Projects & Agreements
LSGE
collaborating
with IBM to
develop securities
data blockchain
solution for
European SMEs
Borsa Italiana, part of London
Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
and IBM has announced it is
building a blockchain solution to
digitise the issuance of securities
for small and medium enterprises
(SMEs) in Europe.
Designed to simplify the
tracking and management of
shareholding information, the
new system intends to create
a distributed shared registry
containing a record of all
shareholder transactions, helping
to open up new opportunities for
trading and investing.
‘Through our work with IBM
on this blockchain solution,
Borsa Italiana is taking the lead in
transforming the way European
SMEs can manage their shareholder
data and at the same time expand
credit access – all on a trusted
digital platform,’ said Raffaele
Jerusalmi, CEO, Borsa Italiana.
The blockchain solution
for unlisted SMEs in Europe is
designed to replace the paper
trading certificates that are
commonly issued to private
companies today. With a more
digitised, streamlined and
transparent process enabled by the
blockchain solution, various parties
– including issuers, regulators and
investors – will have increased
insight into company information.
The solution is undergoing an
initial test phase with a small group
of partners and clients.
For further information visit:
www.lsge.com
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Ethos Technology and Big Switch Networks
Bring Next-Gen Data Centre Networking
Technol ogy to EMEA
Ethos Technology has announced a new distribution agreement that adds Big Switch’s
data centre networking and monitoring solutions, Big Cloud Fabric (BCF) and Big
Monitoring Fabric (BMF) to its portfolio.
Through this partnership, Ethos will distribute both Big Monitoring Fabric (BMF) and Big
Cloud Fabric (BCF) products. By combining open networking hardware, with an intelligent
SDN-based data centre switching fabric, Big Switch is bringing intelligence, agility, and
flexibility to data centres that enable network owners to quickly deploy, automate, scale-out,
and monitor and secure their networks, while optimising OpEx and CapEx.
‘Our vision is to bring transformative technologies to the UK and Europe, offering
businesses of all sizes the type of optimisation and efficiency that Google, Facebook and
Amazon use in their infrastructures,’ said Ethos CEO, Omar Galbraith.
‘Our CTO, Adam Worthington, was a network architecture and strategy lead at CSC
and AT&T, and he was adamant that BSN was the missing link we had been looking for to
complement our portfolio,’ he added
The Ethos portfolio is based on technologies
that drastically simplify data centre and
cloud infrastructure by abstracting policy and
requirement from the underlying complexity; that
scale without limit, and offer unmatched TCO.
For further information visit:
www.ethostec.net and www.bigswitch.com
TDC Hosting chooses Clarizen to boost
efficiency and workplace collaboration
Clarizen has announced that Danish IT operations specialist TDC Hosting has
selected its cloud based platform to achieve better efficiency and collaboration in its
Project Management Office (PMO) and project management across the company.
Prior to choosing Clarizen, TDC’s project managers used a number of applications
making PM governance and resource management challenging. Clarizen now
provides a means of monitoring and updating the status of TDC Hosting projects in
real-time, streamlining and automating processes, while logging risks and issues.
‘Clarizen will extend visibility on projects and improve our planning immensely,’
commented Henrik Hesselberg, head of the PMO at TDC Hosting.
‘Its automated features will give our project managers back the time they are
spending on manual tasks at the moment, and make it easier for the rest of the
business to collaborate with them.’
David Goulden, product director at Clarizen, said the service offers TDC Hosting,
and companies like it, a platform for improving the business agility and effectiveness
of their project management teams and boosting collaboration with other
departments as their business develops.
David continued, ‘Clarizen affords growing businesses such as TDC Hosting
a scalable PM solution through which they can achieve alignment on objectives
and activities. It enables them to standardise processes, facilitating cross-team
communications and collaboration on specific tasks.’
For further information visit: www.clarizen.com