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KubeSlice is now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox Project

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

CHELMSFORD, Mass., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CHELMSFORD, MA – April, 2024 – Avesha, a leader in Kubernetes and AI innovation, is thrilled to announce that KubeSlice has been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project. KubeSlice, Avesha's flagship product enabling multi-cluster computing, is recognized for its innovative approach to Kubernetes cluster virtualization, providing secure and efficient solutions for distributed application deployments across various platforms and locations.

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  • Avesha, a leader in Kubernetes and AI innovation, is thrilled to announce that KubeSlice has been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project.
  • KubeSlice, Avesha's flagship product enabling multi-cluster computing, is recognized for its innovative approach to Kubernetes cluster virtualization, providing secure and efficient solutions for distributed application deployments across various platforms and locations.
  • CHELMSFORD, Mass., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CHELMSFORD, MA – April, 2024 – Avesha, a leader in Kubernetes and AI innovation, is thrilled to announce that KubeSlice has been accepted as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sandbox project.
  • This inclusion in the CNCF Sandbox marks a significant milestone for KubeSlice, reflecting its potential to influence and advance cloud-native technologies globally.

IBM Expands Software Availability to 92 Countries in AWS Marketplace

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

ARMONK, N.Y., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced that the availability of its software portfolio is expanding globally to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace , a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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  • ARMONK, N.Y., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced that the availability of its software portfolio is expanding globally to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace , a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • "Both IBM and AWS play a huge role in our success," said Uri Bechar, vice president of software engineering, Redis.
  • "IBM's global expansion with AWS Marketplace opens up innovation opportunities for our joint customers across the world," said Matt Yanchyshyn, General Manager AWS Marketplace and Partner Services at AWS.
  • IBM is also launching 15 new IBM Consulting professional services and assets on AWS Marketplace , exclusively designed for AWS.

IBM Expands Software Availability to 92 Countries in AWS Marketplace

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

ARMONK, N.Y., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced that the availability of its software portfolio is expanding globally to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace , a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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  • ARMONK, N.Y., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced that the availability of its software portfolio is expanding globally to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace , a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • "Both IBM and AWS play a huge role in our success," said Uri Bechar, vice president of software engineering, Redis.
  • "IBM's global expansion with AWS Marketplace opens up innovation opportunities for our joint customers across the world," said Matt Yanchyshyn, General Manager AWS Marketplace and Partner Services at AWS.
  • IBM is also launching 15 new IBM Consulting professional services and assets on AWS Marketplace , exclusively designed for AWS.

STAGWELL (STGW) ACQUIRES MONTREAL-BASED LUXINE RELATIONS PUBLIQUES

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

MONTREAL and TORONTO, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, has acquired Montreal-based Luxine Relations Publiques, a full-service PR and Influencer Marketing agency.  Luxine joins Veritas Communications (Veritas) as the next step in its ambitious growth strategy to focus on local markets across Canada. Caroline Dubé, Luxine's industry-leading founder, has been appointed Senior Vice President & Head of LuxineVeritas, and joins the Veritas Executive Leadership Team.

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  • MONTREAL and TORONTO, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), the challenger network built to transform marketing, has acquired Montreal-based Luxine Relations Publiques, a full-service PR and Influencer Marketing agency.
  • Luxine joins Veritas Communications (Veritas) as the next step in its ambitious growth strategy to focus on local markets across Canada.
  • Caroline Dubé, Luxine's industry-leading founder, has been appointed Senior Vice President & Head of LuxineVeritas, and joins the Veritas Executive Leadership Team.
  • "Luxine and Dubé bring Stagwell unparalleled market insight and a singular ability to break through and influence outcomes.

Reinvent Telecom Receives 2024 CUSTOMER Magazine Product of the Year Award

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Reinvent Telecom, a provider of wholesale unified communications, SIP trunking, business messaging, direct routing for Microsoft Teams and contact center as a service solutions, announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named Reinvent's SMB Cloud Contact Center Platform as a recipient of a 2024 CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award winner.

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  • The 2024 CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award recognizes vendors that are advancing the call center, CRM and teleservices industries one solution at a time.
  • "On behalf of both TMC and CUSTOMER magazine, it is my pleasure to honor Reinvent with a 2024 Product of the Year Award," said Rich Tehrani , CEO of TMC.
  • SMB Cloud Contact Center rounds out the Reinvent CCaaS portfolio, which already includes Cloud Contact Center for enterprises and automatic call distribution (ACD) solutions for small businesses.
  • SMB Cloud Contact Center is a comprehensive multichannel contact center platform that brings enterprise-level contact center capabilities to SMB customers at a reasonable cost.

Bravent, Microsoft's Technology Consulting Partner, Expands into Northern Europe

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

DUBLIN, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The technology consulting firm Bravent , a leader in Microsoft solutions and artificial intelligence, announces its expansion into Northern Europe.

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  • DUBLIN, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The technology consulting firm Bravent , a leader in Microsoft solutions and artificial intelligence, announces its expansion into Northern Europe.
  • As a Microsoft partner, Bravent consistently provides cutting-edge technology solutions that enable companies to maximize efficiency, improve productivity and achieve digitalization.
  • The expansion into Northern Europe represents a milestone in Bravent's history, marking a new chapter in its bid to consolidate its innovation leadership.
  • Bravent's decision to begin operations in Northern Europe is the result of a detailed analysis of regional technology needs and the market dynamics themselves.

MongoDB Launches Certification Program for Cloud Partners Offering MongoDB Database Services

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

NEW YORK, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today at its developer conference MongoDB.local NYC announced a new Certified by MongoDB Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) program that provides cloud infrastructure partners the ability to offer their customers a first-class, fully supported MongoDB DBaaS. Given the worldwide popularity of MongoDB, there are many customers who require a certified MongoDB DBaaS solution for their use cases on specific clouds where MongoDB Atlas is not available. Cloud partners in the program will be able to deploy MongoDB's industry-leading database and data services—including full-text search and vector search—as a managed service through their own cloud platforms to give their customers a highly reliable and scalable platform for securely building and deploying cloud-native applications. The Certified by MongoDB DBaaS program also provides cloud partners the dedicated support they need to build deep technology integrations, while opening up joint go-to-market initiatives with the MongoDB Partner Ecosystem to help accelerate their customers' success.

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  • The Certified by MongoDB DBaaS program also provides cloud partners the dedicated support they need to build deep technology integrations, while opening up joint go-to-market initiatives with the MongoDB Partner Ecosystem to help accelerate their customers' success.
  • "The Certified by MongoDB DBaaS program enables cloud partners to offer MongoDB's extended suite of capabilities, including full-text search, vector search, and industry-leading data encryption—all through their own platforms.
  • The Certified by MongoDB DBaaS program also allows cloud partners to offer the high performance, security, and availability MongoDB provides to our own customers."
  • The Certified by MongoDB DBaaS program is designed to address this need by enabling cloud partners to offer supported MongoDB technology through a cloud service, while also giving them opportunities to:
    Access new product features available in MongoDB Atlas: Available later this year, Certified by MongoDB DBaaS cloud partners will be able to offer vector search and full-text search capabilities in their managed services.

MongoDB and Google Cloud Collaborate to Optimize Gemini Code Assist for Developers Building Applications on MongoDB

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

NEW YORK, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) and Google Cloud (NASDAQ: GOOG), today announced the two companies are collaborating to optimize Gemini Code Assist to provide enhanced suggestions for application development and modernization on MongoDB—the industry-leading developer data platform that millions of developers and tens of thousands of customers rely on every day for business-critical applications. Gemini Code Assist from Google Cloud generates code suggestions, answers questions about existing code in developers' integrated development environments (IDEs), and can update entire codebases with a single prompt. Through this collaboration, Gemini Code Assist can help developers get answers and information about MongoDB code, documentation, and best practices, so they will be able to more quickly prototype new features and accelerate application development.

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  • Gemini Code Assist from Google Cloud generates code suggestions, answers questions about existing code in developers' integrated development environments (IDEs), and can update entire codebases with a single prompt.
  • MongoDB and Google Cloud have partnered closely to help improve Gemini Code Assist responses, bringing a greater depth of intelligence for developers on MongoDB.
  • Consequently, Gemini Code Assist will help developers more quickly write high-quality code when building data aggregations, performing database operations, and accelerating migration of applications to MongoDB for modernization.
  • Through MongoDB and Google Cloud's ongoing collaboration to support Gemini Code Assist, developers will be able to significantly reduce the time spent on repetitive tasks and build data-driven applications with MongoDB on Google Cloud more quickly.

MongoDB Announces New Capabilities for MongoDB Atlas to Streamline Building Modern Applications

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

NEW YORK, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB) today at its developer conference MongoDB.local NYC announced new capabilities for MongoDB Atlas that make it faster and easier to build, deploy, and run modern applications with the performance and scale organizations require. MongoDB Atlas is the most widely distributed developer data platform in the world, and tens of thousands of customers and millions of developers rely on its industry-leading operational database and integrated data services to power business-critical applications across cloud providers. The general availability of MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing makes it easier to use real-time data from a wide variety of sources to run highly responsive applications. MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes on Microsoft Azure give organizations more flexibility for optimizing the performance and cost of generative AI workloads that drive intelligent applications at scale. MongoDB Atlas Edge Server reduces the complexity of managing data for distributed applications that span locations from the cloud to on premises to devices at the edge.

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  • The general availability of MongoDB Atlas Stream Processing makes it easier to use real-time data from a wide variety of sources to run highly responsive applications.
  • The additional services we're launching today for MongoDB Atlas not only make it easier to build, deploy, and run modern applications, but also make it easier to optimize performance while reducing costs."
  • Optimize the performance and efficiency of generative AI applications: MongoDB Atlas Search Nodes—generally available on AWS and Google Cloud, and now in preview on Microsoft Azure—provide dedicated infrastructure for generative AI and relevance-based search workloads that use MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and MongoDB Atlas Search.
  • With MongoDB Atlas Edge Server, organizations can seamlessly run highly available, modern applications closer to end-users with less complexity.

COGNIZANT REPORTS FIRST QUARTER 2024 RESULTS

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The Company repurchased 1.4 million shares for $110 million during the first quarter under its share repurchase program.

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  • The Company repurchased 1.4 million shares for $110 million during the first quarter under its share repurchase program.
  • In April 2024, the Company declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.30 per share for shareholders of record on May 20, 2024.
  • The conference call will also be available live on the Investor Relations section of the Cognizant website at http://investors.cognizant.com .
  • An earnings supplement will also be available on the Cognizant website at the time of the conference call.