Global Collaboration through Virtual Centers of Excellence for Geospatial Information Will Provide Greater Access to SDG Data Hubs for Nations in Need

REDLANDS, Calif.-Saturday 15 May 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced its contribution to an open, community-driven partnership working to accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Governments, international organizations, foundations, universities, and civil society groups are joining the initiative to offer resources and expertise, including capacity-building efforts, that will enable virtual Centers of Excellence for Geospatial Information to provide greater access to SDG data for nations in need.

“This collaboration will bring the innovations of geospatial information science to a wider public,” said Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Develo ... Read more »

Elevating sustainability to drive the corporate strategy

HOUSTON-Saturday 15 May 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Schlumberger announced today the appointment of Dr. Katharina Beumelburg to the position of Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Schlumberger Limited, reporting to Olivier Le Peuch, Chief Executive Officer. The appointment is effective Monday, May 17.

As a member of the executive team, Dr. Beumelburg will oversee corporate strategy, sustainability, marketing and communications activities across the Company.

Dr. Beumelburg joins Schlumberger from a global technology company, Siemens, where she has held various leadership positions including strategy development incorporating sustainability; management consulting; business excellence; and operations management. In her most recent position, she led the global Transmission Services business.

“I am delighted to welcome Katharina to the Schlumberger team at a pivotal ti ... Read more »

Pharmaceutical Developments Benefit From iSWAB-RNA v2 Samples In Cancer Research

HAYWARD, Calif.-Friday 14 May 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mawi DNA Technologies, a biotechnology company focusing on the development of innovative technologies for biosampling, announces that MagBio Genomics has successfully developed an automated RNA purification method for iSWAB-RNA v2 on the Thermofisher KingFisher™ Flex platform with its HighPrep™ Total RNA Isolation Kit - iSWAB™.

Mawi DNA Technologies’ iSWAB-RNA v2 allows for non-invasive self collection, concentration, and stabilization of intact buccal cells and/or any mammalian cells collected with a swab or cytobrush. It enables up to four weeks of real-time ambient stabilization of total RNA from the point of collection to processing. The high-quality RNA extracted from stabilized iSWAB-RNA v2 samples is suitable for gene expression applications such as real-time quantitative PCR, rever ... Read more »

 TOKYO-Saturday 15 May 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kioxia Corporation, the world leader in memory solutions, today announced a 20 billion yen investment to expand its Technology Development Building at its Yokohama Technology Campus and to establish its new Shin-Koyasu Advanced Research Center. The new facilities are expected to be operational by 2023 and will strengthen Kioxia’s research and technology development by bringing together its R&D sites in Kanagawa Prefecture to improve efficiency and to create a more conducive working environment for innovation through collaboration.

At the Yokohama Technology Campus, the expanded Technology Development Building will nearly double the space of the current facility, allowing Kioxia to expand its product evaluation capabilities that will, in turn, increase its product quality. The expanded facility will also provide space for an increased workforce to strengthen product development in the future. ... Read more »

READING, United Kingdom-Saturday 15 May 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mavenir, the Network Software Provider building the future of networks with cloud-native software that runs on any cloud and transforms the way the world connects, is pleased to announce that it has won the Small Cell Forum Judges’ Choice award for its role in transforming mobile networks through its Multi-G Open RAN small cell solutions and its Mobile Network Operator (MNO) Open RAN neutral host integration.

Multi-G Open RAN small cell solutions: Adding 2G/3G across a single unified RAN to support Multi-G radio access in 2020, Mavenir extended its Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) capabilities across 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G to offer MNOs and enterprises a complete end-to-end, software-centric network proposition, spanning small cell radios to converged packet core to digital enablement solutions. This enables the move towards one network, rather than managing cost and complexity of sev ... Read more »

Gartner positions SentinelOne as a Magic Quadrant leader and assigns the highest Critical Capability scores which we believe validates its position as setting the endpoint security standard

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Friday 14 May 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SentinelOne, the autonomous cybersecurity platform company, today announced that Gartner has positioned SentinelOne with the highest scores in all three use cases; Type A, B, & C in Gartner’s 2021 Critical Capabilities for Endpoint Protection Platforms report1.

Out of the 19 vendors included in the report, SentinelOne is the only vendor that received the highest score across all three Critical Capabilities use cases:

Customer use case Type A is focused on “lean forward” organizations that adopt new technologies very early in the adoption cycle.
Customer use case Type B is focused on “overall value” by weighing the risks of the early use of new technology against the be ... Read more »

Esri Is Joining the Call for Code Global Challenge alongside IBM to Support the Developer Ecosystem and Open-Source Community in Combating Climate Change

REDLANDS, Calif.-Saturday 15 May 2021 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced it is joining the fourth annual Call for Code Global Challenge. Created by David Clark Cause and launched in partnership with IBM, United Nations Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation, Call for Code is designed to make an immediate and lasting global impact on humanitarian issues, using open-source-powered technology. In this year’s competition, software developers and innovators around the world will take on climate change with open-source software, including Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud, IBM Watson, IBM Blockchain, and data from The Weather Company.

Since Call for Code was launched in 2018, more than 400,000 developers and problem solvers across 179 nations h ... Read more »