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  • Skkynet Teams with Red Lion Controls to Expand Secure IIoT Services

    Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    Mississauga, Ontario, Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc. ("Skkynet" or "the Company") (OTCQB: SKKY), a global leader in real-time cloud information systems, announces a new collaboration with Red Lion Controls that provides industrial automation engineers and managers with highly secure, real-time communication that seamlessly integrates with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The collaboration employs Skkynet's Embedded Toolkit (ETK) in combination with Red Lion's Sixnet® series IndustrialPro® cellular routers and Data Station Plus protocol converters. Together, the system supports over 300 industrial protocols to link devices to Skkynet's SkkyHub™ for secure, bidirectional, real-time communication.

    "There are a number of major hurdles to becoming IIoT-ready, most importantly security and multi-protocol communication," said Paul Thomas, President of Skkynet. "A primary objective of this collaboration was to integrate our ETK on Red Lion's IndustrialPro cellular routers, thereby providing secure connectivity to SkkyHub, with no open firewall ports, VPN or programming required.  The end result is secure, real-time monitoring, control, networking, and big data collection at a far lower total cost of ownership (TCO)."

    "Becoming IIoT-ready can be a daunting task for many organizations with legacy devices that do not speak the same language," said Brian Rosema, director of IIoT strategy for Red Lion Controls. "With support for more than 300 industrial protocols, our Data Station Plus protocol converters and rugged cellular routers work in tandem with SkkyHub to connect devices, thereby improving process visibility and pushing control to the edge. The result is a robust, fully integrated IIoT solution that connects virtually any device to any other device or user."

    Skkynet's SkkyHub service provides secure, end-to-end bidirectional connectivity between the Sixnet IndustrialPro series routers and end users at all levels, from operators and plant engineers to managers, analysts, and customers. The service is capable of handling over 50,000 data changes per second per client, at speeds just a few milliseconds over Internet latency. Secure by design, it requires no VPN, no open firewall ports, no special programming, and no additional hardware.

    About Red Lion Controls

    As the global experts in communication, monitoring and control for industrial automation and networking, Red Lion Controls has been delivering innovative solutions to customers for over forty years. Our automation, Ethernet and cellular M2M technology enables companies worldwide to gain real-time data visibility that drives productivity. Product brands include Red Lion, N-Tron and Sixnet. With headquarters in York, Pennsylvania, the company has offices across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Red Lion is part of Spectris plc, the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company. For more information, please visit www.redlion.net.

    About Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc.

    Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: SKKY) is a global leader in real-time cloud information systems. Skkynet Connected Systems include the award-winning SkkyHub™ service that collects, processes, and distributes real-time information over networks, locally and remotely, as well as DataHub® and WebView™ proven middleware products that enable real-time data integration and distribution for industrial, embedded, and financial systems. These services and products allow data-intensive organizations to safely and securely manage, supervise, and control industrial processes, embedded devices, and financial information systems, with no programming required. Customers include Microsoft, Siemens, ABB, Honeywell, IBM, GE, Statoil, Goodyear, BASF, Cadbury Chocolate, and the Bank of Canada. For more information, see http://skkynet.com.

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    CONTACT: Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc. Paul E. Thomas, President Office: (888) 628-2028 Fax: (888) 705-5366 Web: http://skkynet.com Email: ir@skkynet.com

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  • NetSol Technologies Signs Two New Agreements in China to Provide Finance and Leasing Software Solution

    Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    CALABASAS, Calif., and BEIJING, Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NetSol Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTWK), a global business services and enterprise application solutions provider, was selected by Taiwan Acceptance Corporation Finance Leasing Co., Ltd. ("TAC Leasing"), an entity approved by the China Ministry of Commerce, and Yulon Auto Finance Company ("Yulon"), an entity approved by the China Banking Regulatory Commission, to implement applications of the NetSol Financial SuiteTM. Both companies are affiliated with the Taiwan Acceptance Corporation, and Yulon is the first auto finance company in China to receive investment from the Taiwan Group.

    TAC Leasing will implement the NetSol Financial Suite Credit Application Processing System (CAP) and Contract Management System (CMS) for retail business operations. Yulon will implement CAP, CMS and the Wholesale Finance System (WFS) as its core business solution. The agreements have a combined value of approximately $3.0 million, which include business process consulting, customization and on-site implementation services, and are expected to be completed within the next six months.

    "We are proud to have been selected by TAC Leasing and Yulon to help further their growth objectives in China," said Najeeb Ghauri, CEO of NetSol. "These new contracts further our market leadership position in the asset finance and leasing sector in China, and represent the trust in our people, process and systems to manage vital business functions. With new companies entering the market and the encouragement of financing and leasing by the Chinese government, we remain highly confident about our prospects moving forward."

    In 2015, NetSol was awarded "First Rate and Best Selling Finance and Leasing Solution Provider" at the annual China Leasing Summit for the third consecutive year.

    About NetSol Technologies

    NetSol Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:NTWK) is a worldwide provider of IT and enterprise software solutions primarily serving the global leasing and financing industry. The Company's suite of applications are backed by 40 years of domain expertise and supported by a committed team of more than 1000 professionals placed in eight strategically located support and delivery centers throughout the world. To sign up to receive news alerts and regulatory filing notifications, please visit http://ir.netsoltech.com/email-alerts.

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  • Informatica Customers and Partners Support Informatica Big Data Management

    Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    Booth #337, Strata + Hadoop World, New York City, NY, Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica, the world's number one independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data, today introduced the Informatica Big Data Management framework, the most comprehensive hybrid data management approach to manage all things big data. Informatica Big Data Management framework is a holistic approach to managing big data, which includes a comprehensive view focused on three pillars required for big data management solutions: Data Integration, Data Governance and Data Quality, and Data Security. 

    Informatica also announced its $1 Million Software and Services Big Data Ready Challenge to help organizations overcome the challenges of taking their big data projects from pilot to production.

    The Informatica ecosystem has expressed its support for Informatica Big Data Management and here is what some partners and customers have to say:

    Customers

    Cox Automotive: "Cox Automotive is comprised of over two dozen companies, including AutoTrader, Manheim and Kelley Blue Book. Each of these companies produces and consumes a massive amount of data that is even more valuable when shared among them. Big Data Management helps us consolidate, integrate, govern and secure all data at scale in what we've called an 'Analytics Hub' and make it available for everyone to use, to help build out new and better products."

    - Ben Garrett, Director, Enterprise Data Services Architecture and Operations

    Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL): "JLL is a financial and professional services firm that specializes in commercial real estate services and investment management in more than 80 countries. Big Data Management is the foundation for big data analytic initiatives at JLL, which helps us significantly improve customer satisfaction. Big Data Integration and Big Data Governance address a variety of business needs, such as end-to-end data lineage, mastering customer data, providing efficient and near real-time at-scale data integration, and agile development."

    - Sridhar Potineni, Executive Vice President of Innovation

    Kaiser Permanente: "Analytics is central to Kaiser's business and promoting better health for all. Big Data Management helps us overcome the primary obstacles to analytics which are the ability to access, govern, and trust the data. To build a next-gen analytics platform requires the ability to integrate at scale a wide variety of healthcare related data, govern critical data using a universal metadata catalog, and secure sensitive data to protect the privacy of our patients and employees."

    - Manish Vipani, Vice President and Chief Architect

    KPN: "Big Data Management plays a critical role at KPN as a data-driven company. Big Data Integration breaks down data silos to provide better customer intelligence. Big Data Governance and Quality ensures that our business analysts can be confident with the data they're using. Additionally, we have very strict laws in Europe around sensitive customer information and require the ability to discover the proliferation of sensitive information. Therefore, we also need Big Data Security that provides a 360-degree view of sensitive data, supported by risk analytics and policy-based protection of data at risk. We are taking a comprehensive approach to Big Data Management at KPN."

    - Thomas Reichel, Lead Architect

    Symphony Health Solutions: "Symphony Health Solutions uses a dynamic and optimized Big Data Integration platform to support key initiatives from predictive market analysis to patient influence, physician prescribing, pharmacy fulfillment, payer reimbursement, and sales compensation. The productivity of the environment, speed of data delivery, and the ability to collect and integrate data at scale from over 100 sources is critical to our success in deploying a Big Data Management strategy."

    - Jeff Little, Senior Director, IT Core Systems

    Partners

    Cisco: "Big data is a business imperative for our customers. With the extreme scalability that Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) provides, many customers are already experiencing the benefit of quickly mining massive amounts of data to innovate and bring new solutions to market faster. Now, by bringing together Cisco UCS and Informatica Big Data Management, we deliver an even more comprehensive software and hardware solution for our customers to unlock the intelligence in their data."

    - Jim McHugh, Vice President of Cisco Unified Computing System and Data Center Solutions Marketing

    Cloudera: "Cloudera Enterprise and Informatica Big Data Management together are designed specifically for mission-critical environments. Since the early days of Hadoop, Cloudera and Informatica have led with best practices and tight integrations with Cloudera Navigator, Cloudera Manager and Spark to deliver massively scalable data integration, end-to-end data governance, and robust data security and protection."

    - Tim Stevens, Vice President of Business and Corporate Development

    Cognizant: "Today's digital enterprises are inundated with massive amounts of information from a wide variety of data sources. Extracting meaning and business insight from these high volume data streams requires innovative analytics and Big Data Management services and solutions. Cognizant is working with leading companies like Informatica to provide our clients with the experience, skills and latest tools that enable them to harness and exploit this flood of data to drive business value."

    - Karthik Krishnamurthy, Vice President and Global Business Head, Enterprise Information Management

    Hortonworks: "Together, Hortonworks Data Platform and Informatica Big Data Management enable organizations to optimize their extract transform load workloads with long-term storage and processing at scale in Hadoop. Powered by a YARN-based architecture, this partnership enables the data-first enterprise to build systems of insight that integrate at scale, govern with metadata and secure comprehensively."

    - Matthew Morgan, Vice President, Product and Alliance Marketing

    MapR Technologies: "MapR and Informatica give companies an advantage with enterprise-grade big data management for business-critical production applications. When you combine the innovative features of the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop, such as high availability, disaster recovery, security and full data protection, with Informatica's Big Data Management solutions, organizations can confidently integrate, govern and secure all their data at scale in a production data center."

    - Anil Gadre, Senior Vice President of Product Management

    Teradata: "Teradata and Informatica have a long history of delivering the best products and solutions the industry has to offer for data management. Now, in this era of big data analytics, we are leading with the Teradata Unified Data Architecture that allows for next-gen analytics that turn insights into action and value with "best fit" engineered for big data management, optimized integration, universal metadata for governance, and complete security."

    - Chris Twogood, Vice President of Product and Services Marketing

    Tweet this: News: @Informatica customers and partners support Informatica #BigData Management http://infa.media/BigDataSupport

    About Informatica

    Informatica is a leading independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential and drive top business imperatives. More than 5,800 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and on the internet, including social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica at https://www.linkedin.com/company/Informatica, https://twitter.com/Informatica and https://www.facebook.com/InformaticaLLC.

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    CONTACT: Debbie O'Brien Informatica +1 650 385 5735 - office +1 650 995 6736 - mobile dobrien@informatica.com Shira Frantzich Informatica +1 650 385 5674 - office sfrantzich@informatica.com

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  • Informatica Announces $1 Million Big Data Ready Challenge to Help Organizations Succeed in Big Data Projects

    Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    Booth #337, Strata + Hadoop World, New York City, NY, Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica, the world's number one independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data, today announced its $1 Million Software and Services Big Data Ready Challenge to help organizations overcome the challenges of taking their big data projects from pilot to production. Through the contest, Informatica will award a total of at least US$1 million in software and services to help qualifying organizations in North America deliver clear business value from their big data initiatives. Six finalists and two winners each quarter will be selected during the next 12 months, and a grand prize winner will be picked at the Big Data Ready Fall Summit in December 2016.

    • Entries are being accepted now through November 1, 2016 here.
    • The contest is subject to rules that may be found here.  

    The judges for the Contest include:

    • Professor Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College.
    • Dr. Claudia Imhoff, President and Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust and Intelligent Solutions, Inc. A thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and advanced analytics.
    • David S. Linthicum is a consultant at Cloud Technology Partners and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader.
    • Mark Smith, CEO and Executive Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research.
    • Amit Walia, EVP and Chief Product Officer, Informatica.
    • Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman, Constellation Research. 

    Additionally, Informatica introduced the Informatica Big Data Management framework, the most comprehensive hybrid data management approach to manage all things big data. Informatica Big Data Management framework is a holistic approach to managing big data, which includes a comprehensive view focused on three pillars required for big data management solutions. 

    Data Integration

    Big data integration must deliver high-throughput data ingestion and at-scale processing so business analysts can make better decisions using next-generation analytics tools. Big data integration helps businesses gain better insights from big data because it:

    • Speeds up development, leverages existing IT skills, and simplifies maintenance through the use of a simple visual interface supported by easy-to-use templates.
    • Increases performance and resource utilization by optimizing data processing execution and providing flexible, hybrid deployment across a variety of platforms.
    • Handles a wide variety of data sources though hundreds of pre-built transformations and connectors, and orchestrates data flows by using broker-based data ingestion.

    Data Governance and Data Quality

    End-to-end big data governance and quality means business and IT users can be confident with the data they are using. Comprehensive data governance includes:

    • Formal data quality assessments to detect data anomalies sooner.
    • Pre-built data quality rules to ensure data is "fit-for-purpose."
    • Universal metadata catalog to facilitate search and automate data processing.
    • Entity matching and linking to enrich master data, such as for customers.
    • End-to-end data lineage for data provenance, traceability and compliance audits.

    Data Security

    Risk-centric big data security analyzes all data to quickly detect and act upon risks and vulnerabilities. This requires a 360-degree view of sensitive data, supported by risk analytics and policy-based protection of data at risk. Additionally, data preparation is required to ensure that big data is consistent and of high quality. Big data security should de-identify information controlled by corporate policies and industry regulations. Risk-centric big data security and data preparation must enable:

    • "Single pane of glass" monitoring of sensitive data stores to provide visibility into the locations of sensitive data.
    • Sensitive data discovery and classification for a comprehensive 360-degree view of sensitive data.
    • Usage and proliferation analysis for a precise understanding of data risk.
    • The integration of disparate applications to easily process and analyze data, leading to insights that help organizations make better decisions.
    • Risk assessment to help prioritize investments in security programs.
    • Non-intrusive persistent and dynamic data masking to protect sensitive data in development and production environments to help minimize the risk of a security breach.

    Supporting Quotes:

    "During my discussions with organizations worldwide, they have highlighted their big data management challenges, and one of the greatest challenges they face is successfully capitalizing on the true potential of big data in their enterprises," said Amit Walia, executive vice president and chief product officer, Informatica. "Informatica is key to making that happen, particularly now that we are offering more than $1 million in software and services to help selected companies overcome their big data challenges. We want to partner with customers who want to harness big data to deliver significant business results, to eradicate cancer, to solve world hunger issues, to aid in space exploration, to further connect the citizens of the planet and beyond. We invite organizations that have North American data centers to bring us their biggest big data management challenges so we can solve it together to make the world a better place."

    "Cox Automotive is comprised of over two dozen companies, including AutoTrader, Manheim and Kelley Blue Book. Each of these companies produces and consumes a massive amount of data that is even more valuable when shared among them," said Ben Garrett, director, Enterprise Data Services Architecture and Operations, Cox Automotive. "Big Data Management helps us consolidate, integrate, govern and secure all data at scale in what we've called an "Analytics Hub" and make it available for everyone to use, to help build out new and better products."

    According to research directors, Eric Thoo and Lakshmi Randall, in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools report, published July 29, 2015, "Data acquisition for business intelligence (BI), analytics and data warehousing --Extracting data from operational systems, transforming and merging that data, and delivering it to integrated data structures for analytics purposes. The variety of data and context for analytics is expanding as emergent environments -- such as NoSQL and Hadoop distributions for supporting big data, in-memory DBMSs, logical data warehouse architectures and end-user capability to integrate data (as part of data preparation) -- increasingly become parts of the information infrastructure."

    The Informatica ecosystem has expressed its support for Informatica Big Data Management. For more on what customers Cox Automotive, Jones Lang LaSalle, Kaiser Permanente, KPN and Symphony Health Solutions, and partners Cisco, Cloudera, Cognizant, Hortonworks, MapR Technologies and Teradata have said, read the "Informatica Customers and Partners Support Informatica Big Data Management" quote sheet here.

    Additional Information

    • Informatica Big Data Management will be showcased at the Informatica booth (#337) at Strata + Hadoop World, September 29 - October 1, 2015, at the Javits Center, New York City, NY.
    • Murthy Mathiprakasam, principal product marketing manager for Informatica's big data products, will join with Vishal Bamba, vice president of strategy and architecture at Transamerica Technology, in highlighting big data architecture and management in a session titled, "Delivering Trusted Data for Analyst Autonomy and Operational Agility With a Unified Big Data Fabric" on Wednesday, September 30, at 2:05 p.m., in 1 E14.
    • Amit Walia will speak with Wikibon analysts on theCUBE on October 1, at 11:00 am ET. #BigDataNYC

    Tweet this: News: @Informatica announces $1 million #BigData Ready #contest details here http://infa.media/BigDataReadyPage

    About Informatica

    Informatica is a leading independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential and drive top business imperatives. More than 5,800 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and on the internet, including social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica at https://www.linkedin.com/company/Informatica, https://twitter.com/Informatica and https://www.facebook.com/InformaticaLLC.

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    CONTACT: Debbie O'Brien Informatica +1 650 385 5735 - office +1 650 995 6736 - mobile dobrien@informatica.com Shira Frantzich Informatica +1 650 385 5674 - office sfrantzich@informatica.com

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  • QualiTest and DataVision Partner to Provide NFV/SDN Assurance for Customers Worldwide

    Published: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    FAIRFIELD, Conn., Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QualiTest, the world's second largest independent software testing and QA company, is joining forces with DataVision, a leading provider of SDN/NFV Consulting, Solutions And Staffing, to offer a joint solution for implementing and optimizing your SDN/NFV network elements and infrastructure testing.

    Combining QualiTest's testing services and DataVision's migration and implementation expertise, the partnership will provide key technology support services, including design and planning, network integration and migration, operational support and network optimization. Customers will be able to benefit from the partnership's expertise in Network Functionals Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), along with the utilization of DataVision's SDN Realization Roadmap, SDN Now Lifecycle Management System and QuickStart Lab.

    QualiTest uses Datavision's SDN QuickStart Lab to test SDN use cases and vendor selections in real-life simulations, verifying the functionality of the hardware and software components. Utilizing comprehensive NFV automated testing methodology, QualiTest's thorough and scalable testing practice reduces the overhead associated with QA and testing of large-scale software efforts. The solutions consist of NFV Test Accelerators, including pre-defined test assets constructed from over 580 test requirements and over 6,000 test cases, and a test automation repository that includes over 1,000 test scripts to fully test MANO, NFVI and VNF.

    Bryon Lowen, QualiTest UK's VP of Telco, said about the alliance, "DataVision has been providing partnerships to their clients for over 20 years, and we are pleased to be joining their community. Our partnership with DataVision will ensure that we are guiding our clients towards scalable and agile networks, while reducing operational expenditures. DataVision's tools and expertise provides our clients with an established strategy and implementation of an SDN, which we utilize to ensure a successful transition to NFV and SDN."

    QualiTest and DataVision will be hosting a webinar on October 7, discussing setting up and testing your NFV ecosystem. Join them for this exciting event here!

    About QualiTest

    QualiTest is the world's second largest pure play software testing and QA company. Testing and QA is all that we do! We design and deliver contextualized solutions that leverage deep industry-specific understanding with technology-specific competencies and unique testing-focused assets. QualiTest delivers results by combining customer-centric business models, critical thinking and the ability to gain a profound comprehension of customers' goals and challenges.

    About DataVision

    Datavision Inc. is an IT Solutions Provider for some of the biggest companies in the world and takes pride in staying in the forefront of this ever changing informational universe. Technology is always changing and our team is always changing with it to bring our clients the most up to date solutions.

    The emergence of practical ways to migrate toward the "open source" and OpenStack- based infrastructure of SDN has been of particular interest to the IT community. Datavision has developed expertise to help our clients investigate, set up proofs of concept, and helped to migrate and transition to the new direction in networking and computing technology.
    In addition, we provide solutions in the areas of investigating, planning, architecting, designing, developing, and technically assuring integration of a Tier 1 Telecom Provider's Managed Solutions Offer into operational deployment in both the Public and Private Sector for the past 8 years. We have deep experience in service provider and enterprise network strategy, design and realization.

    CONTACT: Amanda Johnson amandaj@qualitestgroup.com (410) 271-1724

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  • NOVADAQ Unveils SPY-Q Case Management Software at the SAWC Fall Symposium

    Published: Monday, September 28, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    TORONTO, Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novadaq® Technologies Inc. ("NOVADAQ" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:NVDQ) (TSX:NDQ), the leading developer and provider of clinically relevant fluorescence imaging solutions for use in surgical and diagnostic procedures, today announced the unveiling of SPY-Q Case Manager (SPY-QCM), at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care ("SWAC") Fall 2015 meeting being held in Las Vegas, Nevada from September 26-28.

    SPY-QCM is an image acquisition and analysis software toolkit that will also enable physicians treating patients with compromised blood flow and tissue perfusion to assess the effectiveness of chosen treatments over time using new case management functionality. SPY-QCM will compile image data acquired using NOVADAQ's Fluorescence Angiography System over the course of a treatment period, and will provide a clear history of a patient's recovery progress and, if appropriate, allow them to alter treatment strategies to maximize the likelihood of a successful outcome.

    "Despite the many advances in treatments, monitoring of the wound microcirculation during treatment has been one of the major unmet needs," commented Dr. William W. Li, President of the non-profit Angiogenesis Foundation. "The introduction of a powerful new case management software like SPY-QCM will allow clinicians to perform perfusion assessments serially over a course of treatment and to compare those assessments. Results are displayed immediately and provide arterial inflow and venous outflow intensity and rate maps that, when plotted over time, give clinicians valuable insight into the restoration of the critical local blood supply toward baseline or healthy tissue."

    "SPY-QCM will empower clinicians to more effectively monitor patient recovery during the course of treatment, allowing for better informed decisions within a wound therapy program," explained Arun Menawat, NOVADAQ's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The development of this case management software is a natural progression of NOVADAQ's industry-leading SPY technology, and fills a key void for physicians in the ongoing monitoring and treatment of wounds."

    SPY-QCM represents the latest technology development for NOVADAQ's family of SPY products. LUNA is designed for use in hospitals and clinics by specialists treating patients with a variety of vascular conditions such as acute and chronic non-healing wounds. LUNA allows clinicians to visualize blood flow in peripheral vessels and more reliably assess tissue perfusion. Information related to the quality of perfusion can assist in determining optimal treatment strategies and may consequently lead to improved rates of wound healing and reductions in the cost of care.

    About Novadaq Technologies Inc.

    Enabling medical professionals with clinically relevant, point-of-care imaging solutions to enhance the lives of patients and their caregivers, while reducing health care costs, is NOVADAQ's global mission. SPY fluorescence imaging technology provides surgeons with real-time visualization, without exposing the patient to radiation. More than 150 peer-reviewed publications demonstrate that the use of SPY imaging technologies during complex surgery and diagnostic procedures, leads to lower rates of post-operative complications and lower hospital costs.

    SPY Imaging Systems are United States Food and Drug Administration 510(k) cleared for use in seven surgical specialties. The endoscopic version of SPY called PINPOINT, combines the capabilities of SPY Imaging with high definition ("HD") visible light visualization offered by conventional endoscopes. LUNA is used to assess perfusion in patients being treated for non-healing wounds. In December 2014, NOVADAQ and LifeNet Health jointly announced the signing of a multi-year agreement appointing NOVADAQ the exclusive worldwide distributor of LifeNet Health's DermACELL acellular tissue products for wound and breast reconstruction surgery.

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    Certain statements included in this press release may be considered forward-looking. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those implied by such statements, and therefore these statements should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results. All forward-looking statements are based on NOVADAQ's current beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to NOVADAQ and relate to, among other things, the Company's strategy, strategic goals, research and development activities, research and clinical testing outcomes, taxes, capital expenditures, future operations, future financial position, future revenues/results, projected costs, prospects and plans and objectives of management.

    Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Due to risks and uncertainties, including the risks and uncertainties identified by NOVADAQ in its public securities filings available at www.sec.gov and www.sedar.com, actual events may differ materially from current expectations. NOVADAQ disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

    NOVADAQ, SPY, SPY-Q, PINPOINT and LUNA are registered trademarks of Novadaq Technologies Inc. DermACELL is a registered trademark of LifeNet Health.

    CONTACT: For more information, please contact: Stephen Kilmer Investor Relations 1-647-872-4849 skilmer@novadaq.com

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  • EFI Showcases Jetrion One-pass LED Inkjet Label Press and New Packaging Productivity Suite at Labelexpo Europe

    Published: Monday, September 28, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LABELEXPO -- At Labelexpo Europe EFI™ (stand 9C40) is showing the first fully inline LED inkjet digital printing system available with laser cutting and finishing for lean label production. The production line features the 13-inch (330-mm) wide EFI Jetrion® 4950LX LED narrow web press with a white ink module. To complement its high-productivity press, EFI is demonstrating a new Enterprise Packaging Productivity Suite custom configured to address the needs of three segments: label, flexible packaging and folding carton converting, as well as tighter integration with Esko's Automation Engine.

    EFI Jetrion LED press with white ink and inline finishing

    The automated Jetrion 4950LX press with integrated finishing has a superior, 720x720 dots per inch resolution. Plus, EFI is demonstrating a faster, 164-feet (50-meter) per minute speed, a higher level of throughput that can make digital inkjet label converting an even more useful option as a replacement for flexographic printing.

    "We are one of the first label printers in the world to have digital printing and inline finishing in one machine. The new laser uses 95% of its power for die cutting and only 5% ends up in the substrate – this used to be 25%. The benefit is that our labels come off the roll much more easily and are more suitable for further processing using automatic labeling machines," said Richard Rensen, owner of The Label Collective Group located in Haaksbergen, the Netherlands.

    "With a 330 mm print width, we can print label sizes up to 250x470 mm, as needed, for nutritional supplements, for example. Or we can print two side by side, or if a label is 80 mm we can print four side by side rather than two as before," added Rensen.

    "The Jetrion 4950LX LED press on display is the culmination of years of advanced research in narrow-web production and LED inkjet technology. With nearly 200 Jetrion presses installed worldwide, EFI is the market leader in narrow-web inkjet technology and has helped customers worldwide achieve remarkable growth in digital label printing," said Ken Hanulec, vice president of marketing, EFI Inkjet Solutions.

    With the Jetrion 4950LX, label producers can reduce labor costs and make-ready prep using a 1000-watt inline laser cutter. Plus, the white ink module for the press gives them more flexibility in full-color imaging on clear, metallic and colored substrates. Inline varnishing and lamination are available as optional modules.

    The press's LED platform offers a "cool cure" advantage, giving converters the opportunity to print on a broader range of substrates that cannot withstand the heat required with other curing or drying methods. Cool cure printing with the Jetrion 4950LX press also is a greener, more economical choice because it requires significantly less energy, and the press's LED lamps are more consistent and last significantly longer than traditional UV lamps.

    EFI Jetrion users gain significant productivity improvements using the latest-version EFI Fiery® software, which RIPs jobs up to 80% faster than the previous Fiery software for Jetrion presses. The software also offers new tools for improved brand color management.

    Also featured on the EFI stand is the EFI H1625 LED printer, a 65-inch wide hybrid roll/flatbed printer suitable for high-quality label proofing and packaging prototyping applications.

    EFI Enterprise Packaging Productivity Suite

    Label converters looking for ways to improve their management and production workflow can view EFI's new Enterprise Packaging Productivity Suite. Each of EFI's Productivity Suites is modular, allowing users to configure the Suite to meet their specific needs. The workflow solution optimizes scheduling for more on-time delivery, decreases waste, and provides better insight into the business for increased profit margins.

    EFI Radius® enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is at the heart of the Packaging Suite. This proven enterprise software with deep industry-specific functionality is the leading solution for converters with multi-company, multi-plant, multi-currency and multi-language environments.

    Working alongside Radius is EFI's award-winning PrintFlow® Dynamic Scheduling solution, which automates and intelligently schedules thousands of tasks and sequences them to minimize switchover and setup time. The industry's ultimate scheduling platform is based on the Theory of Global Optimization (TGO), which has taken lean principles and re-written them for the unique demands of the printing and packaging industry.

    The Suite's Business Intelligence solution provides converters with comprehensive, real-time data in an intuitive point-and-click environment. What-if capabilities and simple drill-down functionality allow users to digest information at an enterprise-wide view or at a detailed level, looking at specific work centers, customers, vendors and more.

    The Radius Portal and EFI eCRM application bring important ordering and RFQ functionality to remote employees and allow returning customers to easily place their own orders for repeat items.

    "As a growing business we were looking to standardize our procedures across multiple locations, allowing real-time, consolidated performance data, with the added benefit of seeing site-specific performance information," said Dannielle Beattie, Group Business Improvement Manager at inspirepac (UK).

    "We opted for EFI due to the versatility of the software. It allows us to work with our different business units – be it display print or flexo corrugated – in a system that has been developed specifically for the print and packaging industry. The opportunity to have flexibility, but within a standard framework, has meant all areas of the business can be satisfied."

    Radius-Esko Integration Demonstration

    Building on the existing item-based workflow integration, the latest Radius release now contains enhanced integration for a job-based workflow. Once a production job has been created in Radius, details are passed to Esko's Automation Engine, which then produces a print-ready stepped PDF. Once complete, the file is linked to the job in Radius, ready to be sent to the print device. The Radius-Esko integration provides more visibility into prepress costs, the removal of manual touchpoints and greater accuracy, speed and more.

    EFI GamSys MIS for Small to Medium-Sized Converters

    On the Labelexpo floor GamSys MIS, winner of 2015 Graphitec Award for Innovation, will be fully integrated with EFI Digital StoreFront® Web-to-print solution and EFI Metrix® imposition software.

    Developed for small and medium-sized businesses, GamSys optimizes the production process by creating visibility on the production floor, managing order and production information efficiently, while controlling costs. It improves the customer experience by allowing them to create web shops, provide online quotations and manage orders. Metrix is an automated planning and imposition solution that brings a unique blend of features to create cost-driven layouts. GamSys eliminates the need for manual data entry so short-run jobs can be produced profitably. It is an excellent fit for label converters looking to streamline and optimize their workflow.

    EFI Jetrion digital press users can further improve digital print management by connecting the Fiery software used with Jetrion presses to GamSys MIS or Radius ERP software.

    About EFI

    EFI™ is a global technology company, based in Silicon Valley, and is leading the worldwide transformation from analogue to digital imaging. We are passionate about fueling customer success with products that increase competitiveness and boost productivity. To do that, we develop breakthrough technologies for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, and personalized documents, with a wide range of printers, inks, digital front ends, and a comprehensive business and production workflow suite that transforms and streamlines the entire production process. (www.efi.com)

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    NOTE TO EDITORS: The EFI logo, Electronics For Imaging, Jetrion, Radius, Fiery, PrintFlow, Metrix and Digital StoreFront are registered trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in the U.S. and/or certain other countries. EFI is a trademark of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in the U.S. and/or certain other countries. All other terms and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners and are hereby acknowledged.

    CONTACT: David Lindsay Public Relations Manager EFI (Electronics for Imaging) Phone +1 404 931 7760 david.lindsay@efi.com

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  • Blue Calypso and Yelp Agree to Initial Order of KIOSentrix(R) Beacons

    Published: Monday, September 28, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    DALLAS, Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Calypso, Inc. (BCYP), an innovator of mobile consumer activation, engagement and social advocacy solutions for manufacturers and brick-and-mortar retailers, announced today that Yelp has agreed to explore the use of KIOSentrix AC powered beacons in potential distribution to Yelp's retail customer base. Yelp has committed to an initial order of 4,000 KIOSentrix beacons.  Additionally, Blue Calypso and Yelp have agreed to dismiss their pending lawsuit.

    "We are excited to work with Yelp as they explore the potential use of beacons within their retail customer's store locations. We think Yelp has a great product and is ideal for beacon enablement. This will create a compelling opportunity to enhance the experience that both consumers and retailers have when they use the Yelp platform. As consumers use Yelp to explore restaurants and retail stores, Blue Calypso's beacons could cause those who are directed to a store location to be presented with location-centric content as they enter the store. Our technology could also help retailers know when Yelp has driven customer foot traffic to their location," said Levi. 

    Forward Looking Statements. Statements in this press release that are not statements of historical or current fact constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other unknown factors that could cause the actual results of the Company to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In addition to statements which explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms "believes," "belief," "expects," "intends," "anticipates," "will," or "plans" to be uncertain and forward-looking. The forward-looking statements contained herein are also subject generally to other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

    About Blue Calypso, Inc. Dallas-based Blue Calypso, Inc. (BCYP) develops and delivers an innovative location-centric mobile shopper engagement platform for brands and retailers using its patented portfolio of products, including KIOSentrix®, Mobile ADvantage™, DashTAGG® and SOCIALECHO™. The Company employs its unique and flexible platform to connect consumers to brands, drive local in-store traffic, increase shopper spend and shorten the consumer's path-to-purchase. For more information about the company, please visit www.bluecalypso.com

    CONTACT: MEDIA CONTACT Rachel David Rachel.David@hck2.com 972.499.6630 INVESTOR CONTACT Merriman Capital, Inc. Becky Popoff BPopoff@merrimanco.com (415) 568-3925

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  • Cloudera Launches Kudu, New Hadoop Storage for Fast Analytics on Fast Data

    Published: Monday, September 28, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, announced today the public beta release of Kudu, a revolutionary new columnar store for Hadoop that enables the powerful combination of fast analytics on fast data. Complementing the existing Hadoop storage options, HDFS and Apache HBase, Kudu is the first native Hadoop storage engine that supports both low-latency random access and high-throughput analytics, dramatically simplifying Hadoop architectures for increasingly common real-time use cases. A public beta of Kudu is immediately available under the Apache open source license, and will be transitioned to the Apache Software Foundation incubator in the future.

    Until now, developers have been forced to make a choice between fast analytics with HDFS or efficient updates with HBase. Especially with the rise of streaming data, there has been a growing demand for combining the two features to build real-time analytic applications on changing data - leading developers to create complex architectures with the storage options available. Kudu complements the capabilities of HDFS and HBase, providing simultaneous fast inserts and updates and efficient columnar scans. This powerful combination enables real-time analytic workloads with a single storage layer, eliminating the need for complex architectures.

    "We've been making Hadoop better since the very beginning," said Charles Zedlewski, vice president, products, Cloudera. "We have an ambitious mission: to constantly drive innovation within the community to usher in the next generation of analytics supported by Hadoop, so companies can adapt to the latest technologies. Cloudera has already transformed what's possible with Hadoop -- enabling interactive data discovery and analytics with Impala and flexible data processing and streaming with Apache Spark. Kudu continues this trend by revolutionizing Hadoop's storage architecture to better support development of real-time analytic applications, and serves as a crucial step towards solidifying Hadoop as the leading platform for modern analytics."

    Kudu's architecture streamlines the developer experience for building analytic applications - supporting common use cases that include time series analysis, machine data analytics, and online reporting. Additionally, Kudu is designed to take advantage of changing trends in hardware and in-memory processing. It delivers outstanding CPU performance, takes advantage of RAM and flash, and drives high I/O efficiency as a true columnar store. Finally, as a native, open component within Hadoop, Kudu is integrated with and provides faster query performance for the most powerful analytic frameworks. Users already rely upon many of them, including Impala and Spark - for end-to-end analytic applications in a single platform.

    Kudu was jointly engineered by Cloudera and Intel in advance of the changing hardware landscape. Intel has actively contributed to Kudu to help it take full advantage of current and future Intel processor and memory technologies. Kudu was designed to use new persistent memory (pmem) innovations being developed through Intel's pmem project.

    "As Hadoop analytics evolve, it's critical that they are designed with next-generation hardware in mind," said Vin Sharma, Intel's Director of Strategy & Products for Big Data Analytics. "Kudu is a critical milestone for Hadoop, supporting the growing need for simplified real-time applications. Intel worked with Cloudera and the community to ensure Kudu is optimized for fast analytic performance today, but is also built to use Intel's platform advancements well into the future, such as Intel DIMMs with 3D XPoint memory."

    As an open source project, Kudu has drawn wide involvement from the community. Xiaomi, one of the largest smartphone developers in the world, has been one of the first beta users of Kudu and actively contributes to the project. Other organizations, including AtScale, Splice Machine and Zoomdata, have also been developing on Kudu.

    "Xiaomi has been a long-time user of and contributor to the Hadoop ecosystem, using it to power a wide range of use cases across our business," said Baoqiu Cui, Chief Architect at Xiaomi. "Our infrastructure team has been working with Cloudera to develop Kudu, taking advantage of its unique ability to support columnar scans and fast inserts and updates to continue to expand our Hadoop ecosystem footprint. Using Kudu, alongside interactive SQL tools like Impala, has allowed us to build a next-generation data analytics platform for real-time analytics and online reporting. We are excited to continue to work with the community to further drive Kudu and the capabilities of Hadoop as a whole."

    "Kudu effectively enables the next generation of analytic architectures, especially for Business Intelligence (BI). With its support for both random and sequential high volume reads and writes, it is the ideal storage system for low-latency, scale-out BI architectures of the kind that AtScale customers demand. As enterprises look to democratize access to data and enable Hadoop to run large-scale, fast analytical workloads, Kudu will play a critical role," says Josh Klahr, VP of Product Management at AtScale. "As a strong proponent of the Apache Hadoop open source ecosystem, AtScale is to be a part of this community effort and is excited to help further develop it for our customers."

    "We are very excited to be part of the Kudu community," said John Leach, co-founder and CTO, Splice Machine. "At Splice Machine, we have developed an ACID compliant RDBMS that runs on Hadoop and are pushing the envelope in terms of running mixed workloads on Hadoop. As a result, we welcome and support innovation in Hadoop's storage architecture. Kudu holds incredible promise in its ability to handle real-time updates combined with long-running analytics. It strengthens the Hadoop ecosystem by providing a scalable, alternate storage engine that complements existing ones."

    "Kudu provides a simplified storage architecture for use cases that are quite common among Zoomdata users," said Justin Langseth, CEO at Zoomdata. "As a native component of Hadoop, Kudu's integration with Impala and Spark make it easy to open up this data using Zoomdata's fast visual analytics solution. We have worked closely with Cloudera and the community to help develop Kudu to meet the needs of our users - supporting the streamlined combination of real-time and analytic applications - and we are excited to continue this effort with the public beta release."

    For organizations to continue to benefit from data-driven insights, Hadoop's architecture has to work at the same, ever-accelerating speed at which data is being created and changed. With Kudu, the Hadoop community ushers in the next generation of Hadoop applications with storage for fast analytics on fast data.

    "In the era of machine-generated data, there's an increasing need to analyze data in human real-time. This is true across a broad range of analytic use cases, from monitoring and business intelligence to predictive modeling and recommendation," said Curt Monash, president, Monash Research. "Kudu, Spark and the rest of the Hadoop stack are a promising approach toward eventually meeting those needs."

    Resources

    Start Contributing - [http://getkudu.io/contributing.html]

    Download the Public Beta or Try the VM - [www.cloudera.com/downloads]

    Technical Whitepaper - [getkudu.io/kudu.pdf]

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    This information is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Cloudera does not guarantee that the beta software will be made generally available or that any individual feature in the beta version will be made generally available. Cloudera may make the beta software generally available, or not, in its sole discretion and without obligation to make any communication of any kind with regard to such availability.

    About Cloudera

    Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for big data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, access, process, secure, and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Cloudera's open source big data platform is the most widely adopted in the world, and Cloudera is the most prolific contributor to the open source Hadoop ecosystem. As the leading educator of Hadoop professionals, Cloudera has trained over 40,000 individuals worldwide. Over 1,800 partners and a seasoned professional services team help deliver greater time to value. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production.

    Connect with Cloudera

    Read our blogs: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/ and http://vision.cloudera.com/

    Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cloudera

    Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cloudera

    Join the Cloudera Community: http://cloudera.com/community

    Cloudera, Cloudera's Platform for Big Data, Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Flex Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Basic Edition and CDH are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera Inc. in the United States, and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

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    CONTACT: Deborah Wiltshire Cloudera +1 (650) 644-3900 ext. 5907 press@cloudera.com

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  • Cloudera Introduces RecordService, Unified Role-Based Policy Enforcement for the Apache Hadoop Ecosystem

    Published: Monday, September 28, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswire

    PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, today announced the public beta release of RecordService, a new high-performance security layer for Apache Hadoop that centrally enforces role-based access control policies across the platform. Complementing Apache Sentry (incubating), which provides unified policy definition, RecordService is the first solution to deliver complete row- and column-based security, and dynamic data masking, for every Hadoop access engine. A public beta of RecordService is immediately available under the Apache open source license, and will be transitioned to the Apache Software Foundation in the future.

    Security has been a critical requirement for enterprises as their Hadoop deployments move from pilot to production. To ensure that sensitive data cannot fall into the wrong hands, a comprehensive security approach must include fine-grained access controls that define what data users can see and what they can do with it. However, for enterprises to take full advantage of the power of Hadoop, these access controls cannot limit the agility of the platform or the users. These access permissions must be the same for the user, regardless of their access engine of choice, down to the row- and column-level.

    Sentry, the standard for unified policy definition in Hadoop, plays a crucial role in addressing this by applying consistent policies across all the different access paths. However, some access paths support more granular restrictions than others. As the Hadoop ecosystem has expanded to include diverse access engines such as Apache Spark, Impala, and Apache Solr, it has been challenging to enforce these policies consistently without limiting access to the data itself. For example, while Impala supports granular row- and column-level controls, Spark and MapReduce only support file- or table-level controls. In modern architectures that use multiple access engines, this variance can lead to complicated workarounds or a reliance on the "lowest common denominator" of security, with users either having access to the entire data set or no access at all -- ultimately leading to less agile and less secure Hadoop applications.

    RecordService complements the policy definition of Sentry as a new layer that provides a single point of enforcement -- simplifying security with unified row- and column-level controls for all access paths, including Spark and MapReduce. This fine-grained policy enforcement allows enterprises to take advantage of the full capabilities of Hadoop while eliminating the complex security workarounds that can often lead to security errors. With RecordService, all users can gain insights from their data, securely, using their tool of choice.

    "There have been rapid improvements made to Hadoop security, addressing the growing need to store and analyze sensitive data in the platform. However, for Hadoop to continue to evolve and support the next generation of analytics for more users and access paths, security needs to become universal across the platform," said Eddie Garcia, chief security architect, Cloudera. "With RecordService, the Hadoop community fulfills the vision of unified fine-grained access controls across every Hadoop access path. Together, with leading security advances such as Sentry, RecordService enables enterprises to gain powerful insights from Hadoop with the confidence that a powerful, core security layer is protecting their most sensitive data."

    By enabling the first, native, granular controls for Apache Spark specifically, RecordService plays a key role in advancing the development of Spark to meet enterprise requirements. With security being a core focus area of Spark development, as part of Cloudera's recently announced One Platform Initiative, RecordService is a critical project to help Spark further progress towards becoming the next default processing engine for Hadoop.

    As a new layer that sits between Hadoop's storage and compute engines, RecordService not only consistently enforces the fine-grained, role-based access controls defined by Sentry, but it also provides dynamic data masking across Hadoop. This capability enables organizations to mask sensitive elements of data, protecting it as it is accessed in real-time. With dynamic data masking, more users can access and analyze data without needing permissions for the data itself. The platform offers advanced protection that has never before been available within core Hadoop security.

    In regulated industries, advanced security is critical for protecting sensitive data without limiting the analytic agility necessary for competitive advantage. Capital One is one of the first early users of the beta of RecordService, and actively contributes to the project. RecordService is also being developed in collaboration with Cloudera partners, including Datameer and Platfora, and other Hadoop vendors.

    "RecordService will enable our customers to enforce row- and column-level permissions on data in their large multi-tenant, multi-use, Hadoop clusters," said Raghu Thiagarajan, senior director, Product Management at Datameer. "This will allow data to be stored more efficiently, while ensuring each user role only gets access to what they need. We've worked closely with Cloudera to help improve Hadoop's security options for our customers, and are pleased to engage with the RecordService open source community."

    "Security is at the core of enterprise Hadoop adoption. Cloudera continues to be a leader in driving Hadoop security forward, and RecordService is a key milestone for the open source community," said Denise Hemke, director of Product Management, Platfora. "We are excited to work with Cloudera on developing this new project, and bringing unified granular access controls to our mutual customers, many of whom are in compliance-sensitive markets such as Financial Services."

    RecordService is a key advancement for Hadoop security, complementing existing authorization capabilities. As a new core security layer, native to the Hadoop ecosystem, RecordService enables the continued expansion of Hadoop for the enterprise, so that organizations can innovate without compromise.

    Resources

    Start Contributing - [http://github.com/cloudera/recordservice]

    Download the Public Beta or Try the VM - [www.cloudera.com/downloads]

    This information is not a commitment, promise or legal obligation to deliver any material, code or functionality. Cloudera does not guarantee that the beta software will be made generally available or that any individual feature in the beta version will be made generally available. Cloudera may make the beta software generally available, or not, in its sole discretion and without obligation to make any communication of any kind with regard to such availability.

    About Cloudera

    Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for big data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, access, process, secure, and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Cloudera's open source big data platform is the most widely adopted in the world, and Cloudera is the most prolific contributor to the open source Hadoop ecosystem. As the leading educator of Hadoop professionals, Cloudera has trained over 40,000 individuals worldwide. Over 1,800 partners and a seasoned professional services team help deliver greater time to value. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production.

    Connect with Cloudera

    Read our blogs: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/ and http://vision.cloudera.com/

    Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/cloudera

    Visit us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cloudera

    Join the Cloudera Community: http://cloudera.com/community

    Cloudera, Cloudera's Platform for Big Data, Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Flex Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Basic Edition and CDH are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera Inc. in the United States, and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

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    CONTACT: Deborah Wiltshire Cloudera +1 (650) 644-3900 ext. 5907 press@cloudera.com

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