At Computex Taipei 2018, the leading global ICT and IoT show, Microsoft underscored its commitment to the partner ecosystem and announced new programs and a new category of intelligent devices. These are designed to advantage of a digitally connected world, driving new growth and opportunity for the industry.

At the event, Microsoft leaders shared how the era of the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge will usher in the next phase of innovation and create a broad portfolio of devices that blend more naturally into people’s lives.

Alongside, there were a slew of innovations highlighting (mentioned below) on how intelligent cloud and intelligent edge is bringing the industry together to deliver new experiences and solutions, creating experiences with technology to support ambitions and aspirations.

• Windows Collaboration Displays: Along with its partner ecosystem, Microsoft announced new opportunities to bring Microsoft 365 experiences to life on entirely new categories of devices called Windows Collaboration Displays. These new devices allow users to experience Microsoft 365 collaboration tools: Office, Teams and Whiteboard at room scale. Microsoft 365 is the largest productivity platform in the world and includes Office 365, Windows 10 and Enterprise Mobility + Security delivering a complete, intelligent and secure solution to empower employees. It enables multi-sense, multi-device experiences that put people at the center for both work and life.
• New Intelligent Edge Hardware Partner Program: Microsoft announced a new Intelligent Edge hardware partner program for all hardware partners available in the coming months. This program will deliver new software, training, developer kits and provide hands-on experiences to help the industry build for the future of the intelligent edge
• Windows 10 IoT Core Services: Microsoft revealed a new service offering that will enable partners to commercialize a secure IoT device backed by industry leading support. The service offering helps make it easier to manage updates for the OS, apps, settings, and OEM-specific files, and includes Device Health Attestation (DHA) and is backed with 10 years of support.

As the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge app model becomes central to every application, it will offer a new world of possibilities for the industry to deliver more flexible and custom experiences for everyone.

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Expected to close at the end of February, the new assets bring more than 20,000 square feet of metro edge data center space to the company’s suite of access solutions.

NEW YORK– January 29, 2018 – Cleareon, a New York City-based provider of advanced, neutral access solutions, including wholly owned fiber infrastructure, lit services and data center (hoteling) services, announces that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire additional data center assets within the New York City (NYC) metropolitan area. Set to close in late February, these data center assets, along with the company’s 2017 data center acquisition, position Cleareon to take advantage of densification opportunities in the NYC tri-state area.

Testament to the company’s initiatives to transform and modernize existing access solutions, the latest acquisition also provides additional entrée to numerous carriers and wireless service providers. Supported by extra dense fiber infrastructure, roof rights, AC and DC power plants, the acquisition offers more hoteling space and “front-haul” support for DAS, small cell and other wireless systems – as well as 5G-enabled applications such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data transport and cloud access.

“As with our 2017 acquisition, these assets complement Cleareon’s existing dark fiber and lit services portfolio by strengthening our position at the ‘intelligent edge’ of networking technology and service deployment,” comments Cliff Kane, Co-CEO at Cleareon. “We aren’t simply offering dark fiber or lit services or even data center services. We’re offering premium access solutions while readying NYC for 5G, Cloud, IoT and other promising wireless-enabled applications – right now.”

Cleareon’s data center asset acquisitions have also enabled the company to expand its cloud networking options to include a set of hybrid solutions across cloud, multi-cloud, colocation and bare metal, all provided via SSAE16 / SOC1&2 / PCI / HIPAA / HITECH compliant facilities throughout NYC.

To learn more about Cleareon Fiber Networks, please visit www.cleareon.com.

Cleareon Fiber Networks

Cleareon provides advanced access solutions by combining wholly owned fiber infrastructure, lit services and data center / interconnection (hoteling) assets to deliver unfettered access to and for our customers. Cleareon’s fiber networks extend from our network core through our edge data centers directly to enterprise buildings to deliver robust and fluid layer 1, layer 2 and IP-based managed services. This puts our customers right at the “intelligent edge” to facilitate direct neutral access and interconnection to and between myriad cloud, content providers, ISPs, wireline and wireless providers.

Please visit Cleareon online at www.cleareon.com and follow the company on Twitter @Cleareon.

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~Konica Minolta partners with Microsoft, HPE, Sophos, Canonical and BrainTribe to future-proof business IT management~

India: March 31, 2017 – Konica Minolta Inc. (Konica Minolta) has introduced Workplace Hub, an innovative new enterprise IT solution that unifies all of an organisation’s technology via a single centralised platform. Designed to future-proof workplaces of every size as they work towards digital transformation, version one of Workplace Hub, available from October 2017, directly addresses growing IT complexity by providing more efficient and effective management of the disparate array of tools, services and devices used by modern organisations.

This new platform represents the next phase of Konica Minolta’s long history in innovation, marking its position in the IT services market and perfectly placing the firm to meet the evolving needs of business customers. Acting as a central hub that simplifies IT for an organisation, Workplace Hub drives efficiencies by reducing the overall costs of IT management and service provision, and providing real-time data-driven insights that help to improve business processes. By creating an ecosystem to manage and coordinate the entire IT infrastructure and services across existing and future IT systems, devices and services, Workplace Hub provides users with a central dashboard showing 360-degree visibility of IT usage patterns across the whole business, allowing for simple management and optimisation of systems.This new platform represents the next phase of Konica Minolta’s long history in innovation, marking its position in the IT services market and perfectly placing the firm to meet the evolving needs of business customers. Acting as a central hub that simplifies IT for an organisation, Workplace Hub drives efficiencies by reducing the overall costs of IT management and service provision, and providing real-time data-driven insights that help to improve business processes. By creating an ecosystem to manage and coordinate the entire IT infrastructure and services across existing and future IT systems, devices and services, Workplace Hub provides users with a central dashboard showing 360-degree visibility of IT usage patterns across the whole business, allowing for simple management and optimisation of systems.

Moreover, the platform’s product roadmap includes future integration of IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Edge and Decision Support capabilities as they become more central to the business environment of tomorrow. Adding this cognitive layer of organisational insight unleashes an intuitive understanding of the world that empowers people to collaborate better and to make smarter, data-driven decisions more effectively and easily.

Global partnerships with HPE, Sophos and Microsoft deliver best in class hardware, security and IT solutions. Additional services from Canonical and BrainTribe bring the power of open source and advanced data management, helping to facilitate effective digital transformation for any business.

Dennis Curry, a Vice President and Director of Business Innovation and R&D at Konica Minolta, said “Workplace Hub will evolve to become the most comprehensive platform for the services and capabilities demanded by the workplace of the future. It means businesses can grow and manage their IT in tandem with changing business needs. It simplifies IT operations today and paves the way for exciting new integrations, such as AI and intelligent edge computing, to become a central part of the digital organisation of the future.”

This strategic shift will allow Konica Minolta to deliver more comprehensive digital transformation solutions, while continuing its heritage of providing the very best products and services for the business market as a whole.

”The new age businesses have dynamic workloads, giving rise to the need for a holistic solution synched in a single platform. Workplace hub come as an answer to the growing complexities associated with diverse work related requirements, furnishing unprecedented management of a host of different devices, platforms and tools. This will not only help businesses in significantly enhancing their output but will also lead to increased in house efficiency,” said Yuji Nakata, Managing Director, Konica Minolta India.

“The workplace is evolving at an unparalleled rate and digital transformation is becoming increasingly important to both survival and future prosperity,” said Shoei Yamana, CEO and President of Konica Minolta Inc. “Workplace Hub not only allows businesses of all sizes to achieve effective transformation, but future-proof themselves against the next wave of technology innovations already infiltrating the business environment.”

Workplace Hub version one will be available from October 2017 to organisations looking for enterprise quality managed services at an affordable price.

More information on the launch event, keynote speakers and panel discussions can be found at workplacehub.konicaminolta.com.

About Konica Minolta

Konica Minolta, Inc. is a global technology company that provides innovative solutions to businesses and society. With its strengths in the combination of its core technologies in advanced imaging, optics, sensing, materials and nano-processing, Konica Minolta is committed to create new values that help customers address challenges in their operations and work processes. Advancing its expertise in digital technologies, the company has been going through business transformation into problem-solving digital company across the board as One Konica Minolta in the era of Internet of the Things (IoT). Konica Minolta is also active in open innovation through various collaborations and alliances with academic, industrial and entrepreneurial partners.

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