Software and technology industry veteran Mike Barry joins Optanix to run the next phase of company growth.

Optanix, the leader in ensuring predictable IT for the world's most technology-driven companies, today announced that Mike Barry has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer.

Lombard Risk Management plc (LSE: LRM), the provider of collateral management and regulatory reporting solutions, announces considerable increase of its North American client base and major new product additions. 

Northern Trust (Nasdaq:NTRS) collaborated with IBM and other key stakeholders to launch the first commercial deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market.

“Current legal and administrative processes that support private equity are time consuming and expensive”

While private equity returns can be attractive, the infrastructure supporting private equity has seen little innovation in recent years at a time when investors are seeking greater transparency, security and efficiency.

Goodix, the global leader in human interface and biometric technologies, reported today that it would unveil another world’s first technology. It is patented with independent intellectual properties at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.

SOASTA, the leader in performance analytics, today reported that MoneySuperMarket Group (MSMG), the UK’s largest price comparison site, has applied CloudTest and mPulse solutions across its online service brands.

Cohesity, the pioneer of hyperconverged secondary storage, has integrated with Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG),the independent solid-state array vendor, to deliver faster, simpler and more cost-effective data protection and recovery solution. The native integration with Pure Storage FlashArray//M also enables customers to leverage public cloud storage for long-term data retention and accelerate DevOps with instantaneous copies of any production application.

There’s a line in the 2013 film Her, it’s not just an operating system, it’s a consciousness.  The film is about Theodore, played by Joaquin Phoenix.  Theodore is a lonely writer who gets to trial a new operating system OS1, the world’s first artificially intelligent operating system.  The OS1 tailors itself to your habits and needs, and this OS is almost alive, as represented by the personality of its voice, Samantha, played by Scarlett Johansson.  From IMDB:

Lexmark International, Inc., a global imaging leader, has received a 2017 PaceSetter award in the Healthcare: Group Practices category from Buyers Laboratory (BLI).The award was given for its exceptional portfolio of devices, solutions and services for healthcare providers.

The BLI PaceSetter is a first-of-its-kind award that recognises the vendors that offer the most impressive portfolios of devices, solutions and services for healthcare providers.

According to ACI Worldwide, majority of UK consumers have doubts about the ability of businesses and financial institutions to manage confidential data safely. For instance, 19 percent of respondents say they do not trust firms to protect their data and 33 percent responded they are unsure. Confidence levels were similar across the globe and only three countries had more than 50 percent of respondents indicated that they trust institutions to protect their financial and payments data.

Zero Waste Scotland has turned to software and services provider Advanced to implement a superior financial and project information system as it intends to build a more sustainable Scotland. This new move comes hot on the heels of the Scottish Government winning The Circulars 2017, an award that celebrates the strides made in the move away from the nation’s disposable culture.