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SUSECON China 2024 Opens in Shanghai, underscoring SUSE’s Commitment to Cloud-Edge Integration and Boundless AI

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September 26, 2024

Cutting-edge technologies, led by artificial intelligence, are reshaping the future. Companies face critical IT choices in the journey to digital transformation as they consider their digital options for future innovation.

SHANGHAI, Sept. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — SUSE, a global leader in open-source enterprise solutions, today hosted SUSECON China 2024. The event, focused on the theme of “Cloud-Edge Integration and Boundless AI,” brings together industry experts and technology leaders to explore cloud-native solutions, edge computing, and generative AI best practices to help businesses gain a competitive edge. Held in Shanghai, SUSECON China 2024 highlighted the latest technology trends and best practices, demonstrating how open-source platforms can be used to build secure, enterprise-level AI architectures, and how cloud-edge integration is driving digital transformation across industries.

SUSE Continues Empowering China with Open Source

A global leader in open-source enterprise solutions, headquartered in Germany, SUSE has been committed to the China market for 20 years, continually delivering innovative and secure open-source solutions that empower Chinese companies to lead and thrive in a rapidly changing marketplace.

In his opening remarks, SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen emphasized how recent IT outages have underscored the increased reliance on technology and the critical need for freedom of choice, saying “We are committed to unlocking the limitless potential of open source and giving you the freedom to choose your own technology solutions.”

Alan Chan, President of SUSE Greater China, delivered a keynote speech, “Choice Happens,” reiterating SUSE’s commitment to choice and helping companies successfully navigate the digital landscape. In today’s unpredictable market, he said, businesses need flexible, independent solutions. SUSE’s open source innovations empower enterprises with more choices, without the need to be locked into a single vendor. As an example, Chan highlighted SUSE Liberty Linux, introduced after the discontinuation of CentOS services. This solution allows users to stay on CentOS and other Linux distributions without migrating, ensuring enterprise applications remain secure and stable, with enterprise-level support to ensure business continuity.

SUSE has consistently been at the forefront of driving enterprise-grade digital transformation through innovative open source technology. To support companies in building private AI systems, SUSE launched SUSE AI – a secure, modular, vendor and LLM-agnostic GenAI platform. This platform is built on SUSE’s industry-leading products: SUSE Linux, Rancher Prime, and NeuVector Prime. Companies can run their AI systems on premises or in the cloud, with complete autonomy to select the most suitable LLM, a cost-effective approach that ensures their data remains private and meets compliance standards.

SUSE has also significantly enhanced the observability of its cloud-native management platform, Rancher Prime, with the acquisition of StackState, renowned for its cloud-native observability. StackState provides full-stack, end-to-end monitoring capabilities; automatically generates dependency maps between applications, microservices, and infrastructure resources; and offers troubleshooting guides, dynamic dashboards, and time-travel features. These capabilities help businesses monitor and manage large-scale cloud-native applications in real-time, improving efficiency and stability.

SUSE’s comprehensive solutions – ranging from infrastructure to cloud-native and edge computing – help local enterprises tackle complex digital transformation challenges. For example, a major international shipping and logistics company, headquartered in Hong Kong, recently experienced rapid growth, expanding from a few dozen Kubernetes cluster nodes to over 500. This required the company to build their containerisation management ability to manage complex hybrid cloud environments, dual-active architecture, and quick response times for application launches, all while safeguarding against cyberattacks. SUSE provided a cloud-native architecture blueprint, along with consulting and solutions like Rancher Prime and NeuVector, helping the company build a secure, efficient, and scalable cloud-native platform in just over two years.

Harnessing Cloud-Edge Integration and AI

Businesses undergoing digital transformation face challenges integrating modern applications, managing distributed architectures, handling evolving security threats, and adopting generative AI. SUSE’s four core technologies – cloud native, edge computing, enterprise-level Linux, and SUSE AI – are helping effectively address these issues, explained Vishal Ghariwala, SUSE’s APAC CTO.

SUSE’s APAC team shared further product highlights at the event. SUSE’s Rancher Prime cloud-native platform unifies the management of virtual machines and containers, speeding up the modernization of critical applications and optimizing delivery across core, cloud, and edge environments. It also rapidly integrates generative AI capabilities, such as AI assistants, into its offerings. For edge computing, SUSE Edge simplifies managing and scaling distributed architectures, ensuring operational consistency and robust security to keep edge applications running efficiently. SUSE Liberty Linux provides seamless migration patches and continuous security updates, addressing rising security threats and maintaining system stability. Finally, SUSE AI offers a modular, private platform that lets businesses choose their own generative AI models, ensuring data privacy and compliance while driving business innovation and growth.

SUSE Embraces a New Era of Cloud-Native and Edge Computing

As the Internet of Things (IoT) and digital transformation accelerate, a new era of cloud-native and edge computing has arrived. Edge deployments, driven by the demand for cluster management, have become increasingly important. In her speech, Katerina Arzhayev, Director of Edge Solutions at SUSE, noted the three core advantages of SUSE Edge: scalability and flexibility, automation and efficiency, and security and compliance. These capabilities help businesses respond flexibly to complex edge computing environments, streamline operations, and ensure data security.

For key industries like retail and manufacturing, SUSE provides standardized containerization to meet the advanced security requirements of distributed edge systems, along with cloud-edge collaboration across clouds, core data centers, and the edge. SUSE also provides a full suite of solutions and services, including consulting, design, deployment, commercialization, and ongoing support, helping enterprises overcome edge computing challenges and accelerate digital transformation.

Co-Creating the Future: SUSE Partners to Drive Industry Innovation

At SUSECON China 2024, SUSE teamed up with leading industry partners to present innovative solutions that drive digital transformation and intelligent upgrades across industries. In cloud-native, edge computing, and AI, SUSE showcased successful collaborations with companies such as Edgenesis, Ali Cloud, and Advantech. These partnerships span a wide range of applications: from intelligent manufacturing, to renewable energy, to cross-domain cloud-native and AI applications. Together, SUSE and Edgenesis launched an unified AIoT platform, while Ali Cloud and SUSE co-developed a cloud-edge AI solution to help enterprise users maximize the potential of generative AI. Advantech leveraged its industrial automation expertise to work with SUSE on intelligent factories and new energy solutions built on the K3s platform.

As generative AI, cloud-native, and edge computing technologies converge, businesses are presented with unprecedented opportunities for digital transformation. SUSE and its partners are not only providing strong technical support, but also building blueprints to fuel global digital innovation. Ali Cloud, SinyNet, and oBoson Labs were each named “SUSE 2024 Outstanding Partner of the Year” for their exceptional contributions to business and cloud-native innovation.

Finally, Chan remarked that 2024 marks SUSE’s 20th anniversary in China – an important milestone reflecting SUSE’s long-term commitment to the Chinese market and a testament to its rapid growth as the nation enters an era of AI-assisted, accelerated transformation. In this time of global technology transformation, SUSE is at the forefront, leading enterprises into a digital future.

About SUSE

SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, and secure open-source enterprise solutions, including SUSE Linux Enterprise, Rancher Prime, and NeuVector. Trusted by more than 60% of Fortune 500 companies, SUSE powers mission-critical workloads, enabling innovation everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to solve today’s challenges and the freedom to evolve their strategies and solutions tomorrow. For more information, visit www.suse.com.

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Todd Tucker joins Parking Revenue Recovery Services as Chief Operating Officer to Guide Growth as PRRS expands as a Vehicle Identification and Monitoring Technology Platform

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November 15, 2024

DENVER, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Parking Revenue Recovery Services (PRRS), Inc., a leader in AI-driven compliance and vehicle activity monitoring, is pleased to announce the appointment of Todd Tucker, JD, DBA, CAPP, CPP, as its new Chief Operating Officer, effective November 15, 2024. With over 30 years of experience in the parking industry, Tucker is a recognized leader, having held various senior executive roles. Todd assumes the role of Chris Conley, who has decided to retire and enjoy some well-earned time after 30 years in the parking industry.

Before joining PRRS, Tucker served as President at Parking Logix and has been a leader in multiple tech companies focused on mobility solutions, with two leading to strategic and/or investment transaction outcomes Todd’s experience as a parking operations leader/expert and his roles spearheading the development and growth of innovative technology offerings focused on parking provide him with a unique ability to build solutions that meet the needs of today’s parking operations.

PRRS is uniquely positioned in gateless parking technology solutions through its machine vision-based technology, which identifies all vehicle activity, enhances compliance, and enables clients to expand their service capabilities. Our technology allows clients to gather valuable insights into operation and consumer activity while helping our clients improve their customer experience. With Tucker’s extensive expertise in parking technology and leadership, PRRS aims to broaden its services across North America, solidifying its status as the premier provider of gateless technology solutions to operators and facilities.

“Todd’s proven track record of driving innovation and his dedication to enhancing technology-based services make him the ideal candidate to lead PRRS into its next growth phase,” said Gabor Burchner, Managing Director, GB & Partners IM. “As the demand for adaptable technology solutions providers continues to rise, Todd’s leadership and collaborative approach will be invaluable.”

PRRS, in partnership with Asura, has successfully implemented the ARC solution and its compliance services at over 400 parking sites across 29 states. With ongoing investment from GB & Partners IM, PRRS is set to expand beyond its current identity as a “parking notice firm” to become the leading gateless technology solution for the future.

“I am thrilled to join PRRS and enhance the value we provide to our parking operating partners,” said Todd Tucker. “Throughout my career, I’ve consistently sought to challenge the status quo by delivering innovative solutions in an ever-evolving industry. PRRS is at the forefront of leveraging technology to enhance its services, and with GB & Partners IM participation, we will continue to deliver exceptional value to the parking sector and beyond. I look forward to joining the PRRS team and collaborating with our clients to push boundaries and innovate in compliance and facility monitoring services.”

About Parking Revenue Recovery Services

Parking Revenue Recovery Services, Inc. (PRRS) is North America’s leading Parking Compliance and Facility Monitoring technology provider. PRRS is on track to provide over 1,000 parking locations and proudly supports national, regional, and local parking operators throughout the United States. Our client owners and parking operators use our monitoring and compliance services in all properties, including commercial lots and garages, municipal facilities, college and university facilities, airports, hospitals, commercial properties, and residential buildings. PRRS creates exceptional value for its parking operator clients through increased overall customer compliance and enhanced visibility into operating activity and usage while delivering excellent customer service. We maximize the value provided to our clients through excellence, innovation, and efficiency in its compliance and monitoring services, delivered by an outstanding team of parking professionals dedicated to the highest levels of customers.

About Asura Technologies

Asura Technologies specializes in next-generation video analytics and license plate recognition software, utilizing AI to create smart parking, traffic management, frictionless tolling, and safety security applications. Active globally since 2018, Asura Technologies USA collaborates with PRRS to provide highly effective, automated parking enforcement solutions through innovative technology.

About GB & Partners IM

GB & Partners IM is an independent private equity and venture capital firm focused on innovative city technologies, fashion, fintech, medical technologies, and mechanical engineering. As the largest Hungarian-based firm in its sector, GB & Partners IM offers extensive leadership experience in private equity and venture capital investments, M&A transactions, and IPOs, providing operational support to investment entities by international standards. In 2019, GB & Partners IM became the first Hungarian venture capital firm to gain membership in Invest Europe.

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Connect and Converse Across Borders with Moii: Now Available Worldwide

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November 15, 2024

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Moii, an innovative avatar-based interest-matching conversation service developed by tech startup illuni, has officially launched globally. Available on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, Moii offers users a unique way to meet new friends, share stories and enjoy engaging conversations. The service allows people around the globe to experience safe, interest-based connections with like-minded people, fostering a sense of community across borders. Moii exemplifies illuni’s commitment to creating immersive digital experiences through advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

To create heartfelt connections, download Moii from the Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.illuni.moii&hl=en-US) and Apple App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moii-heartfelt-connections/id6456406927).

Create Moiiments, Connect Globally

In a world where genuine interaction can feel rare, Moii provides a space for simple, meaningful conversations without the pressure of video or photo sharing. By connecting users based on shared interests, Moii creates a relaxed environment for spontaneous chats, whether someone is looking for a listening ear, a language exchange, or a fresh global perspective. With engaging features such as avatar costumes and singing content in virtual karaoke – introduced in a recent November update – the app continues to attract a growing user base of young adults seeking meaningful connections beyond small talk.

“Since our global launch on the 1st of November, users from over 30 countries have come together on Moii to share interests, create unique content and enjoy friendly conversations,” said Byung-Hwa Park, CEO of Illuni. “We are thrilled by the enthusiasm for Moii as people around the world find it to be a fun and welcoming platform.”

Aimed at users in their 20s and 30s, Moii allows users to interact in a fully customizable 3D environment. Instead of revealing their actual appearance, users create avatars that reflect their personalities and interests, providing a sense of anonymity, security, and comfort. Once matched, users can personalize their avatars, use conversation cards, and enjoy mini games, making every interaction fun and engaging.

With a mission to create comfortable spaces for conversation, Moii promotes cross-cultural and language exchange on a global scale. Whether users want to make foreign friends, practice a new language, or simply chat with a friendly listener, Moii offers a low-pressure, refreshing way to connect.

Looking ahead, Illuni plans to expand Moii’s language support, making it accessible to even more users across the globe.

For more information about Moii, visit https://www.moii.net/en

About illuni

Illuni is a forward-thinking startup focused on developing immersive digital experiences through advanced AI technology. The company is committed to building innovative mixed-reality services that redefine user engagement in digital spaces. Alongside Moii, illuni’s portfolio includes Storyself (https://storyself.com), an interactive storybook app that transforms users’ pictures into story characters, allowing them to become the protagonists of various tales—making it both engaging and educational for children.

To learn more about illuni and its suite of mixed-reality projects, visit: https://www.illuni.com/en

For media inquiry, please contact: illuni Communications, e-mail: contact@illuni.com

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LONGi’s Solar Panels Enhance Sustainability in Bengaluru’s Residential Complex

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November 15, 2024

BANGALORE, India, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — LONGi, in partnership with SolarSquare, has completed a 342 kW solar project using advanced Hi-MO 5 solar panels for a residential apartment complex in Bengaluru.

Launched seven months ago, this solar project is set to save the residential complex up to $47,736 annually and has already generated an impressive 340,000 units of electricity. Thanks to the high efficiency of the solar modules, significant economies of scale, and the inherent advantages of rooftop solar, the project is projected to reach its break-even point within just 4.75 years.

Before the installation of the rooftop solar panels, residents faced annual electricity costs of approximately $143,305. The switch to solar energy is expected to result in annual savings between $47,768–$53,768, effectively reducing their electricity expenses by around 33%.

Nikhil Nahar, Co-founder and Director of SolarSquare, stated, “Through our strategic partnership with LONGi over the years, our customers have gained access to state-of-the-art technology for their projects. LONGi’s solar panels consistently deliver performance and help our customers save on electricity bills. With a shared vision to accelerate the mass adoption of renewable energy and enhance sustainability, our partnership has continually provided innovative solutions, earning the trust of our customers.”

LONGi remains committed to delivering advanced solar technology and helping more residential complexes achieve energy independence through its highly efficient and reliable products.

About LONGi

Founded in 2000, LONGi is committed to being the world’s leading solar technology company, focusing on customer-driven value creation for full scenario energy transformation.

Under its mission of ‘making the best of solar energy to build a green world’, LONGi has dedicated itself to technology innovation and established five business sectors, covering mono silicon wafers cells and modules, commercial & industrial distributed solar solutions, green energy solutions and hydrogen equipment. The company has honed its capabilities to provide green energy and has more recently, also embraced green hydrogen products and solutions to support global zero carbon development. www.longi.com

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