NEW YORK-Wednesday 7 August 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Moody’s Analytics, a global provider of financial intelligence, has won Credit Data Provider of the Year in the 2019 Risk Technology Awards. It’s one of six categories won, spanning finance, accounting, regulatory, and credit functions.

The combined strength of Moody’s Analytics offerings earned the Credit Data Provider of the Year award. “We’re honored by this recognition,” said Jacob Grotta, Managing Director-Head of Risk & Finance Analytics. “Credit data challenges take many forms, and our capabilities are exemplified in a range of award-winning solutions.”

Our Data Alliance is among the world’s largest and most comprehensive data consortia. Its global contributors share origination and performance data in C&I, CRE, project finance, asset finance, and other asset classes – and in return receive benchmarking across a host of ... Read more »

 Inclusive program offers participants an opportunity to earn a return of more than 100% for holding Algos and supporting the network

SINGAPORE -Tuesday 6 August 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Algorand Foundation announced today a staking rewards program that will reward its community with 200 million Algos, bring additional opportunities and reward those who share its vision for the long-term success of the Algorand network and its technology.

The program provides 200 million Algos to registered participants, allowing them to increase their position in Algos by holding the token. The rewards will be distributed over the course of four 6-month periods, a total of two years, to qualifying participants who commit by registering (via a zero value transaction) by block number 1618450, which is expected to happen on August 31st, 2019. Only the first 200 million Algos across the registered wallets will be eligible.

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TOKYO -Tuesday 6 August 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

Catalysis Science Contributing to Sustainable Society
Online Applications Available Starting September 2nd, 2019

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Tsutomu Tannowa) announced that Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Awards will begin accepting applications for the “2020 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Awards” on September 2nd via web site of the company.

In 2004, Mitsui Chemicals established the “Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Awards,” which aim at contributing to the sustainable development of chemistry and the chemical industry. In particular, the awards include the “Catalysis Science Award” and “Catalysis Science Award for Creative Work,” which recognize outstanding achievements in catalysis science.

We set the subheading of the 2020 Awards as “Catalysis Science Contributing to Sustaina ... Read more »

Company Enhances Data Deduplication Efficiency and Technology Support

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-Wednesday 7 August 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- ExaGrid®, a leading provider of intelligent hyperconverged storage for backup with data deduplication, today announced a new version of its software, Version 5.2.2, which offers a variety of enhancements for customers. ExaGrid has always achieved a market leading deduplication ratio of 20:1 on average along with the majority of the market share backup applications. ExaGrid has now taken its deduplication algorithm to new heights for Veeam VM backup data, changed block tracking (CBT) and incrementals forever, in addition to supporting Windows Active Directory and Veritas NetBackup Accelerator.

The new features include:

Improved data deduplication for Veeam Software
Improved data deduplication for CBT and incremental backups
Ability to further deduplicate Commvault deduplicated data
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New TRocksDB Solution Improves Storage Endurance and Utilization, Reduces Application Write Amplification by up to 21x

TOKYO-Tuesday 6 August 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toshiba Memory Corporation, the world leader in memory solutions, today announced that Toshiba Memory America, Inc., the U.S.-based subsidiary, unveiled write amplification1 (WA) and endurance software innovations that significantly improve RocksDB for SSDs.

Highly flexible and designed for use with any off-the-shelf SSD, TRocksDB is an enhancement to the RocksDB database design that uses key values more efficiently with SSDs to enable improvements in storage and DRAM usage. TRocksDB also reduces the repeated data rewriting caused by application-generated WA. The TRocksDB solution will be demonstrated publicly for the first time at Flash Memory Summit, booth #307.

Taking a log-structured merge-tree (LSM tree) approach to storing data, the RocksDB platform rewrites data at l ... Read more »