Partnership introduces industry first, AI-enhanced cloud native solution for the OSDU™ Data Platform optimized for Microsoft Azure

LONDON & REDMOND, Wash.-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Schlumberger and Microsoft announced an expanded strategic partnership to accelerate new technologies for the energy industry. The first offering, the Schlumberger Enterprise Data Management Solution for the OSDU Data Platform—a new industry standard for energy data—is available today. Energy companies will now benefit from an OSDU-compliant solution, and the ability to seamlessly connect to the DELFI* cognitive E&P environment from Schlumberger. The Enterprise Data Management Solution is ready for global customers to deploy on Microsoft Azure, Schlumberger’s preferred global public cloud platform for OSDU-compatible solutions.

The companies’ mutual contributions to the first commercial release of the OSDU Data Pla ... Read more »

With the direct acceptance of payments in USD Coin, Visa forges new connections between digital and traditional currencies.

SAN FRANCISCO-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Visa (NYSE: V) today announced a major industry first in bridging the worlds of digital and traditional fiat currencies: the use of USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin backed by the US dollar, to settle a transaction with Visa over Ethereum—one of the most actively used open-source blockchains.1 Visa is piloting the capability with Crypto.com, a Visa partner and one of the world’s largest crypto platforms, and plans to offer the USDC settlement capability to additional partners later this year.

Support for digital currencies as a new type of settlement currency marks an important step forward for Visa’s network of networks strategy, which is designed to enhance all forms of money movement, whether on the Visa network, or beyond. By harnessing its global pres ... Read more »

• CipherTrust Data Security Platform is praised for its comprehensive database security capabilities, delivering a single platform for transparent encryption, data masking, and key management

• Thales’ next-generation platform awarded “strong positive” ratings for Security, Usability, and Deployment

PARIS LA DÉFENSE-Tuesday 30 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Thales today announced that it has been named as a Market Leader in the 2021 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Database and Big Data Security.

The report recognised Thales’ leadership role within the data security market through its CipherTrust Data Security Platform. Thales’ flagship data security platform was praised for its data discovery and classification, transparent encryption, and database and application data protection. The report also commended CipherTrust’s data masking, tokenization, access controls, enterpri ... Read more »

CALGARY, Alberta-Thursday 25 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Walton, a real estate investment and land asset management company with US $3.39 billion under management, is pleased to announce a significant distribution to investors totaling CAD $40.5 million. The distribution was approved on March 16, 2021 by the Walton-managed Roll-Up Corporation (RUC). The distribution will be paid to shareholders of RUC on April 8, 2021.

RUC was formed through the amalgamation of 134 Canadian pre-development land entities and has more than 27,000 shareholders. The Corporation collectively owns an interest in 21,533 acres of pre-development land in key growth markets throughout the United States and Canada. This is the second distribution made to investors in RUC, with this distribution representing $0.60 per share.

RUC investors have received a total of CAD $48.8 million in distributions. To date, the two distributions equal $0.71 per share and represents an app ... Read more »

TOKYO & LONDON & NEW YORK -Monday 29 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

NTT is positioned furthest and highest for “Completeness of Vision” and “Ability to execute” respectively in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
NTT SD-WAN real-time network analytics offers deep insight into application performance, network security, and the end-user experience.
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NTT, a world-leading global technology services provider, today announced it is positioned as a Leader in the March 2021 Gartner ‘Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global’ report, recognized for both its “Completeness of Vision” and “Ability to Execute.” NTT is also ranked highest in the March 2021 Gartner Critical Capabilities for Network Services, Global report for the Global Network, Intra-Asia/Pacific Network and Intra-EMEA Network Use Cases.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant report states, “Driven by cloud IT service adoption and acce ... Read more »

NEUCHATEL, Switzerland -Monday 29 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) today announced the results of a prospective, observational study published in Acta Paediatrica in which researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto evaluated the accuracy of plethysmographic respiration rate measurement (RRp®) using Masimo Rad-G™, a rugged, handheld device, on malnourished, hospitalized children in Nigeria.1

Noting that in resource-limited environments, respiration rate (RR) measurement is often used to directly inform medical decisions for children with respiratory problems, but that manual RR counting “remains a challenge,” Dr. Nancy Dale and colleagues investigated whether a technological solution might provide a useful alternative to manual counting. To make the evaluation, the researchers compared simultaneous device measurements and nurse-measured manual RR counts on malnourished children. The device chosen was the Masimo R ... Read more »

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates,-Monday 29 March 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of Abu Dhabi’s Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), today announced that its Cryptography Research Centre (CRC) has launched the first Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) software library in the UAE.

The library will advance the cryptographic and security capabilities of the emirate of Abu Dhabi and the broader UAE. International and Emirati researchers at Cryptography Research Centre, one of Technology Innovation Institute’s initial seven dedicated research centres, have developed the PQC library, a software library written in the C general-purpose programming language that supports a wide variety of computer architectures and operating systems. A corresponding hardware FPGA-based implementation has also been developed. The library, designed to guard against attacks by quantum computers, has been already integrated i ... Read more »