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An engineering study conducted on the former Pierson School and forwarded to the Town Council lists the propertys strengths and weaknesses and outlines its suitability for a variety of uses. The Town Council is now considering the next steps on the building, which has been empty since the end of the 2019 school year.

Last October, the Town Council approved an appropriation of $12,000 to be used for an engineering study that the town hopes will aid in finding a new use for the Pierson School.

Town Manager Karl Kilduff explained to the Harbor News that understanding what changesif anycould be made to the floor plan of the building will help the town make decisions about a future use.

In short, can other floor plans work in the space or can the school only accommodate the existing walls [that] delineated classrooms? It would be important for the council to understand the extent to which the building could have alternate uses, Kilduff said last fall.

The study was conducted in fall 2021 by the engineering firm DTC. A report was forwarded to the Town Council members in February.

The study delineates what can/cannot be done based on the capacity of the building to support certain uses. It also provides some estimates for the cost to rehab the building to serve another purpose. The information helps inform the decision-making process, Kilduff said this month.

The report will help inform the council and future discussions. Finalized costs for rehabilitation will depend on how the building is actually used. The report does not include an analysis of operating expenses that could be incurred if the town was the operator of the building for a given use. Those numbers would have to be compiled to give a complete picture, said Kilduff.

According to the report, the school is overall in good condition, but there were some concerns. The reported noted that in one of the classrooms there was a crack in the wall likely from a stress fracture, but that Based on overall conditions in this vicinity, we believe the condition is arrested and can be aesthetically repaired in-place.

Additionally, the report noted that there was evidence of water infiltration in the basement and in the library. The report states these conditions pose long-term concerns to the integrity of masonry materials. The report said that the affected bricks would need to be replaced.

The school is in a historic district and according to the report, historic preservation specifies that historic brick be replaced with a comparable brick, which can be expensive.

As for future uses where remodeling of the building was needed, the report considered three possibilities: library, a library and senior or community center, and residential.

The town gave those potential uses as they mirror some of the community discussions around the future of the building. Those types of uses are similar to how the building might be used whether to town retains ownership, leases it, or sells the site. So, there are a good point of reference for consideration, said Kilduff.

Library

The report estimated that a library would be about 28,000 square feet and occupy not more than two levels.

The main level is approximately 13,000 square feet so the library program would fit on the lower level and main floor, leaving the upper level open to other uses, the report stated.

Alternatively, the report said that a mezzanine in the gym could be built to support heavy bookshelves and would allow 20,000 square feet for alternative uses.

Library and Community Center

The second option considered in the report said that combining a library with a senior center or community center would allow for more of the building to be used.

Library book stacks require a floor capacity of 100 to 150 pounds per square feet, and, as mentioned, would be best suited for the lower floor of the building, the report said.

However, due to the height of the floors on the lower level the report said that its possible that a remodeling to allow for an open floor plan would reduce the potential space for a community center.

Maintaining the existing basketball court would involve conversion of offices to lockers and bathroom facilities, the report added.

Residential

The report said that converting the building into a residential use was structurally feasible, especially on the upper floors.

The geometry of the school lends itself to this use with the large size classrooms and high ceilings. The large windows provide sufficient openings for natural light for occupants, the report said.

Some of the space for hallways could event be added to the residential space since the hallways are excessively wide the report added.

Unfortunately, the report once again pointed put that since the building is on the historic registry, the cost of converting the building to rental properties was likely to be expensive.

The History

Finding a new use for the Pierson School has been a long process that has captured the attention of many Clinton residents. The Pierson School has been emptied for now close to three years but for more than 80 years previously it had been a part of the Clinton education community. In 2018 the Board of Education voted to close the school at the end of the 2019 school year. A facility needs study conducted by the school system found that closing the school was the prudent move in the face of declining enrollment and rising operational costs.

The biggest issue with finding a new use for the property has to do with the deed of the building. When the Morgan Fund Trustees sold the property to the town in 1953, a deed on the property from the sale stated that the premises must always be used for the education interests of the residents.

Since 2019, the town has been seeking a legal remedy, one that would lift the deed restriction. In March of 2022 the town council unanimously agreed to a resolution that would pay the Morgan Trust $75,670 to help remove the deed restriction.

The process we are working through involves making a payment to the trust in consideration of their original contribution to remove the deed restriction that was placed on the property by the trust. The trust and the town have agreed that $75,670 is a fair payment to the trust to remove the deed restriction, Kilduff said earlier in 2022.

The Connecticut Attorney Generals Office needs to approve the payment, but Kilduff said that since both the town and the trust are in agreement of the exchange, its hoped the state wont object.

The deed restrictions were discovered after the decision to close the school was made and the responsibility for caretaking of the school was transferred from the Board of Education to the town. In 2019, the town estimated the cy pres action to remove the restriction wouldnt take longer than 18 months. More than 33 months later, the action is still going on.

While some residents have voiced frustrations and accused the town of a lack of progress on the site, town leaders have pushed back on those claims. Town Council Chair Chris Aniskovich has pointed out more than once in the past that the council has discussed Pierson several times over the last two years, but due to the legal situation concerning the property those talks had to be done in executive session. Aniskovich has also made clear that Kilduff has spent significant time working toward a resolution on the property.

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Som Boualaphanh came from a refugee camp in Thailand to build a new life in Minnesota. Now, as the cofounder and partner in a full-service engineering…

When Som Boualaphanhs St. Paul company Victus Engineering landed a contract for a major years-long remodeling and expansion of the NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center in north Minneapolis, it was a big moment.

We went up against a huge firm that is very established in town. Just to be selected for an interview, I thought, Ive made it, recalled Boualaphanh, a mechanical engineer who, with three colleagues, left jobs at established engineering firms to launch Victus in 2018.

For Boualaphanh, the NorthPoint contract was more than a professional milestone signaling the arrival of the fast-growing start-up.

In 1979, after he and his family came to Minnesota as refugees from Laos, via Thailand, they first settled in north Minneapolis. NorthPoint (then known as Pilot City) was the familys clinica destination for check-ups, he said, but also the source of grocery and gift giveaways.

I understood how important that clinic was to the community, he said. And I got gifts there a few times as a kid.

Boualaphanh, 52, traces the origins of his professional journey to a career day at Hopkins High School, which he attended after his family moved to Golden Valley. As a kid, he had a passion for muscle cars. And so he was intrigued when an engineer gave a presentation about automotive design.

After high school, Boualaphanh enrolled at the University of Minnesota, where he got his bachelors degree in mechanical engineering before moving on to the University of St. Thomas for a masters degree in software engineering.

Over the course of his career, Boualaphanh has specialized in the design of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) and plumbing systems. He spent nearly two decades in the trenches, working at engineering and architectural firms around town, before he and his three partners decided to take the entrepreneurial leap.

Starting the firm was a huge leap. We had a shoestring budget, and we all had to make sacrifices, like not getting paid for the first six months. We rented a coworking space because there were only four of us. Our chairs were back-to-back.

Victus main clients are government, health care institutions, and commercial and industrial facilities.

Were a full-service firm. We do electrical and mechanical. We started with four people. Now we have a staff of 18, he said. I love this industry. I meet a lot of people, I get to travel, and I constantly learn new things.

In an interview with Sahan Journal, Boualaphanh shared a few of the lessons he has learned along the way.

When you launch a new venture, pay attention to people skills: I would say, Get your technical skills down and make as many connections as you can. Network. Get to know the clients. Ask questions. People skills are huge. Technical skills can be taught, but people skills are tough. It has to come with experience.

Always keep a close eye on the bottom line: Starting the firm was a huge leap. We had a shoestring budget, and we all had to make sacrifices, like not getting paid for the first six months. We rented a coworking space because there were only four of us. Our chairs were back-to-back.

The first year was a struggle. We had to mind the bank very closely. But we were fortunate. We have a lot of friends and advocates in the industry because weve all been doing it a while. It helps to know people, especially architects. People remember you if you do good work.

For some businesses, COVID brought more opportunities than challenges: It was the opposite of what I thought was going to happen. When people hear that youre launching a new company during the pandemic, they say, Isnt that kind of risky? But to my surprise, COVID really helped in our industry, especially with health-care design. We deal with a lot of air change to mitigate COVID. Business is booming right now because everybody wants to upgrade their HVAC system.

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Engineering technology alum built race cars and a storied IndyCar career – Purdue Polytechnic Institute – Purdue Polytechnic Institute

Juan Pablo Montoya, Emerson Fittipaldi and A.J. Foyt are legendary race car drives and Purdue alum Bill Pappas (BS mechanical engineering technology 83) has worked with all of them.

Thanks to his familys relocation from Chicago to Indianapolis, Pappas love of racing began as a child, and his father encouraged his interests. But when he grew to 6 feet, 7 inches tall, he knew a career as a driver wasnt likely.

At a very early age, [my father would] take me and my brothers out to the speedway to watch the cars run, and wed go back out on qualifications weekend, said Pappas. I would have loved to race, but I dont fit in go-karts or race cars very well, he says. I had to go for the next step. And that was either as an engineer or engineering the race car itself.

A neighbor had a machine shop where Pappas would see the mechanical aspects of race cars closely.

When the guys had come to town, he would do repair work on uprights, wishbones and different parts of the race car, Pappas recalled. So, Id watch this gentleman do his magic and was enamored with the mechanical end of racing.

Purdue became Pappas next logical step to realizing the dream of a career in racing, but it took persistence. After graduating, he interviewed for a position in electronics at an Arizona company.

I have a mechanical background, but I sat down with an HR person, and they looked at my resume and saw Purdue University. They basically moved me to the front of the line because of Purdues reputation, he said.

A few years later, Pappas accepted a position with the Patrick Racing team as a support and design engineer, his first full-time job in racing.

We won the Indianapolis 500 and the CART Championship with Emerson Fittipaldi, and it cascaded from there, he said.

Pappas was a part of Fittipaldis Indy 500 win in 1989 and was chief engineer for Montoyas win in 2000. Today, Pappas is vice president of competition and race engineering for the IndyCar series.

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A new drug could solve the problem of cataracts, without surgery – Interesting Engineering

Researchers at the Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in the U.K. have made significant progress in treating cataracts using a drug compound, paving the way for new treatment methods, a university press release said.

A cataract is a medical condition where the eye's lens becomes clouded over some time and affects vision quality. The clouding is caused by the disorganization of the proteins present in the lens. This eventually leads to their clumping, which scatters light away from the retina, thereby reducing vision. According to estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO), the condition affects approximately 65 million people globally, with moderate to severe vision loss seen in about 80 percent of the cases.

Conventionally, surgery has been the only remedy for this condition. Still, a team of researchers led byProfessor Barbara Pierscionek at ARU has carried out advanced tests of an oxysterol compound as an anti-cataract drug. An oxysterol is a derivative of cholesterol that plays a role in many cellular functions, including autophagy - conserved cell degradation to remove unnecessary components.

The compound called VP1-001, when used in laboratory-based trials, showed a marked improvement in the refractive index profile for 61 percent of the cases. In comparison, the press release said that lens opacity was found to have been decreased in 46 percent of the cases. A refractive index profile is a crucial parameter in determining the focusing capacity of the eye. The drug is therefore acting to restore the protein organization inside the lens.

"It is the first research of this kind in the world," said Professor Pierscionek in the press release. "The positive effects of the compound have been proposed as an anti-cataract drug but never before tested on the optics of the lens. It is a significant step forward towards treating this extremely common condition with drugs rather than surgery."

However, the studies also showed improvements in only some types of cataracts and not all. This would mean that the treatment would be an option for only specific cataract types, and distinctions need to be made while developing anti-cataract medications in the future, the researchers said.

The study was published in the journal,Ophthalmology and Visual Science.

Abstract

Purpose:To investigate how cataract-linked mutations affect the gradient refractive index (GRIN) and lens opacification in mouse lenses and whether there is any effect on the optics of the lens from treatment with an oxysterol compound.

Methods:A total of 35 mice including wild-type and knock-in mutants (Cryaa-R49C andCryab-R120G) were used in these experiments: 26 mice were treated with topical VP1-001, an oxysterol, in one eye and vehicle in the other, and nine mice were untreated controls. Slit lamp biomicroscopy was used to analyze the lens in live animals and to provide apparent cataract grades. Refractive index in the lenses of 64 unfixed whole mouse eyes was calculated from measurements with X-ray phase tomography based on X-ray Talbot interferometry with a synchrotron radiation source.

Results:HeterozygousCryaa-R49C lenses had slightly irregularly shaped contours in the center of the GRIN and distinct disturbances of the gradient index at the anterior and posterior poles. Contours near the lens surface were denser in homozygousCryab-R120G lenses. Treatment with topical VP1-001, an oxysterol, showed an improvement in refractive index profiles in 61% of lenses and this was supported by a reduction in apparent lens opacity grade by 1.0 in 46% of live mice.

Conclusions:These results indicate that -crystallin mutations alter the refractive index gradient of mouse lenses in distinct ways and suggest that topical treatment with VP1-001 may improve lens transparency and refractive index contours in some lenses with mutations.

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Engineering education pioneer Elizabeth Taylor on challenging assumptions and bringing more voices to the table – Create – create digital

With experience across a range of fields including civil engineering, engineering education, volunteering and humanitarian aid, her career has been, she admits, fairly eclectic.

Now, as the 2021 recipient of Engineers Australias Peter Nicol Russell Achievement Memorial Medal, Taylor has been recognised for her many professional accomplishments. She shares some of her career highlights with create.

Its challenging to describe Taylors achievements without resorting to basic recitation.

Shes held roles in academia and defence, received the prestigious Ada Lovelace Medal for an Outstanding Woman Engineer in 2019, and was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2004.

In addition to serving as Deputy Chair of the Governing Group of the International Engineering Alliance, she is the Foundation Convenor of Engineers Australias National Women in Engineering Committee and Chair of the Cambodian Childrens Trust.

While Pro-Vice Chancellor and Executive Dean at Central Queensland University, she engaged in pro bono work for Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief, or RedR, an international humanitarian response agency that selects, trains and deploys technical specialists.

The trajectory of Taylors eventual career was at odds with her plans earlier in life.

I was one of those people at school who had no idea what I wanted to do, she said. I ended up being one of 250 people doing civil engineering, which I knew absolutely nothing about and for most of the time I was the only girl.

After a decade as an engineer for the Maritime Service Board, Taylor made a career shift to academia.

At that point I was in a career that did not support women very well when they started to have children, she said.

You could say I had to respond to both life imperatives and career imperatives. It was certainly not my planned career path; it was the outcome of my situation at the time.

Taylors diverse and eclectic career has led her to excel as a leader, notably in the field of engineering education.

As an academic, I was very strongly involved in curriculum reform to bring out the human element of engineering, she said. When I started out, engineering was very much about being above petty politics and the way society made decisions we were independent of having opinions.

For me, it was important to bring into the curriculum an understanding that this was not the case. We are all human beings, and therefore all have our own opinions and perspectives that impact how we make decisions.

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What is multi-cloud visibility, and how do I achieve it? – TechTarget

While it can be difficult to achieve, multi-cloud visibility improves the overall quality of experience for monitoring and minimizes security risks. Specific tools can help organizations gain that visibility.

In general, monitoring is the gathering of information about the status of IT elements. Visibility focuses on the behavior of a complex system in the present and over time. Gain a greater understanding of visibility, how it plays into multi-cloud management and best practices to follow.

Visibility is defined by the relationship between mission requirements and supporting operations actions in addition to cloud resources and resource commitments. Multi-cloud visibility can be related to these relationships.

While each public cloud is a complex system, multi-cloud is a system of systems; its status and behavior cannot be easily derived by summing monitoring or observability -- the process of determining the state of a complex system -- data from each of the clouds involved. A top-down or application-centric approach is critical in creating an actionable view of multi-cloud behavior.

Public cloud providers offer a variety of services, including container hosting and orchestration, but some higher-level features stop at the cloud boundary, which fragments visibility. Any multi-cloud visibility strategy improves when admins use a common technology for cloud hosting. For example, a single Red Hat or VMware container framework deployed in both a data center and multiple clouds will be easier to adapt to visibility requirements than one that uses cloud-provider-specific technology for each cloud.

There are two ways to gain multi-cloud visibility:

Preferably this is done onto a single pane of glass. Assume that the multi-cloud is functional if all its components are functional. The first approach works for multi-clouds where each cloud hosts its own applications and nothing scales or redeploys across cloud provider boundaries. The advantage of this approach is that no special multi-cloud tools are required, just a means of making all clouds visible.

In this second approach, multi-cloud is a collective platform where the rules for deployment of application components will vary based on many factors. These factors are not visible to the individual cloud environments, but the state of resources influence them in each cloud. Multi-cloud visibility should start with the hosting technology that applies these rules. Often, this looks like a multi-cloud DevOps or orchestration tool, such as Google's Anthos.

Visibility is an essential part of a multi-cloud strategy to create continuity, as well as ensure applications remain online. Below are some benefits that make it a critical feature.

If there's a place where top-down thinking and planning is critical, multi-cloud visibility is it.

Multi-cloud visibility maximizes application uptime and quality of experience (QoE). In turn, this maximizes the business value of the applications themselves. It improves the efficiency of the IT operations team, reducing labor and error rate.

Because visibility aims at predicting future cloud application state, it can also be a valuable tool in capacity planning and performance management. An organization that knows the rules for scaling enables them to assess how differences in application usage would impact QoE. It also suggests remedies to add capacity to one or more of the clouds or to change scaling rules to allocate capacity that's already available.

Any change in application configuration and workflow creates potential changes in the attack surface of an application. Knowing when these changes are happening is highly valuable. Multi-cloud visibility as it relates to scaling and redeployment policies is an element in security management. This particular driver is most likely found where multi-cloud is used as a common resource pool with cross-provider migration of components.

The impact of multi-cloud visibility on security is difficult to assess. If you think of security as a combination of vulnerability management and exploit protection, though, visibility can play a role. Visibility may help security by highlighting unusual patterns of usage or application behavior. Where security issues can result in changes in application usage or database access, admins can collect this information and make it visible, along with security components' performance and availability.

To select a multi-cloud visibility tool, start with an understanding of how your organization uses multi-cloud. Look for applications that cross cloud boundaries in a static way or through scaling or redeployment. If you have that, your multi-cloud should be considered a common resource. If not, then it's a parallel resource set.

There are tools available to support both visibility strategies and several different focuses.

Security. OpsCompass and ScienceLogic are helpful because they support monitoring/observability and security in the major public clouds.

Orchestration. For top-down scaling and redeployment centricity in multi-cloud visibility, look to the tools capable of orchestrating multi-cloud resource pools. For containers, Google Anthos, Red Hat OpenShift and VMware Tanzu all provide the necessary tools. For DevOps purposes, Ansible, Chef and Puppet are good options.

Infrastructure as code. HashiCorp and Terraform are valuable where multi-cloud includes private cloud technology used for agile redeployment and scaling.

Good multi-cloud visibility starts by classifying the nature of multi-cloud usage and the extent to which a single hosting model is deployed across clouds. When your multi-cloud is used as a common resource pool, you'll need to start with a common visibility framework that supports cross-cloud operations. When you use each cloud in your multi-cloud independently, all you'll need is a tool to centralize the visualization of cloud status.

Visibility is more than tools. It starts with that critical question of missions and supporting operations. If there's a place where top-down thinking and planning is critical, multi-cloud visibility is it.

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Google and Generation UK work to bring young Brits into cloud computing – www.computing.co.uk

The initiative, dubbed Katalyst, is the brainchild of Richard Regan, Google Cloud's chief engineering partner for the UK and Ireland, and is aimed at making cloud employment more accessible to those who are typically underrepresented in the area.

Regan says the idea for the Katalyst programme came after a CTO meeting at a Google networking event, where participants complained about a lack of talent in the cloud industry.

"All the leaders in the room were finding it incredibly difficult to hire, train and retain top cloud talent. I was hosting this forum and so went away to think how we could best solve this challenge and grow the pool of available cloud-skilled individuals," Regan wrote.

The experiences of the delegates at the Google event are consistent with the observations made by market analysts like Gartner. The research firmhas previously spoken about the detrimental impact the cloud skills shortage will have on the ability of businesses to carry out their digital transformation plans in the years to come.

The firm predicted in 2020 that a dearth of professionals with skills and experience working on public cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) deployments would cause organisations to wait two years or more to migrate their on-premise workloads.

"We wanted to do something locally, to help grow the pool of available skilled individuals, ideally tapping into under-represented groups," Regan said.

He conceived a cloud training programme that would provide equal access to job prospects for young people who may not have had the opportunity to attend university, providing these groups a way into a well-paid, and growing market.

Google approached the skills charity Generation UK to help get the initiative off the ground quickly.

Generation UK specialises in offering education and training to help individuals find jobs in areas that are traditionally off-limits or inaccessible to them.

The Katalyst pilot programme lasts 12 weeks and includes technical and soft skills training.

During the course, participants will complete the Google Cloud Digital Leader certification as well as much of the training for the Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification.

Once they start at Google Cloud Partners, they will be required to obtain the Google Cloud Associate Engineer certification within the first six months of their new position.

Participants will then get the opportunity to meet and interview for confirmed positions at Google Cloud Partners in London, with annual salaries of up to 30,000 (this is slightly below average for an associate cloud engineer, but within the bounds of reason for a new starter - Ed.).

After a successful pilot, Google intends to extend the initiative to several sites throughout the UK and overseas, as well as at its customers' organisations.

This is a great move by Google and Generation UK. Although the tech industry has a long way to go, it has at least begun to recongise the importance of bringing in new people from under-represented groups like women and ethnic minorities. Until now, though, too little attention has been paid to people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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InMotion Hosting Earns 2022 Great Place to Work Certification for 2nd Consecutive Year – Yahoo Finance

Employee survey places leading web hosting provider, InMotion Hosting, 22 points above the national average.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InMotion Hosting, an employee-owned and operated technology company specializing in web hosting, cloud-based solutions and managed services, is proud to be Certified by Great Place to Work and celebrate this distinction on May 17, Certification Nation Day. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at InMotion Hosting. This year, 79% of employees said it's a great place to work 22 points higher than the average U.S. company.

InMotion Hosting Earns 2022 Great Place to Work Certification

Great Place to Work is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation.

"We are thrilled that for two consecutive years, team members rated the environment high in promoting inclusive behavior and avoiding discrimination," said Todd Robinson and Sunil Saxena, Co-Founders of InMotion Hosting. "This certification is an example of what happens when all team members, regardless of position or title, are supportive and kind to each other."

To be a Great Place to Work you must have great employees. Earning this achievement for a second year in a row shows the continued dedication our team has to one another to keep InMotion Hosting a great place to work.

Highlights from the survey include:

91% feel they are able to take time off from work when necessary

89% feel welcome when they join the company

86% believe they are given the resources and equipment to do their job

According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company's profits and have a fair chance at promotion.

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About InMotion HostingInMotion Hosting is a privately held technology company providing web hosting, cloud-based solutions and managed services to businesses and entrepreneurs across the globe. With over 570,000 customers, InMotion Hosting's mission is to bring tools, platforms and outstanding customer service within anyone's reach to transform their online presence. Since 2001, we have built our foundation around 24/7/365 U.S.-based customer support and open source technology.

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About Great Place to WorkGreat Place to Work is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All.

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iland Named Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Impact Partner of the Year, North America by Veeam – Business Wire

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iland, an 11:11 Systems company and a leading VMware-based provider for application hosting, data protection and disaster recovery services delivered on the iland Secure Cloud Platform, today announced it has been selected as the 2021 Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) Impact Partner of the Year, North America by Veeam Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. This is the sixth time, and fifth consecutive year that iland has been honored with this title.

iland was recognized as Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Impact Partner of the Year, North America, in recognition of the partner who shows the most progress, growth and dedication toward Veeam business and selling Veeam cloud-based solutions. These seventh annual awards recognize North America Veeam ProPartners and VCSP partners who have not only demonstrated success in providing Veeam solutions to their customers, but who have also provided first-class support, expert knowledge, continued product education, and a true Veeam strategy incorporated into their business. Winners were celebrated during VeeamON 2022, the Modern Data Protection conference of the year, taking place in Las Vegas, NV May 16 19.

As every company today grapples with the growing challenges of the cybersecurity landscape and increasing threats to the business, we are honored to work closely with Veeam and our mutual channel partners to protect businesses today and future-proof them for tomorrow, said Dante Orsini, chief strategy officer at 11:11 Systems. We are proud of the recognition as Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Impact Partner of the Year in North America and look forward to our mutual continued growth and partnership in the year ahead.

For years, iland and Veeam have offered customers reliable and cost-effective cloud solutions to help keep their businesses protected against the ever-present threat of cyberattacks. These solutions include ilands Secure Cloud Backup with Veeam Cloud Connect, Secure Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365 with Veeam and Secure Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) with Veeam, which provide direct integration and 100 percent compatibility with Veeams industry-leading backup and replication software.

We are thrilled to recognize iland as the Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Impact Partner of the Year, North America, said Kevin Rooney, vice president of Americas channels at Veeam. Celebrating the remarkable achievements and success of our partners is ingrained in our DNA at Veeam, as we have been a 100-percent channel company since our founding in 2006. ilands commitment to deliver the most trusted Modern Data Protection solutions in the industry along with their product knowledge and expertise, make them a model Veeam partner. We congratulate and appreciate iland for their dedication and service to our joint customers, and look forward to strengthening our partnership and momentum in 2022 as we work together to expand our product offerings.

ABOUT ILANDiland, an 11:11 Systems company, is a global cloud service provider of secure and compliant hosting for infrastructure (IaaS), disaster recovery (DRaaS) and backup as a service (BaaS). They are recognised by industry analysts as a leader in disaster recovery. The award-winning iland Secure Cloud Console natively combines deep layered security, predictive analytics and compliance to deliver unmatched visibility and ease of management for all of ilands cloud services. Headquartered in Houston, Texas and London, UK, and Sydney, Australia, iland delivers cloud services from its cloud regions throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Learn more at http://www.iland.com.

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What are the top cloud services providers in Africa? – TechCity

The cloud has arrived in Africa and although it is currently in its early stages of development, the impact of cloud services is already visible in various sectors. We can see various banks using cloud services instead of using conventional services. Banks in Africa have now implemented artificial intelligence and machine learning tools that can help them to make investments and also to improve customer experience.

Similarly, we are also seeing various government institutions & organizations using the cloud to improve their public services capability. Large companies and firms are also using cloud technologies and AWS databases to reach mobile and digital customer bases.

This is just in Africa. If we talk about other continents or developed nations of the world then we would see that businesses are now more focused on digital transformation, trying to make their operations and everything digital, all of which involve the cloud. For all the people who are looking to use cloud services in Africa or shift their business to the cloud in Africa then we have brought for you some of the best cloud providers in Africa that you should know about:

If you havent heard about Amazon Web Services then you probably dont know much about the cloud. Amazon is a giant in the world of cloud computing. It provides top-notch cloud computing services not only in Africa but also over the whole world. Most of the famous websites or platforms that you visit or use on the internet such as Chatroulette, Airbnb, McDonalds, Lyft, Netflix, Nokia, Adobe, Omegle and tons of other companies.

The services that you get with Amazon Web Services are amazing. The services are easily scalable, affordable, and flexible, which is what most users are looking for in cloud providers. If millions of users are using AWS for their business then obviously there must be something unique and amazing about it.

After Amazon Web Services, comes Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure is another global provider of cloud computing services that works perfectly in Africa too. With Azures open cloud computing platform, you get to invent new inventions with purpose, save up costs on business operations, and make your business more efficient.

Azure is already trusted by businesses in various industries including healthcare, financial services, government sector, retail, and manufacturing. Azure consists of more than 200 cloud products and services that are designed to make everything simple and effective for the customers. Because of how good Azure is, it is trusted by more than 95% of Fortune 500 companies

Apart from global cloud providers, we also have the local African cloud providers that work just as fine, if not better. Africa Data Centres is a cloud provider that can improve the efficiency and productivity of your local businesses in Africa. It empowers many of the local businesses in Africa with its out-of-the-box cloud services.

The best thing about Africa Data Centres is that it is designed specifically to help out all businesses to reach new heights. It is here to bring innovation to cloud computing services for the consumers in Africa and currently, it is operating at very high levels as demanded by the customers.

Cloud Africa is another cloud provider in Africa that provides high-performing cloud services in Africa. Customers who sign up with Cloud Africa get high-quality services including every instance running on high-end SSD. Along with this, you also get the global standards of security to ensure that the data of your business remains safe and secure.

For local businesses, it is a good platform to get started. You can get top-performing cloud computing technologies locally from Cloud Africa with multiple advanced features and a very friendly and responsive customer support team.

Host Africa is another domestic cloud provider on the list that can provide you with high-level and cost-effective cloud services. You can do everything from hosting your websites and domains to getting dedicated servers to store the data of your business and automate your tasks. Along with this, you also get 24/7 customer support as a value-added benefit. It is a well-established cloud hosting company that focuses on satisfying all the customers at a reasonable and affordable price.

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