Day: July 26, 2022

Latest Egyptian Customer Win Addresses Need for Cloud-native Data Protection and DR Services

Boston, Massachusetts, July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HYCU, Inc., a pioneering enterprise BaaS company specializing in hybrid and multi-cloud data protection as a service, today announced Extreme Solution, a HYCU Cloud Services Provider Program provider, will supply EVA Pharma, an innovation-led, global healthcare company based in Egypt, with its modern technological infrastructure, in order to make significant breakthroughs in various product initiatives. As part of these initiatives, EVA Pharma has been investing in cloud-native solutions to bolster product development and launch support. When the company could not easily carry out disaster recovery (DR) to the cloud with its previous data protection solution, EVA Pharma turned to Extreme Solution. Extreme Solution is a leader in digital transformation and cloud solutions with more than 20 years’ experience working with customers across Egypt, the UAE and North America on software development, consultancy, public cloud and critical infrastructure.

EVA Pharma, which operates in more than 40 countries around the world, has partnered with HYCU and Extreme Solution to permanently secure the availability of services and information under even the most difficult circumstances, in addition to providing fully secured backups and DR strategies for its systems, which support the company’s digital transformation plans while maintaining the security of data and information, through the partnership with leading data security providers such as a HYCU.

“Providing secured copies of data and information to protect against loss, sabotage or ransomware and increase the availability of electronic services under all conditions is a necessity for digital transformation,” said Michael Mounir, Head of IT & Digital Transformation at EVA Pharma. Mounir explained that the cooperation includes solutions to address any sabotage that targets either on-premises or cloud services and may result in data loss, whether an intentional attack or unintended incident.

“We have a strong reputation for delivering on digital success for our customers, to ensure they have the best ROI with cloud-native and DR to cloud solutions. These solutions can help EVA Pharma both grow and scale,” said Sherif Kozman, CEO, Extreme Solution. “HYCU’s cloud-native data migration, protection and recovery software have helped us to meet our customers’ demanding data protection and DR needs.”

By deploying HYCU Protégé and HYCU Protégé for Office 365, Extreme Solution was able to address a cloud DR need that EVA Pharma was unable to accommodate via its previous legacy data protection solution. HYCU Protégé licensing covered the cost of all three public cloud platform providers (Azure, AWS and Google Cloud) and removed the need for additional storage costs. With HYCU Protégé advanced search, auto-journaling and alerting capabilities, Extreme Solution was also able to address EVA Pharma’s stringent industry compliance requirements.

“The work the combined teams from Extreme Solution and HYCU did for EVA Pharma is another strong example of the use cases and solutions we continue to deliver to our growing Cloud Services Provider community,” said Colum o’Donovan, Senior Director, Global Cloud Alliances, HYCU Inc. “With HYCU’s powerful cloud-native data protection as a service data management solution and Extreme Solution’s expertise and know-how, joint customers have a cost-effective and efficient way to handle all their multi-cloud data protection needs.”

HYCU solutions have been designed specifically to meet the cloud-native data protection and data management needs of next-generation on-premises and cloud services, managed services, and systems integrators. HYCU’s Cloud Services Provider Program allows Extreme Solution to cost-effectively scale growth and their customers’ adoption with simplicity and ease of use.

To learn more about the HYCU Cloud Services Provider Program, visit https://www.hycu.com/service-providers/ or contact info@hycu.com.

About HYCU 

HYCU is the fastest-growing leader in the multi-cloud backup and recovery as a service industry. By bringing true SaaS-based data backup to both on-premises and cloud-native environments, the company provides unparalleled data protection, migration and disaster recovery to more than 3,100 companies worldwide. HYCU’s award-winning, purpose-built solutions eliminate the complexity, risk and high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity in a hyper-connected, multi-cloud world. Customers experience frictionless, cost-effective data backup and recovery, no matter where their data resides. Based in Boston, Mass., the company employs 300 people across the globe. Learn more at www.hycu.com.

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HYCU, Inc.
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Berkeley, Calif., July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The new issue of the Breakthrough Journal, “Produce Problems,” challenges the misleadingly simple concept of “farm to table” by exploring the environmental impacts of the complex, and sometimes murky, supply chains that actually bring food from where it is grown to our mouths.

The Breakthrough Journal is the Breakthrough Institute‘s quarterly magazine delivering pragmatic opinion and analysis grounded in the belief that even our most wicked environmental problems have technological solutions.

Now on shelves in Canada, Europe, and the Middle East.
Look for it at Barnes & Noble and other magazine retailers.

Click here for the online edition.

This issue includes ten essays and one movie review. Authors include:

• Tamar Haspel, James Beard Foundation award-winning columnist at The Washington Post;
• Michael Hathaway, Professor of Anthropology, Associate Member of the School for International Studies, and the Director of Simon Fraser University’s Center for Asian Studies;
• Rober Paarlberg, Associate in the Sustainability Science Program at Harvard Kennedy School;
• Jenny Splitter,  award-winning journalist and Managing Editor at Sentient Media;
• And more!

A sneak peek at this issue’s incisive commentary:

This issue starts in the backyard: Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel’s. In “Plants Everlasting,” she shows how growing your own garden can even be ripe with dilemmas: pursue supposedly sound permaculture with perennials and end up with basically nothing you want to eat, or plant annuals and then prepare to arm yourself with pesticides.

If you do opt for pesticides, you certainly won’t win any organic certifications. But maybe that doesn’t matter, write authors Linus Blomqvist, Breakthrough’s Dan Blaustein-Rejto, and Dave Douglas in “Measuring What Matters.” Such labels measure practices rather than outcomes and, in doing so, miss the metrics that matter most. What’s more, they create opportunities for fraud, points out Breakthrough’s Alex Smith. To consumers, an avocado looks like an avocado no matter how it is farmed. But call it organic, and you can charge twice as much. Not surprisingly, hucksters have caught on, Smith writes in “Fraudulent Foods.”

You may also be paying a premium for alternative meat, not only for its environmental benefits but also in the hope that its production is better for workers. In that respect, reports journalist Jenny Splitter in “Out of The Jungle,” it can be a tool for a just environmental transition for animals and people alike. But it is no silver bullet. Meanwhile, alternative proteins, points out Harvard’s Robert Paarlberg in “It’s What’s for Dinner,” won’t replace animal meat any time soon. Until then, there’s plenty we can do to make livestock lives better. Almost none of it involves the kinds of things many environmentalists imagine.

Complications to the farm-to-table story don’t stop once produce moves off the farm or feedlot. Politics, geopolitics, and trade systems also matter. In “Food Has a Shipping Problem,” AEI’s Elisabeth Braw writes about the logistical problems stemming from Russia’s war in Ukraine. And Breakthrough’s Saloni Shah walks through the cascading disaster that has followed Sri Lanka’s decision to ban chemical fertilizers, which comes just as many states in India are attempting to do something similar. Both cases, she argues in “The High Costs of Organic Farming,” reveal that such practices are no blueprint for pulling smallholder farmers out of poverty—or for making food systems more sustainable.

“Produce Problems” closes by turning back to the small scale. In “Matsutake’s Journeys,” Professor Michael Hathaway shows what the history of the humble matsutake mushroom reveals about diet, trade, nation-building, war, and planetary ecology.

From the executive editor, Kathryn Salam:

In some circles, one phrase has come to dominate modern cuisine: “farm to table,” a simple idea denoting an apparently straightforward process. Food springs up from the land and into your mouth. Meals are nourishment, not products—and certainly not processed, packaged, shipped, and marketed ones.

But food is never just sustenance. Whether you grew it in your backyard or farmers in Ukraine did—whether it is organic, GMO, made in a lab, or factory farmed—plants and animals become food through a complicated web of values, logistics, labor, markets, and technologies. If we take those out of the equation, we misunderstand what we eat, why we eat it, and what the real environmental costs are.

The arguments collected in this feature paint a picture of food that is at once more complicated and more hopeful than most discussions allow. We get a lot of things wrong, especially around questions of sustainability—and correcting those mistakes matters. It is hard to see a path to carbon neutrality that doesn’t cut through our ideas about labels, about organics, alternative proteins, and more.

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Breakthrough Institute
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Umniah Sustainability Program

Umniah’s Sustainability Program Launch Event

The program is founded on three pillars: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

Shatara: In 2021, we were able to increase our reliance on renewable energy sources by 70% compared to the previous year.

AMMAN, Jordan, July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Umniah recently launched its sustainability program, outlining the environmental, social and corporate governance practices as well as its commitment to promoting a positive and sustainable future. Umniah further highlighted its pledge to address the environmental challenges we are now facing, raise awareness about this critical issue and encourage and reward its subscribers to become active change agents towards a better, more sustainable future.

Commenting on the occasion, Umniah CEO Ziad Shatara said, “Stable climates are essential in enabling us to thrive and live in harmony with our natural environment, however, with climate change threatening the health and safety of our communities, our economy and our natural heritage, we are compelled to utilize our expertise and leadership, and to play a pivotal role in making positive changes in the lives of individuals and society.” Shatara went on to explain that Umniah is dedicated to achieving environmental sustainability in line with the goals of Jordan’s 2025 vision.

Shatara explained that Umniah’s commitment to the standards set by the International Telecommunication Union, which requires the ICT industry to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 45% between 2020 and 2030, resulted in the company conducting an audit to measure the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions for its facilities over the past three years (2019-2021), which included emissions from network services, its headquarters, data center and company-owned retail stores.

According to Shatara, Umniah continues to align its sustainability strategies, plans and programs with the government’s vision, goals and objectives of economic modernization.

Umniah Sustainability launch

Umniah Chief Commercial Officer, Zaid Al-Ibrahim during the launch of Umniah’s Sustainability Program

Shatara also highlighted Umniah’s environmental practices, as well as its consideration and awareness to the impact of energy management processes and greenhouse gas emissions. He stressed that Umniah is focusing on the three pillars of sustainability, which center on environmental, social and corporate governance practices.

On the environmental level, in 2019, Umniah inaugurated its solar energy farms in Mafraq, Al Dulail, Hallabat and Azraq, a move that is in line with Jordan’s plans to reduce the release of greenhouse gases resulting from the burning gas and oil by shifting towards clean energy sources. Umniah’s solar energy farms now generate around 50% of its electrical energy needs.

In 2021, Umniah managed to increase its reliance on renewable energy by 70% compared to the previous year as well as decreasing its greenhouse gases emissions. Umniah will continue to implement its forward thinking sustainability strategy over the upcoming months, in continuation to its commitment to supporting Jordan’s commitments to international environmental forums and institutions.

On the social level, Shatara pointed out that Umniah plays an active role in creating positive social and economic impact in local communities through its innovative corporate social responsibility strategy, which supports people, ideas and projects that offer added value in various sectors including education, sports, culture, technology and the arts to name a few, as well as its avid commitment to furthering innovation and entrepreneurship through its business incubator The Tank.

In terms of effective governance and strong risk management, Shatara said that Umniah focuses on adopting, implementing and reviewing the policies and processes that ensure the practice of good corporate governance in terms of transparency, accountability, flexibility and compliance with all regulations and laws, in line with the company’s sustainability program objectives.

Umniah Chief Commercial Officer, Zaid Al-Ibrahim, highlighted the company’s motivation to be part of both local and international efforts to decrease heat emissions and contribute to the mitigation of global climate change.

Al-Ibrahim pointed to the increased number of people connected to the Internet, the rise in data traffic and the surge in demand for data centers, in addition to a rise in the employment of energy-intensive ICT equipment and the demand for digital services, which all lead to an increase in emissions. This, in turn, has a detrimental and marked effect on the environment in the long run, and demands that companies take active measures to the emissions. Al-Ibrahim went on to add that recently, Jordanians have shown an increased interest and awareness in environmental issues as well as the dangers of global warming.

Al-Ibrahim also mentioned that telecommunications companies play a vital role in supporting sustainability on a global level, with Umniah pledging to be a local and regional leader in this field with its environmentally friendly solutions and initiatives that encourage the reduction of energy consumption.

Al-Ibrahim also said that Umniah will develop a carbon emissions calculator using global standards and protocols that allow its customers to gauge their carbon footprint, reduce their emissions as well as emphasize their responsibility towards stopping climate change.

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