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Meta promises further metaverse investment after reporting Reality Labs results
Meta Reality Labs earned around $2.27 billion last year, according to the company’s latest financial results, as Mark Zuckerberg commits to further investment in the metaverse
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Libraries Tasmania Selects Preservica to Safeguard Public Access to Archives Collections
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The ability to efficiently or effectively manage the 150TB's of digital collections manually has become difficult, placing Libraries Tasmania at risk of not meeting required standards to ensure the ongoing preservation and accessibility of its digital cultural collections.
Preservica worked with local partner Document Management Tasmania (DMTAS) on the formal tender and procurement process. The digital preservation service will be hosted on AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.
The Tasmanian Archives holds hundreds of thousands of items of significant historical and cultural value, in various formats, that are actively degrading. These contain content unique and integral to Tasmanian history and must adhere to industry standards and compliance requirements to support business processes for the secure capture, storage, management, identification, access, delivery and long-term preservation of its digital collections.
"Our commitment is to preserve the continuing memory of Tasmania as the lead provider of history, research, and information services," said Allegra Huxtable, Manager Government Archives & Preservation at Libraries Tasmania, Department of Education. "We are thrilled to partner with Preservica to preserve archives and heritage items to fulfill our legislated role as the keeper of Tasmania's memory, and generate opportunities for lifelong learning, and cultural inspiration available to anyone around the world."
The digital preservation system will form part of the State Library and Tasmanian Archives infrastructure that will support the receipt of transfers from Tasmanian State Government Agencies and non-government organizations' of digital records in all forms, including digitized versions of hardcopy records as well as unstructured and structured born-digital records.
This also includes published digital assets acquired through legal deposit or purchase (where these items are not suitable for inclusion on the National E-Deposit System).
Public access to the Tasmanian Archives collections includes government records, private records, and cultural heritage items in a large number of formats including hard copy documentary items, physical items and their digital surrogates (digitized versions), audio recordings (including analog and born-digital), Film and Video (including analog and born-digital), maps, newspapers, and photographs.
Online access to digital materials has become increasingly important for many Australian government, academic, cultural and commercial organizations. Libraries Tasmania is part of a growing community of institutions using Preservica in the region including The National Archives of Australia (NAA), The National Library of Australia (NLA), the State Library of South Australia (SLSA), Moore College and many other government, cultural, and academic institutions.
We are delighted that Libraries Tasmania is part of a growing number of customers in our user community in Australia," said Mike Quinn, CEO Preservica. "Preservica's preservation system is a key part of the total environment needed to provide their digital collections with the best chance of long-term survival."
Preservica's digital preservation and discovery solution, Starter edition is providing multi-sized archives across the region with an easy, locally hosted way to preserve important records and showcase digital collections that document Australia's rich history, ensuring content is kept safe and usable over decades are all automatically taken care of.
See if Preservica is a fit for you. Learn more about its library and museum archive software or try Preservica for free to create, preserve and share your first digital collection in minutes.
About Preservica
With offices in Boston, MA and Abingdon, Oxfordshire (UK), Preservica is changing the way organizations around the world protect and future-proof critical long-term digital information. Available in the cloud (SaaS) or on-premise, our award-winning active digital preservation software has been designed from the ground up to tackle the unique challenges of ensuring digital information remains accessible and trustworthy over decades.
It's a proven solution that's trusted by hundreds of businesses, archives, libraries, museums and government organizations around the world, including the UK National Archives, Texas State Library and Archives, MoMA, Yale and HSBC. Visit: www.preservica.com and Twitter: @preservica
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Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.acnnewswire.comPreservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation software, has partnered with Libraries Tasmania in a multi-year contract to accept, preserve, and store digital government and non-government records as archives.
Hitachi to Strengthen Business Structure for Further Growth through Digital, Environment, and Innovation
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1. Accelerating Growth through Digital, Environmental, and Innovation
(1) Achieving Growth by Accelerating Digitalization
Hitachi will establish a structure, led by Hitachi Digital LLC(*1) based in North America, to create and implement global digital strategies that cut across the entire Hitachi Group, and to accelerate growth through digitalization. EVP Toshiaki Tokunaga, who will take charge of Digital Systems & Services sector, will serve as Chairman, and Jun Taniguchi (currently President of Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Inc.), who has been involved in promoting DX in the control platform business and the digitalization of the home appliance business, will be appointed CEO.
In addition, two leaders will join the management of Digital Systems & Services sector to strengthen structures to drive the global growth of the digital businesses. Shashank Samant, CEO of GlobalLogic, while leading co-creation and digital business by leveraging GlobalLogic's digital engineering capabilities, will also serve as an Executive Advisor to EVP Tokunaga to support the development of the Hitachi Group's overall digital business growth strategy. And Gajen Kandiah, CEO at Hitachi Vantara LLC, will undertake a concurrent position as Chief Digital Transformation Officer in charge of Digital Systems & Services business. He will apply insights of the cloud and data applications, which are the core strengths of Hitachi Vantara, to expand the Hitachi Group's service business, and to transform the Group as a whole into a world-class digital solution provider.
Through these initiatives, Hitachi will expand Lumada business and accelerate the growth through DX globally.
(2) Achieving Growth by Accelerating Environmental Strategies
In order for the Hitachi Group to grow and contribute to sustainability as part of efforts to achieve a decarbonized society and a circular economy, VP Lorena Dellagiovanna will be appointed to the newly created position of Chief Sustainability Officer, and will hold concurrent positions as Head of Environment(*2) and Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer (CDIO). By leveraging her broad-ranging network of contacts in the European political and industrial arenas, Hitachi will create and implement global environmental strategies to accelerate activities aimed at achieving long-term environmental targets while maintaining comprehensive attention to sustainability. At the same time, it will seek out business opportunities and lead in the creation of value for the Group as a whole with a focus on the environment, while achieving sustainable growth through GX(Green Transformation).
(3) Achieving Growth by Investing in Innovation
Hitachi will create and implement investment strategies aimed at creating innovations by back-casting from 2050. A new Innovation Growth Strategy Division will be established(*3) to accelerate growth throughout the Hitachi Group as a whole, with President Keiji Kojima holding a concurrent position as General Manager. This Division will strengthen ties with R&D groups, startup companies, and other entities, undertaking strategic investments to bring about innovations through new technologies and business models, and will lead the next stage of growth for Hitachi.
2. Accelerating Growth by Simplifying Management
To accelerate management and succeed in global competition, Hitachi will simplify the management structure based on three sectors: Digital Systems & Services; Green Energy & Mobility; and Connective Industries. Even as it maintains the current BU structure, it will strengthen ties among divisions with similar business attributes, and strive to secure a top global position by accelerating growth through digital, environment, and innovation.
3. Strengthening the Management Base
(1) Strengthening Risk Management Structures
To ensure that Hitachi can respond quickly and comprehensively to the various risks that the Group will face as it strives for growth on a global scale, current SVP CFO Yoshihiko Kawamura will be appointed EVP, and will also hold a concurrent position as Chief Risk Management Officer (CRMO). By establishing a function under the CRMO to collaborate across related divisions in regions throughout the world and to evaluate business risks and opportunities, and by strengthening structures to enable integrated decision-making, Hitachi will respond proactively not only to natural disasters and geopolitical risks, but also to risks involving compliance, security, and elements of the supply chain such as quality and procurement. In this way, the company will strive to put in place a robust management foundation.
(2) Further Promoting Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)
Hitachi sees D&I as sources of innovation and engines that drive global growth. It assigns diverse individuals to positions where they are able to make use of their unique knowledge and experiences, and to fully demonstrate their capabilities. Hitachi will actively fill key positions with diverse talent, including women, non- Japanese, and individuals with backgrounds outside of the Hitachi Group, such as Lorena Dellagiovanna, Gajen Kandiah, and Yoshihiko Kawamura, to achieve further growth on a global scale.
(*1) To strengthen the functions of the current Hitachi Global Digital Holdings LLC, the company's name will be changed to Hitachi Digital LLC (tentative name at present).
(*2) The current title of Chief Environmental Officer will be changed to Head of Environment.
(*3) The current Future Investment Division and Corporate Venturing Office will be combined to form Innovation Growth Strategy Division.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, contributes to a sustainable society with a higher quality of life by driving innovation through data and technology as the Social Innovation Business. Hitachi is focused on strengthening its contribution to the Environment, the Resilience of business and social infrastructure as well as comprehensive programs to enhance Security & Safety. Hitachi resolves the issues faced by customers and society across six domains: IT, Energy, Mobility, Industry, Smart Life and Automotive Systems through its proprietary Lumada solutions. The company's consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2020 (ended March 31, 2021) totaled 8,729.1 billion yen ($78.6 billion), with 871 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 350,000 employees worldwide. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at https://www.hitachi.com.
Copyright 2022 JCN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.jcnnewswire.comHitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501) today announced that as of April 1 2022 it will strengthen business structure in order to further evolve the Social Innovation Business and achieve growth with a focus on digital, environment and innovation in its next Mid-term Management Plan.
zSCAPE and TILUF Partner to Secure the future of Metaverse
Dubai, UAE, Feb 2, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - zSCAPE and TILUF announced today their partnership to combine the companies' market-leading strengths in Peer-to-Peer networking and Metaverse. The partnership adds zSCAPE's secure TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) based peer to peer secure networking and privacy-focused computing with capabilities to TILUF's decentralized mixed reality social experience where, you can create your own economy, to help build a trusted future of metaverse, where the authority lies with the people who're contributing to it.
The partnership aims to enable a secure and privacy-enabled metaverse experience, with built-in, Trusted Execution Environments based identities as an embedded layer and help ignite true transformations into the meta world.
Users, participating in the TILUF metaverse, gets the benefits of the underlying zSCAPE layer by securing the data sharing selectively as well as their identity access on demand. All the data will be processed and communicated in the network utilizing the zSCAPE's unique TEE-driven stack which will support both Intel and ARM architectures as future upgrades in its roadmap with TILUF.
"Metaverse is going to be the largest Peer to Peer ecosystem of tomorrow where security and privacy will be of uttermost importance, we strive to make the peer to peer ecosystem ever secure and to give the control back to the users where they are central to the decentralized peer to peer economy," said Ghan Vashishtha, Co-founder &CTO of zSCAPE.
According to Bloomberg statistics, the Metaverse market may reach $783.3 billion in 2024 vs. $478.7 billion in 2020. The total Metaverse market size may reach 2.7x that of just gaming software, services, and advertising revenue.
"Tiluf never compromises on decentralization", says Yash Shukla, Founder, and CEO of Tiluf, "we use Blockchain, decentralized servers, peer-to-peer networks, token economics, and only open source technologies - so that no centralized authority is able to restrict anyone or anything. Every decision will be made by users themselves, which will allow them to reach the highest potential of value creation. For staying aligned with our philosophies, we had to let go of leading game engines because they are closed-sourced and centralized. We chose to create our own open-source Decentralized Mixed Reality engine, as we believe in true decentralization. No shortcuts and not a single compromise on that front."
zSCAPE is the next-generation Security and Privacy protocol for the decentralized web3 infrastructure. It unprecedentedly improves the level of security and privacy which can be achieved in a dApp without compromising the level of decentralization. It functions on top of a decentralized network of TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) devices which is a pool of resources contributed by its users.
TILUF is one of the world's leading Decentralized metaverse startups, headquartered in Bangalore. Building a Decentralized Mixed Reality platform, that lets users create their custom metaverses, socialize inside them in AR/VR/XR and build crypto-economy around them, establishing a perfect archive and value-generating mechanism for Metaverse. Making a Decentralized Mixed Reality engine on which people will be the decision-makers of what they want to see, what they want to experience, and what they are willing to pay for.
zSCAPE and TILUF's shared vision for this partnership, based on their successful joint projects together, is to enable faster and safer adoption of Peer-to-Peer Meta-world across the globe.
For more information regarding zSCAPE's and TILUF's capabilities and offerings, visit:
https://zscape.io/
https://www.tiluf.com/
Social links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ZScape_io
Telegram: https://t.me/zSCAPE
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Contact: Ghan Vashishtha, CTO, Co-Founder
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://zscape.io/
SOURCE: zSCAPE
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