Joins SES’s North American Ultra HD platform featuring the world’s largest 4K channel line-up

LUXEMBOURG-Tuesday, December 12th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Country Network (TCN), an emerging over-the-air television network devoted to showcasing rising and established country music stars, has joined SES’s successful Ultra HD platform to launch its 4K channel and boost its audience reach.

SES today announced The Country Network (TCN) has debuted its first shows in Ultra HD this week and become the eleventh 4K channel on SES’s all-in-one Ultra HD solution. The unique Ultra HD platform packages satellite distribution, reception gear, and the world’s largest 4K channel line-up for cable and IPTV operators of all sizes across North America.

First launched in 2009, The Country Network is currently enjoyed by country music fans in 15 million US households and will leverage SES’s ubiquitous ... Read more »

New collaboration with Amazon Web Services will enable Murex clients to deploy, test and optimize the MX.3 platform on the cloud

PARIS-Wednesday, December 13th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Murex, an industry leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets, announced they will run their MX.3 technology platform on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS).

With the acceleration of cloud adoption in capital markets, Murex and AWS agreed to collaborate to help clients migrate their Murex application workloads to the AWS Cloud. Murex clients are looking to consolidate more and more of their capital markets activity on the MX.3 platform and this means their need for infrastructure is increasing.

New regulatory requirements are also driving financial organizations to use cloud to scale up their computing capacity. Murex is collaborating with AWS to meet the demand from clients to support deployment of the Murex offering on the ... Read more »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates-Tuesday, December 12th 2017 [ AETOS Wire ]

The Fourth Annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies continued in Abu Dhabi. The second day of the forum included three panel discussions on ‘Islam and the World’, ‘Islam and The World – Ways to Rapprochement and Solidarity’ and ‘Fear of Islam: Causes and Contexts’, and were attended by senior officials, ministers of Islamic countries, and an elite of high-level scholars, decision-makers, and intellectuals.

The first theme, discussed during this morning’s session, participants discussed ‘Islam and the World – An Islamic Vision of Global Peace’. The session was moderated by H.E Dr. Mohammed Mokhtar Juma, Egypt’s Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments (Awqaf), who led the discussions with Ahmad Al Ebadi, the Secretary General of the Muhammadiyah Association of Scholars, and member of the Board of Trustees of ... Read more »