Silver Peak®, the global SD-WAN leader, delivering the transformational promise of the cloud with a self-driving wide area network™, today announced the appointment of Lisa McGill to the position of chief human resources officer. McGill joins Silver Peak from Crowdstrike and will lead the human resources team with a focus toward scaling the company to expand its leadership position in the global SD-WAN market. McGill will report directly to founder and CEO David Hughes.
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data solutions, has announced the Australian availability of its latest in high-performance solutions for multi-user NAS environments, adding to their award-winning IronWolf® SSD product line. Seagate’s IronWolf 510 is an M.2 NVMe SSD with caching speeds of up to 3GBps for NVMe-compatible systems and is ideal for creative pros and business NAS needing 24×7 multi-user storage that is cache enabled.
Australian paper and hygiene system manufacturer Royal Touch, has replaced its high human-touch time-sheeting system with a totally hands free, facial recognition solution from NoahFace. The shift will enable Royal Touch to help mitigate the risks for its workforce, who must record their attendance as they work on site, supplying products to hospitals, government and early learning centres Australia wide.
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) (the “Company” or “Seagate”) today reported financial results for its fiscal third quarter ended April 3, 2020.
“Seagate executed very well in the third quarter while navigating the unprecedented challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our teams worked tirelessly to safeguard the health of their colleagues, support customer demand, and execute our product roadmap. In this challenging environment, we achieved strong financial performance, delivering revenue and non-GAAP EPS that were above our guidance midpoint and continuing to generate solid free cash flow,” said Dave Mosley, Seagate’s chief executive officer.
Blue Prism’s COVID-19 Response Program is at the forefront of the pandemic crisis helping organisations maintain business continuity and assisting those on the front lines of the health emergency. Launched in mid-March, the program already encompasses nearly 50 projects across multiple industries, and has donated hundreds of Digital Workers (software licenses) and thousands of service hours, helping alleviate the disruption caused by COVID-19.
Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions today announced that it has appointed Cameron Watton as Regional Sales Manager for New Zealand.
IAB Australia is expanding its Board to provide greater industry representation, announcing today that the chair of its Executive Tech Council (ETC) will now be represented on the Board. Rohan Creasey, Country Manager ANZ for Rubicon Project who has been the Chair of ETC since June 2019, will be the first representative, taking up the position from April 2020.
Blue Prism announced today it has raised £100 million from existing and new investors, placing it in a strong position in the current economic climate. The funding will be used to further strengthen and protect Blue Prism’s balance sheet during a period of uncertainty for the wider economy, while allowing continued investment in the innovation of its dedicated enterprise intelligent automation suite.
Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions today announced the keynote speakers and the details of the partner pavilion for Genetec™ Connect’DX, the company’s first virtual trade show which will take place April 20-22, 2020. Focused on technology, innovation and the challenges affecting the physical security industry, Connect’DX will provide an opportunity for security professionals from around the world to directly engage with each other as well as with Genetec and its partners.
Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) continues to provide easy access to the latest and most innovative technologies that accelerate and scale automation projects via the company’s Digital Exchange (DX), an intelligent automation “app store” and online community. To date, Blue Prism DX assets have been downloaded tens of thousands of times, making it the ideal online community for augmenting and extending traditional RPA deployments.
With Australian brands actively reviewing how to adapt their businesses models to address the rapidly changing market conditions, new research conducted by Pollinate for IAB Australia has recommended reviewing the strategies of direct brands, particularly around ecommerce, finding that the direct brand economy is achieving mainstream status and has much to offer traditional brands.
Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions today announced that Firmware Vault, the industry’s first camera firmware update service developed by an open architecture VMS vendor, now supports cameras from Axis, Bosch, and Panasonic in addition to existing support for Hanwha Techwin cameras. Designed to help IT administrators and systems integrators stay up to date with latest camera firmware, Firmware Vault helps organisations ensure they have the latest protection from the manufacturer against cyber threats.
Express Virtual Meetings (EVM), a leading provider of audio, and video conferencing services and part of the MNF Group, is helping Australians to conduct business during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis by ensuring video communication within organisations and between businesses is secure and encrypted.
Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions today announced that it is making its digital evidence management system, Genetec Clearance™ (Clearance), available free of charge to any organisation looking to efficiently share digital evidence, from wherever they are.
Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions today released the full conference agenda for Genetec™ Connect’DX, the company’s first virtual trade show taking place April 20-22, 2020.
Industry association IAB Australia has issued an urgent call to action for brands, agencies, ad verification firms, and other companies in the digital advertising supply chain to stop blocking the news. The call comes as many brand and agency teams have mistakenly updated their programmatic and all other media buying to prevent any advertising surrounded by topics including “crisis,” “COVID-19,” and “coronavirus”.
Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions today announced that it has released a new reporting function for its Security Center Synergis™ (Synergis) access control system that is designed to help organisations find all people who went through a door in close proximity to someone thought to be contagious. It is conceivable that they may have contaminated the door handle or other surfaces or left aerosol contaminants in their passage. This report helps identify all people who are at increased risk of being in contact with contaminants or contagious individuals. This feature will be also useful for customers that handle dangerous substances and is made available to all Genetec Synergis Access Control customers at no cost.
Rubicon Project (NYSE:RUBI), the global exchange for advertising, and Telaria (NYSE: TLRA), the complete software platform that optimizes yield for leading video publishers, today announced the closing of their previously announced merger, creating the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform, poised to capture growth in CTV. The combined company will launch with a new name in the coming months and in the interim, will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RUBI.
Looking to extend its industry leading security capabilities, Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) today announced a partnership with SailPoint, a market leader in enterprise identity management. This partnership gives enterprises added visibility and transparency into governing digital workers, resulting in improved compliance reporting, full automation lifecycle management and better security.
Impact, the global leader in Partnership Automation, today announced the creation of a Chief Partnerships Officer (CPsO) role within their organisation. Michael Head, former General Manager of the Impact Partnership Cloud™, was promoted to fill the CPsO role, effective February 13, 2020. They also announced the appointment of Rob Perdue, former COO & board member of The Trade Desk, to Impact’s board of directors.