways of working with data because of legacy technology that cannot scale, while others attempt to use single-purpose, bolt-on solutions that introduce unnecessary complexity and cost. As a result, these organizations wind up trading off long-term success—because of outdated technology or add-on solutions—for short-term results with proofs of concept that cannot scale to production, offer enterprise-grade security and reliability, or provide a meaningful return on their investment.

MAAP addresses these challenges by providing customers with the strategic framework, expert professional services, and technology roadmap to identify and work backward from business problems, rapidly build and iterate on solutions, and to optimize innovative generative AI applications—empowering customers to put them into production. Combined with MongoDB’s technology that enables companies to deploy generative AI applications with a unified developer data platform, MAAP delivers an end-to-end solution through its partnerships with industry-leading consultancies and FM, cloud infrastructure, and generative AI framework and model hosting providers—including Anthropic, Anyscale, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cohere, Credal.ai, Fireworks.ai, Google Cloud, gravity9, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Microsoft Azure, Nomic, PeerIslands, Pureinsights, and Together AI. MAAP offers customers the technology, full-service engagement, and expert support required to:

Develop end-to-end strategies and roadmaps to build, deploy, and scale generative AI applications with hands-on support: Engagement with MAAP begins with highly personalized deep dives. MongoDB Professional Services evaluates an organization’s current technology stack and works with customers to identify business problems to work backward from. MongoDB Professional Services and consultancy partners then develop strategic roadmaps to rapidly prototype the required architecture, validate that initial results meet customer expectations, and then optimize fully built applications that customers can evolve for use in production. Customers can continue receiving support from MongoDB Professional Services to develop new generative AI features depending on their needs.

Build high-performing generative AI applications that are secure, reliable, and trustworthy: Enterprises must trust that new technology being deployed throughout their organization and in customer-facing applications will behave as expected and will not inadvertently expose sensitive data. MAAP offers a curated selection of leading FMs that have been designed for safety, trustworthiness, and usefulness by MAAP partners. By combining these FMs with techniques like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using proprietary data with robust governance controls, customers can reduce model hallucinations by controlling exactly what data is provided to FMs to give them the required context that improves accuracy. Customers can also use optimized fine-tuning and inference services through MAAP partners for domain-specific use cases and fast AI model response times using models from Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral, OpenAI, and more. With MAAP, customers get the generative AI reference architectures, integrated technology, and prescriptive guidance needed for their use cases through hands-on professional services to help them build secure, high-performing applications that function as intended.

Engage in generative AI jump-start sessions with industry experts: Organizations not yet ready to adopt generative AI at scale can customize their MAAP engagement to provide their teams prototyping sessions in a secure, private, sandbox environment. For example, a customized engagement with MAAP can include an organization’s strategy, operations, IT, or software development teams—or a combination of several teams—where an expert-led session brings together different perspectives and aims to identify an internal business challenge that generative AI can be applied to. MongoDB Professional Services can then lead a hackathon to collaboratively build a solution and test its effectiveness for internal use cases. MAAP provides the education, resources, and technology needed to quickly build a tangible solution to see generative AI in action in solving a specific business problem.

MongoDB customers welcome MAAP to help them build applications enriched with generative AI

ACI Worldwide powers mission-critical real-time payment software solutions for thousands of organizations around the world. Many of the world’s largest financial institutions rely on ACI to process and manage digital payments, power omni-commerce payments, and to manage fraud and risk. “MongoDB and PeerIslands have been working closely with ACI Worldwide to modernize and transform our critical business applications, and the results in this initial phase have been impressive,” said Abe Kuruvilla, CTO at ACI Worldwide. “By relying on MongoDB Atlas, and by leveraging MongoDB’s AI solutions, we’ve been able to speed up our modernization process and to reduce the burden of database management faced by our developers, allowing them to focus on innovation. ACI Worldwide looks forward to continuing to work closely with MongoDB, PeerIslands, and MAAP partners through the new MongoDB AI Applications Program.”

Arc XP is the SaaS content platform built to power sophisticated storytelling and digital experiences for customers with big stories to tell. “We needed to come up with a strategy that enabled us to keep pace with our growth while maintaining a pace of feature development. That’s why we chose to go to MongoDB Atlas,” said Joe Croney, CTO at Arc XP. “Enabling developers to build more value for customers is ultimately what we’re here to do, and that’s why MongoDB has been so effective as a partner. The story of Arc XP is one of hypergrowth, and MongoDB Atlas has been fantastic in enabling our business transformation. Our recent advancements, particularly in AI-driven features, have thrived thanks to our deep engagement with MongoDB’s Professional Services, Technology, and Account teams. These partnerships have been crucial, allowing Arc XP engineers to innovate using MongoDB’s cutting-edge technologies, including MongoDB Atlas Vector Search.”

Scalestack’s AI-powered, all-in-one go-to-market data orchestration and activation platform helps customers spend less time manually researching and organizing data, and more time executing. “Scalestack’s mission is to help organizations unlock sales productivity, and our relationship with MongoDB and its partners has been integral to that,” said Elio Narciso Co-founder and CEO at Scalestack. “Scalestack’s Spotlight AI copilot—which helps sales representatives prioritize and choose their targets, as well as draft personalized emails and scripts based on unstructured data—uses MongoDB Atlas Vector Search’s RAG abilities to perform quick searches over large datasets using vector similarity. MongoDB’s partnerships and integrations have helped us fine-tune AI models to specific use cases, enhancing Spotlight’s performance. We’re excited to continue innovating on behalf of customers by working with MongoDB and its partners through the new MongoDB AI Applications Program.”

MongoDB partners joining MAAP to provide strategic consulting, technology, and expertise to customers

Anthropic, a world-leading AI company, pioneers trusted, safe, and reliable AI solutions for enterprises. Its advanced Claude 3 model family delivers valuable AI assistance in data analysis, content creation, customer support, project management, and strategic decision-making across every team. “Deploying accurate and reliable AI solutions is a top priority for enterprises today. Through our participation in MongoDB’s AI Applications Program, more businesses will harness the power of Anthropic’s industry-leading Claude 3 model family to develop tailored solutions that drive real business impact,” said Kate Jensen, Head of Revenue at Anthropic. “By integrating Anthropic’s powerful foundation models with MongoDB’s cutting-edge technology and expertise, more enterprises in regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare will confidently deploy customized AI solutions that meet their standards on safety and security.”

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. “Generative AI is a transformative technology that has the promise to change how organizations of all sizes across industries conduct business, optimize their operations, and interact with their customers,” said Chris Grusz, Managing Director of Technology Partnerships at AWS. “AWS and MongoDB have been working together to integrate services for several years, helping customers leverage the strength of both companies to help developers innovate more rapidly. The MongoDB AI Applications Program will help build on the impact we’ve already been helping customers achieve.”

Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. “MongoDB and Google Cloud have helped joint customers enhance their businesses with AI for many years, and we’re excited to extend our collaboration with support for the MongoDB AI Applications Program,” said Stephen Orban, VP of Migrations, ISVs, and Marketplace at Google Cloud. “Together, we will provide enterprises with the technical resources, frameworks, and governance tools required to more effectively build and deploy generative AI applications on Google Cloud’s AI-optimized infrastructure.”

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. “Many customers want to get up and running quickly with generative AI but are sometimes overwhelmed by the many choices of technologies and the expertise required to build modern applications,” said Alvaro Celis, Vice President of Global ISV Commercial Solutions at Microsoft. “The new MongoDB AI Applications Program will help organizations reduce the complexity and time it takes to build applications enriched with generative AI by offering them integrated technology solutions and hands-on support. We are excited to be a launch partner for the program to help our joint customers with MongoDB take advantage of this game-changing technology.”

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Red Hat and Tech Mahindra Enable Greater Hybrid Cloud Flexibility for Telco Workloads

Feb 28, 2024 by Mansi Praharaj 0 Comments #Global Telco, #Honoré LaBourdette, #Inc., #Manish Mangal, #Red Hat, #Tech Mahindra, #Telco

BARCELONA, Spain – MWC Barcelona–(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, today announced a collaboration to make it easier for telecommunications service providers to accelerate and manage 5G adoption and deployments across the hybrid cloud. Tech Mahindra’s Multi-mode Companion Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can support multiple network use cases, spanning RAN, edge computing, transport and 5G core, to extend capabilities across hybrid cloud environments with integrated automation and orchestration capabilities.

As service providers adopt hybrid cloud to enable more highly available and reliable 5G services, compute resources and data are increasingly decentralized across core datacenters, at the edge and in the cloud. With this in mind, service providers are looking for ways to minimize the complexity that comes with managing and securing workloads across these diverse environments.

Tech Mahindra’s Multi-mode Companion Cloud offering helps service providers more seamlessly off-load on-premises workloads to hybrid cloud environments, that includes Red Hat OpenShift on-premises and on AWS. This helps to increase scalability, speed cloud migrations and make managing 5G services easier via a centralized orchestrator and integrated automation capabilities. Red Hat OpenShift provides a more consistent infrastructure and application layer to support operations at scale across any cloud environment, with Tech Mahindra’s netOps.ai offering a single-pane-of-glass view to manage infrastructure and automate applications with zero touch provisioning. In addition, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes enables full cloud lifecycle management to automate Day 0 and Day 1 configurations and orchestrate workloads across Red Hat OpenShift clusters on-premises and on AWS.

Key benefits of Tech Mahindra’s Multi-mode Companion Cloud running on Red Hat OpenShift include:

Increased flexibility to roll out updates and streamline network provisioning across cloud infrastructure;

Reduced costs by enabling service providers to get the most out of existing cloud budgets and committed spend with the leading public cloud providers like AWS;

Greater elasticity by using the power of AWS to deploy pay-as-you-use and pay-as-you-grow business models;

Improved network resiliency through the ability to more quickly and easily provision additional compute power on demand in AWS as the network traffic dictates.

Effectively and efficiently managing diverse, next-generation services across hybrid cloud environments requires extensive automation capabilities. The collaboration between Red Hat and Tech Mahindra gives service providers this necessary level of automation across the hybrid cloud, from the core datacenter to the edge to AWS, offering more seamless cloud lifecycle management and intelligent workload placement. With this offering, service providers can reduce manual tasks and minimize network inefficiencies by integrating with existing systems and platforms, enhancing synchronization across the hybrid cloud while still supporting varied network needs.

To further support this offering, Tech Mahindra and Red Hat also collaborated with i2i systems and Rebaca. i2i systems’ 5G Core Network on Tech Mahindra’s Multi-mode Companion Cloud with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS can be used to create a redundant 5G core network to help drive high-speed, low-latency connectivity. ABot, Rebaca’s cloud-native continuous test assurance and analysis solution for 4G, 5G, and ORAN, can execute 3GPP-compliant test scenarios and analyze real-time KPIs from different layers of the network, providing an optimized framework for verification and “right-sizing” of telco workloads on various platforms.

Visit Red Hat (Booth 2F30) and Tech Mahindra (Booth 2C40) at MWC Barcelona 2024, February 26-29, to learn more and see a demo of the offering.

Supporting Quotes

Honoré LaBourdette, acting senior vice president, Global Telco, and vice president, Telco, Media and Entertainment Partner Ecosystem, Red Hat

“Telco services providers are faced with an increasingly heterogeneous cloud landscape, which can bring additional complexity and potential inefficiencies when trying to meet network demands. By combining the power of Red Hat OpenShift as a trusted foundation for hybrid cloud applications with Tech Mahindra’s leading services and cloud orchestration tooling, service providers will be able to more quickly and easily support a full spectrum of network use cases on combinations of on-premises, private and public cloud scenarios.”

Manish Mangal, Global Business Head, Network Services & 5G, Tech Mahindra

“As we embrace the era of Artificial Intelligence, telecom networks are on the brink of a significant evolution. Our Multi-mode Companion Cloud solution, seamlessly integrated with Red Hat OpenShift, is poised to revolutionize the landscape. This groundbreaking solution empowers service providers with a streamlined approach to managing the entire lifecycle of network workloads on hybrid cloud. At Tech Mahindra, we foresee a future where the synergy of AI-driven technologies, coupled with strategic partnerships, drives transformative operations for service provider networks, with our Multi-mode Companion Cloud leading the way.”

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AWS Announces AWS BugBust…

Jun 25, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Amazon Machine Learning, #Antonio Delgado, #AWS, #CTO at NextRoll, #Dean of Engineering, #Founder and CEO at Games For Love, #Inc., #Nathan Blair, #Swami Sivasubramanian, #Technology and Design at Miami Dade College, #Valentino Volonghi, #VP

Bengaluru, India – Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced the AWS BugBust Challenge, the world’s first global competition for developers to collectively eliminate one million software bugs. With just a few clicks, developers from around the world can join the challenge by creating an AWS BugBust event for their organization in the Amazon CodeGuru console—and compete for prizes and prestige by identifying and fixing bugs in their applications. By fixing bugs and achieving cost savings for their organizations, developers climb the AWS BugBust leaderboard to receive achievement badges, exclusive prizes, and a chance for an expense-paid trip to attend AWS re:Invent 2021 in Las Vegas. To get started with the AWS BugBust Challenge, visit: aws.amazon.com/bugbust.

One of the most important steps in software development is code reviews, which help ensure the correctness of code and the use of coding best practices. As code bases become larger and new features are added to applications at a greater velocity, the volume and complexity of code reviews increases. This is why developers are constantly looking for better and less tedious ways to perform code reviews to make their applications more secure, reliable, and efficient. Some organizations hold bug bash events where teams collaborate to find and fix bugs, but these events require developers to spend most of the time manually inspecting large codebases, which limits the ability for teams to work together, share best practices, and eliminate large numbers of bugs.

AWS BugBust is the first global bug-busting challenge for developers to collectively eliminate 1 million software bugs and $100 million in technical debt for their organizations using Amazon CodeGuru. Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool that uses machine learning to identify bugs and find the most expensive lines of code in applications. Amazon CodeGuru helps developers automate code reviews and application profiling with its two components, Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer (which uses machine learning to flag common issues in code and provide specific recommendations on remediation) and Amazon CodeGuru Profiler (which uses machine learning to identify the most expensive lines of code in applications). By participating in the AWS BugBust Challenge, customers can easily organize AWS BugBust events in the Amazon CodeGuru console, where they can select their applications to profile and analyze, and then invite their teams to participate in the event. Each time developers fix a bug and save money, they will score points to climb their organization’s private BugBust leaderboard and see how they rank among their teammates. During the event, each participant’s total number of bugs fixed and cost savings will be added to the global AWS BugBust leaderboard, making participants eligible for profile badges, exclusive prizes, and a chance for an expense-paid trip to attend AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas.

“Hundreds of thousands of AWS customers are building and deploying new features to applications each day at high velocity and managing complex code at high volumes. It’s difficult to get time from skilled developers to quickly perform effective code reviews since they’re busy building, innovating, and pushing out deployments,” said Swami Sivasubramanian, VP, Amazon Machine Learning, AWS. “Today, we are excited to announce an entirely new approach to help developers improve code quality, eliminate bugs, and boost application performance, while saving millions of dollars in application resource costs. With the AWS BugBust Challenge, developers can use Amazon CodeGuru to spend less time finding common coding mistakes and more time having fun and competing to improve their applications and save their companies a lot of money.”

The AWS BugBust capability is available today in US East (N. Virginia) with availability in additional regions where Amazon CodeGuru is offered coming soon.

NextRoll helps marketplaces and marketing platforms grow revenue by empowering them to build and enhance their marketing solutions. “AWS BugBust has been such a fun way for our dev teams to systematically improve our code quality,” said Valentino Volonghi, CTO at NextRoll, Inc. “With AWS BugBust, not only are we able to increase the number of critical issues found before the application reaches customers, but we have reduced the code review time and helped our developers build new coding skills. And the best part is that they’re having fun doing it.”

As an AWS Advanced Consulting, QuickSight, and Well-Architected Partner, Belle Fleur has a proven track record of helping clients deliver high-quality, valuable software in an efficient, fast, and reliable manner with astounding results. “All of our customers want to build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads under the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and gamifiying DevOps with AWS BugBust to make it easier is sheer genius!” said Tia Dubuisson, President at Belle Fleur Technologies. “Customers that want to score high in the operational excellence pillar can now take advantage of a joint AWS BugBust with Belle Fleur and use machine learning to inspect their code with Amazon CodeGuru and leave expensive and labor-intensive manual inspections behind. We are proud to be a launch partner to deliver Amazon CodeGuru to our customers from start-ups to enterprises so they can automate and drive DevOps excellence. Now they can use machine learning powered insights with AWS BugBust to quickly find and fix bugs in a fun and engaging format and make their applications more reliable and secure while saving money. By using the most up-to-date technology and automating operations, our customers are able to reinvest time savings to advance other modernization projects and recruit and retain new talent as they grow and scale their solutions on AWS.”

Founded in 1959, Miami Dade College is a public college in Miami, Florida with eight campuses and twenty-one outreach centers throughout Miami-Dade County. “The AWS BugBust Challenge will be a fun and educative addition to our curriculum to help our students become more confident in their ability to use the Python programming language and take their IT careers to the next level,” said Antonio Delgado, Dean of Engineering, Technology and Design at Miami Dade College. “We plan to use AWS BugBust every semester as a platform for our students to showcase and enhance their coding skills, all while being part of an exciting bug-bashing event.”

Games For Love is a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to easing suffering, saving lives, and creating sustainable futures for children. “While code review is part of our development process, flaws sometimes pass through the inspection and verification phase before production,” said Nathan Blair, Founder and CEO at Games For Love. “AWS BugBust has revolutionized our code review process and empowered developers to get code quality right, in a uniform manner, and enable them to celebrate their bug-bashing achievements. Moreover, our developers can use the machine learning-powered recommendations with Amazon CodeGuru to also improve their coding skills.”

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Sterling and Wilson Solar Solutions, Inc wins INR 890 crore order in USA

Mar 31, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Inc., #Mr. Amit Jain – Country Head, #Sterling and Wilson Solar Solutions

Hyderabad: Sterling and Wilson Solar Solutions, Inc (SWSS), the US subsidiary of Sterling and Wilson Solar Limited (SWSL) (BSE Scrip Code: 542760; NSE Symbol: SWSOLAR), announced that it has signed an order worth USD 121.7 million (~ INR 890 crore) in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America.

The order has been received from a leading sustainable energy company and is scheduled to be commissioned by Q4 FY 2022. SWSS will be managing the entire turn-key execution for the PV project.

The US market is one of the largest renewable markets globally and it has been the Company’s focus to become a significant player in this very important market. The current order is from an existing customer in the US which shows that the Company’s global presence and local capabilities can play a significant role in becoming one of the leading solar EPC companies in the country.

Mr. Amit Jain – Country Head, Sterling and Wilson Solar Solutions, Inc said, “We are delighted to have won this order in USA and with this project, our cumulative orders booked in the country now stand at around USD 260 million (~ INR 1,880 crore). With the renewed commitment by the new administration in renewable energy, that includes rejoining the Paris Climate Accord, investing $2 trillion in clean energy, and fully decarbonizing the power sector by 2035, USA has huge potential. We are confident that as a global solar EPC company with state-of-the-art technology and project execution capabilities, we are well poised to be a significant player in this energy transition.”

He added, “SWSS has a strong team of extremely talented professionals, based in Western USA, who will be managing the project.”

Sterling and Wilson Solar Limited (along with its subsidiaries) has been executing projects globally and has to its credit more than 10.8 GWp of solar power projects (commissioned and under various stages of construction) in various geographies. This portfolio includes a 1,177 MWp Solar PV plant in Abu Dhabi – the world’s largest single-site solar plant. The Company also manages a portfolio of 8.1 GWp of O&M projects globally, a testament to its best-in-class services.

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Tenable Launches Exposure Platform for Risk-Based Vulnerability Management of Dynamic Assets

Feb 24, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, #Inc., #Renaud Deraison, #Tenable

Tenable®, Inc. the Cyber Exposure company, today launched Tenable.ep, the industry’s first, all-in-one, risk-based vulnerability management platform designed to scale as dynamic compute requirements change. Tenable.ep combines the company’s industry-leading products — Tenable.io® Vulnerability Management, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, Tenable.io Container Security and Tenable Lumin – into one platform, enabling customers to see all of their assets and vulnerabilities in a single dashboard alongside key threat, exploit and prioritization metrics. Moreover, Tenable.ep’s single, flexible asset-based licensing model frees organizations to dynamically allocate licenses across all asset types according to their unique attack surface and modify as their environment changes.

The ability to quickly spin up and connect modern assets to the corporate environment is critical to digital transformation and work-from-home initiatives. But cybersecurity pricing models designed for on-premises computing can force enterprises to choose between assessing one asset type over another, frequently charging premiums for assessing cloud assets or web applications. Tenable.ep solves this challenge with a single license that gives customers unrivaled flexibility to take a holistic, rather than piecemeal, approach to vulnerability management. Whether it’s a web application, a cloud instance, a container image, remote worker or a traditional server, each asset counts exactly the same. The platform also includes unlimited deployment of local Nessus and web application scanners at no additional cost.

Highlighting the significance of this announcement in India, Kartik Shahani, Country Manager, Tenable India said “With two years’ worth of digital transformation activity compressed into two months, it’s clear that the boundaries which used to define traditional enterprise networks are becoming less discernible. Security teams now have the daunting task of securing an amorphous attack surface which starts at the corporate network and extends into employees’ homes.”

“To combat this issue, a variety of single-purpose tools, each with different licensing and pricing models are used to gain visibility across an organisation’s attack surface. Tenable.ep solves this problem by providing organisations in India a comprehensive risk-based vulnerability management solution, managed by a single license for simple procurement and easy deployment,” he added.

Commenting on the benefits of Tenable.ep, Anuj Gupta, CEO Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic, a Tenable partner said, “As organisations scale and evolve to adapt to changing work models, security capabilities need to be equally adaptable. Tenable.ep enables customers to see and assess all assets and vulnerabilities in a unified view, thereby making it easy for security teams to assess and accurately prioritise the vulnerabilities and assets that matter most.

“Attackers don’t differentiate between asset types and neither should defenders. So we designed Tenable.ep to give organizations the power to identify every asset and exposure, predict which vulnerabilities are most likely to be exploited and act to address critical risks,” said Renaud Deraison, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tenable. “Tenable.ep delivers risk-based vulnerability management within a single, unified solution without the need to purchase separate products and manage different licensing models.”

Tenable has a track record of innovating to raise the bar for cybersecurity. With Predictive Prioritization, Tenable helped organizations evolve from trying to fix everything with a critical CVSS score to taking a risk-based approach that focuses on fixing what matters most. Frictionless Assessment removed the barriers to unified visibility of cloud assets. Now with Tenable.ep, the company is bringing these innovations together and simplifying how disparate assets are assessed so that organizations can approach their vulnerability management programs holistically.

Tenable.ep is now available for all new and existing Tenable customers.

Tenable products will also continue to be sold as separate solutions.

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