Apple Watch Nike+ 配備 Apple Watch Series 2 的所有功能，並搭配專屬 Nike 運動錶帶，讓跑步就這麼簡單。

(2016 年 9 月 8 日，香港) —— Apple® 和 Nike昨(美國時間9 月7日)於三藩市推出雙方長期合作的最新成果：Apple Watch® Nike+。作為跑步愛好者的完美拍檔，Apple Watch Nike+ 將專屬 Nike 運動錶帶與 Apple Watch Series 2 的各項強大功能集合一身，配備了內置 GPS、2 倍亮度顯示器、50 米防水性能*、強大的雙核處理器以及 watchOS® 3。Apple Watch Nike+ 還包含專屬的 Siri® 指令和標誌性的 Nike 專屬錶盤，並深度整合了 Nike+ Run Club app：為你隨時帶來跑起來的動力；根據你獨特的時間表和進度，提供相應的指導，還有來自全球頂級教練和運動員的專業建議。無論是剛剛起步的新手，還是馬拉松老將，Apple Watch Nike+ 是所有跑步愛好者們的最佳拍檔。

“Apple Watch 是為健康生活而精心打造的強大設備，我們希望更進一步為全球的跑步愛好者和運動員們帶來最棒的智慧手錶。” Apple 首席運營官 Jeff Williams 說，“Apple Watch Nike+ 在追蹤運動進度領域實現了新的突破，我們迫不及待地將它帶給了全球最大的跑步愛好者社區。”

“我們瞭解跑步愛好者們，他們一直在尋覓一款能讓跑步變得簡單又好玩的設備。” Nike總裁 Trevor Edwards 說，“市場上充斥著各種複雜、難以讀懂、只在乎使用者資料的設備。而 Apple Watch Nike+ 服務於你的生活，它提供了強大的性能和簡潔的解決方案，成為你的跑步好拍檔。”

功能
Apple Watch Nike+ 和所有 Apple Watch Series 2 錶款一樣，配備了內置 GPS 來跟測配速、距離和路線，讓用戶在盡情暢跑時可以不隨身帶著 iPhone®。它的顯示器，是 Apple 有史以來亮度最高的顯示器，因此即使陽光強烈，你也能輕鬆讀取錶盤上的指標資料。Apple Watch Nike+ 防水達到了 50 米*，游泳時也可以佩戴。所以，用戶們跑完步後，可以盡情去泳池放鬆一下。

Nike 運動錶帶採用與初代 Apple Watch 運動型錶帶相同的 Fluoroelastomer 材質，既柔韌又耐用。而錶帶上的氣孔，令透氣性和排汗性能都有了進一步的提升。此系列的專屬錶帶不僅輕盈，更推出了四種充滿動感的雙色組合。Apple Watch Nike+ 的兩款專屬錶面，靈感源自 Nike 的標誌性風格，讓使用者可以輕鬆自訂健身記錄圓環、心率、碼錶和天氣等各種實用 app，一目了然各種資訊。

Nike+ Run Club
Apple Watch Nike+ 可充分發揮了 Apple Watch Series 2 和 Nike+ Run Club app 的獨特功能，它是你戴在手腕上的跑步好拍檔。 Apple Watch Nike+ 緊密整合了 Nike+ Run Club app 的使用體驗，用戶可以從錶面隨時啟動此 app，輕點一下就可以開始鍛煉了。而通過發送智慧跑步提醒、來自朋友的跑步挑戰和在天氣不錯時發送的提醒，Nike+ Run Club app 每天都將為你帶來跑起來的動力。你可一覽無餘自己的配速、距離和心率等訓練資料。這款 app 鼓勵夥伴間的良性競爭，用戶們不但可以共用跑步成績摘要，甚至還可以直接在手腕上給朋友們發送虛擬碰拳。

價格和上市時間

• Apple Watch Nike+ 有 38 毫米和 42 毫米兩種尺寸的鋁金屬錶殼可供選擇，所搭配的專屬 Nike 運動錶帶有四種雙色組合可供選擇，包括黑配螢光黃色、黑配冷灰色、啞銀配白色和啞銀配螢光黃色。
• Apple Watch Nike+ 將在 Apple.com、Nike.com、Apple Store 零售店、指定 Nike 零售店、指定 Apple 授權經銷商、指定特色商店和百貨商店發售，38 毫米尺寸的價格將為HKD 2,888，42 毫米尺寸的 Apple Watch Nike+ 的價格將為HKD 3,188。
• Apple Watch Nike+ 將於 9 月 9 日星期五在 Apple.com 上接受預購，並於 10 月底在澳洲、奧地利、比利時、加拿大、中國大陸、哥斯達黎加、丹麥、芬蘭、法國、德國、香港、印度、愛爾蘭、以色列、義大利、日本、盧森堡、墨西哥、荷蘭、紐西蘭、挪威、波蘭、葡萄牙、波多黎各、新加坡、西班牙、瑞典、瑞士、台灣、阿聯酋、英國和美國開始發售。
• Apple Watch Nike+ 將於 9 月 23 日星期五在 Apple.com 上開始預購，並於 10 月底在捷克、希臘、匈牙利、澳門、卡塔爾、俄羅斯和沙地阿拉伯開始發售。
• Nike 運動錶帶為 Apple Watch Nike+ 錶款專屬錶帶，不單獨發售。
• Apple Watch Series 2 需要和運行 iOS 10 或更新版本軟體的 iPhone 5 或更新機型配對使用。watchOS 3 和 iOS 10 將於 9 月 13 日星期二起，提供免費更新。某些功能僅適用於部分地區或語言。
• 每位從 Apple 購買 Apple Watch Nike+ 的顧客均可免費獲得店內或線上私人設置服務**，根據個人需求為新 Apple Watch 設置日曆、通知中心和各種 app 等。
• 如果想要進一步瞭解 Apple Watch Nike+ 或 watchOS 3，可以報名參加每家 Apple Store® 零售店提供的免費講座。

*Apple Watch Series 2 按照 ISO 22810:2010 標準，防水達到 50 米；按照 GB4208-2008/IEC 60529:2001 標準，防水級別為 IPX8 (在最深為 3 米的水下停留時間最長可達 30 分鐘)。即 Apple Watch Series 2 可用於游泳池或海濱游泳等較淺水域的水上活動。但 Apple Watch Series 2 並不適用於水肺潛水、滑水、面對高速水流的各種涉水活動及深水活動。不銹鋼錶帶和皮革錶帶均不防水。

**大部分國家和地區。

推出「中秋月賞購」活動 大派福袋 瘋狂劈價 無限驚喜

香港 – 2016 年 9 月 6 日 – 阿里巴巴旗下跨境電子商務平台天貓國際(tmall.hk) 宣佈，自 9 月 14 日起將為香港消費者引進一系列全球精選的優質貨品，務求為 港人帶來全新獨特的網購體驗。此外，為了慶賀中秋佳節的來臨，天貓國際將於 9 月 14 至 16 日推出「中秋月賞購」活動，包括於網上及全港多處派發驚喜福袋 及帶來低至一折的瘋狂購物優惠。

為滿足香港消費者環球買好貨的需求，天貓國際平台將為香港消費者帶來海外原 裝進口的特色貨品，包括在香港零售市場較少見的食品、日用美容及家居商品， 如台灣糖村手工法式牛軋糖、泰國 Nittaya 原裝天然乳膠頸椎按摩枕、美國 NEATO 全自動掃地機器人等。商品由海外品牌原裝進口到港，不但可確保貨品 質素，更能以最超值的價格優惠消費者，例如美國 Skechers 黑白熊貓波鞋及韓 國熱賣的 Heynature 3D 震動粉撲等，價格與海外售價看齊，中秋活動期間更有 驚喜大折扣。所有商品均以港幣結算，消費者可以 VISA 或 Master Card 支付。 現有淘寶網的會員均可以相同的登錄名稱及密碼登錄天貓國際平臺，體驗一站式 的網上環球購物旅程。

中秋月賞購 網上網下大派驚喜福袋*
在 9 月 9 日至 14 日期間，天貓國際將在網上及全港多區免費派發總共 3,000 個 中秋福袋，為香港消費者帶來無限驚喜。中秋福袋內含天貓國際售賣的特色產 品，每個福袋價值由二百港元至五千港元不等，令這個中秋到處充滿驚喜!

9 月 9 日至 12 日期間，香港消費者亦可於天貓國際 Facebook 專頁 https://www.facebook.com/hk.tmall，透過網上遊戲蠃取共 300 個中秋福袋。9 月 10 日至 14 日期間，天貓國際更將於全港不同地方每天派發多達 500 個中秋 福袋，與現場市民進行遊戲互動，每天更有一位幸運兒有機會獲得價值港幣 5000 元的特大驚喜福袋！ 2 9 月 14 日當日，十五位本地博客及 youtuber 還會於他們的平台與粉絲玩遊戲大 派天貓國際中秋福袋，教粉絲如何參加劈價活動，詳情不容錯過！

中秋月賞購 瘋狂劈價購心頭好*
驚喜停不了！除了為香港消費者帶來一系列環球好貨外，多款精選海外產品還會 以超抵價格發售。消費者更可以參加有趣的劈價刀遊戲，透過 Facebook/whatsapp/Line 社交媒體邀請到 9 位好友齊來劈價，即可享受海外品 牌低至 9.9 港元購買限量產品。

中秋月賞購 享全場免郵及本地退貨*
現時香港消費者可以透過信用卡付款，手續費全免。天貓國際稍後還將增加支援 其他如八達通、PPS、Tap&Go 等支付方式，讓香港消費者更加輕鬆購物。在中 秋月賞購活動期間，所以貨品可享免郵至全港多個自提點以及免費本地退貨 。

*有關中秋月賞購活動詳情及細則，請瀏覽: 天貓國際 Facebook 專頁
https://www.facebook.com/hk.tmall

關於天貓國際平台
天貓國際（www.tmall.hk）成立於 2014 年 2 月，為阿里巴巴集團旗下 B2C 平台 天貓的業務延伸，目的是協助海外商家進入中國的網上零售市場。天貓國際商家 可以在所屬國家或地區經營業務，而不需在中國境內擁有實體營運。透過天貓國 際跨境平台，國際品牌能接觸到淘寶網和天貓的上億消費者，而中國消費者也得 以接觸到眾多來自海外的品牌產品。

Tools to simplify common tasks to also be available as part of standalone Parallels Toolbox for Mac app

Hong Kong – September 1, 2016 – Parallels^® (www.parallels.com/about), a global leader in cross-platform solutions and creator of the No. 1-selling software for running Windows^®applications on a Mac^®, today launched Parallels Desktop^® 12 for Mac (www.parallels.com/upgradedesktop12). Parallels Desktop 12 is macOS Sierra ready, includes up-to 25 percent performance improvements, and features more than 20 simple single-function tools and utilities which are also available as a standalone Parallels Toolbox for Mac app. In addition, all Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac customers will receive a one-year subscription to an industry-leading backup solution from Acronis True Image, which includes a fast incremental backup feature that reduces the time and size of subsequent backups and provides up to 500 GB of free online storage.

New utilities featured in all editions of Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac make it easy to perform common tasks with simple single-function tools for both the Mac and Windows virtual machines (VMs). Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro and Business Edition subscribers, and Parallels Toolbox for Mac subscribers, also receive free updates of additional tools which will be made available every quarter. Initial tools include:

• Distraction-free presentation modes for both Mac and Windows VMs, including:
  o    Hide Desktop Files
  o    Do Not Disturb
  o    Keep Mac Awake.
• Archive, encrypt and password protect all of your files.
• Simply capture screen shots or record video of a screen, window or area.
• Download videos from YouTube, Facebook and other websites with a single click.
• Time management tools—an alarm, timer, date countdown and stopwatch.
• Unpack files from ZIP, RAR and many other formats.

“Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac joins our long history of innovations in ease of use and personalization,” said Jack Zubarev, Parallels president. “In addition to delivering our best Windows-on-Mac performance and experience, Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac simplifies a number of everyday tasks for millions of our customers in all walks of life.”

Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac also adds the ability to purchase Windows 10 and simply install it via the Parallels Desktop Wizard, and a Scheduled Windows Maintenance option so Windows Updates and maintenance can take place overnight or at times when it is not disruptive to a user’s workflow.

PC and Xbox® game players will get increased support in Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac. Parallels engineers worked with Blizzard Entertainment® and optimized Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac to support Overwatch™, a popular 2016 PC and Xbox game that sold more than 15 million copies in just over two months. Parallels Desktop also supports the Windows 10 Xbox app, enabling people to stream and play Xbox games on their Mac devices.

Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac Product Feature Highlights

• Parallels Toolbox for Mac: 20 tools that simplify everyday tasks on your Mac.
• Simplified backup: One year of Acronis True Image 500 GB cloud backup storage, which can backup new incremental changes to a VM, instead of having to resave an entire VM and changes, every time changes are made.
• Support for Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch PC game.
• Support for Windows 10 Xbox app, for streaming and playing all Xbox games on a Mac
• Schedule Windows updates for an appropriate time at night to avoid time-consuming disruptions during your day.
• Control storage space used by VMs directly from the Optimized Storage in macOS Sierra.
• Store Microsoft Edge™ and Internet Explorer® passwords in Mac Keychain®.
• Assign special behaviors to Windows apps, such as Always Open Full Screen or Always Hide Other Apps, so they play even better on your Mac.
• Easily cancel time-consuming VM actions.
• Open documents from SharePoint® and Office 365® in Microsoft Office for Windows desktop applications directly from your favorite Mac browser.
• Keep Windows ready in the background, instead of suspending the VM, to instantly open Windows applications and documents.
• Outlook® for Windows now features your recently accessed documents, both Mac and Windows, so they are conveniently available to select when you add attachments to your emails.
• Improved Retina® support for resizing Windows VMs.
• Archive VMs to save space in the Pro Edition.
• Set resource usage limits for VMs in the Pro Edition.
• Network Conditioner in the Pro Edition now features preconfigured network profiles (Edge, 100 percent loss, 3G, DSL, Very Bad Network and Wi-Fi) to make testing a breeze, as well as customizable settings. 

Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac performance improvements include: ^*

• Up to 90 percent faster Snapshot creation.
• Up to 60 percent faster suspend of VMs.
• Up to 25 percent faster Shared Folders performance.
• Compile Visual Studio® projects on shared folders up to 25 percent faster.
• Up to 10 percent battery life improvement.**
• Enjoy improved VM responsiveness when your Mac is low on free memory. 

Availability and Pricing
Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac, Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Edition and Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition are available today for subscribers and upgraders from Parallels Desktop 10 and 11 (www.parallels.com/upgradedesktop12), and general availability is Aug. 23 online at www.parallels.com/desktop and at local retail and online stores worldwide.

The recommended retail price (RRP) of Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac is HKD $598. Upgrades for existing Parallels Desktop 10 and 11 for Mac perpetual license customers are HKD $388, with an introductory offer to upgrade to a Parallels Desktop Pro Edition subscription for HKD $388 per year for life. Parallels Desktop Pro Edition and Parallels Desktop Business Edition are available to new customers for HKD $744 per year. Parallels Desktop Pro Edition and Business Edition include a complimentary Parallels Access® (www.parallels.com/access) subscription to remotely access up to five Mac or Windows PCs from any device.

Parallels Toolbox for Mac is a feature of all versions of Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac which will also be available as a stand-alone subscription product for HKD $75 per year, including all new tools and updates planned for release every few months. Starting Aug. 23, a 14-day full-featured free trial can be downloaded and subscription purchased from www.parallels.com/toolbox.

About Parallels
Parallels is a global leader in cross-platform solutions which make it possible and simple for customers to use and access the applications and files they need on any device or operating system. We help customers take advantage of the best technology out there, whether it’s Windows, Mac, iOS, Android™ or the cloud. Parallels solves complex engineering and user experience problems by making it simple and cost-effective for businesses and individual customers to use applications wherever they may be – local, remote, in the private datacenter or in the cloud. Visit www.parallels.com/about for more information.

Stay connected with Parallels and our online communities: Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/parallelsinc, follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/parallelsmac and visit our blog at http://blog.parallels.com.

*based on Parallels internal testing
**for certain environments

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(Above: from left to right) Larry Tam, Managing Director Hong Kong and Macau, Brocade, Jack Rondoni, Vice President of Storage Networking, Brocade and Eric Lam, Regional System Engineer Manager, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan at the press event today.

Digital Transformation Driven by Storage Innovation Requires a Modern Storage Network

HONG KONG. July 26, 2016—Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced the industry’s first Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors for mission-critical storage connectivity and business resiliency solutions designed for the all-flash data center.  This extends the company’s leadership in offering the industry’s most innovative and widely deployed Fibre Channel storage network solutions, building on the first Gen 6 Fibre Channel switch that Brocade delivered in March 2016.  The new Brocade^® X6 director family and the Brocade SX6 extension blade for Fibre Channel, Fibre Connection (FICON) and IP storage replication, combined with Brocade Fabric Vision™ technology, enables customers to drive always-on business operations, eliminate performance bottlenecks and adapt to the requirements of digital organizations.

Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel Product

As organizations continue to digitize and adapt to new workloads, they need a modern storage network that supports business agility.  Fibre Channel fabrics are the common thread that connects organizations to their most critical applications and data.  Ninety-six percent of banks, insurance companies and retailers rely on Fibre Channel as the most trusted network infrastructure for storage.  Gen 6 Fibre Channel provides the digital enterprise with non-stop availability and incredible performance required for tomorrow’s hyperscale data centers.

“Legacy networks will bottleneck flash storage minimizing the performance and economic benefits of this game-changing technology,” said Jack Rondoni, vice president of storage networking at Brocade. “Brocade’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions unleash the full value of today’s flash technology and enable tomorrow’s next-generation flash storage based on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe).  NVMe will be the next disruptive storage technology in the data center and customers will be able to seamlessly integrate NVMe over fabrics with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel.”

Network automation is key to modernizing data centers.  According to a global CIO survey*, 75 percent of respondents stated that the network is impacting their organizations’ ability to achieve business goals. The lack of network automation and integration of the network with other IT operations is the single biggest inhibitor to capitalizing on digitization.

Brocade has led the industry in automating storage networks with the industry’s first implementation of RESTful API support in Brocade Network Advisor.  This complete network-lifecycle solution brings an organization’s information together into one simple, easy-to-use command-and-control application.  It provides a programmable web-based interface through standard REST APIs to automate operational tasks such as zoning, scripting and reporting.  In addition, standard REST APIs enable customers to use Brocade Fabric Vision technology to easily analyze fabric-wide health and performance.  Brocade is also a key supporter of the OpenStack storage community, contributing Fibre Channel zone management to the OpenStack Cinder project.

New Innovations in Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel Enables Data Center Modernization
The Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio combines innovative hardware, Brocade Fabric Vision technology and ground-breaking integrated monitoring for storage IO and virtual machine (VM) performance. This delivers the industry’s highest level of operational stability while redefining application performance for hyperscale, mission-critical storage.  New innovations in Brocade’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio include:

• Brocade X6 Director Family.  The industry-first Gen 6 Fibre Channel director family delivers breakthrough application performance, data center-proven reliability and increased business agility to accelerate data access, adapt to evolving requirements and drive always-on business operations.  The Brocade X6 directors provide up to 384 32 Gbps line rate ports and up to 32 128 Gbps UltraScale™ ICL connectivity ports delivering a total system bandwidth of 16 Tbps. Breakthrough 32 Gbps performance accelerates application response time by up to 71 percent over previous solution eliminating IO bottlenecks and unleashing the full performance of flash and next generation NVMe-based storage.

• Brocade SX6 Extension Blade.  The Brocade SX6 extension blade for Fibre Channel, FICON and IP storage replication moves more data over distance faster and enhances security without compromising performance.  With up to 80 Gbps application throughput per platform and line-rate encryption, the Brocade SX6 is designed for the most demanding environments.  This purpose-built solution delivers business resiliency at scale with 32 Gbps Fibre Channel and 1/10 GbE IP storage replication over 1/10/40 GbE IP WAN connections to handle the unrelenting growth of data traffic between data centers.

• Brocade Fabric Vision Technology with IO Insight.  Fabric Vision technology overcomes the traditional limitations of network monitoring by introducing IO Insight, the industry’s only integrated network sensor that provides deeper visibility into the IO performance of storage infrastructure.  This enhanced visibility enables quick identification of degraded application performance at host and storage tiers reducing time to resolution.  IO Insight proactively monitors IO performance and behavior to gain unparalleled insight into potential issues and help maintain service levels.

• Brocade Fabric Vision Technology with VM Insight.  Fabric Vison technology will include VM Insight for unparalleled end-to-end visibility into the storage performance of individual VMs.  This feature optimizes VM performance and availability in a virtualized data center.  VM Insight uses standards-based VM tagging to enable monitoring of VM-level application performance issues in a Gen 6 Fibre Channel SAN.  Using this information, storage administrators can establish baseline application performance and identify anomalies in order to fine-tune the infrastructure to meet service level objectives.  VM Insight also enables quick correlation with other Fabric Vision metrics to identify the root cause of problems before operations are affected.

Hitachi Data Systems is shipping the Brocade Gen 6 directors, blades and switch today.  “Digital transformation enables businesses to deliver superior customer experiences.  That cannot be accomplished without a modern and agile IT infrastructure that delivers information to customers faster than ever before,” said Bob Madaio, vice president of infrastructure solutions marketing, Hitachi Data Systems.  “The combination of the Hitachi flash portfolio with Brocade’s Gen 6 directors, blades and switch enables businesses to transform operations and serve data to customers radically faster so they get what they want, when they want it.”

Broad Industry Support from Brocade Partners, Flash Vendors and Industry Analysts

• “These new Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors from Brocade combine extremely high-density, non-blocking 32 Gbps port capacity and 128 Gbps inter-switch connectivity along with I/O performance monitoring capabilities that offer a remarkable degree of visibility into Fibre Channel storage networks.  The emerging, high-performance flash platforms based on NVMe over fabric will need a network environment that can reliably supply massive bandwidth and low latency as well as a new set of management tools designed to ensure consistent and dependable peak application performance.” – Steven Hill, senior research analyst, 451 Research
  

• “All-flash-arrays have become pervasive in today’s modern data center and for the first time in a decade, the legacy storage network has become the application performance bottleneck.  Customers who want to extract the intended value and application performance out of their SSD-based storage investment need to upgrade their Fibre Channel network to the new Brocade X6 Director and new servers with Emulex’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs.” – Jeff Hoogenboom, general manager, Emulex Connectivity Division, Broadcom

• “Dell’s goal is to enable the Future Ready Enterprise and Brocade’s continued Fibre Channel innovation is key for our joint customers in implementing scalable and always-on infrastructures. Brocade’s 32 Gbps capabilities will allow customers to utilize flash storage today and future next generation technology.” – Tom Burns, vice president and general manager, Dell Networking and Enterprise Infrastructure

• “Gen 6 (32 Gbps) Fibre Channel is an important upgrade to the market as we see storage transitioning to flash-based products and the need for higher speeds in the data center.  Flash, which is architecturally different from traditional disk arrays from the storage industry, will benefit greatly from Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions.” – Alan Weckel, vice president of SAN and data center market research, Dell’Oro Group

• “Gen 6 Fibre Channel couldn’t appear at a better time. Due to continued tremendous data growth, increasing demands are being placed on IT infrastructure. The new Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel Directors not only provide large-scale deployment of the newest speed of Fibre Channel, but they provide data centers with additional insights into their I/O traffic. Our testing with databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database has shown that using Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel switches and Emulex Gen 6 Fibre Channel HBAs resulted in 3.4 times faster performance and lower latency up to 70 percent.” – Dennis Martin, president, Demartek

• “EMC declared 2016 ‘The Year of All Flash’ for primary storage as businesses around the world reach an inversion point and make flash their de facto choice for their data centers.  EMC is leading the pack with Unity, VMAX All Flash, XtremIO and DSSD delivering spectacular performance.  However, to realize the full performance benefit, the storage networking performance has to keep pace with the arrays.  After all, you wouldn’t expect to hit the top speed of a Ferrari if you’re driving on an unpaved dirt road.  The introduction of Brocade’s 32 Gbps directors extends EMC’s 32 Gbps offering to our enterprise customers, enabling them to lay the network foundations for their flash-fueled futures.” – Peter Smails, vice president, product marketing, Core Technologies Division, EMC Corporation

• “Updates to Fibre Channel technology is a not too frequent event.  Gen 6 is faster but it’s not just a matter of speeds.  New features and capabilities with these new Brocade Gen 6 directors enable easier management and operations.  Visibility provided by tools such as IO Insight or VM Insight enables better application management which is ultimately what matters to IT organizations. – Dan Conde, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

• “The need for shared storage over high performance storage networks will continue into foreseeable future with customers continuing to need greater bandwidth and lower latency.  Brocade’s announcement of Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors and blade and support for NVMe over Fabric answers those two needs, needs that are made even more real by deployment of all-flash storage.” – Randy Kerns, senior strategist, Evaluator Group

• “Using our digital business platform, MetaArc, Fujitsu supports customers with the technologies, tools, services and partnerships that help them achieve the agile and robust information and communications technology that best suits their needs to modernize on a global scale. We look forward to our continued partnership with Brocade to deliver storage networking connectivity solutions, such as Gen 6 Fibre Channel, which enable customers to make this digital transformation.” – Kazuhiko Endo, senior vice president, Head of Data Center Platform Business Unit, Fujitsu Limited

• “In the era of data explosion, the launch of Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors means data exchange will be largely accelerated, which is crucial to enhancing the efficiency of enterprises’ data centers.  Brocade and Huawei have been jointly innovating and developing all-flash and active-active storage solutions.  We will continuously strengthen our collaboration on storage network convergence and intelligent operation and maintenance and devote reliable, efficient and intelligent IT solutions to customers.” – Zhao Chunhui, vice president, Huawei Storage Product Line, Huawei

• “For more than 16 years, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Brocade have delivered unparalleled value to our joint customers, providing them with comprehensive storage networking solutions with unmatched reliability, manageability and scalability.  The launch of the new Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions demonstrates HPE and Brocade’s continued innovations to deliver customers the most reliable and highest performing data center storage networks.” – Neeraj Gokhale, vice president of storage marketing, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• “Fibre Channel technology continues to play an important role in the data center, providing lossless and secure data transmission maintaining a very loyal user community.  New applications and the next generation of servers—with additional CPU cores and higher speed connectivity, coupled with adoption of SSD storage—is driving the need for higher performance storage networking.  The introduction of Gen 6 Fibre Channel technology is an important and timely event advancing the storage networking market and also preparing for the arrival of NVMe-based flash storage which will demand additional storage network bandwidth.” – Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director for data center, cloud and SDN, IHS Markit

• “Today’s data-intensive enterprise requires quick and easy access to large amounts of data at all times and we pride ourselves in offering our customers storage systems with the highest possible performance and functionality at the lowest possible cost.  It is solutions like the Brocade X6 director family and SX6 extension blade that allow us to meet the demands of companies around the world.” – Bob Cancilla, vice president of global alliances, INFINIDAT

• “There is no doubt that the Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel portfolio will bring huge performance improvement while its new visibility features will reduce administration complexity for customers.  We believe that our Inspur flash storage products together with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel will meet customers’ complex application requirements for large cloud computing and hyper-scale virtualized storage systems to provide highly reliable, scalable and available solutions.” – Sun Gang, general manager, Storage Division, Inspur

• Brocade’s new Gen 6 directors are evolutionary and revolutionary at the same time.  They are a fundamental component for building the all-flash data center required by modern enterprises, where next generation protocols, like NVMe, and mission-critical workloads need the most reliable and robust storage networks. – Enrico Signoretti, analyst, Juku

• “As a leading all-flash storage company, we are defining the future of modern data centers in today’s on-demand world.  Given customers demand predictable storage solutions to grow and manage their business, our collaboration with Brocade will help drive the next generation of flash array technology and storage networking on Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions.” – Shachar Fienblit, chief technology officer, Kaminario

• “An all-flash data center is a must for any business that is transforming digitally.  With flash eliminating storage performance as a bottleneck, customers now want network upgrades that rebalance performance across the data center.  Brocade’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors deliver performance improvements for NetApp’s fast-growing SAN customer base.” – Maria Olson, vice president, Global and Strategic Alliances, NetApp

• “Brocade’s data center fabrics and Fibre Channel solutions are the perfect complement to our predictive flash storage offerings.  With the Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions, we will be able to help our customers adapt to the evolving requirements of an always-on business environment.” – Dan Leary, vice president of corporate development, solutions and alliances, Nimble Storage

• “Pure Storage customers demand the highest levels of consistency, predictability and performance, and Brocade’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions deliver strong in all three of these areas.  Like Pure Storage, Brocade has a history of meeting the mission-critical demands of the data center and together, we are setting a new standard for the modern digital enterprise.” – Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of products, Pure Storage

• “Next-generation databases and workloads are utilizing low latency NVMe and SSD flash-based storage coupled with the highly deterministic nature of Gen 6 (32 Gbps) Fibre Channel to meet the ever increasing user demand for faster performance and reliability.  The new Gen 6 Fibre Channel switches from Brocade, coupled with QLogic Gen 6 Fibre Channel Adapters with StorFusion^™ technology, which is integrated with Brocade Fabric Vision, deliver the performance, application response time and scalability characteristics required for mission-critical storage networking, making Fibre Channel the dominate interconnect for these environments well into the future.” – Vikram Karvat, vice president of products, marketing and planning, QLogic

• “One of the biggest challenges in today’s modern enterprise is eliminating data silos that can drastically slow priority workloads and operations. Brocade’s Gen 6 Fibre Channel solutions provide the reliability and scalability our customers need to transform into a modernized data center.” – Rob Commins, vice president of marketing, Tegile

• “Enabling customers to deploy the most powerful, trusted and flexible storage networks that are capable of meeting the performance demands associated with mission-critical application workloads is exactly why Violin Memory partners with Brocade.  That is what Brocade’s new Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors with Violin Memory’s Flash Storage Platform offers the market.” – Raj  Das, vice president of business development, Violin Memory

• “As organizations continue to move to higher VM densities for rapid deployment of new applications, they require modern storage networks that can scale linearly and provide the performance to support thousands of users.  VMware solutions with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel enables predictable performance, reliability and scalability with end-to-end visibility to highly virtualized application data flows which allows service level agreements to be met.” – Howard Hall, senior director, Global Technology Partnering Organization, VMware

Availability
Brocade X6 directors and Brocade SX6 extension blade are available now through Brocade and its channel partners.  Other Brocade OEM partners will start shipping them in the second half of 2016.  Brocade Network Advisor and IO Insight are available today.  VM Insight will be included as part of Fabric Vision technology in the first half of 2017.

Additional Resources

• Blog: Flash Forward with Gen 6 Fibre Channel
• Brocade X6 Directors Data Sheet
• Brocade SX6 Extension Blade Data Sheet
• Accelerating Oracle Data Warehousing with Emulex and Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel
• White Paper: Data Center Modernization with Brocade Gen 6 Fibre Channel
• theCUBE Video: How Gen 6 Unleashes Flash and NVMe for the Modern Data Center

*Global CIO Study 2015, Vanson Bourne, May 2015

About Brocade
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking solutions help the world’s leading organizations turn their networks into platforms for business innovation.  With solutions spanning public and private data centers to the network edge, Brocade is leading the industry in its transition to the New IP network infrastructures required for today’s era of digital business. (www.brocade.com)

Over 40 Million Users Have Tuned in to Listen to Discover Weekly on Spotify

[12 July 2016, Hong Kong] The world biggest music streaming platform, Spotify, shared on their blog that they have over 40 million listeners who love Discover Weekly, and nearly 5 billion tracks have been streamed since it was launched in June of 2015. Updated every Monday morning, Discover Weekly gives you the best-ever music recommendations, tailored specifically to you and delivered as a weekly mixtape of awesome, completely personalized music. You now have a reason to look forward to Mondays!

Here’s a look at how Spotify users are keeping their listening fresh with Discover Weekly:

• More than half of all Discover Weekly listeners come back the following week.
• More than half of all Discover Weekly listeners stream at least 10 tracks from it each week.
• More than half of Discover Weekly listeners go on to save at least one song to their own playlist.
• Discover Weekly is most popular with the 25-34 age group, closely followed by the 55+ age group.
• The top three genres streamed from Discover Weekly since its launch are 1) pop 2) indietronica 2) indie pop.

Discover Weekly isn’t just about giving listeners personalized music; it’s also benefiting artists and helping them to be, well, discovered. There are over 8,000 artists for whom more than half of their listeners in the last month were from Discover Weekly alone.

Several artists like BØRNS and Halsey have been discovered by over a million new listeners through Discover Weekly. And other artists like Transviolet, TastyTreat, and Safakash — all of whom have over half their monthly listeners coming from Discover Weekly. Over in Hong Kong, successful examples at the top artists list are British singer-songwriter Sam Smith and electronic musician Matthew Koma from the USA. Discover Weekly also boosts songs’ rates where one can see Madilyn Bailey’s I’m Not The Only One and Rixton’s Hotel Ceiling are in the recent top tracks.

A billion thank yous to the fans who have made Discover Weekly a phenomenon. The entire Discover Weekly team couldn’t be more excited about all of the music you discover, listen to and share every day through Discover Weekly.

Here’s to Mondays and even more music discovery. Remember, the more you listen, the better your Discover Weekly gets!

For your listening pleasure, check out the all time top tracks listened to most on Discover Weekly.

Tenth Anniversary of Asia-Pacific ISLA ceremony to be held concurrently with (ISC)2 Security Congress APAC July 25-26 in Bangkok

HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – Jul 12, 2016 – (ISC)²® today announced the honorees for its tenth annual Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (Asia-Pacific ISLA®) Program. (ISC)² will recognize 35 honorees and announce four showcased workforce initiatives, as well as a community service star special recognition at a gala dinner and ceremony on July 26, 2016 at Centara Grand at CentralWorld, Bangkok, Thailand. Concurrently, (ISC)2 Security Congress APAC, co-hosted with the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA), Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) of Thailand and (ISC)2, in partnership with Image Engine Pte. Ltd. will be held July 25-26 at the same venue.

The guest of honor, Surangkana Wayuparb, Executive Director and CEO of Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) of Thailand, together with (ISC)2 executives, will celebrate the workforce achievements of top information security professionals from the Asia-Pacific region.

David Shearer, CEO, (ISC)² says, “It is the tenth time that we will be recognizing and celebrating the outstanding, but arduous, work done by the cyber, information, software and infrastructure security professionals who are making a difference and helping to advance the industry. This year, we received many top-notch nominations from the entire Asia-Pacific region. We believe that many in the industry support the mission of Asia-Pacific ISLA to commend the great work of the heroes and heroines in this industry. I would also like to extend my deepest appreciation to our Asia-Pacific Advisory Council (APAC) and all the members of this year’s Nomination Review Committee for their perseverance and hard work to continue this program into its tenth anniversary.”

The 2016 honorees are as follows:

In the information security practitioner category:

1. Kai Chi Chang, Section Head of Network Security Data, National Center for Cyber Security Technology & Institute for Information Industry (Taiwan)

2. Joyce Fan, CISSP, CSSLP, Vice-Chairperson (Membership & Constitution), Professional Information Security Association (Hong Kong)

3. Kosetsu Kayama, CISSP, Cyber Defense Center Manager, Fujitsu Limited (Japan)

4. Kyu-ho Lee, CTO, Secuve Co., Ltd (Korea)

5. Wayne Wei-Wen Liu, CISSP, CISA, CGEIT, Senior Information Security Manager, Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (China)

6. Vijay Luiz, CISSP, CISA, Secretary, (ISC)2 Singapore Chapter (Singapore)

7. Dr. Ching-Hao Mao, CCSK, OCPJWCD, SCJP, Section Manager, Institute for Information Industry (Taiwan)

8. Moshiul Islam Mishu, CISSP, CISA, CFE, Security Engineer, Augmedix (Bangladesh)

9. Phannarith Ou, Director of ICT Security, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Cambodia)

10. Syed Zafar Saeed, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IT Security Architect, Avaya (India)

11. Jumpon Suwanphahu, CSSLP, SSCP, Security+, Consultant, ACIS Professional Center Co., Ltd. (Thailand)

12. Tony Tsai, LPI Level 1, Encase I/II, ISO/IEC 17025, Manager of Digital Forensics Center, Acer CyberCenter Services, Inc. (Taiwan)

In the senior information security professional category:

1. Dongkeun Choi, Director, CISO, CPO, LOTTE Card Co., Ltd. (Korea)

2. Shin-ichi Fuchigami, CISSP, SSCP, CCAI, Vice-President, International Information Technology Business College (Japan)

3. Chen-che Hsu, SSCP, CEH, CHFI, Engineer, Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan)

4. Albert Hui, GXPN, GREM, CRISC, Principal Consultant, Security Ronin (Hong Kong)

5. Dr. Mingu Jumaan, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D, Director, Sabah State Computer Services Department (Malaysia

6. Hisashi Kasahara, CISSP, Adviser, Security Business Promotion, NTT Electronics Corporation (Japan)

7. Dr. Hamed Khiabani, CISSP, GPEN, GCFA, Security Operations Manager, Experian (Malaysia)

8. Koshi Kobayashi, CISSP, ISSJP, Manager, NEC Management Partner, Ltd. (Japan)

9. Chan Lee, CISO, CJ Corporation (Korea)

10. Otto Lee, CISSP, CSSLP, CISA, Chairperson, Professional Information Security Association (Hong Kong)

11. Anthony Lim, CSSLP, CCSP, Senior Cybersecurity Advisor, Asia Pacific, Frost & Sullivan (Singapore)

12. Indranil Mukherjee, CISSP, ISO 27001:2013 Lead Auditor, CISA, Managing Director, Singapore ISC Pte Ltd./ ISC GloBal (Singapore)

13. Todorovic Vladan, M.Sc., Founder, Advanced Security Technologies Asia Pte Ltd. (Singapore)

14. King Cheung Kelvin Wong, Officer, Hong Kong Police Force (Hong Kong)

In the managerial professional for information security project(s) category:

1. Raul Paolo Miranda, CISSP, CITPM, Masters in CIO Practices, Membership Director, (ISC)2 Singapore Chapter (Singapore)

2. Seungwoo Nam, CISO/CPO, NH Bank (Korea)

3. Kumpol Sontanarat, Director of ICT Department, Securities and Exchange Commission (Thailand)

4. Victor Yeo, CISSP, QISP, Deputy General Manager, ST Electronics (Info-Security) Pte Ltd. (Singapore)

5. Suk Jin Yun, Partner, EY Han Young (Korea)

In the information security educator category:

1. Dato Dr. Norbik B. Idris, Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia)

2. Dr. Heejo Lee, Professor, Korea University (Korea)

3. Hung Leung, Senior Lecturer, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Chai Wan) (Hong Kong)

4. Prabath Lakmal Rupasinghe, MBA, CISSP, CISA, Senior Lecturer/Consultant, SLIIT (Sri Lanka)

The 2016 (ISC)² Asia-Pacific ISLA Nomination Review Committee is comprised of members of the (ISC)² Asia-Pacific Advisory Council and previous Asia-Pacific ISLA honorees. For details about the members of ISLA 2016 Nomination Review Committee, please visit https://www.isc2.org/asia-pacific-isla-nomination-review-committee/default.aspx.

Concurrently, (ISC)2 Security Congress APAC 2016, will take place July 25-26 at Centara Grand at CentralWorld in Bangkok. For more information and to register for (ISC)2 Security Congress APAC, please visit apaccongress.isc2.org.

About (ISC)²

(ISC)² is an international nonprofit membership association focused on inspiring a safe and secure cyber world. Best known for the acclaimed Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP^®) certification, (ISC)² offers a portfolio of credentials that are part of a holistic, programmatic approach to security. Our membership, over 115,000 strong, is made up of certified cyber, information, software and infrastructure security professionals who are making a difference and helping to advance the industry. Our vision is supported by our commitment to educate and reach the general public through our charitable foundation — The Center for Cyber Safety and Education^TM. For more information on (ISC)², visit www.isc2.org, follow us on Twitter or connect with us on Facebook.

© 2016, (ISC)² Inc., (ISC)², CISSP, ISSAP, ISSMP, ISSEP, CSSLP, CCSP, CAP, CCFP, HCISPP, SSCP and CBK are registered marks of (ISC)², Inc.

Customer Feedback Fine Tunes Business Intelligence Software

HONG KONG, CHINA – Media OutReach – Jul 4, 2016 – Atradius Credit Insurance recently announced the eagerly awaited launch of Atradius Insights 2.0, the latest version of the company’s prestigious business intelligence tool. Customers and brokers alike will be particularly interested in this upgraded offering, since it was their feedback that inspired many of its enhancements and additional features.  

This state-of-the-art software, originally launched in Europe in 2014 and in Asia one year later, was designed to provide an efficient, simple-to-use tool for optimized portfolio management — to monitor performance, identify risk and seek opportunities. The credit insurance industry was quick to recognize its arrival as a ‘game changer’, evidenced by winning the Oracle “Fusion Middleware Innovation Award” in 2015 and being shortlisted amongst the top three for “Outstanding Online Platform 2015” for the annual Hong Kong Insurance Awards which are run by the HKFI.

‘The Insight tool has experienced steady growth in usage since its launch. Winning several awards over the past two years is testament that Insights is the software equivalent to a Raspberry Pi but for the credit insurance world; the ideal risk management tool for the savvy CFO and Controller wanting to access portfolio information anytime, anywhere and in whatever format required’.

— Eric den Boogert (Managing Director, Atradius Credit Insurance, Asia)

Novel key features include an intuitive dashboard providing an overview of the portfolio status along with insights into credit limit decisions and deductions as well as the ability to create and maintain policy groups and buyer country groups. Users are able to easily filter or search information as required and also quickly pinpoint anomalies and areas for further investigation. Users can see how claims paid compare to premium and in addition interactive world maps can be used to identify business opportunities as well as areas of risk.

For more details about Atradius insights, please visit Atradius Insights Online Business Intelligence Tool Teaser and Atradius Insights Online Business Intelligence Tool Tutorial.

About Atradius
Atradius provides trade credit insurance, surety and collections services worldwide through a strategic presence in 50 countries. Atradius has access to credit information on 200 million companies worldwide. Its credit insurance, bonding and collections products help protect companies throughout the world from payment risks associated with selling products and services on trade credit. Atradius forms part of Grupo Catalana Occidente (GCO.MC), one of the leading insurers in Spain and worldwide in credit insurance. Please visit us at http://www.atradius.com

New Capabilities in Flagship Products, Performance Enhancements and Updates to Adobe Stock Allow Effortless Creation

Hong Kong — June 27, 2016 — Taking aim at inefficiencies that slow down the creation process, Adobe today launched major updates to its flagship Creative Cloud tools and services. The release includes dramatic new features in Adobe’s flagship applications, performance enhancements across Creative Cloud (CC), and exciting updates to Adobe Stock — including deeper integration within CC and the addition of an all-new Premium collection of high quality stock content. Spanning across virtually all of the Creative Cloud portfolio, updates in this new release target many of the pain points that designers, photographers and filmmakers face every day.

Adobe Hong Kong & Taiwan Country Manager, Raymond Fung

“We have two key goals with this release: saving our customers time and helping them jumpstart their creative engines,” said Bryan Lamkin, executive vice president and general manager, Digital Media at Adobe. “Every creative project starts with a blank page and ends with a vision coming to life. Today’s release of Creative Cloud will help make that journey as fast and productive as possible. From deeper integration of Adobe Stock into the CC experience, to amazing new features like Content-Aware Crop in Adobe Photoshop, this release will expedite the creative process for millions of our customers.”

Adobe Hong Kong & Taiwan Digital Media Solutions Consultant, Ernest Wong

“The industry is going through unprecedented changes driven by mobile explosion, and content velocity is becoming more critical in tying content and customer experience to business impact and success. However, we know only 16% of marketers and business leaders in Asia Pacific say they have the workflows in place to enable the alignment and collaboration needed to deal with the scale of content production they’re facing1,” said Paul Robson, president, Adobe Asia Pacific. “This release delivers the magic and improved workflow that unleashes creativity and helps organisations ultimately provide superb customer experience across channels.”

Today‘s updates mark another step forward in establishing Creative Cloud as the one-stop shop for creative people — providing the best in desktop tools, mobile applications, training and a vibrant marketplace featuring services like Adobe Stock, as well as access to the Behance community that’s now over 7 million strong.

“The latest feature of Lightroom, a new Guided Upright option, which now under new Transform panel, enables us to correct all perspectives problems due to imperfect lens & shooting limitation of the location. It is now saving us more than half of our post-processing time, and much more important, saving our budget in purchasing or renting the most expensive tilt & shift lens on cost sensitive projects,” said Terence Pang, Chief Photographer and Videography Producer at Image Factory Company, Hong Kong.

“We could not have completed our debut television series, “The Wizards of Aus” without Adobe Creative Cloud,” said Chris Hocking, General Manager of LateNite Films. “Unlike the majority of film and television, we didn’t have a traditional offline/online workflow and therefore needed a solution with specific elements: enabled for Mac and PC, compatible for UltraHD footage and the ability to seamlessly switch between offline editing and visual effects without slowing things down. We were constantly jumping between Premiere for editing, and After Effects for visual effects right up until we exported the final Digital Cinema Package using Adobe Media Encoder.”

“We’ve been utilizing Adobe Creative Cloud in order to reflect our brand identity in creative works and deliver a customer-centric design experience,” said Ho Jae Lee, Deputy Head of Design Team, Marketing Division, BC Card. “We believe that these updates, which offer collaboration features critical for keeping visual elements consistent and target many of the pain points that users around the world face every day, will enhance efficiency and creativity altogether.”

Built Right into Creative Cloud: Adobe Stock Service Offers Best, Broadest Selection

Research from Pfeiffer Consulting confirms that integrating Adobe Stock with CC desktop applications delivers up to 10 times greater efficiency than other stock services*. The expanded Adobe Stock service includes over 55 million royalty-free, high-quality photos, videos, illustrations and graphics as well as the following new capabilities:

• One-Click Workflow. Deeper Adobe Stock integration with CC applications enables a new One-Click Workflow that lets users select an image or video on the Adobe Stock website and place it on their creative canvas with a single click. Also an expanded In-app Purchase feature delivers an industry-first, one-click license capability, directly from Photoshop.

• Premium Collection. Adobe’s first premium content offering sourced for Adobe Stock, includes nearly 100,000 curated images that meet the standards of top advertising agencies, leading brands and digital and print publications.

• Monetization Made Easier. Coming soon, Adobe will expand on its vision to build out the world’s largest creative marketplace by offering opportunities for creative professionals to contribute and monetize their work. They can contribute directly from desktop and mobile applications including Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe Bridge CC, Photoshop Fix and Photoshop Mix, providing an easy on-ramp to showcasing and selling their work via Adobe Stock. Also coming soon is Adobe’s new Stock Contributor Portal, which will feature intelligent auto-tagging capabilities saving hours of keywording.


Ernest Wong introduced Adobe Creative Cloud updates to the media

New CC Desktop App Capabilities and Performance Enhancements

Highly anticipated CC features, offering critical time savings and new creative opportunities for Creative Cloud subscribers include:

• Content-Aware Crop in Photoshop, which automatically fills in the gaps when you rotate or expand a canvas beyond the original image size.

• Face-Aware Liquify in Photoshop, an easy way to create artistic effects with facial features using the Liquify Tool while keeping the face in proportion.

• Match Font in Photoshop, an innovative font recognition technology that has the ability to recognize and identify licensed fonts and automatically suggest fonts available on your computer system or available to license through Adobe Typekit.

• Character Animator Preview in After Effects CC, which matches an animated character to a real-life actor’s speech and movements, was first showcased on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the host’s recurring Cartoon Donald Trump” (1:30) interviews and most recently by The Simpsons animation team in the episode that aired May 15, 2016.

• New Virtual Reality (VR) features in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, including “field of view” mode for previewing content.

• Fast Export of assets and artboards in Adobe Illustrator CC, allowing users to export assets to multiple formats and resolutions with a single click.

• Photoshop productivity enhancements, including a four times performance improvement when working with the Font Menu and three times improvement for Content-Aware Fill features.

CreativeSync and Assets: Greater Discoverability, Productivity and Integrated Mobile to Desktop Workflows

The company’s signature CreativeSync technology ensures a user’s files, fonts, design assets, and settings instantly appear in their mobile to desktop workflow, wherever they need them. Recently made available collaboration capabilities include read-only Creative Cloud Libraries that provide controlled permission levels while collaborating with teams. The Creative Cloud library serves as a virtual digital style guide for teams to ensure campaigns are consistent and always on brand. Creatives can also delegate permission levels to help manage libraries and files. Also new is an updated Creative Cloud Libraries panel with Search Filters that allow customers to easily search and select video, photo, vector and illustration assets.

New Capabilities Add Value for Global Brands and Agencies

Creative Cloud for enterprise (CCE) enables customers to create, collaborate and deliver content at high velocity — all behind the security of a corporate firewall. Updates to Creative Cloud for enterprise deliver significant new capabilities, including: simplified workflows for creative teams collaborating and exchanging assets, as well as read-only libraries and folders, archiving support for folders and files and versioning capabilities. With today’s CC release, Adobe Stock for enterprise now includes the Premium collection as well as advanced search, flexible payment plans and the ability to track stock images and videos through one unified enterprise dashboard.

Pricing and Availability

Updates to CC desktop apps are now available for download by Creative Cloud members as part of their membership at no additional cost. Membership plans are available for individuals, students, teams, educational institutions, government agencies and enterprises. For pricing details, visit: https://creative.adobe.com/plans.

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1 Based on APAC Digital Marketing Performance Dashboard released late last year

The Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund (the “Fund”), a not-for-profit initiative of Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA), which was set up last November to support entrepreneurs in Hong Kong, today announced the selection of three early-stage companies as the first batch of companies to receive minority investments from the Fund.

The three companies are YEECHOO, Shopline and GoGoVan. YEECHOO operates an online designer apparel rental business; Shopline provides cloud-based computing solutions for small and medium-sized companies to launch and manage ecommerce operations; and GoGoVan offers intra-city logistics services through a real-time platform that connects customers with a network of delivery service providers. The three companies are based in Hong Kong with significant local operations.

Mr. Joe Tsai, executive vice president of Alibaba Group and board director of Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, said “These companies embrace technology to create value for the society, and we are excited to work with them and help them grow their businesses with resources available from the Fund and Alibaba Group.  The entrepreneurs behind these companies also exemplify the entrepreneurial spirit in Hong Kong.  We look forward to supporting more aspiring entrepreneurs in Hong Kong in the future.”

In addition to funding, the companies will have the opportunity to leverage resources from Alibaba’s Group’s vibrant ecosystem in order to scale and accelerate the expansion into other markets.

Since November 2015, the Fund has received more than 200 applications from entrepreneurs whose companies were in different stages of development.  The three companies were selected after several rounds of management interviews and extensive due diligence reviews.  The Fund will continue to look for promising entrepreneurs and engaging them through discussion of their business plans.

(From left to right): Hong Kong Entrepreneurs – Shan Shan, co-founders of YEECHOO; Abby Zhan, co-founders of YEECHOO; Tony Wong, co-founder and CEO of Shopline; Fiona Lau, co-founder of Shopline; Steven Lam, founder of GoGoVan:

(From left to right): Mrs. Cindy Chow, executive director of Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund; Mr. Joe Tsai, executive vice president of Alibaba Group and board director ofAlibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund; Dr. Allan Zeman (GBM, GBS, JP), board director ofAlibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund; Shan Shan, co-founders of YEECHOO; Abby Zhan, co-founders of YEECHOO; Tony Wong, co-founder and CEO of Shopline; Fiona Lau, co-founder of Shopline; Steven Lam, founder of GoGoVan; Mr. Bernard Chan, board director of Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund; Mr. Savio Kwan, board director of Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund:

Mrs. Cindy Chow, executive director of the Fund, commented: “The response and overall enthusiasm from applicants from a wide range of sectors were very encouraging.  Over the past few months, we have been working closely with incubators and universities in Hong Kong to identify qualified entrepreneurs as we hope to be more supportive of the growth and expansion of startups in Hong Kong.”

Shan Shan and Abby Zhang, co-founders of YEECHOO, noted: “We see the partnership with Alibaba as a major milestone in YEECHOO’s expansion plan and are very excited about it.  It will enable synergies to be created between YEECHOO and other players in the Alibaba ecosystem.  With Alibaba’s strong support, YEECHOO will have a deeper impact across a wider audience as we promote a whole new lifestyle.  It will also help more and more Hong Kong women create fashionable experiences at an affordable cost.”

Tony Wong, co-founder and CEO of Shopline, said “We believe the Fund’s investment presents a huge opportunity for Shopline to learn fro the best.  Alibaba is the world’s largest e-commerce companies with expertise in payment, logistics, and cloud services that are all core to e-commerce.  This will help us strengthen our market positioning in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and fuel the next stage of our growth:

Steven Lam, founder of GoGoVan, said “With the Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund’s support, we look forward to growing our enterprise in Hong Kong to other markets and countries.  We aim to continue our MOVE IT business philosophy by leveraging resources of the Alibaba ecosystem to our advantage in the logistics sector.”

Parties interested in learning more about the investment program may visit http://www.ent-fund.org for details.

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South Korea, April 27, 2016 – Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA), and Korea-based SK Holding C&C announced an agreement that furthers Alibaba Cloud’s strategy to provide sophisticated cloud-based solutions to accelerate the growth of global businesses in China and abroad.

SK Holdings will develop a stable, high-speed dedicated cloud portal in the Korean language for businesses operating in sectors such as gaming, online shopping and ICT (information and communications technology). The portal will monitor clients’ network and system 24/7 and provide infrastructure, resource allocation and management services using resources from Alibaba Cloud. The platform, which integrates cloud offerings from both Alibaba Cloud and SK Holdings C&C, will assist Korean companies to enter the China market while also benefiting Chinese companies in Korea.

Sicheng Yu, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud, said, “SK Holdings C&C is a well-respected ICT service provider in Korea, and we are proud to partner with them to extend our global footprint. We believe the collaboration will empower clients from both Alibaba Cloud and SK by offering them one global account through which they will enjoy reliable, fast-speed cloud services without borders.”

Kiyeol Lee, Finance & Cloud Business Group Head of SK Holdings C&C, said, “This partnership provides a fast track to China for Korean gaming and online shopping companies and small hidden champions. We will provide fast and convenient cloud services to Korean companies operating in China as well as Chinese firms operating in Korea.”

Users of the new portal will also enjoy access to cloud-based solutions developed by third-party ICT companies and start-ups in the forms of PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service).

This partnership lays a foundation for the two parties to cooperate on the recently announced “Create@Alibaba Cloud” initiative, which aims to champion the growth of start-ups in Asia and beyond through comprehensive network support and an innovative suite of cloud infrastructure services.

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group today announced plans to enter into a strategic partnership with SAP China, with a goal of jointly delivering enterprise-class cloud computing services to companies in China. The alliance aims to accelerate the introduction and adoption of enterprise-class cloud computing across multiple industries to help businesses accelerate their digital transformation.

The partnership initially plans to focus on integrating the resources of Alibaba Cloud and SAP on the Alibaba Cloud platform. Businesses are expected to benefit from a versatile, one-stop-shop cloud computing environment that is enabled by Alibaba Cloud’s high-reliability and high-performance cloud infrastructure, SAP’s world-leading enterprise-class database and business application solutions and SAP’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings — all interoperating seamlessly.

Alibaba Cloud intends to collaborate with SAP to jointly market and deploy SAP HANA One and SAP’s SaaS solutions, enabling businesses to reap the benefits of SAP applications and Alibaba Cloud’s powerful cloud computing resources more conveniently.

Mark Gibbs, President of SAP Greater China said, “Alibaba Cloud is China’s leading public cloud platform, and SAP is deeply focused on deploying its cloud portfolio and services in China. Through this win-win partnership in the Cloud, we will collaboratively grow the ecosystem and bring more innovative cloud solutions to China market. Together, we will help enterprises to simplify their IT infrastructure, realize business value and accelerate digital transformation.”

Simon Hu, President of Alibaba Cloud said, “Alibaba Cloud is delighted to work with SAP on a strategic alliance that will help Chinese companies and businesses around the world in their transformation from Internet Technology (IT) to the emerging age of Data Technology (DT). Cloud computing has become the basis of a new economy based on data, driving technological innovations that push the traditional boundaries of business farther than ever before and creating greater value for all stakeholders. Together, Alibaba Cloud and SAP will seek to build a unified ecosystem that makes cloud computing more accessible to businesses and organizations everywhere and converts computing power into commercial benefit.”

Alibaba Cloud is one of the world’s leading cloud computing platforms, and China’s largest, with services covering more than 200 countries and regions. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing and big data services to more than 1.8 million users in the finance, transportation, genomics, medical and meteorological industries. In the course of service fulfilment Alibaba Cloud has handled challenging scenarios involving massive numbers of transactions with ease, including during the Tmall “Double 11” Global Shopping Festival and rail ticket sales for the Spring Festival on 12306.cn.

New Functionality in PAN-OS Version 7.1 Delivers Universal Protection Across Multi-Cloud Environments and SaaS Applications

Hong Kong, April 13, 2016 – Palo Alto Networks® (NYSE: PANW), the next-generation security company, has announced advancements to its Next-Generation Security Platform that are designed to extend the breach prevention capabililties of the platform and address the security needs of businesses working with cloud-based environments and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

The demand for organizations to become ever more agile and competitive is driving a change in the way business applications are developed, deployed, and adopted. Workloads and data are increasingly distributed across physical and cloud computing environments. This changes the threat landscape and increases the risk of exposure to cyberattacks, which is compounded by the limitations of legacy security products that were not designed for this distributed, cloud-based infrastructure.

Palo Alto Networks has addressed these challenges, and many more, in PAN-OS® 7.1. This version of the operating system extends the breach prevention capabilities of the security platform to all major clouds and provides visibility, control, and threat prevention designed to protect customer data regardless of where it resides. Additionally, among the new features are certificate and two-factor authentication advancements that help protect user credentials or neutralize them if they are stolen.

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“As organizations continue to embrace the cloud and SaaS for workloads and data, it’s crucial that security solutions keep pace. The capabilities introduced in this new release of PAN-OS provide scalable visibility, control, and threat prevention and offers the deployment flexibility required by today’s distributed organizations and their employees.” – Jeff Wilson, senior research director and advisor, cybersecurity, IHS Technology

“Enterprises require consistent security regardless of where their applications reside. The latest release of PAN-OS addresses new challenges presented by the cloud, enabling organizations to take advantage of agile cloud-based infrastructure and applications while maintaining a consistent security posture.” – Lee Klarich, EVP, product management at Palo Alto Networks

Many of the more than 50 features delivered in PAN-OS 7.1 will help customers:

• Secure Any Cloud – By adding Microsoft® Azure™ and Hyper-V support for the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and by enhancing VM-Series auto-scaling support in AWS, organizations can achieve a scalable security architecture that enables consistent prevention measures to be deployed from the network, to the public and private cloud, and to the remote user.

• Embrace SaaS – With the release of PAN-OS 7.1 and the newest update to Aperture, Palo Alto Networks adds to its extensive SaaS application capabilities to safely enable Office 365™ deployments.

• Accelerate Preventative Action With Threat Intelligence – With new capabilities supported in the WildFire™ threat prevention and AutoFocus™ threat intelligence services, and PAN-OS, organizations can discover zero-day malware targeting the Mac® OS X® platform and prevent attacks with the global WildFire feed, now published every five minutes. PAN-OS 7.1 now fully supports Mac OS X signatures and the ability to send Mac OS X files to the cloud. AutoFocus now can add context to every attack and make threat intelligence actionable across the organization.
• Prevent Breaches With Secure User Credentials – By streamlining the user experience associated with two-factor authentication in GlobalProtect™ mobile security, organizations can neutralize stolen user credentials. Additionally, enhancements to WildFire and PAN-DB help prevent identity theft from happening in the first place by stopping known and unknown attacks and preventing phishing attempts.

Availability

• PAN-OS and Panorama 7.1 are now available to Palo Alto Networks customers with a current support contract.
• VM-series availability in Microsoft’s Azure cloud is expected in late April.
• Mac OS X support in the WildFire cloud is available now for early access.

To learn more about the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform, visit:
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/platforms.html.

Find out more about the new features in PAN-OS 7.1:

• What’s new in PAN-OS 7.1
• Register for the PAN-OS 7.1 webinar to learn about the new capabilities of the Next-Generation Security Platform.
• Read the PAN-OS 7.1 blog post

About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is the next-generation security company, leading a new era in cybersecurity by safely enabling applications and preventing cyber breaches for tens of thousands of organizations worldwide.  Built with an innovative approach and highly differentiated cyberthreat prevention capabilities, our game-changing security platform delivers security far superior to legacy or point products, safely enables daily business operations, and protects an organization’s most valuable assets.  Find out more at www.paloaltonetworks.com.

Singapore, April 11, 2016 － Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, announced today the launch of its 2016 global start-up program, “Create@Alibaba Cloud.”

This is Alibaba Cloud’s first global start-up program, aimed at championing start-ups and maximizing their potential through Alibaba’s comprehensive support network and innovative suite of cloud infrastructure services.

Mr. Sicheng Yu, Vice President of Alibaba Cloud, says: “Our focus has always been to empower our global customers with our cloud expertise to achieve greater global coverage and expansion into international markets. Through our program, we hope to make our sophisticated networking solutions and big-data intelligence also available to start-ups and small enterprises to accelerate their business growth. This is Alibaba Cloud’s first global start-up program, expanding from previous initiatives in China and Hong Kong, and we’re proud to launch it here in Singapore.”

Program Benefits
As part of the program, participants will receive funding for investments into IT infrastructure for the first year, technology training for professionals, tailor-made IT solutions designed by Alibaba Cloud’s architects and one-on-one post-sales support, to help the start-ups get their business up to speed and running smoothly.

In addition to offering cloud capabilities, Create@Alibaba Cloud also empowers start-ups with better access to overseas markets and potential connections, which is crucial for those looking to expand internationally. Program participants will receive support through Alibaba Cloud’s global start-up partners’ network for funding, working spaces, and incubation, as well as leverage Alibaba’s resources in China to manage challenges in entering the China market. Program partners currently include Silicon Valley Association of Chinese Entrepreneurs Inc (SVACE), Hanhai Investment Inc, Hong Kong Science Park. The participating start-ups will also be invited to join Alibaba Cloud’s marketing campaigns, both online and offline.

As part of the program, a series of competitions will be rolled out in key regions including ASEAN markets, Hong Kong, Korea, the Middle East and Europe, to honor start-ups that demonstrate good business potentials. Regional winners from the competitions will have the opportunity to pitch their business ideas and conduct live product demos at the annual Alibaba Computing Conference Hangzhou Summit in October 2016. During the program roll-out, cloud workshops, entrepreneurship talks and other activities will also be held in these key regions.

Expansion in ASEAN
Alibaba Cloud has chosen Singapore as the regional hub for the program for the country’s strong links and access to other ASEAN markets, including Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. With its close connectivity and reputation as Asia’s most entrepreneurial economy, start-ups in the program can easily build connections in Singapore and catapult into neighbouring markets.

Mr. Pang Heng Soon, General Manager of Infocomms Investments under the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore, says: “We are constantly looking at ways to continue building a strong support ecosystem for start-ups in Singapore through initiatives such as the Create@Alibaba Cloud program. For start-ups to succeed they will need both technical know-how and market insights; 2 through the program, entrepreneurs will gain access to cloud capabilities, financial capital and insights on cross-border expansion to reach their full potential.”

About Alibaba Cloud
Established in September 2009, Alibaba Cloud (intl.aliyun.com), Alibaba Group’s cloud computing arm, develops highly scalable platforms for cloud computing and data management. It provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to support the participants of Alibaba Group’s online and mobile commerce ecosystem, including sellers, and other third-party customers and businesses. Alibaba Cloud is a business within Alibaba Group.