• 3DEXPERIENCity programs with Singapore, Jaipur, Rennes use holistic, systemic approach for urban development
• Use cases from the Virtual Singapore platform to demonstrate simulations and virtual tests of new solutions to urban planning problems
• Digital platforms are now the urban development infrastructures for the 21^st century

India — July 9, 2018 — Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA) today announced that it will showcase digital platforms as the urban development infrastructure for the 21^st century at World Cities Summit 2018 in Singapore from July 8-11. Dassault Systèmes is indeed uniquely positioned to demonstrate how its 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables industry, government and citizens worldwide to harness the virtual world and transform territorial resources into strategic assets that support sustainable urban planning.

In the context of this year’s theme, “Liveable & Sustainable Cities:  embracing the future through innovation and collaboration,” Dassault Systèmes will feature immersive virtual reality experiences as well as demos on the cloud supporting mobility and global instant collaboration.  The company will illustrate the holistic and systemic approach to planning and collaboration made possible with 3DEXPERIENCity.  As 3DEXPERIENCity is powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, it provides a single digital environment to manage data, processes and people in sustainable cities.  3DEXPERIENCity is already being used by cities worldwide including Singapore; Jaipur, India; and Rennes, France to improve quality of life.

At the event, use cases from the “Virtual Singapore” platform will demonstrate the use of 3DEXPERIENCity for simulations and virtual tests of new solutions to urban planning problems. These use cases range from planning a neighborhood park based on demographics, shadows and vegetation, to scientifically assessing the impacts of wind, sun and noise on a residential area, to coordinating roadwork and closures to minimize disruptions for citizens.

During the opening plenary session on July 9, Bernard Charlès, Vice Chairman and CEO, Dassault Systèmes, will also discuss how cities must embrace innovative ideas and solutions for developing livable and sustainable cities of the future.

“Dassault Systèmes was recognized this year as the world’s most sustainable company, in part for the sustainability value of our 3DEXPERIENCE platform on domains like cities. Making urban innovation social, the virtual world extends and improves the real world,” said Bernard Charlès, Vice Chairman and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “Mobility, for example, is no longer confined to the automotive sector. Innovative ecosystems bringing together local authorities, industrial firms, tradespeople and citizens are digitally inventing smart new transport solutions. 3DEXPERIENCity lets these ecosystems collaboratively see and evaluate the ‘what ifs’ of where they live, work and commute, before committing any resources to creating the future. This is the new reality.”

Dassault Systèmes will be present at World Cities Summit at its booth on Level 5, L5-18, its pod in the Singapore pavilion, and its hospitality suite.

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations.  Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced, and supported.  Dassault Systèmes’ collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world.  The group brings value to over 220,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries.  For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

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The evolution of digital technologies such as Social, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) is having a significant impact on IT within enterprises. By 2020, a staggering 20+ billion connected devices will be in place, which would be about three times the size of the current world’s population, enabling us to crave for a perfect synchronization with just about everything around us. You will need to decide if you are one of the early adopters of technologies that will drive your business just ahead of your competition, working with the newest and most advanced solutions and leaving your competition to play the catchup game.

Transformation today begins with digital Infrastructure and data is the key theme within the orchestration layers of digital infrastructure. Enterprises have been accumulating data and literally have not even come close to exercising the real worth of it. Empowering business with actionable information can fundamentally change the way business can operate and transform. Here is where automating managed services operations will accelerate digital transformation journey within an enterprise.

So what are the areas one can possibly apply intelligent automation within the IT operations framework? Let’s look into the top three areas where automation is already underway.

Automating Service Desk Operations: We need to relook at how enterprises engage service desk for end-user support. With digital transformation accelerating at very high speed, information technologies are changing rapidly in the way businesses are getting done today. With rapidly changing technologies there are high turnover of services desk engineers that leads to lack of knowledge and experience. This leads to high risks and low quality of services. Besides providing a 24×7 support takes a toll with the costs going north. Enterprises can look into building AI / RPA into their service desk support operations. In fact, with roughly 30-40% of Level 0/1 services desk support cases being repetitive, you can leverage the power of Natural Language Interpretation (NLI) and cognitive automation in the form of AI bots. AI powered RPA and cognitive automation are quickly becoming the main driving force for digital transformation today. Traditional service desk and being transformed to Digital Service Desk providing end users the flexibility to talk to someone anytime from anywhere with 50-70% reduction of costs to handle each incident.

Automating IT Operations Management: Modern enterprises that are adopting Hybrid-IT will need a solution that will allow them to discover everything they have in real-time. Auto-discovery of IT assets and complete visibility of all your IT resources, no matter where they are will also require automation in management of incidents. Automation in streamlining the process of creating and managing incidents, as well as notifying the right teams with correlation between the resources in real-time basis, it becomes even more important on how you handle the false positives from here on. Escalation and alert on critical events to ensure rapid problem resolution and consistent service performance will lead to meaningful insights to providing the actionable information to the CIO organization to better manage the business of IT today.

Integration of RPA/AI in IT Operations Management: The network operations center or the digital command center (as I would like to put it in today’s scenario) is the focal point for a 24×7 IT Infrastructure /Application and Data Monitoring and Management. With everything-as-a-service, connectivity becomes the principle driver for any digital journey. Ensuring health of these connected devices to ensure 24×7 availability is the key element for a greater customer experience (CX). Enterprise will need to plan to bring in RPA that will perform health check (including security checks) of systems and applications and take corrective remedial actions to ensure the environment performs giving the experience that is needed. Automation on service requests post work-flow approvals coming out of IT service management needs to be automated.

Robotic process automation (RPA) is the important step in the evolution of new business models since it significantly reduces the need for IT service agents to perform routine, rule based, high volume activities, enabling them to instead focus on more innovative ideas.

Thinkers, enthusiasts, market researchers and many others place 2020 and 2025 as an important milestone in the coming years. Is this because of ‘conversational’ banking, ‘self-driving’ vehicles, and ‘drones’ to deliver packages?  You are talking to ‘robo-advisors’ on market trends and investments, ‘cognitive’ coach on your phone designing your next day diet based on your previous days workouts and the list keeps adding up. To make all this a reality, enterprises that develop or adopt such innovation must have their IT Services automated to handle the kind of demand in implementing Hybrid IT in their journey of digital transformation.

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• SD-WAN-based network will connect 1,500 sites in 94 countries on 5 continents
• Orange Business Services provides Siemens with SD-WAN infrastructure and security on global scale

Siemens AG, a global electronics and electrical engineering company, has extended its contract with Orange Business Services for a global “Siemens Digitalization Network” (SDN)  built on an SD-WAN infrastructure, connecting 1,500 sites in 94 countries. The increased performance of its communications infrastructure will enable Siemens to take full advantage of further digitalization to improve its Industry 4.0 processes.

Under this new six-year contract worth 240 million Euros, Orange Business Services will migrate Siemens’ entire global infrastructure to a dynamic and flexible SD-WAN network which will connect cloud applications as well as IoT devices. Consolidating network design and maintenance with one single provider will further reduce complexity and strengthen application performance and agility.

“As a globally operating company with subsidiaries and divisions all over the world, we need a reliable and flexible communication network that is a critical business enabler and can evolve with our growing business,” said Frederik Janssen, Head of Siemens IT Infrastructure Portfolio and Strategy. “We chose Orange Business Services because we see it as a prime partner with the ability to deliver seamless worldwide SD-WAN coverage with the highest degree of security standards – especially to protect against threats from the Internet, quality of service, local support and an attractive price-performance ratio. We were also impressed by the flexibility and the service level Orange Business Services has been providing as a trusted partner to Siemens over the past several years.”

Demands on the Siemens WAN have increased with virtual teams and teleworkers collaborating on global projects. Orange Business Services can meet Siemens’ needs by combining SD-WAN technology with cloud- and web-based services and solutions. With a single-point-of-contact service desk and local presence in 166 countries, Orange Business Services provides Siemens with managed network services in the 94 countries in which it operates. This builds on the long-standing cooperation and governance established throughout Siemens’ worldwide divisions and the headquarters in Munich.

“We are pleased to have been chosen by Siemens to provide its future SDN network and manage its critical global communications infrastructure across all continents,” said Helmut Reisinger, Executive Vice President, International, Orange Business Services. “As a company with its pioneering role in innovation and technologies, Siemens set the highest benchmarks for this project. Combining an innovative solution approach with specialization in providing robust seamless global network services, Orange Business Services has the end-to-end integration expertise to efficiently implement and manage projects of this scale, including all areas in fast-growing emerging markets and critical cyberdefense components.

“Orange Business Services has once again been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global[i] for the 18^th consecutive year. We believe that our Leaders position validates our ability to steer the future of global network services and deploy our strategy towards the promise of intent-based networking,” added Reisinger.

About Siemens AG

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for 170 years. The company is active around the globe, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of efficient power generation and power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2017, which ended on September 30, 2017, Siemens generated revenue of €83.0 billion and net income of €6.2 billion. At the end of September 2017, the company had around 377,000 employees worldwide.

http://www.siemens.com

About Orange Business Services

Orange Business Services, the B2B branch of the Orange Group, and its 22,000 employees, is focused on supporting the digital transformation of multinational enterprises and French SMEs across five continents. Orange Business Services is not only an infrastructure operator, but also a technology integrator and a value-added service provider. It offers companies digital solutions that help foster collaboration within their teams (collaborative workspaces and mobile workspaces), better serve their customers (enriched customer relations and business innovation), and support their projects (enriched connectivity, flexible IT and cyberdefense). The integrated technologies that Orange Business Services offer range from Software Defined Networks (SDN/NFV), Big Data and IoT, to cloud computing, unified communications and collaboration, as well as cybersecurity. Orange Business Services customers include over 3,000 renowned multinational corporations at an international level and over two million professionals, companies and local communities in France.

Learn more at www.orange-business.com

[i] Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global, Danellie Young, Katja Ruud, Bjarne Munch, Takeshi Ikeda, Neil Rickard, 27 February 2018

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• Forcepoint Web Security adds additional CASB functionality with real-time, inline visibility and control of sanctioned enterprise cloud applications
• Forcepoint Web Security and Email Security available with industry-first single pricing model for SaaS, hybrid or on-premises deployments for budget flexibility
• Forcepoint V20000 appliance for Web, Email and Data Security delivers twice the performance of existing model, with support for more than 8,000 users
• Forcepoint NGFW user dashboard speeds actionable understanding of user activity and extends online protection with Web Security integration
• Forcepoint secures U.S. government agency missions with industry’s only risk-adaptive protection solution available through Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program

India, March 8, 2018 – Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint today introduced new human-centric security capabilities delivered through cloud, network and risk-adaptive security solutions that empower enterprises and government agencies to accelerate their digital transformation and lower risk. According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2017, 81 percent of data breaches were caused by the hijacking of user credentials by hackers to gain access to internal systems and data. The traditional approach of blocking threats that legacy vendors continue to offer is insufficient to fight the battle. Forcepoint is transforming cybersecurity through a new approach that emphasizes understanding human behavior and user interaction with critical data over networks of different trust levels to combat the use of compromised credentials.

Today Forcepoint is fortifying its Human Point System of integrated capabilities with more precise data control and visibility into user identity, activity and intent across cloud deployments, applications and complex distributed networks to help organizations effectively secure users and IP in a digital world they don’t fully control.

“The dramatic changes in enterprise IT and critical infrastructure over the last five years necessitate a different approach to cybersecurity, because focusing solely on threats is a no-win scenario,” said Heath Thompson, senior vice president and general manager of Commercial Security at Forcepoint. “We believe companies must shift their focus to understanding behavior, and dynamically adapting to risk in real-time. We call this risk-adaptive protection. With risk-adaptive protection, policies can be continuously and uniquely applied to the individual, not just broad groups of users within the organization thereby lowering risk while still enabling people to get their jobs done.”

Forcepoint’s Human Point System brings together best-in-class capabilities including Data Loss Prevention (DLP), User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Web/Email Security and Network Security that can stand alone or integrate within an existing environment. Enterprise and government organizations can now deploy DLP and UEBA together in a risk-adaptive protection solution that understands the context and intent of user behavior and dynamically applies enforcement policies to activity representing the highest risk.

Protecting the Zero Trust Perimeter

Enterprises and government agencies can “start anywhere” with Forcepoint’s new human-centric capabilities, expand them over time or deploy them as an integrated intelligent system:

Visibility, Mobility and Control of Users, Apps and Data Across Clouds and Networks

• Forcepoint Web Security extends its built-in CASB capabilities with a new Cloud Application Control module that reduces security blindspots through real-time, inline visibility and control of sanctioned enterprise applications.
• Forcepoint NGFW is the first to deliver human-centric visibility into behavior on the network via new user dashboards providing fast, actionable understanding of who is accessing which resources. And, integration with Forcepoint Web Security Cloud enables deeper security through seamless inspection and control of web apps and user web traffic while offloading intensive processing from the firewall to the cloud.

Risk-Adaptive Security Solutions for Government Agencies

• Forcepoint supports U.S. government agencies as they modernize their security infrastructure, technology and policies through programs such as Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM).
• Forcepoint’s risk-adaptive protection solutions offer options for both monitoring and enforcement, integrating Forcepoint UEBA, DLP and Insider Threat products, supporting the CDM mission with intelligent analytics and individualized policy enforcement.
• These risk-adaptive capabilities, together with Forcepoint NGFW, Email Security and Web Security solutions, are included on the CDM Approved Product List for Phase Three to protect sensitive networks and data – wherever they are accessed and wherever they reside. Only Forcepoint can provide agencies the end-to-end, human-centric security architecture required to meet their unique security challenges and mission goals.

Forcepoint at RSA 2018

Attendees can meet Forcepoint security experts at RSA Booth N3525 for hands-on demos of the company’s risk-adaptive solutions, Web Security incorporating CASB capabilities, and human-aware NGFW. Forcepoint will also present at RSA including; “Extending Behavioral Insights into Risk-Adaptive Protection” on April 17, 2018, and, “Cyber Fatigue and What We Can Do About It” on April 18, 2018.

Additional Resources

• “Making the Invisible Visible” Forcepoint Web and Email Security blog post
• “Making Firewalls More Human and Web Centric” Forcepoint NGFW blog post
• Forcepoint CDM Program and RAP Solutions Overview blog post and webinar

About Forcepoint
Forcepoint is transforming cybersecurity by focusing on what matters most: understanding people’s intent as they interact with critical data and intellectual property wherever it resides. Our uncompromising systems enable companies to empower employees with unobstructed access to confidential data while protecting intellectual property and simplifying compliance. Based in Austin, Texas, Forcepoint protects the human point for thousands of enterprise and government customers in more than 150 countries. For more about Forcepoint, visit www.Forcepoint.com and follow us on Twitter at @ForcepointSec.

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India, February 23, 2018 – Cisco, the world’s leading IT and networking company, today announced the appointment of a new President for its Asia Pacific & Japan business.

After three years at the helm of Cisco Japan, Miyuki Suzuki has been promoted to president for Asia Pacific & Japan. Charged with regional revenue growth across 18 markets, and propelling customer digital transformation and cybersecurity efforts, Suzuki will report to Chris Dedicoat, executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations.

A seasoned executive with more than 35 years’ experience, prior to Cisco, Suzuki served in numerous leadership positions for organizations throughout Asia, spanning across technology, aviation, telecommunications and financial services.

Suzuki assumes the leadership from Irving Tan, who last month took on the newly created role of senior vice president of Operations and Digital. Joining Chairman and CEO Chuck Robbins’ executive leadership team, Tan will be responsible for driving Cisco’s digital transformation across the company in partnership with Sales, Engineering and other functions.

Commenting on her appointment, Miyuki Suzuki, President, Asia Pacific & Japan at Cisco said: “Asia boasts incredible diversity, with each country presenting new, and often untapped opportunities. With growing economies and increasing technological maturity, Cisco is positioning itself at the heart of regional innovation, enabling customers to collaborate and transform by taking the time to understand the needs of each individual market. I’m looking forward to the challenges ahead and developing new bridges.”

“Miyuki has been instrumental in driving Cisco’s breakthrough growth in Japan in recent years by securing a broad partner network, developing exemplary company initiatives and building customer trust,” added Chris Dedicoat, executive vice president of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations at Cisco. “I’m confident Miyuki has the right experience, innovative thinking and leadership qualities to capture market opportunities across the wider region in her expanded role.”

Currently based in Tokyo, Suzuki will relocate to Cisco’s Asia Pacific & Japan headquarters in Singapore in the near future.  Recruitment is underway for her successor for President of Cisco Japan and will be announced in due course.

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that has been making the Internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow’s digital opportunity today. Discover more at thenetwork.cisco.com and follow us on Twitter at @Cisco.

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October 8, 2017 – Dubai, UAE: Arrow Electronics, Inc., (NYSE: ARW) will showcase a range of modern data center technologies and cloud security solutions from leading technology vendors at Gitex Technology Week to be held 8-10, October in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

“IT professionals in both public and commercial sectors are under increasing pressure to demonstrate if they have the optimal data center technologies and cloud security solutions in place to support digital transformation and deliver values for their business or organization,” said Vimal Kocher, managing director for the Middle East region of Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business. “We are working closely with our solution providers to help them acquire the critical consultative expertise and equip them with the practical solution portfolio to help end-customers better understand what it takes to capture transformative benefits delivered by these technologies in addressing current IT challenges.”

Among the innovative technology solutions on display at Arrow’s booth (Hall 2, G2-1) will be

• Modern data center technologies: HCI, storage, servers, networking and services by Dell EMC;
• Netwitness suite, secur ID suite and Archer suite from RSA, a Dell Technologies business;
• Cloud, mobile and threat prevention solutions from Check Point;
• SIEM, ATD, IPS and endpoint security solutions from McAfee;
• Network testing, visibility, and security solutions from Ixia;
• Hybrid cloud security, network defense and user protection solutions from Trend Micro;
• NGFW, DLP and cloud security solutions from Forcepoint

“We are very excited to join Arrow for the first time at Gitex Technology Week,” said Gabe Luis, Ixia’s head of Channels and Alliances for EMEA.  “Collaborating with Arrow has added a powerful new dimension to our mission of making it easy for resellers to do business with Ixia and help fast-track compelling end-to-end solutions to value added resellers and their customers in the Middle East region.”

Emirates Technology Solutions (Etek) is one of the leading information technology solutions and services companies that Arrow’s working closely with to deliver optimal data center technologies and cloud security solutions.  Arrow will also be conducting daily technical seminars at Etek’s booth (located at Fujairah Government stand) during GITEX on the latest Dell EMC offerings in storage and data protection for enhancing efficiency and optimization.

“Arrow has enabled Etek to acquire the latest critical technology know-how about how hyper-converged infrastructure can deliver multiple compute, memory, storage, network and graphics options to match use case and cover a wide variety of applications and workloads. We have extensive experience in serving the public sector with their digital transformation initiatives. With Arrow’s help, we will display solution demonstration at our booth on how EMC VxRail Appliance family can offer extreme configuration flexibility, allowing end-users to choose the performance, capacity and graphics capability needed to extend and simplify deployment of big data analytics, high-end 2D/3D visualization and collaboration virtualized applications,” said B. S. Nath, executive director of Etek.

At Arrow’s booth stand, solution providers and resellers will be able to engage in face-to-face discussions with technology specialists from Check Point, Dell EMC, Forcepoint, Ixia, McAfee, Trend Micro and Arrow teams to learn more about emerging technology trends.

For more information, visit http://www.arrowecs.ae/.

About Arrow Electronics

Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 100,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of more than 465 locations serving over 90 countries.

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 Invests heavily on areas of Mobility & new age technologies, including IoT, AR & VR

Bangalore, Oct 06, 2017 — 3i Infotech Limited (BSE: 532628, NSE: 3IINFOTECH), a global Information Technology company, will help enterprises take the first step towards digital transformation by adopting Hybrid Cloud, through the Company’s solution offering HybridNxT. The company has positioned itself as a digital engineering partner of choice for enterprises, who are at the crux of major business transformation; in an industry where 60% of every customer’s business will be on the cloud by 2020 and more than 90% by 2025. The company will also continue to invest heavily in the areas of TaaS, DevOps, Agile, and CT (Continuous Testing framework) to meet the demands of enterprises.

Mobility, together with new-age technologies like IoT, AR/VR etc., are an imperative part of digital transformation, and 3i Infotech’s offerings will also cater to all levels of the mobility maturity curve, covering Consulting, Design & Development, Data Testing, Support, Data Intelligence & Co-Innovation.

Mohua Sengupta, EVP and Global Head of Services said, “Business is ever so complex and largely fragmented which makes digitisation the future of business. Our digital frameworks are optimized to deliver the much-needed core transformation in businesses. Based on a curated technology stack, the solutions enable easy technology adoption and are effortlessly scalable. They echo our philosophy to ‘Simplify The New’.”

To make the journey on the cloud seamless for enterprises, the company will also provide enterprises an interactive framework – ‘CReAT’ – Cloud Readiness Assessment for Transformation, which is based on financial savings, responsiveness, business impact and compliance which will helps customers to take decision on their cloud journey. It will help prioritise which workloads to migrate, as well as decide which applications to re-architect or re-engineer with minimum resources and maximum benefit to business.

“It’s heartening to know that competent quality engineering experts and partnerships with leading test automation and DevOps tool vendors put 3i Infotech in a very strong position to meet the expectations of modern day businesses”, she further added.

About 3i Infotech

Headquartered in Mumbai, India, since inception in 1993, the Company has been committed to driving business value across all industry verticals. The Company has over 4800 employees in 18 offices across 11 countries and over 1000+ customers in more than 50 countries across 4 continents. With a comprehensive set of IP based software solutions and a wide range of IT services, 3i Infotech has successfully transformed business operations of customers globally. The Company has a very strong foothold and customer base in geographies like North America, India, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa and South Asia. The Company’s products and services address the dynamic requirements of BFSI, Government, Manufacturing, Retail, Distribution, Telecom and Healthcare. Some of the flagship products include Premia, MFund, Orion, Kastle ULS and Amlock. A robust capability in the services domain is evident through consulting services, business optimization services and an extensive expertise in mobility, data analytics, big data, testing and application development services. 3i Infotech is now an approved GST Suvidha Provider (GSP) for its GST compliance platform, GeSTup (http://gestup.co.in/)

Website: www.3i-infotech.com

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New systems, services and Ready Nodes aimed to speed and expand Open Networking

India – Oct. 6, 2017

• New S4200-Open Networking deep buffer, large table 10/100GbE switch unlocks new top-of-rack and routing capabilities for market disruption in the data center
• Expanded portfolio to accelerate 25GbE adoption in the data center across networking and compute
• New OS10 Enterprise Edition features simplify fabric creation and automate operations for private cloud, hyper-converged infrastructure and software-defined storage environments
• Accelerating SD-WAN adoption for Enterprises and Service Providers with a new suite of Ready Nodes with software from Silver Peak, VeloCloud, and Versa Networks

Dell EMC expanded its Open Networking initiative with new, state-of-the-art infrastructure options, services and implementation capabilities to help customers manage the increasing network demands resulting from their Digital Transformations.

According to industry research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), by 2020, 50% of the Global 2000 will see the majority of their business depend on their ability to create digitally-enhanced products, services, and experiences in response to evolving consumer expectations.

“Transforming IT operations to drive innovation is a foundational element to the broader Digital Transformation efforts happening with Enterprises and Service Providers,” said Tom Burns, senior vice president, Networking, Enterprise Infrastructure and Service Provider Solutions. “Our Open Networking and Ready Nodes solutions are aimed at accelerating transformation, improving agility, lowering costs and enabling new services and applications.”

Dell EMC S4200-ON – Increasing Top-of-Rack performance, bringing Open Networking to Data Center Interconnect applications

The new Dell EMC S4200-ON switch using merchant silicon is a state-of-the-art deep-buffer, deep-table 10/100GbE data center switching platform purpose-built for deployment at the top-of-rack (ToR) and Data Center Interconnect applications, an area historically reserved for proprietary routing solutions. The Dell EMC S4200-ON switch delivers:

• 500X larger buffers than standard Dell EMC 10/100GbE switching platforms, boosting East-West traffic and distributed application performance making it ideal for virtualized environments
• 15X larger tables than standard Dell EMC 10/100GbE switching platforms for use in Data Center Interconnect and full routing applications
• Up to 10X performance increase for Big Data environments compared to standard Dell EMC ToR plaforms
• Up to 2-3X cost savings for interconnect applications compared to proprietary wide-area routing platforms

“Market segments are up for disruption as merchant silicon is now on feature parity with custom ASICs all the way through the core/router layer of the network,” said Alan Weckel, founder and principal analyst, 650 Group.  “It’s very clear that the next big battle in networking will occur in the data center core between traditional switch and routing vendors at both a system level and a silicon level.”

Accelerating 25GbE data center adoption

Enterprise and Service Provider Digital Transformation efforts rely on networking advancements to support rapid adoption of new technology for increasing performance requirements and application types. Next-generation 25GbE networking is designed to meet these constantly increasing networking and compute performance requirements. Dell EMC provides two upgrade paths to best fit customer’s 25GbE adoption schedules:

• The first upgrade path leverages the new Dell EMC Networking S5048 25/100GbE switch and is intended for customers looking to extend their current 10GbE environments while having the built-in capability to move to 25GbE when performance dictates. Customers simply upgrade service NICs from 10GbE to 25GbE when ready, or upgrade to higher performing servers with native 25GbE capabilities, and connect to the 25GbE-ready S5048.
• The second is intended for customers seeking maximum compute and network performance. It combines Dell EMC PowerEdge 14G servers, 25GbE NICs and the recently introduced OS10-based S5148 switch. While also backward compatible to 10GbE, the S5148 switch combined with OS10 Enterprise Edition provides leading edge fabric and automation capabilities for private cloud environments.

”With ever-increasing performance and capacity demands on their networks, 25GbE is quickly gaining momentum with customers,” said Sameh Boujelbene, industry analyst at Dell’Oro Group. “We’re expecting that the 25GbE adoption ramp will be faster than that of 10GbE.”

Automating the data center with new fabric capabilities

Dell EMC advanced its OS10 Open Networking Enterprise Edition software with new SmartFabric Services. Designed for private cloud, hyper-converged infrastructure and storage environments, SmartFabric Services simplify and automate data center fabric creation, deployment and management including:

• Autonomous fabric service capability to build and manage leaf-and-spine fabrics
• Network state-aware automation to scale fabric operations up and out, providing zero-touch expansion, topology validation and upgrade assistance
• Autonomous self-building, self-managing and self-healing fabrics at scale
• Single pane of glass management to manage all fabric switches as one logical chassis

Accelerating SD-WAN adoption for Enterprises and Service Providers

To help service provider customers accelerate time to market and enterprises customers simplify deployments, Dell EMC created three new Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) Ready Nodes. These provide turnkey SD-WAN capabilities with pre-validated and pre-integrated solutions combining Dell EMC infrastructure with industry-leading SD-WAN software from Silver Peak Systems, VeloCloud Networks and Versa Networks. Architected and tested to Dell EMC standards, these Ready Nodes enable customers to quickly deploy cost effective SD-WAN solutions and services.

IDC states that Digital Transformation efforts including cloud, big data and analytics, mobility and social business will be the most significant driver of SD-WAN growth in the next five years. According to IDC’s latest forecast, the firm estimates that worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure and services revenues will see a compound annual growth rate of 69.6% and reach $8.05 billion in 2021.¹

“Commercially-available SD-WAN solutions are relatively new but their ability to address pressing enterprise networking needs has led to a rapid embrace of the dynamic architecture they propagate,” said Rohit Mehra, vice president, Network Infrastructure at IDC. “Traditional WANs were not architected for the cloud and are also poorly suited to the security requirements associated with distributed and cloud-based applications.”

Availability:

The Dell EMC S4200-ON and S5048-ON switches, OS10.4 software are expected to become available in the fourth quarter of this year.

The SD-WAN Ready Nodes with Silver Peak Systems and Versa Networks are available now, with the VeloCloud Networks SD-WAN Ready Bundle expected in the fourth quarter of this year.

Dell EMC

Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies.  This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions.  Dell EMC services customers across 180 countries – including 98 percent of the Fortune 500 – with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from edge to core to cloud.

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Dell EMC Forum- A premier technology event where IT leaders explore business & technology trends, cloud landscape & global best practices

INDIA, New Delhi – August 29, 2017:

• Dell EMC Forum is a multi-format event experience designed for IT decision makers and executives seeking insights to cloud solutions and opportunities to engage with peers
• Dell-EMC Forum is the company’s flag ship event series and marks the completion of 1 year of the successful merger
• The theme for the year is REALIZE Transformation, with a focus on a year-round up of digital experiences and transformations for CIOs, IT leaders & practitioners
• The forum will be spread across 4 cities and will have customers, industry analysts, experts from key sponsors and senior executives from Dell EMC
• Highlights include- Panel discussion by women leaders on ‘Transformational Leadership with New Rules of Engagement’ and Designathon  – an innovative approach to push forward the design thinking amongst the community held along the side-lines of the forum

Technology is transforming the way we live and work at an ever-increasing pace. Post the successful merger last year, the combination of Dell and EMC has created the world’s largest privately controlled, integrated technology company which is best positioned to help all its customers and partners through their Digital Transformation journey.

To address the transformation journey of enterprises to adopt digital, showcase advanced solutions to overcome the new challenges and elevate IT to the next level, Dell EMC is organizing their annual flagship event- Dell-EMC CIO Forum 2017 on 8^th September in Mumbai followed by an outreach in four cities (Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore). These events across four cities will host four tracks with 35 sessions for tech enthusiasts. The 8^th edition of Dell EMC Forum also marks the one year anniversary of Dell and EMC coming together in a successful merger. With an over-arching theme of ‘REALIZE Transformation’, the daylong event in Mumbai will entail four tracks namely – Digital Transformation, IT Transformation, Modernizing IT and Cloud. The forum will be all encompassing across customers of Dell EMC under the commercial and enterprise segments. The event is geared towards sharing the company vision, learning for the attending executives/practitioners and immense networking opportunity amongst peers.

The Forum will have speakers from Dell EMC address the gathering and will be a great showcase platform of the merger where there will be engineering (COE), services, business units, field forces in sales/marketing/communications and global/regional and country teams coming together for a powerful event experience. The track under workforce transformation will hold an innovation CIO debate on the topic ‘Will humans and machines have an equal role in the workplace of tomorrow?’ The other activities will include noted visiting executives and domestic speakers who will address multiple sessions, where attendees can witness the big technologies like Hybrid Cloud, All Flash, Software Defined Storage, Big Data and Converged Infrastructure in action. The forum will also witness perspective from business leaders on the importance of technology, their expectations from technology leaders in digital business transformation.

A highlight for this years’ event will be the panel discussion on Transformational Leadership with New Rules of Engagement, led by women leaders, Therese Cooney– Senior Vice President, APJ Client Solutions, Dell EMC, Karinne Brannigan – Senior Vice President, APJ Marketing, Dell EMC and Sheenam Ohrie – Vice President, Mobile & Search Engineering, Global IT. The forum will also contain the first ever Dell EMC Designathon – an innovative approach to push forward the design thinking amongst the community.

With content for all categories of attendees including – CIOs, IT decision makers, users and administrators, this platform gives immense opportunity to connect with onsite tech experts. Some of the keynote speakers will include David Webster -President, APJ Enterprise Business, Dell EMC; Jaideep Mehta, Analyst, IDC along with a transformational keynote by Mithali Raj.

“Having completed one successful year as a combined entity, the Dell EMC Forum 2017 will present a unique opportunity to get apprised about how companies today have ‘realized’ their digital transformation journey. As Indian customers look to transform their IT to cater to the new demands of the digital age, Dell EMC is most strategically positioned to address their business needs”, said Srihari Palangala, Director and Head of Marketing at Dell EMC. “The forum will present an opportunity to connect with peers, learn from experts, and experience technology in action”, he added.

More details and to register for the event go to < india.emc.com/campaign/global/forum/event.htm>

About Dell EMC

Dell EMC, a part of Dell Technologies, enables organizations to modernize, automate and transform their data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure, servers, storage and data protection technologies.  This provides a trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions.  Dell EMC services customers across 180 countries – including 98% of the Fortune 500 – with the industry’s most comprehensive and innovative portfolio from edge to core to cloud.

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• IIoT platform “toii” is an in-house development that connects machines of different makes and generations
• Due to predictive maintenance the platform is also supposed to forecast the necessity of machine services in the future
• Processes can be planned and coordinated optimally and flexibly

A milestone for the digital transformation: thyssenkrupp connects the machinery of the materials division via a new digital platform. Thanks to toii all machines can communicate with each other. Due to predictive maintenance the platform is also supposed to forecast the necessity of machine services in the future. The name chosen by the business area is a double play on words – it spells IIoT backwards, the abbreviation for “Industrial Internet of Things” – and it is pronounced like the word “toy”, an indication of how the new platform makes linking heterogeneous machines to existing IT structures “child’s play”. toii was developed completely in-house by company software engineering experts and tailored to the specific requirements of Materials Services.

One platform for each and everything
The machinery belonging to the business area, which focuses on global materials distribution and processing services, is highly diverse: The machines perform a wide range of tasks, were made by various manufacturers and differ in age. Now toii makes it possible to connect bandsaws and bending machines, mobile objects like cranes and forklifts and even complex production facilities such as slitting and cut to length lines and sophisticated processing solutions through milling machines and laser systems digitally in line with the Industrial Internet of Things. The digital platform allows the machines to share data and communicate with one another and with the IT systems. Processes can be planned and coordinated optimally and flexibly – across locations, worldwide. As a further major benefit, the platform simplifies data analysis. Which product has been produced when and in what quantities? Which machine needs maintenance? What could be developing into a problem? What additional materials need to be delivered? The system answers all of these questions and many more by gathering and analyzing data. The results are just a mouse click away – clearly structured and easy to understand.

“We’ve created an end-to-end solution that is tailored specifically to our needs. It will enable us to accelerate the automation of our production operations and make our processes much more efficient,” says Hans-Josef Hoss from the board of thyssenkrupp Materials Services. “We are now taking the digital transformation to the core areas of our business: our production shops, our machinery and equipment, and our materials. Our customers will feel the benefit – and so will we.”

Close teamwork of man and machine
toii has already successfully proven its worth in several pilot projects. For example, at Materials Processing Europe in Mannheim, a new, highly complex cut to length line that cuts sheet from coil was fully connected with the platform. The result: toii transfers work orders directly and in real time from the SAP system to the machine and controls its settings from sizes and weights to volumes. The platform also automatically retrieves the machine information required by SAP. As a result, the status of production and the finished products can be viewed at any time. Other machines have also already been digitally connected and automated using toii, for example measuring the thickness of metal strips for effective quality control and automatic blanking. In the latter case, the platform even made it possible to fully integrate the blanking operation into a production line. In other areas, from high-bay storage to mobile construction machinery, toii is improving efficiency as well.

The platform is an in-house development, highly scalable, and can integrate up to several hundred machines a year. An international Materials Services team of IT professionals from Germany, India and the USA worked together to develop toii. Alongside various projects in Germany, there are already plans to deploy the system in the UK and the USA. All data are currently hosted on a central server in Germany. But to be able to comply with all data protection law requirements, local servers will also be created in the UK and USA as part of the further roll-out.

thyssenkrupp Materials Services is systematically driving the digital transformation of the business area throughout the entire value chain. In many areas, connected collaboration and interactive processes are already well established – from logistics, warehousing and line utilization to purchasing and administration. The focus is on customers and their individual requirements. The aim: to continuously develop and implement made-to-measure digital solutions that allow for smarter and more effective collaboration and open up completely new possibilities.

About thyssenkrupp Materials Services:
With around 480 locations in over 40 countries, the Materials Services business area specializes in materials distribution, logistics and services, the provision of technical services as well as services for industrial plants and steel mills. In addition to rolled steel, stainless steel, tubes and pipes, nonferrous metals, specialty materials and plastics, Materials Services also offers services from processing and logistics to warehouse and inventory management through to supply chain and project management.

Together with our customers we develop competitive solutions for current and future challenges in their respective industries. With our engineering expertise we enable our customers to gain an edge in the global market and manufacture innovative products in a cost- and resource-friendly way. Our technologies and innovations are the key to meeting diverse customer and market requirements around the world, growing on the markets of the future, and generating strong and stable earnings, cash flows and value growth.

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