Located under a layer of Martian ice, the lake is about 12 miles (20 kilometers) wide, said the report in the US journal Science.

It is the largest body of liquid water ever found on the Red Planet.

“Water is there. We have no more doubt,” co-author Enrico Flamini, the Italian space agency’s Mars Express mission manager, told a press conference.

Mars is now cold, barren and dry but it used to be warm and wet. It was home to plenty of liquid water and lakes at least 3.6 billion years ago.

Scientists are eager to find signs of contemporary water, because such discoveries are key to unlocking the mystery of whether life ever formed on Mars in its ancient past, and whether it might persist today.

“This is a stunning result that suggests water on Mars is not a temporary trickle like previous discoveries but a persistent body of water that provides the conditions for life for extended periods of time,” said Alan Duffy, an associate professor at Swinburne University in Australia, who was not involved in the study.

Being able to access water sources could also help humans survive on a future crewed mission to Earth’s neighboring planet, with NASA aiming to send explorers in the 2030s.

This particular lake, however, would be neither swimmable nor drinkable, and it lies almost a mile deep (1.6 kilometers) beneath the icy surface in a harsh and frigid environment.

Whether microbial forms of life could lie within is a matter of debate.

Some experts are skeptical of the possibility since the lake is so cold and briny, mixed with a heavy dose of dissolved Martian salts and minerals.

The temperature is likely below the freezing point of pure water, but the lake can remain liquid due to the presence of magnesium, calcium and sodium.

“This is a discovery of extraordinary significance, and is bound to heighten speculation about the presence of living organisms on the Red Planet,” said Fred Watson of the Australian Astronomical Observatory.

“Caution needs to be exercised, however, as the concentration of salts needed to keep the water liquid could be fatal for any microbial life similar to Earth’s,” added Watson, who was not involved in the research.

– Radar detection –

The discovery was made using a radar instrument on board the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter, which launched in 2003.

The tool is called the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS), and was designed to find subsurface water by sending radar pulses that penetrate the surface and ice caps.

MARSIS “then measures how the radio waves propagate and reflect back to the spacecraft,” said the study.

These reflections “provide scientists with information about what lies beneath the surface.”

A team of researchers led by Roberto Orosei of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Bologna, Italy, surveyed a region called Planum Australe, located in the southern ice cap of Mars, from May 2012 until December 2015.

A total of 29 sets of radar samplings showed a “very sharp change in its associated radar signal,” allowing scientists to map the outlines of the lake.

“The radar profile of this area is similar to that of lakes of liquid water found beneath the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets on Earth, suggesting that there is a subglacial lake at this location on Mars,” said the report.

Researchers said they are not sure how far down it goes, but that it may be around three feet (one meter) deep.

– Confirmation needed –

“This is the first body of water it has detected, so it is very exciting,” David Stillman, a senior research scientist in the Department of Space Studies at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, told AFP in an email.

However, Stillman, who was not involved in the research, said another spacecraft, or other instruments, need to be able to confirm the discovery.

He noted that a higher-frequency radar instrument made by the Italian space agency SHARAD, on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched in 2005, has been unable to detect subsurface water.

“It is strange that SHARAD cannot confirm this discovery. In fact, SHARAD cannot penetrate through the ice here and no one understands why it can’t,” Stillman said.

“This suggests that something strange is going on here. Thus, I’m skeptical about this discovery.”

But researchers are excited about the potential for future finds, because if liquid water could be found at Mars’s south pole, it might be elsewhere too.

“There’s nothing special about this location other than the MARSIS radar on the Mars Express spacecraft is most sensitive to that region,” said Duffy.

“There are likely similar water deposits below the ground all across Mars.”

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield said on Twitter that the discovery gets to one of the fundamental questions about existence.

“On Earth, where there’s water, there’s life. Could be we’re not alone.”

The San Francisco-based social network said it was tightening access to its application programming interfaces (APIs) that allows developers to make automated Twitter posts.

“We’re committed to providing access to our platform to developers whose products and services make Twitter a better place,” said Twitter senior product management director Rob Johnson.

“However, recognizing the challenges facing Twitter and the public — from spam and malicious automation to surveillance and invasions of privacy — we’re taking additional steps to ensure that our developer platform works in service of the overall health of conversation on Twitter.”

Johnson offered no details on the revoked apps, but Twitter has been under pressure over automated accounts or “bots” which spread misinformation or falsely amplify a person or political cause.

“We do not tolerate the use of our APIs to produce spam, manipulate conversations, or invade the privacy of people using Twitter,” he said.

“We’re continuing to invest in building out improved tools and processes to help us stop malicious apps faster and more efficiently.”

As of Tuesday, any developer seeking access to create a Twitter app will have to go through a new application process, providing details of how they will use the service.

“We’re committed to supporting all developers who want to build high-quality, policy-compliant experiences using our developer platform and APIs, while reducing the impact of bad actors on our service,” Johnson said.

Automated accounts are not always malicious — some are designed to tweet our emergency alerts, art exhibits or the release of a Netflix program — but “bots” have been blamed for spreading hoaxes and misinformation in a bid to manipulate public opinion.

Built with customer feedback in mind, the Dell Precision 3930 Rack delivers powerful performance in a compact industrial footprint. The 1U height delivers better rack density, extended operating temperatures and features such as short depth, dust filters and legacy ports allow it to integrate seamlessly into complex medical imaging and industrial automation solutions, Dell said in a press statement.

With the debut of Intel Xeon E processors and recently introduced 8th generation Intel Core processors, the rack provides up to 64GB of 2666MHz DDR4 memory. In addition the Intel Xeon E processor supports Error Correcting Code (ECC) for increased reliability, the statement added.

The rack offers best-in-class workstation performance and provides the flexibility of up to 250W of doublewide GPUs, and scalability with up to 24TB of storage. With 3 PCIe slots including an optional PCI slot, this rack workstation can tackle complex tasks with ease.

A range of NVIDIA Quadro professional GPUs are available. With the Quadro P6000, users benefit from 24GB of GDDR5X and powerful ultra-high-end graphics performance. In addition, customers have the option to choose from a range AMD Radeon Pro graphics.

Experience versatile, secure and fast remote 1:1 user access with optional Teradici PCOIP technology with support for up to quad display zero clients. The rack seamlessly integrates into the datacenter bringing data, noise and heat isolation and reduced clutter at your desk.

Going small can lead to big things, and Dell has purpose-built these new entry-level workstations to fuel the future of innovation across engineering design, science, mathematics and other data- and graphics-intensive fields. Having a highly powerful machine no longer requires having a large work space or a large budget, making this level of performance available to many companies and workers for the first time, the statement said.

The Dell Precision 3630 Tower is 23 percent smaller than the previous generation with more expandability so workers can precisely get the solution they need regardless of workspace constraints. It features a range of easy-to-reach ports that make it possible to connect to external data sources, storage devices and much more. As workstation users often create IP, Dell will also offer an optional Smart Card (CAC/PIV) reader to make secure data management easier.

It may be small in size, but it’s big in performance – ideal for creating or enjoying VR experiences and other resource-intensive tasks. It features 8th Generation Intel Core i and new professional-grade Xeon E processors with faster memory speeds up to 2666MHz 64GB and offers up to 225W of graphics support, according to the press statement.

The Dell Precision 3630 Tower offers scalable storage featuring SATA and PCIe NVMe SSDs, which can be configured for up to 14TB with RAID support.

The new Dell Precision 3430 Small Form Factor Tower is a great fit for many workstation users, offering many of the same benefits as the Precision 3630 but in an even smaller form factor and up to 55W of graphics support. It’s also expandable with up to 6TB of storage with RAID support.

Dell today also introduced support for Intel Core X-series processors in addition to the Intel® Xeon W processor options already available on the Dell Precision 5820 Tower. These new processor options bring the enhanced performance and reliability of a workstation at a more affordable price point for customers.

On all Dell Precision 3000 series workstations announced today, adding Intel OptaneTM memory keeps responsiveness high and high-capacity storage costs lower. Customers can expect the same build quality and reliability of the Dell Precision line. Dell continues to partner with application providers for ISV certifications and Dell workstations provide professional features such as Dell’s Reliable Memory Technology Pro (with ECC memory) to protect your work from potential crashes by mapping out bad memory locations, and Dell Precision Optimizer AI software that optimizes your system automatically to run your applications even faster. For example, Dell Precision Optimizer Premium with AI-based optimization can improve the performance of Engineering applications by up to 552%.

The firm, Crimson Hexagon, says its platform allows clients — which include major US corporations — to analyze audiences and to track brand perception and campaign performance.

Citing people familiar with the business, the Journal said the government contracts of Crimson Hexagon, which pulls public data from Facebook, were not approved by Facebook in advance.

Since 2014, US government agencies have paid Crimson Hexagon more than $800,000 for 22 contracts, the Journal said, citing government procurement data.

Crimson Hexagon has sold its proprietary analytics platform abroad, including to Turkey and Russia, where in 2014 it worked with a non-profit tied to the government, the Journal reported late Friday.

It said Crimson Hexagon appears at least once to have mistakenly received private data from Facebook’s Instagram service.

Facebook had requested further evidence from Crimson Hexagon but the Journal quoted a spokesman for the social network as saying that “based on our investigation to date, Crimson Hexagon did not obtain any Facebook or Instagram information inappropriately.”

Chris Bingham, a Crimson Hexagon executive, wrote in a Friday blog post that his firm only collects publicly available social media data, an act which is “completely legal.”

Bingham says his firm routinely vets potential government customers to ensure they comply with policies of its “data partners” like Facebook.

“For example, there are special sensitivities about how government agencies can use online public data, even though that same data is freely accessible by others,” he wrote.

Facebook acknowledged this month that it was facing multiple inquiries from US and British regulators about a scandal involving the British consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

In Facebook’s worst ever public relations disaster, it admitted that up to 87 million users may have had their data hijacked by Cambridge Analytica, which was working for US President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Cambridge Analytica, which denies the accusations, has filed for bankruptcy in the United States and Britain.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in May that he was rolling out privacy controls demanded by European regulators to Facebook users worldwide because “everyone cares about privacy.”

Facebook and other online platforms have also been under pressure to better protect against being used to spread misinformation or promote division, as US intelligence leaders say Russia did during the 2016 US presidential campaign.

The city-state announced Friday that hackers had broken into a government database and stolen the health records of 1.5 million Singaporeans, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong who was specifically targeted in the “unprecedented” attack.

Singapore’s health minister said the strike was “a deliberate, targeted, and well-planned cyberattack and not the work of casual hackers or criminal gangs”.

While officials refused to comment on the identity of the hackers citing “operational security”, experts told AFP that the complexity of the attack and its focus on high-profile targets like the prime minister pointed to the hand of a state-actor.

“A cyber espionage threat actor could leverage disclosure of sensitive health information… to coerce an individual in (a) position of interest to conduct espionage” on its behalf, said Eric Hoh, Asia-Pacific president of cybersecurity firm FireEye.

Hoh told national broadcaster Channel NewsAsia that the attack was an “advanced persistent threat”.

“The nature of such attacks are that they are conducted by nation states using very advanced tools,” he said.

“They tend to be well resourced, well-funded and highly sophisticated.”

Healthcare data is of particular interest to cyberattackers because it can be used to blackmail people in positions of power, said Jeff Middleton, chief executive of cybersecurity consultancy Lantium.

“A lot of information about a person’s health can be gleaned from the medications that they take,” Middleton told AFP Saturday.

“Any non-public health information could be used for extortion. Russian spy services have a long history of doing this,” he added.

Medical information, like personal data, can also be easily monetised on criminal forums, said Sanjay Aurora, Asia Pacific managing director of Darktrace.

“Beyond making a quick buck, a more sinister reason to attack would be to cause widespread disruption and systemic damage to the healthcare service — as a fundamental part of critical infrastructure — or to undermine trust in a nation’s competency to keep personal data safe,” he told AFP.

– Hyper-connected –

Wealthy Singapore is hyper-connected and on a drive to digitise government records and essential services, including medical records which public hospitals and clinics can share via a centralised database.

But authorities have put the brakes on these plans while they investigate the cyberattack. A former judge will head an inquiry looking into the incident.

Singapore officials have cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the attackers.

“With regard to the prime minister’s data and why he was targeted, I would say that it’s perhaps best not to speculate what the attacker had in mind,” said David Koh, head of Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency.

The hackers used a computer infected with malware to gain access to the database between June 27 and July 4 before administrators spotted “unusual activity”, authorities said.

While Singapore has some of the most advanced military weaponry in the region, the government says it fends off thousands of cyberattacks every day and has long warned of breaches by actors as varied as high-school students in their bedrooms to nation states.

Earlier this month US intelligence chief Dan Coats described Russia, China, Iran and North Korea as the “worst offenders” when it came to attacks on American “digital infrastructure”.

Driven by a passion for technology, Krating Poonpol, who could be considered the biggest influence on the Thai start-up ecosystem, has opened a new chapter in his career with the launch of education technology (edtech) accelerator StormBreaker Venture.

StormBreaker Venture is founded and operated by Disrupt Technology Venture Co and is funded by many investors.

Krating, the founder of Disrupt Technology Venture, said the edtech start-up industry in Thailand is still in the infant stages compared with other parts of the world where it is a big industry. For example, in China there are unicorn start-ups such as VIP Kid and iTutor. One is already a listed company with a US$4 billion valuation, while another one has a $3 billion valuation. This is a renaissance phase in edtech.

It aims to create five edtech start-ups in 2018, and another 10 in 2019. In 2020, there will be products and services aimed at transforming the education system and impacting a million to 10 million people in 2020 in Thailand.

“Zero to one and from one to ten, my passion is to change the country by creating future leaders. I believe education can create change for all,” said Krating.

EdTech aims to play an important role in addressing the pain points of the education system. Therefore, Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia have the most potential to leapfrog in edtech in the next five years.

StormBreaker Venture is an ongoing project from Education Disruption Conference & Hackathon, which was set up at the beginning of this year.

It will focus on five priority areas: English learning (English for All); STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and Coding for All; Cloud-Powered School; Teacher of The Future; and Reskill Professional.

“Thais need an effective learning platform that can be easily accessed all around the country, which also includes STEM subjects. The Thai education system is not modern enough and lacks an efficient operating system to minimise the work overload of teachers from unnecessary non-teaching tasks.

“The cloud-powered school has been created to help teachers focus more on the teaching process. Our teachers still need to resell their profession as the ‘Teacher of The Future’, and need more efficient equipment for working in the future. The learning process in the digital technology era is not defined only in schools and universities. Everyone of all age groups should “Reskill Professional” to be prepared for the instant transformation in the digital disruption era,” said Krating.

“These are just a few examples regarding the education opportunity that needs to be fulfilled with start-ups or technology and this only needs true dedication and intention to change our country with a powerful education system impacting over 1 million Thais to get a good-quality education system that they deserve,” said Krating.

Thailand cannot change without a revolution in education.

The start-ups ecosyetem in Thailand is growing rapidly but it is faced with the problem of shortage of talent. It needs to create the education innovation ecosystem, said Krating.

Only five teams will be selected in the three-month intensive and exclusive bootcamp and have a demo day in January 2019. The qualified start-ups will be granted funding from Bt500,000 to Bt 1.5 million per start-up with a runway connected to the top regional and global edtech venture capital until series A.

StormBreaker Venture has three main partners to support the programme’s edtech start-ups – Line Thailand, Learn Capital, the venture capital specialising in edtech with funding of over Bt1 billion, and 500 TukTuks II.

Solving educational problems

The candidates must have qualifications and the teams should have expertise in business, in technology as a programer or developer, and in education. Moreover, they need to already have a product or prototype or MVP tested in the real market. Last but not least, they should have the capability to solve educational problems for more than 1 million people and a strong potential to expand and grow regionally.

“There is no limit to gender, age, or career. We are looking for someone with determination and passion to transform education and Thailand,” said Krating.

They will be trained by world-class mentors and advisers and many top national mentors, including Michael Staton – a partner of Learn Capital and a world top-100 innovator in education; Luis Pinto, the global operations partner of Learn Capital, as well as former executives of Microsoft for Education.

The StormBreaker Venture has also partnered with Thailand Education Partners to facilitate start-ups to do field tests and experiment with the prototype in the Education Sandbox in three provinces – Satun, Chon Buri, and Kalasin – which together have around 2,000 schools.

“They will have an opportunity to gain investment funds from Line Scale-up Package and Line Thailand. The start-ups might also get an opportunity to receive Line official and be one of the official Line services funded by Line Thailand,” said Krating.

He invited anyone with a strong passion to transform education for more than 1 million people and interested in joining the project to submit their applications by August 24 to the following link:

https://www.disruptignite.com/accelerator/edtech-accelerator

The qualifying teams will be announced on August 31.

It offers participants the chance to win a share of more than Bt2 million prizes and a trip to Silicon Valley in the US.

Somkid Jiranuntarat, chairman of Kasikorn Business Technology Group, said that TechJam is designed to inspire learning and raise standards across the three key areas: coding, data science and creative problem solving and design. The competition is aimed at energising the skill areas that are seen as vital to the future development of Thailand and which will allow the country to compete in the new world of the digital economy.

“KBank, as Thailand’s leading digital bank, realises the necessity of supporting the development of talented technical and design resources not only for our own technological excellence but also to support the future of the country as well,” said Somkid. “TechJam is further evidence of KBank’s commitment towards service excellence and continuing to provide the best financial services to our customers.”

Somkid said the main purposes of TechJam 2018 are threefold. It will seek out the top talent in the three areas from across the country and to expand the opportunities for them. They will be exposed to new design and technology concepts, enabling them to participate in a world-class technology competition.

“Second, it will help inspire those workers thinking about entering or switching over to the tech world to do so by joining the competition and learn about the opportunities and experiences along the way,” Somkid said.  “Third, it will introduce the rest of the country to the world of tech and creative innovation, bringing them into the heart and soul of the tomorrow squad – the future of the country.”

KBTG expects at least 3,000 people from all over Thailand to take part in the competition. “Coding is the pillar of all things digital. Data is believed to be the new oil,” Somkid said . “Two of the most valued companies in the world, Google and Facebook, create and sustain their values based purely on data. Technology must be purposeful. Only through creativity and design can empathy and insights be turned into meaningful innovations. Ones that can make life better for the people.

“Technology and design talent are now the major drivers of Thai digital and innovative economy. Under Thailand 4.0 initiative, the value-adding through innovation can only be realised if the country possesses adequate skills and expertise that can turn insights into technology and innovation.

“KBTG always places significant importance on skills enhancements of key resources. We believe these are vital to the strength of the country relating to software development, data science and design.”

During the regional and national competitions, competitors will be challenged with “tough, but fun, exercises derived from cutting-edge technology, frameworks and best practices” being used in the industry.

Throughout the three-month period, competitors will also be inspired to learn new skills and experience from the judges, who are experienced practitioners, as well as pick up tips and tricks from them and network with each other.

“KBTG looks at TechJam as a new way of learning and inspiring our top talent to improve upon themselves to achieve higher standards. Apart from the rewards, all winners are invited to join KBTG and continue to thrive within the company’s innovation and highly dynamic environment and culture. In fact, two third of last year’s winners are now KBTG family members,” said Somkid.

“All winners are also invited to join TechJam’s cohort and be recognised as being accepted into a group of proven talent  who we will continue to support through future meet ups, tech events and partnerships.”

Applications will be accepted until August 10. The final round is scheduled for November 3, at KBTG headquarters in Chaeng Watthana, Bangkok.

Thai consumers have reached a new high in online commerce, thanks to Facebook Messenger’s latest deal with Kasikornbank for a one-stop shopping experience on mobile apps.

The deal makes online commerce on the giant social media platform easier and more convenient as payment can be done seamlessly with just a few clicks.

Under the arrangement, consumers can do away with making payment for their purchase in a separate online session.

Previously, buyers had to pay first and then send a payment receipt to merchants to complete the transaction, but the new collaboration allows shoppers to use Kasikornbank’s K PLUS to make a seamless payment on the same platform. Buyers no longer have to enter bank account numbers or switch screens while shopping.

This new system underlines the digital marketplace’s responsiveness to consumers in Thailand’s social commerce market which is growing exponentially.

The Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA) estimates the country’s overall e-commerce value at around Bt137 billion for 2017, with 51 per cent of the transactions conducted on social media, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Facebook, which has more than 50 million users in Thailand, ranked one of the social platform’s top-five markets, says messaging is a key driver of rapid social commerce growth here.

Thanawat Malabuppha, president of Thai E-Commerce Association, said that social commerce is the largest segment of B2C (business to consumer) e-commerce in Thailand, accounting for 40 per cent of the overall B2C market.

A major strength of social commerce is its wide range of merchants or vendors where the cost of doing business is cheaper than using separate e-commerce websites or smaller e-marketplace platforms.

“Thais love shopping on social media platforms as they prefer to chat with merchants before making purchases. Currently, there are hundreds of thousands of small merchants and SMEs doing social commerce. The majority of Thais spend hours on social media on a daily basis,” said Thanawat.

Kasikornbank’s latest deal with Facebook Messenger allows consumers to do away with making payment for their purchase in a separate online session.

New deal allows onestop shopping on mobile apps for thai online consumers. Photo/AFP

According to John Wagner, managing director of Facebook Thailand, such a bank transfer solution gives businesses of all sizes an opportunity to close sales faster and boost engagement with their customers in a more secure and efficient way.

Wagner said that the modernisation and digitisation of people’s personal communication behaviour is transforming their expectations about how they should be able to communicate with businesses as more people are turning to messaging apps to connect with businesses around the world.

As of April, 2018, there were as many as 8 billion messages between people and businesses on Facebook Messenger apps, representing a four-fold growth year on year.

Wagner said the so-called conversational commerce (commerce on Messenger platform) was a trend that was gaining global traction, with a massive push in Thailand where the personalised online shopping experience via direct messaging has boosted customers’ trust and made them more likely to buy.

“Business messaging offers clear practical benefits such as convenience. But it can also play a much deeper, more meaningful role for both people and businesses. The sense of human connection that conversation unlocks can give consumers the confidence to convert.

“Among people surveyed who message businesses, the majority say that being able to message a business helps them feel more confident about the brand,” said Wagner.

Currently, 51 million Thais use Facebook each month. Thai SMEs are leading the world in social commerce and innovation as they were among the first to develop social commerce businesses, which is helping to fuel Thai economic growth, and becoming a major trend for SMEs in other countries.

On Facebook, people share more than 17 billion photos, and 400 million people use voice and video chat, while more than 150 million people use Instagram – also owned by Facebook – to connect with businesses on a monthly basis.

In Thailand, there are about 2.5 million SME pages on Facebook, with as many as 40 million people connected to these pages while about 100 million people outside of Thailand are connected to Thai SME pages.

During a recent visit to Zhongguancun International Innovation Building in Beijing, this writer witnessed how robots developed by Beijing-based service-robot start-up Yunji Technology can replace humans in performing certain tasks.

“Run”, an intelligent commercial service robot, was developed in 2016 to deliver goods to the room of hotel customers, show them the way and provide publicity information. Not surprisingly, it is dubbed the “hotel” robot.

Here’s how it works.

ISVs such as BoCloud (China), UEC Group Ltd. (China), Yusys Technologies Co. (China), EAB Systems (Hong Kong), Monoplus(Japan) and Biqmind (Singapore) are now offering solutions based on Red Hat OpenShift to help companies in the financial services, IT, and oil and gas sectors accelerate their innovation journey, Red Hat said in a press statement.

To help enterprises in Asia Pacific capture emerging opportunities, ISVs in the region are integrating Red Hat OpenShift into products and services that can enable success for cloud-first customers. Red Hat OpenShift is built on open source innovation and standards including Kubernetes, the container orchestration engine, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and is trusted by many companies around the world. It provides a more secure and stable platform for container-based deployments without sacrificing current investments, enabling mission-critical, traditional applications to coexist alongside new, cloud-native and container-based applications.

Red Hat OpenShift unites developers and IT operations to build, deploy and manage applications consistently across hybrid cloud infrastructures and helps enterprises deliver modern and traditional applications more quickly and efficiently, the statement added.

Balaji Swamy, director of ISV and Embedded Business for Red Hat Asia Pacific, said: “Businesses in Asia Pacific are increasingly realizing how a leadingcontainer platform such as Red Hat OpenShift can help them increase agility and accelerate innovation to be ahead of their competitors. With OpenShift, customers can enjoy a consistent environment throughout their organization, from development through production, with the knowledge that enhanced security capabilities areintegrated throughout the entire application lifecycle. We are pleased to support ISVs and the expandedOpenShift community as they drive new opportunities across the region and industries.”