Day: July 6, 2022

ABU DHABI, UAE, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — World’s leading application-focused Cloud managed services provider and an Azure Expert MSP, Cloud4C, has won the prestigious 2022 Microsoft UAE Partner of the Year Award. It has also been adjudged Global Finalist in Solution Assessment as well. One of the rare few firms globally to achieve 10 Azure Advanced Specializations, Cloud4C is honored amongst a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide.

Cloud4C has been recognized for streamlining the delivery of highly complex, mission-critical Azure migration, modernization, and managed services to key industrial sectors in the UAE region. Cloud4C’s fully managed hybrid and multi-cloud hosting services expertise allows their Azure transition and modernization journeys to be readily available at near zero downtimes, fully secure, and duly compliant with data residency and sovereignty regulations.

“I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards,” said Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. “These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees and I’m continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers.”

This prestigious win comes on the back of Cloud4C’s deeply customer-centric, end-to-end approaches promising a single, highest uptime SLA from root infra till application login layer with zero disruptions and data losses. Such a high-performance methodology has significantly assisted customers, especially with large-scale, complex ecosystems and mission-critical workloads, to seamlessly move and modernize on Azure cloud.

On receiving the award, Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and Chairman of Cloud4C, said, “We are overjoyed to get this recognition from Microsoft. Our team is ever-committed to innovate ways around critical challenges and render outcomes that serve our clients across any industry not only for the present, but also the future. We believe in delivering mission-critical evolutions powered by cloud.”

Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company’s global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 19-20 this year. Additional details on the 2022 awards are available on the Microsoft Partner Network blog: The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found here.

About Cloud4C

Cloud4C is the world’s largest automation-driven, application-focused managed cloud services provider, addressing enterprise transformation journeys end-to-end. Cloud4C offers multi-cloud migration, modernization, and AIOps-driven managed services at zero data loss guarantee, supporting cloud environments with multi-availability zones, four-way DR architecture and advanced cybersecurity, under a single SLA. Today, Cloud4C serves over 4000 enterprises across 26 nations, driven by 2000+ cloud experts and 25 Centers of Excellence. The firm commands an enriched array of partnerships with leading hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud along with the world’s most renowned ISVs. Cloud4C also has rich expertise in managed SAP solutions and S/4HANA offerings, AIOps, Hyperautomation, Analytics, Cybersecurity, DR, compliances, and more.

CONTACT: Ravi Shankar K, ravi.shankar@cloud4c.com, +65-87190012

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BEIJING, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A news report by C114:

After three years of licensing spectrum for 5G, China has seen faster-than-expected 5G growth, and is now one of the world’s main drivers behind the rapid development of 5G and its upstream and downstream ecosystem. While continuing to promote the development of 5G, the industry had started to work on bringing 5G into a new phase: 5G-Advanced, which has become a hot topic of discussions among operators and industry partners.

5G has proved to be a breakthrough technology enabling a digital, intelligent world with ubiquitous gigabit experience and 10 billion-level connectivity. 5G-Advanced is set to further up its predecessor with a ubiquitous 10 Gbps experience and 100 billion-level connectivity, further deepening the digital, intelligent transformation. One year after 3GPP officially defined 5G-Advanced for 5G evolution, operators, equipment vendors, and industry partners have reached consensus on the use cases, requirements, and key directions of 5G-Advanced. Release 18 will be the first release of specifications that will make this consensus to a reality.

At a conference on the achievements of 5G-Advanced innovation-industry chain convergence on June 6, 2022, China Mobile unveiled its first-ever 5G-Advanced E2E industry showcases, along with Huawei and other partners, and released a white paper on new capabilities and development prospects for 5G-Advanced. China Mobile also announced new plans to promote the in-depth convergence between 5G-advanced innovation and industry chains. The white paper proposed three major directions for 5G-advanced: high-quality networks, intelligent and simplified networks, and low carbon goals, along with 10 key technologies based on the three directions.

China Unicom proposed three technical solutions for 5G-Advanced: smart new vision, smart high uplink, and smart super sensing on May 15, 2022 at its conference covering innovations and practice achievements. These technical proposals will form a crucial part of its new efforts to explore new capabilities of 5G-Advanced, including 10 Gbps downlink, Gbps uplink, and new spectrum deployments. The company also called for collaboration among industry partners to grow the size of the market at large.

China Telecom launched Super TimeFreq Folding for 5G-Advanced at a joint conference on May 10, 2022. This new solution works on the 3.5 GHz band, and supports an up to 100 MHz of equivalent uplink width and 1 Gbps of uplink peak rate, while reducing E2E latency for 10 ms to below 4 ms. China Telecom also shared its new plans for improvements of this solution by using the mmWave band, potentially to cut the latency even below 1 ms. This level of ultra-large capacity and high reliability will provide industry customers with better and more cost-effective solutions to accelerate digital transformation.

As the move to 5G-Advanced has become a matter of consensus, it is the high time for the industry to define the key features, deployment strategies, and product directions of 5G-advanced based on operator requirements, and develop new the technologies required to bring it to a reality.

All stakeholders both in and outside the telecom industry chain now still need to work together on the technological, system, and business verification required to upgrade 5G to 5G-Advanced to fully harness it’s potential for bringing digital intelligence to all.

BEIJING, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — SmartX, a modern IT infrastructure innovator, announced that it was recognized as Asia/Pacific Customers’ Choice in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights “Voice of the Customer”: Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software. This is the 2nd year that SmartX has been named an APAC Customers’ Choice in this field.

“Being recognized as a 2022 APAC Customers’ Choice for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software for us is the reflection of our commitment to delivering world-class products and customer services,” said Yinan Ku, CMO of SmartX. “We will continue to innovate for the purpose of making IT simple for our customers and modernizing the IT infrastructure.”

This recognition is based on feedback and ratings from 80 verified end-user professionals with experience with SmartX products in the 18-month period ending on 28 February 2022. Overall, SmartX rated 4.8 out of 5 stars, with 97% of reviewers saying they would recommend SmartX products.

SmartX has received 123 reviews since the market began to be tracked within the Gartner Peer Insights platform and holds an average score of 4.9 out of 5 as of 5 May 2022.

SmartX customers said:

Stable And Reliable Products & Professional And Efficient Services

1. The product provides production-ready capability in terms of performance and stability. We have used it for almost a year and have not had any problems. This has strengthened our confidence in scaling up its use in our production environment. 2. Because we are using it in a production environment, SmartX’s proactive inspection services have enabled us to keep track of the status and prevent the risk of the hyper-converged cluster and provided guarantee for the stable operation of the production environment. 3. Our system changes usually take place during nighttime when we are not at work. No matter how late it is, SmartX’s service engineers can always give us a timely response and provide solutions to our problems.

– IT manager in banking industry

More customer reviews on SmartX are available here.

About Gartner Peer Insights:

Gartner Peer Insights is a free peer review and ratings platform designed for enterprise software and services decision makers. Reviews go through a strict validation and moderation process in an effort to ensure they are authentic. Now it covers 425 software and services markets, generating 450,000 reviews on more than 18,000 products.

SHANGHAI, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Industry-leading new mobility and intelligent driving technology company, Human Horizons, has recently unveiled more details on the ultra-futuristic digital GT HiPhi Z. Redefining the traditional GT model, the HiPhi Z comes equipped with cutting edge technologies to create an unparalleled next-level driving experience. The vehicle itself looks, feels, and drives like a car from 20 years in the future, providing an insight into the future of human-like technology and transportation.

“Designed and manufactured exclusively by Human Horizons, the HiPhi Z is a testament to the company’s dedication to technological advancement, sparing no expense in testing the boundaries of creation. Through rigorous testing and development, the HiPhi Z has retained more than 95% of its production intents revealed previously,” said Ding Lei, founder, CEO, and chairman of HiPhi.

On the exterior, the HiPhi Z is equipped with the world’s first wrap-around Star-Ring ISD light curtain on a passenger vehicle consisting of 4066 individually LEDs which can interact with passengers, drivers, and the world around it. The doors feature a smart ISD interactive system and ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communication technology with 10cm-level positioning, allowing for automatic detection of people, keys, and other vehicles, resulting in a smart adjusted door opening in terms of both speed and angle. The active air grille shutters (AGS) connect with the rear spoiler and wing to automatically adjust vehicle drag and reduce lift for improved overall performance.

Inside the cabin is an ultra-futuristic spaceship-like digital setup featuring a ‘digital soul’ in the form of HiPhi Bot, a cutting-edge AI companion that can automatically adjust every aspect of the driving and passenger experience. From the soft-touch Ultrasuede® Bio Galaxy fabric and flowing ambient panel lights to the 23-speaker Meridian audio system and racing bucket seats, the sensory experience of being inside a HiPhi Z with music playing and lights is completely unique. In addition to harnessing a combination of lighting, touch, sound, and fragrance, to create an immersive and comforting environment, HiPhi Bot is able to interact with passengers. It comes equipped with the world’s only vehicle-grade, 4-degrees of freedom (DOF), 8-direction infinitely adjustable, high-speed motion robotic arm which can move back and forth in place in less than a second and features control accuracy of up to 0.001mm, being able to perform a variety of delicate movements with barely a noise.

Powering the innovative ADAS of the HiPhi Z is the company’s self-developed HiPhi Pilot system, which provides dual-redundancy for the six major systems of computing, perception, communication, braking, steering, and power supply. For added safety, the HiPhi Z leverages an NVIDIA Orin X chip + QNX Neutrino real-time operating system (RTOS) to utilize 34 sensors and LiDAR technology to constantly scan the surrounding environment and perform assisted driving and parking, as well as smart summon using the smartphone app.

Racing to speeds of 100km/h in 3.8 seconds, the HiPhi Z adopts an all-aluminum double wishbone front suspension, five-link rear suspension, air suspension, and Continuous Damping Control (CDC) to continuously adjust the dynamic performance. The car comes with rear-wheel steering and an IVC vehicle dynamic control system that, despite being over 5m long, generates a steering angle of 13.2 degrees, allowing for a turning circle similar to that of a MINI Cooper. The HiPhi Z is equipped with a 120kWh high-performance battery pack using Cell to Pack (CTP) technology and cooling liquids to offer heat diffusion and prevent fires whilst providing up to 705 kilometers of battery life.

The HiPhi Z will be on sale for between USD 89,000-129,000, and in the lead-up to more announcement details, the HiPhi Z will be on display in Shenzhen from July 6, with plans to debut across 11 key major cities in order to give fans a sneak peek of the ultra-futuristic GT. Official rollout dates are scheduled to be announced at the Chengdu Auto Show in August, and interested users can book an opportunity to test drive the car through the HiPhi smartphone application.

About HiPhi

HiPhi is a premium brand created by Human Horizons and enhanced by its users. HiPhi X is an EV with a lightweight hybrid aluminum-steel construction and sustainable vegan leathers and recyclable materials which add to the sustainable nature of Human Horizons’ EV products.

About Human Horizons

Human Horizons is established for R&D in innovative and leading intelligent mobility technologies as well as the industrialization of future-oriented smart vehicles. Furthermore, Human Horizons builds smart transportation technologies and contributes to the development of smart cities, which will redefine human mobility.

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