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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Verdigris, an artificial intelligence company powering the world’s smartest buildings, today announced Fred Weber has joined the company’s Board of Directors. A Harvard-trained physicist responsible for leading many of the most successful technology teams in Silicon Valley, Weber was named one of the top 25 most influential CTOs by InfoWorld Magazine.

“Fred has been an inspiration to many young engineers including myself early in my career. While he’s developed some of the most successful technologies in Silicon Valley, Fred is widely recognized for his business acumen and record of helping startup teams succeed. He has invaluable experience and I am fortunate to have his counsel on our Board,” said Mark Chung, Verdigris Co-Founder and CEO.

Named one of the world’s leading AI startups by CB Insights and a top 10 most innovative energy company by Fast Company, Verdigris has a ground-breaking sensor technology that makes mission critical buildings energy-intelligent. Verdigris customers include Jabil, Verizon, JBS, Hyatt and Starwood Hotels among others. Verdigris has also partnered with NASA to research their technology’s potential to predict failure in future space habitats at the Ames Sustainability Base.

“I am fascinated by technologies with world-changing potential like Verdigris. The energy space is uncharted territory for recent advancements in AI and IoT,” said Weber. “I’m eager to accelerate their product and help this impressive team tackle one of the biggest challenges facing humanity.”

About Verdigris
Verdigris is a connected artificial intelligence and IoT platform. It makes buildings smarter, helping them reduce energy consumption and costs. By combining patented sensors, software and AI, Verdigris “learns” the energy patterns of a building and produces energy forecasts, predictive alerts about faulty equipment, maintenance reminders, and detailed energy usage information for every device. Verdigris enables building engineers with intuitive reporting and simple automation tools for their facility. Founded in 2011, Verdigris is headquartered at NASA Ames in Mountain View, CA. For more information, visit www.verdigris.co.

 

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MIAMI, June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — eMerge Americas, the technology conference that connects revolutionary startups, cutting-edge ideas, global industry leaders and investors, rounded out its first day of programming yesterday with an impressive display of keynotes. The conference opened with keynote, Steve Wozniak, while many startup companies showed off their new technology and applications to potential investors.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together global industry investors and leaders with local startups and the Miami community to help transform Miami into the technological hub of the Americas. As Miami Beach Mayor, Phillip Levine stated in his opening remarks, Miami is “truly becoming a high-tech innovation capital.”

“Our first day of eMerge Americas was an enormous success, with unforgettable keynotes and presentations, and out-of-this world technologies that are disrupting all industries around the world,” said Xavier Gonzalez, CEO of eMerge Americas. “The buzz around eMerge, and Miami, was very high, as everyone was excited to learn from influencers and startup companies about what kind of innovative ideas they have to shape the future of their industry.”

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and well-known tech entrepreneur opened the keynote sessions with the story of how he got to where he is and where he believes the tech industry is going. When speaking on artificial intelligence, Wozniak added, “Let humans participate as much as we can and the machines just enhance what we know. There are places where it (artificial intelligence) will cut jobs, but society works itself towards an equilibrium where most people will end up with jobs.”

In addition, Marcelo Claure, CEO of Sprint and co-founder of Brightstar Corp, talked about eMerge Americas being a staple of the Miami tech industry. And as Francesca de Quesada Covey, Head of Platform Partnerships, Facebook LATAM stated, “Miami is that bridge city, it is the city that brings the region (Latin America) together. When we think of innovation in Miami, we think about the opportunity to bridge the entrepreneurial mindset with the needs of the community.”

Armando Christian Perez (Pitbull) and Suze Orman, two-time Emmy Award-winning television host and personal finance expert, sat down for a conversation to discuss their professional journey and perspective on technology.

Riding off the success of the first day of the conference, day two of eMerge Americas is shaping up to be a great opportunity to hear celebrated speakers Uri Levine, co-founder of Waze, Alex Rodriguez, former MLB baseball player, and more.

About eMerge Americas
eMerge Americas serves as the preeminent innovative thought exchange transforming Miami into the technological hub of the Americas. By connecting global industry leaders and investors with America’s top business executives, IT decision-makers, and entrepreneurs, partnerships are forged that spur visionary innovation and technological advancements for the betterment of business and society. eMerge’s founding partners include: Medina Capital, A Rod Corporation, Greenberg Traurig, Knight Foundation, Miami-Dade County, and the Miami Herald. For more information about eMerge Americas, please visit: emergeamericas.com.

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ORLANDO, Fla., June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh today announced how its latest technologies, services and solutions are creating more inclusive, productive collaboration for the new era of digital workplaces. From huddle rooms to board rooms, companies are looking for creative ways their ideas can come together with people in different locations. At  INFOCOMM 2017 (booth 2861), Ricoh is showcasing its innovative solutions featuring hologram, artificial intelligence and IoT technologies, and a new team of AV Solution Managers that can help design fully integrated collaboration solutions tailored to unique visual communication and mobile collaboration needs.

The meeting of the future will be on display at InfoComm with Ricoh’s Intelligent Workplace Solution. The industry’s first IBM Watson-powered Interactive Whiteboards act as a meeting participant that can make workplaces more efficient and engaging. Real-time analytics help guide discussions so teams can conduct better meetings and make faster, better, more informed decisions. With the new Meeting Manager, users can leverage IBM’s Watson intelligence and voice technologies to hold a better meeting – with automatic attendee tracking, capture of notes, transcripts and action items, social intelligence, and even live translation into other languages. This customizable, easy-to-use feature also integrates with Ricoh’s Advanced UCS for videoconferencing, and with Google Calendar for easy scheduling and calendar insight.

Visitors can also experience how Ricoh’s expanded line of interactive whiteboards goes beyond hardware and transcend silos to offer flexibility and increased productivity. For companies looking for a user-friendly whiteboard with built-in collaboration, Ricoh offers its Business controller for simple operation and maximum security. Ricoh also offers interactive whiteboards with a full Windows 10 controller that can be easily used with any Windows 10-compatible software, including specialized, industry-specific applications.

In addition to the portable 21.5-inch RICOH D2200 and the room-filling 84-inch D8400 interactive whiteboards, Ricoh is previewing its expanded line of whiteboards at the show: the new 55-inch D5520, 65-inch D6510, and 75-inch D7500, which represents a new size in the portfolio that is ideal for collaboration in lecture halls and larger meeting rooms. Visitors can experience these solutions in lifelike, real-time collaboration situations that emulate working across a variety of connected devices, locations, and use cases, such as product development, blueprint markups, brainstorming sessions or interactive learning. These newest additions continue to boast the benefits of Ricoh’s interactive whiteboard line, such as the ability to connect to up to 1,420 participants, an intuitive mobile IWB companion app, and an optional interactive pen.

“At its heart, Ricoh is about helping individuals to work smarter,” said John Brophy, Vice President, Product Marketing, Ricoh USA, Inc. “To communicate that, this year’s booth goes beyond displaying individual technologies as standalone examples. Instead, we wanted to highlight how our solutions – and more importantly, our people – can bring expertise and services to provide an end-to-end collaboration experience that is greater than the sum of its parts.”

The huddle room trend, which empowers collaborative, productive meetings in flexible spaces, is in full force at the booth. Convenient meeting room and desk scheduling from Condeco will be onsite to show visitors how they can optimally manage their meeting space resources in the era of mobile workforces and hot desking.

Visitors can also experience convenient, easy-to-use, pre-tested collaboration packages that combine Ricoh solutions, such as its industry leading ultra-short throw projectors and 21.5-inch interactive whiteboards, and efficient speaker/microphones units and high resolution videoconferencing cameras.

The digital employee of the future will also be onsite. Sharon, a RICOH Virtual Self-Service Hologram, will welcome show attendees and automatically and intelligently transform into a product specialist that adds a new layer of engagement to solution demos. Visitors to the Ricoh booth will have the opportunity to take photos of themselves with Sharon and participate in the #RicohHoloSelfie contest for a chance to win an ultra-mobile pico projector for on-the-go collaboration.

Since last year’s show, Ricoh has continued to expand its projector lineup, which includes breakthrough technologies, such as affordable laser illumination, maintenance-free features, and a range of XGA, WXGA and WUXGA resolutions with the RICOH PJ WXL5670 and WUL5670. For educational settings where collaborative curriculums and flipped classrooms are trending, the new RICOH PJ X4152N series can support interactive media, be positioned at any angle for 360-degree mounting, and enable a presenter to stand in front of a screen without casting a shadow or being blinded by glare.

For the latest updates and insights on Ricoh’s solutions and InfoComm17 activities, visit https://www.ricoh-usa.com/en/about-us/events/infocomm-2017 or follow @RicohTweets on Twitter, Ricoh USA, Inc. on Facebook and LinkedIn. Media interested in scheduling briefings at the show should contact Tracey Sheehy at 908-705-4596.

| About Ricoh |

Ricoh is a global technology company that has been transforming the way people work for more than 80 years. Under its corporate tagline – imagine.change. –Ricoh continues to empower companies and individuals with services and technologies that inspire innovation, enhance sustainability and boost business growth. These include document management systems, IT services, production print solutions, visual communications systems, digital cameras, and industrial systems.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Ricoh Group operates in approximately 200 countries and regions. In the financial year ended March 2017, Ricoh Group had worldwide sales of 2,028 billion yen (approx. 18.2 billion USD).

For further information, please visit www.ricoh.com.

© 2017 Ricoh USA, Inc. All rights reserved. All referenced product names are the trademarks of their respective companies.

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the market’s leading independent all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era, today announced Pure1^® META, it’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform for delivering on the vision of self-driving storage. Pure1 META is delivers global predictive intelligence by collecting and analyzing over 1 trillion array telemetry data points per day and enables effortless management, analytics and support. Pure1 META represents a major breakthrough in enterprise artificial intelligence and machine learning. Through the new Workload DNA generated by Pure1 META, customers will be able, for the first time in the industry, to predict both capacity and performance and get intelligent advice on workload deployment, interaction and optimization.

With Pure1 META, Pure Storage continues to advance in its vision of delivering self-driving storage. Pure set up the foundation for self-driving storage with array-level automation delivered by Purity, which eliminates manual management and tuning operations. Building a global sensor network with thousands of connected arrays allowed Pure to deliver cloud-based management and predictive support that has prevented more than 500 Severity 1 issues to date. Now, with Pure1 META, customers can get answers to performance forecasting questions, instead of workarounds that resulted in wasted expenses from over-provisioning or downtime from under-provisioning.

“For the first time, customers can leverage intelligent storage that constantly analyzes historical data across our global network of devices to improve their overall environment,” said Matt Kixmoeller, VP of Products, Pure Storage. “Pure1 META helps customers more accurately forecast performance through growth, answer questions about capacity and performance additions, and how their environment will change over time, which allows organizations to manage future needs.”

The key driver behind the global predictive intelligence of Pure1 META, is the META AI Engine, which analyzes a data lake of more than 7 petabytes of data to generate both Issue Fingerprints and Workload DNA. META scans all incoming array telemetry against a library of issue fingerprints to predict and resolve incidents in real-time, before they impact customer environments, and captures hundreds of variables related to performance that are used to forecast performance load.

Customers can leverage META’s Workload DNA through the new Workload Planner in Pure1. This new capability will allow customers to answer questions about new workload deployment, interaction, performance and capacity growth, and workload optimization, helping reduce risk, increase consolidation, and provide better visibility to plan for upgrades or expansions.

Pure also announced the new Global Dashboard in Pure1, which simplifies the management experience by providing key aggregate metrics from an entire fleet of arrays. From a single dashboard, customers will be able to view the total data reduction and average load performance for all arrays. Performance trends for the last 24 hours are also shown and customers can plan more effectively with capacity consumption prediction across all arrays. Recent alerts and messages across the fleet of arrays also enables better visibility of the storage footprint.

To learn more about the new Pure1 META, Workload Planner, VM Visibility, and Global Dashboard, please visit our blog. You can also join us today and tomorrow – June 13 & 14 – for our annual user conference, Pure//Accelerate, at Pier 70 in San Francisco via live stream.

About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps companies push the boundaries of what’s possible. Pure’s end-to-end data platform – including FlashArray, FlashBlade and our converged offering with Cisco, FlashStack – is powered by innovative software that’s cloud-connected for management from anywhere on a mobile device and supported by the Evergreen business model. The company’s all-flash based technology, combined with its customer-friendly business model, drives business and IT transformation with solutions that are effortless, efficient and evergreen. With Pure’s industry leading Satmetrix-certified NPS score of 83.5, Pure customers are some of the happiest in the world, and include organizations of all sizes, across an ever-expanding range of industries.

Connect with Pure Storage:
Read the blog
Converse on Twitter
Follow on LinkedIn
FlashStack Solutions

Analyst Recognition:
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays
IDC MarketScape for All-Flash Arrays

Pure Storage, the “P” Logo, Pure1, Evergreen and FlashBlade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc. All other trademarks or names referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners.

Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding the expected performance and benefits of Pure Storage’s product offerings. The words “believe,” “may,” “will,” “plan,” “expect,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If the risks materialize or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including future reports that we may file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Pure Storage assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

Any unreleased products, features, or functions referenced in this release, our website or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Pure Storage’s discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Pure Storage’s product offerings should make their purchase decisions based upon products, features and functions that are currently available.

 

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Today at Pure//Accelerate 2017, Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) unveiled its vision for the data platform for the cloud era. As modern organizations become increasingly reliant on technology, companies that have existed for decades across a wide range of industries have evolved into fundamentally digital businesses. Globally, digital business tools drive nearly half of revenue for enterprise organizations. Modern digital businesses require a data platform capable of delivering data with speed, agility and intelligence, across increasingly complex workloads and applications.

The Pure Storage data platform helps customers put their data to work. Now, organizations can run all operations with cloud agility, improve the economics of data analytics at high velocity and scale, and ultimately derive new insights to deliver data-driven customer results never before possible.

Data is the lifeblood of the digital generation. Current estimates are that approximately 50 zettabytes (ZB) of data will be created in 2020 alone (up from just four in 2016), and 180 ZB five years later in 2025 – an unprecedented growth rate. As data creation pivots from humans to machines – driven by sensors, IoT, digital cameras and myriad connected devices – it has exploded in volume. Simultaneously, the ability to analyze this data has transcended human cognition, with traditional analytics giving way to artificial intelligence (AI), machine and deep learning, neural networks and real-time data stream analytics. These new, data-driven applications require a different approach to storage, designed to deliver massively-parallel access to data at a very high bandwidth.

“Modern organizations require a data platform that enables organizations to build a new class of applications, to extract new insights from data and to do so in real-time,” said Scott Dietzen, CEO, Pure Storage. “With an infrastructure in place that supports mission-critical analytics at real-time speed, organizations can increase their pace of innovation, improve time to market and ultimately deliver better results for customers.”

Pure//Accelerate will showcase the ways Pure Storage enables customer innovation and business transformation through a host of comprehensive new hardware and software updates:

Tier 1 Storage, re-defined. For years, organizations have had to choose between the highest reliability (Tier 1 disk arrays) and storage purpose-built for the cloud era (modern all-flash arrays). Pure Storage has made a series of announcements to end this compromise. Now, organizations can leverage Tier 1 reliability (99.9999 percent availability and active multi-site clustering for a true zero RPO/RTO) with the innovation of rich data services, native cloud integration, and 100 percent NVMe flash for the fastest, future-proofed performance.  

From Big Data to intelligent data. The big data movement has helped organizations centralize data, but big data has historically meant slow data. Pure’s revolutionary FlashBlade system makes big data into fast data, and unlocks iterative real-time analytics, advanced AI and machine learning (ML), and rich simulation for data of any size. And now with a fast object interface, tomorrow’s web-scale applications can be big, fast and intelligent, too.

Multi-Cloud, delivered. Cloud is everywhere – in core data centers, and in edge data centers where data volume and latency necessitate local processing. It’s also stretched between multi-cloud IaaS and SaaS providers. No matter what cloud an organization chooses or where they choose to run it, Pure’s data platform helps simplify storage in multi-cloud environments with new advances that deliver the simplest cloud on every platform: Support for VMware VVOLs, Microsoft ODX, Docker Persistent Containers, native data protection integration with public cloud providers, and pre-validated FlashStack solutions to speed the time to cloud.

Self-driving storage. Cars have become more and more autonomous. They can self-navigate, avoid collisions and soon, they’ll drive themselves, too. It’s time for storage to catch up. Pure uses big data, real-time analytics, and advanced AI/ML techniques to change the storage ownership experience, and deliver a new level of reliability through predictive maintenance and support. Meet META, Pure’s new AI Engine, and get ready for a whole new era of storage intelligence and automation.

For additional detail on today’s news, please visit our blog. You can also join us today and tomorrow – June 13 & 14 – for our annual user conference, Pure//Accelerate, at Pier 70 in San Francisco via live stream.

About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps companies push the boundaries of what’s possible. Pure’s end-to-end data platform – including FlashArray, FlashBlade and our converged offering with Cisco, FlashStack – is powered by innovative software that’s cloud-connected for management from anywhere on a mobile device and supported by the Evergreen business model. The company’s all-flash based technology, combined with its customer-friendly business model, drives business and IT transformation with solutions that are effortless, efficient and evergreen. With Pure’s industry leading Satmetrix-certified NPS score of 83.5, Pure customers are some of the happiest in the world, and include organizations of all sizes, across an ever-expanding range of industries.

Connect with Pure Storage:
Read the blog
Converse on Twitter
Follow on LinkedIn
FlashStack Solutions

Analyst Recognition:
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays
IDC MarketScape for All-Flash Arrays

Pure Storage, the “P” Logo, Evergreen and FlashBlade are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage, Inc. All other trademarks or names referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners.

Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding the expected performance and benefits of Pure Storage’s product offerings. The words “believe,” “may,” “will,” “plan,” “expect,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If the risks materialize or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including future reports that we may file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Pure Storage assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

Any unreleased products, features, or functions referenced in this release, our website or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Pure Storage’s discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Pure Storage’s product offerings should make their purchase decisions based upon products, features and functions that are currently available.

 

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