Company officials said in today’s announcement of the two-day virtual event they are “thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase what we’re doing to transform and reshape the industry, as well as address its needs.”

Crestron Next “will feature what’s next in workplace, education and home innovation,” the company announcement says.

Attendees will have “the exclusive opportunity to experience the world of Crestron firsthand and preview new products, future innovations, live trainings, and much more,” according to the company announcement.

Crestron Next “will provide guests with a live, interactive and engaging experience unlike any other that they’ve seen before,” the company announcement says.

More About Crestron Next

Crestron Next is not a replacement for the annual Crestron Masters events. This year’s Crestron Masters were held virtually and are expected to resume in 2021. The 2019 Crestron Masters events in Connecticut attracted more than 1,200 of the best Crestron programmers in the world.

Crestron recently announced its newest addition to the company’s line of unified communications conferencing technology, the Crestron Flex R-Series.

Crestron Flex R-Series is a mobile UC system “that brings collaboration where it’s needed most, closing the distance between remote teams wherever they may be,” according to the company announcement.

Crestron also recently announced the company is collaborating with remote work providers Logitech and Zoom to help merge work and home with an all-in-one videoconferencing, home control and unified communications experience.

The solution, dubbed Crestron HomeTime, is designed for working from home, remote learning and socializing. It’s a unification of Logitech’s MeetUp conference camera with the Crestron UC Engine that integrates with Crestron control to deliver the Zoom Rooms experience.

The high-end home solution merges videoconferencing, home control, and unified communications (UC) into a single system to allow clients to socialize, remote learn, and work from home.

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The company is offering “a solutions-based architecture that simplifies the process and encourages remote collaboration between educators and students while replicating the in-class experience,” the announcement says.

These ‘Virtual Experience’ configurations “provide the AV tools needed to effectively stream lectures, lessons and other activities which previously occurred in the classroom,” the Panasonic announcement says.

The ‘Virtual Experience’ is offered in ‘Entry, Standard and Advanced’ configurations. All configurations include Panasonic displays, a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera, wireless microphones and mounting accessories.

PT-LRZ35 Series 1-Chip DLP RGB LED projector

The PT-LRZ35 Series projectors are ideal for smaller classrooms and meeting spaces, offering operation as low as 24dB without sacrificing image quality.

The PT-LRZ35 Series are Panasonic’s first portable projectors to use RGB LED light source. This provides “superior color reproduction and enhanced picture quality,” ideal for art or science classrooms, corporate presentations or artistic renderings.

The series also come 3D-ready with DLP Link technology (requires compatible glasses).

The filter-less design in a sealed optical unit and dust-resistant cabinet ensures up to 20,000 hours of virtually maintenance-free operation.

The PT-LRZ35U WUXGA resolution (1920 x 1200) and PT-LRW35U WXGA resolution (1280 x 800) LED projectors will be available August 2020.

PT-FRZ60 Series 1-Chip DLP SOLID SHINE Laser Projector

The PT-FRZ60 Series DLP SOLID SHINE laser projectors are engineered for classrooms and corporate applications. The projectors feature a 2.0x optical zoom to increase throw-distance range.

The PT-FRZ60 projectors support a 4K signal input via DIGITIAL LINK and HDMI terminals with CEC compatibility. They provide a filter-less cooling system, sealed optics along with a dust-resistant laser drive for almost 20,000 hours of 24/7 maintenance-free operation.

Offered in black or white cabinets, customers can choose models from 5,000lm to 6,000lm. All models provide WUXGA resolution (1920 x 1200) and will be available November 2020.

CQE1W Professional Displays

The new CQE1 Series professional displays offer numerous connection points for multi-device ecosystems with four HDMI connections for CEC-compatible devices, as well as a standard USB-C terminal for mobile connectivity.

Available in seven models, from 98-inch to 43-inch sizes, the displays offer 4K picture quality. Its continuous operational capability of up to 16 hours a day makes it reliable for everyday use in corporate facilities and higher education institutions.

Built to VESA standards, suspension from the ceiling or mounting on a wall is simple using a standard mounting bracket. The CQE1W Series will be available beginning October 2020.

BQ1W Professional Displays

The BQ1W Series displays can be leveraged as a screen and whiteboard in classrooms and office spaces. Offered in 75-inch and 65-inch sizes, the BQ1W Series 4K displays can switch between display and whiteboard mode.

All touch and writing capabilities are built directly into the display, so there is no need to load software or have additional components.

Integrated with the Intel Smart Display Module, the displays can be enhanced with third-party applications for additional interactive capabilities.

The BQ1W displays are available now.

EQ1 Professional Displays Expand Functionality

The EQ1 Series displays are suited for huddle rooms and small meeting rooms, offering a variety of sizes with the flexibility to integrate with many videoconferencing systems.

The EQ1 Series displays are now compatible with Cisco Webex Room Kits to help customers create even more integrated, collaborative environments.

 ‘PressIT’ Wireless Presentation System

The new ‘PressIT’ wireless presentation system is a plug-and-play wireless presentation system designed to eliminate the need for cables and facilitates sharing content between different PCs.

Attendees connect the transmitter button to their PC’s USB and HDMI ports and press the button to share their content on the room’s display. Up to four presenters at a time can display visual and audio content.

The PressIT Wireless Presentation System offers two versions: basic with the set-top-box or cable-less with the SDM receiver. The SDM receiver was designed to fit inside the Intel SDM expansion slot of the displays, so no cable connection is needed between the PC and display.

For displays and projectors without an SDM slot for the receiver, a set-top-box version can be connected to the device.

The PressIT Wireless Presentation System will be available October 2020.

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“In today’s climate, rooms are radically changing with an exponential demand for meetings that utilize video conferencing,” according to the Crestron announcement.

Crestron’s Flex R-Series is a mobile UC solution “that enables customers to quickly and easily share information and work collaboratively,” the company announcement says.

Crestron Flex R-Series “offers unprecedented versatility by eliminating the costly, time-consuming installation process, allowing organizations to better anticipate the evolving needs of the places people meet,” according to the company announcement.

“The need to share knowledge and work collaboratively is more critical than ever,” said Andrew Gross, Crestron director of sales for UC enterprise, in the company announcement. “Our Crestron Flex R-Series delivers a rapid deployment, social distancing-friendly solution that creates a productive workplace and can be utilized anywhere, quickly and efficiently.

“Beyond deployment, Crestron’s suite of management tools ensure customers can manage more endpoints with the same resources, helping companies tackle the need to rapidly expand their video conferencing footprint,” he said.

Flex R-Series: Collaboration in a Few Steps

Crestron Flex R-Series features optional dual-mode technology based on the Crestron Flex MX architecture. It enables organizations to run native Microsoft Teams or Zoom Rooms software, or switch to bring-your-own-device (BYOD) mode for all other conferencing software.

The system can be moved, “supporting people wherever they meet, whether in cafeterias, classrooms, manufacturing floors, or in open spaces,” according to the Crestron announcement.

Crestron Flex R-Series includes the following features and options:

• Intelligent camera with 150° field of vision that autoframes participants, enabling social distancing without compromising experience
• 360° quad mic array with up to a 20’ range
• Support for displays from 50” to 60”
• Retractable Ethernet and power cables for easy connections
• Support for Crestron AirMedia wireless presentation system, enabling users to share content wirelessly from any device

“With worldwide video conferencing at an all-time high as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crestron has taken swift measures to create an easy-to-use solution that brings remote collaboration to every space”, said Joseph Sarrasin, director of strategy for unified communications at Crestron.

“Our new Crestron Flex R-Series is reshaping the workplace as we know it, offering customers the ability to organize meetings on demand regardless of location or application,” he said.

Crestron Flex R-Series is “designed for an array of enterprise corporations and businesses globally, as well as in hospitals, medical centers, universities, and manufacturing facilities, among other organizations where social distancing measures are of utmost importance,” the announcement says.

It is available now in seven models.

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That all changes after a recent press release from Apple announced a surprising new program that will allow any business to receive the training to become an AASP. The new independent repair provider program will allow organizations large or small to receive training, become certified, and receive the same genuine parts, tools, repair manuals and diagnostics that are available to AASPs today.

There is no cost to join Apple’s independent repair program – and even the process for certification as an AASP is free of charge. The caveat is that the organization must have a certified AASP in order to join the independent repair program. Apple has launched a successful pilot program with 20 independent repair businesses across the globe, and the recent announcement expands the program to the United States with plans to expand globally moving forward.

This is huge news for organizations that utilize Apple products – iPhones, iPads and Macbooks specifically. In the past the secretive nature of Apple’s repairs meant that prices could be set at whatever price Apple was comfortable with. If you were to go to an independent contractor, the warrantee on the product was void – if the independent source messed up then that device became worthless.

This program expands the amount of AASPs exponentially. It will create an actual market for Apple product repairs, which will allow for supply and demand to normalize the price to something fair and reasonable. Organizations are no longer beholden to Apple for the lifetime of the product after purchasing Apple products – and they can rest easy knowing independent AASPs have been properly trained and received the proper equipment to fix Apple devices.

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“As organizations increasingly turn to cloud-native architectures, their perimeter – as well as their attack surface – expands to the cloud,” says Tomer Weingarten, Co-founder and CEO of SentinelOne. “These workloads require the same level of monitoring, provisioning, and protection as any other device on the corporate network. SentinelOne’s server and workload protection solves this common frustration by providing visibility, protection, and context into what’s happening across each and every cloud workload, container, and virtual machine on the network, and more importantly, real-time protection from attacks.”

Critical business infrastructures are powered by and reside in the cloud as containerized workloads. While many EPP and EDR tools rely on the cloud for detection, tools are not optimized to protect the cloud attack surface. The new server and workload protection from SentinelOne is built for containerized workloads as well as deployments on traditional servers in the cloud and in private data centers. It provides full visibility and response capabilities across these infrastructures.

SentinelOne’s server and workload protection is infrastructure agnostic and can be deployed either in containers themselves, or in the machines that host them, in servers or in the cloud.

More about SentinelOne:

SentinelOne delivers autonomous endpoint protection through a single agent that successfully prevents, detects and responds to attacks across all major vectors. Designed for extreme ease of use, the S1 platform saves customers time by applying AI to automatically eliminate threats in real time for both on premise and cloud environments and is the only solution to provide full visibility across networks directly from the endpoint.

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The new generation product is partially a result of two key acquisitions Cision made in 2019 – acquiring startups TendKite and Falcon.io. This provided the company with additional innovative capabilities, including TrendKite’s monitoring and analytics, which has been integrated with Cision’s content, media database, newswire distribution, and business results attribution capabilities.

The updated Cision Communications Cloud platformdelivers an improved user experience, more intelligent reporting, and better campaign execution – ideal for PR, marketing, and communications teams.

“This is an exciting time for Cision as we continue to evolve after our recent acquisitions,” says Kevin Akeroyd, Cision CEO. “By taking the very best elements from across our product portfolio, we’ve created an inclusive earned media management platform that sets us apart from anything else in the market. According to a 2018 Cision/PR Week Survey, 77% of comms professionals feel they could better measure the ROI of their work, and the next generation of Cision Communications Cloud is built to empower them to do so. We’re offering an end-to-end workflow, real-time insights, and the only communications platform that truly measures the value of earned media.”

Capabilities of the new Cision Communications Cloud include:

• Monitoring and Analytics – influencer discovery, business results reporting, unlimited dashboards, real-time alerts, AI-powered insights, image monitoring, social listening, and more.
• Personal and Scalabale Engagement – featuring the largest contact database available to PR pros, with more than 1.4 million professional media profiles and 910 million social influencer profiles. Users cans earch by interest, expertise, or demographic.
• Integration of Paid Media Tools – now delivering earned-media-informed custom audience creation, targeting and activation, users can create custom inerest audience based on earned media engagement.

To learn more about Cision Communications Cloud, visit the company website.

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This announcement comes on the heels of of CloudM’s announcement that its migration product, CloudMigrator, is available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

CloudManager can empower both enterprise-level and SMB organizations – from automating complex admin tasks for IT pros to enabling seamless collaboration for end users. The product harnesses the migration technology of CloudMigrator. Businesses can consolidate their administration and migration needs under one product offering as a result. This streamlines the process of data management and provides more efficient management of Office 365 licensing.

“We are always looking for ways to improve the process of managing data across a range of cloud platforms. Allowing companies to save time and money by enabling easy user lifecycle management and domain monitoring,” says Gary Bennion, Chief Product Officer at CloudM. “Launching CloudManager to the Microsoft market is a key development in achieving this goal and gives us the opportunity to reach a diverse range of exciting organizations that could really benefit from this technology.

“CloudM has successfully migrated more than 9 million users from 81 countries to the cloud, and it is this experience that has allowed us to innovate and combine our offering to streamline the migration and data management process,” says Bennion. “This feels like a natural development for the organization following the announcement that we have also launched our CloudMigrator product in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, offering the unique opportunity to integrate the two technologies.”

More about CloudM:

CloudM is headquartered in Manchester and is a market-leading software brand that develops software to unlock the potential of Office 365. Its CloudManager and CloudMigrator products have migrated more than nine million users and 23,000 domains to the cloud and are used by over 3,000 organizations in 81 countries across the globe. CloudM employs more than 160 people in offices in Manchester, London, Belfast, Edinburgh, Maarssen and Frankfurt, as well as across its globally remote workforce.

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The data was stored on the Oak Ridge Summit supercomputer, which is currently the world’s fastests supercomputer. Globus was tasked with moving files from disk to tape, a typical migration for researchers. Globus is software-as-a-service for research data management, used by hundreds of research institutions and high-performance computing (HPC) facilities worldwide. The service enables secure, reliable file transfer, sharing, and data publication for managing data throughout the research lifecycle.

“Storage is in general a very large problem in our community — the Universe is just very big, so our work can often generate a lot of data,” says Katrin Heitmann, Argonne physicist and computational scientist and an Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) Early Science user. “Using Globus to easily move the data around between different storage solutions and institutions for analysis is essential.

“Due to its uniqueness, the data is very precious and the analysis will take time,” says Dr. Heitmann. “The first step after the simulations were finished was to make a backup copy of the data to HPSS, so we can move the data back and forth between disk and tape and thus carry out the analysis in steps. We use Globus for this work due to its speed, reliability, and ease of use.”

“With exascale imminent, AI on the rise, HPC systems proliferating, and research teams more distributed than ever, fast, secure, reliable data movement and management are now more important than ever,” says Ian Foster, Globus co-founder and director of Argonne’s Data Science and Learning Division. “We tend to take these functions for granted, and yet modern collaborative research would not be possible without them.”

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“This extended capability adds more value to Scalefusion in positioning itself as a multi-platform EMM solution for diverse device and deployment types. With the growing prominence of BYOD as a policy in most companies & the eagerness of modern employees to use their iOS and Mac devices for work due to the enriched user experience and the convenience offered by device familiarity, extending BYO management is a need of the hour,” says Sriram Kakarala, Vice President of Mobility at ProMobi Technologies.

According to a press release, key functionalities of the new capabilities of the Scalefusion platform include:

• Quick and easy device enrolment.
• Simplified configuration of company policies and essential settings such as WiFi.
• Seamless application management for publishing enterprise and business-specific apps and books to drive resource availability on employee-owned devices.
• Protection against data-breach by disabling users from taking screenshots.
• Work data settings that restrict the corporate data flow between work and personal apps.
• Securing corporate data without accessing personal data to maintain employee data privacy.

More about Scalefusion:

ProMobi Technologies provides a leading Enterprise Mobility Management Solution under the brand Scalefusion. Scalefusion EMM allows organizations to secure and manage endpoints including smartphones, tablets, laptops, rugged devices, mPOS, and digital signages, along with apps and content. It supports the management of Android, iOS, macOS and Windows 10 devices and ensures streamlined device management operations with Scalefusion InterOps.

More than 4500 companies across the world are unlocking their true potential using Scalefusion, which is used across various industries such as Transportation & Logistics, Retail, Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Construction & Real Estate, Hospitality, Software & Telecom, Financial Services & others.

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The hands-on courses, labs and exams are readily available, and organizations are able to offer educational opportunities to new hires and non-security team mebers. This imporves the security posture of the entire organization and quips employees with the adversarial mindset they need to protect modern enterprises from cybersecurity threats.

“Cybersecurity training is not just for security professionals anymore,” says Kerry Ancheta, VP of Worldwide Sales, Offensive Security. “Increasingly we see organizations recommend pentest training courses for their software development or application security teams in order to improve their understanding for how their systems and applications are attacked. With the OffSec Flex program, it will now be easier for organizations to access more training options, offering cyber skills growth opportunities to more employees to better defend IT systems from sophisticated attackers outside of their companies.”

From the press release:

With the launch of OffSec Flex, Offensive Security simplifies the allocation and use of training budgets, making it significantly easier for organizations to invest in cybersecurity skills. Once an organization sets its training budget, it can pre-purchase a block of Offensive Security training from across its range of offerings. It is then able to utilize that training time as needed throughout the year while extending its budget through Flex Bonus Funds, contributed by Offensive Security.

Offensive Security is the leading provider of online penetration testing training and certification for information security professionals. Created by the community for the community, Offensive Security’s one-of-a-kind mix of practical, hands-on training and certification programs, virtual labs and open source projects provide practitioners with the highly-desired offensive skills required to advance their careers and better protect their organizations. Offensive Security is committed to funding and growing Kali Linux, the leading operating system for penetration testing, ethical hacking and network security assessments.

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