Day: January 17, 2023

New training courses will enable partners to build technical and sales expertise of Acronis products

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, is pleased to announce the availability of the 2023 Acronis #CyberFit Academy Certification program. The program will provide updated training for Acronis partners to improve their success and overall increase profitability. Partners who take training, on average, utilize twice as many Acronis products and require 30% fewer support requests, which in turn increases revenue and reduces support costs, while also increasing customer satisfaction.

The latest Acronis #CyberFit Academy curriculum features 22 new certification courses, including five recertification courses which reduce annual technical certifications from over 20 hours to less than three hours. The goal of the program is to recertify existing partners and onboard new partners. When certified, partners exceed revenue goals with 104% more profit and 10% additional workloads achieved per technician.

“We are excited to offer the comprehensive Acronis #CyberFit Academy certification program to our dedicated partners,” said Righter Kunkel, Head of Academy at Acronis. “By providing the necessary training and resources, we are confident that our partners will be able to better serve their customers and grow their businesses.”

When Acronis partners fully understand the range of products and services offered, they can more effectively and confidently present them to customers. The Acronis #CyberFit Academy certification training program is available to ensure partners are equipped with the knowledge necessary. The sales training courses offered cover product benefits and guide learners through differentiators and sales tactics, including call demos. With the Acronis integrated product offering, partners are able to deliver more comprehensive cyber protection and reduce the complexity of vendor management

The Acronis #CyberFit Academy courses provide quick, easy-to-consume training modules which help partners make the most of the Acronis robust catalog of solutions and offerings. Courses include, but are not limited to; foundation courses with a quick introduction to Acronis products, associate courses providing a deep dive into specific product features, and professional courses which are designed to provide expert-level instruction for specialists. All courses are offered through on-demand and live, instructor-led webinars. In addition to improving skills and productivity, certifications enable Acronis partners to advance to higher levels within the Acronis #CyberFit Partner Program, which unlocks exclusive benefits.

Acronis partners are invited to register for live trainings which can be scheduled here: https://kb.acronis.com/liveclass. Access to recorded trainings are available in the Acronis Partner Portal here: https://partners.acronis.com/#training. Acronis is proud to support training globally, in eight different languages.

For more information about the 2023 Acronis #Cyberfit Academy certification program, please visit: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/academy/. To learn more about the 2023 curriculum, check out our latest blog post here: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/blog/posts/introducing-the-2023-acronis-cyberfit-academy-curriculum/

About Acronis:
Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that fit the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications, and systems with innovative next-generation antivirus, backup, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection management solutions powered by AI. With advanced anti-malware powered by cutting-edge machine intelligence and blockchain based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment – from cloud to hybrid to on premises – at a low and predictable cost.

Acronis is a Swiss company, founded in Singapore. Celebrating two decades of innovation, Acronis has more than 2,000 employees in 45 locations. Acronis Cyber Protect solution is available in 26 languages in over 150 countries and is used by 16,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses.

Press contacts:
Karl Bateson
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Pure Labs Urges Government Entities to Put an End to This Major Source of Environmental Pollution & Youth Vaping

Similar to what we’ve seen with combustible cigarette butts, littered disposable vaping devices are now a major source of contamination to our ecosystem, on a worldwide scale. The issue is not just the non-decomposable plastic casings we see scattered in the streets, on beaches, and in parks far too often. Disposable vaping devices also leach hazardous waste from their lithium batteries and heavy metals from their circuitry systems. The moment these toxic materials penetrate our environment, the corruption of our ecosystem and our wildlife begins. In addition to the harmful and toxic chemicals found in lithium batteries, these types of batteries are known to explode or start fires if disposed of improperly. Not to mention the illegal child labor associated with up to 30% of cobalt mining facilities responsible for sourcing the material used in lithium-ion batteries.

With disposable devices being the preferred method of vaping among our youth, it is no mystery why we are seeing as much e-cigarette pollution as we are today. A standard disposable vape pen only holds enough E-liquid to last a few days, causing the average user to cycle through approximately 2 to 3 devices per week. That’s a lot of waste! Every day, respective Customs entities are seeing thousands of palettes of these disposable vape devices enter from China. If we want to take action and do our part to mitigate the global environmental pollution crisis and the undeniable youth vaping epidemic, we need to stop the infection at its root – put an end to Chinese disposable vaping devices.

About Pure Laboratories

Operating since 2009, Pure Laboratories (Pure Labs) is a Veteran-Owned state-of-the-art 110,000-sq. ft. manufacturing and distribution facility located in Gainesville, Florida. Nicopure Labs, a subsidiary of Pure Labs, is an industry leading manufacturer of American-Made tobacco and menthol E-liquid products. Nicopure Labs is best known for its award-winning E-liquid and hardware brand, Halo. With a 10,000-sq. ft. cleanroom, Pure Labs is synonymous with quality manufacturing. Pure Labs’ corporate headquarters are based in Tampa Florida, with additional operations located in Europe.

For additional information about carrying Halo’s premium American-made e-liquid and innovative line of vaporizer devices, please email Halo’s principal distribution partner, Syndicate Distribution at sales@syndicatedistribution.com.

For additional information on Pure Laboratories’ full capabilities visit www.PureLabs.com.

For media inquiries, please email press@purelabs.com

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Pure Labs
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Latest funding, led by Pantera Capital and Archetype, accelerates the deployment of Distributed Validator Technology, a core technology on the Ethereum scaling roadmap that improves resiliency and decentralization

In September, Ethereum upgraded to Proof-of-Stake, a consensus mechanism that laid the foundation for more democratized network participation by allowing individuals with 32 ETH to run a node and validate the network. However, technical expertise is still needed to operate a node while avoiding offline and slashing penalties. For many that don’t have the necessary expertise to maintain a node or want to stake in smaller quantities, exchanges and staking-as-a-service providers have filled a major market gap, now representing ~75% of the estimated $20B staked on Ethereum. While providing an important service, centralized management of stake creates a risk to the integrity of the entire network. For Ethereum to be a global settlement layer, its middleware also must be incorruptible and credibly neutral.

Obol Labs, as the leading builder of Distributed Validator Technology (DVT), is directly solving the issue of single points of failure in staking infrastructure. DVT is a technology primitive that allows an Ethereum Proof-of-Stake validator to be run simultaneously on more than one machine (mentioned in Vitalik Buterin’s Ethereum roadmap). The major breakthrough is the ability to split up a single validator private key, making it possible for a group of people to share validation rights of an Ethereum validator. The company’s raise in the depth of crypto winter, as venture funding has decreased by over 60%, validates the importance of DVT for the next generation of Web3 scalability.

Running a validator as a cluster of nodes means more staking resilience: validators are less likely to go offline; validator keys are less likely to be compromised; and there is less correlation risk for the entire network if validator clients have software bugs. Ultimately, DVT allows network validators of any magnitude to increase resilience, distribution of stake, and security.

Collin Myers, Obol Labs CEO and Co-Founder: “Turbulent events of 2022, including the FTX collapse, make decentralization a key priority on all levels of the Web3 stack. To make networks more secure, staking must be decentralized by design. Obol’s DVT brings decentralization and resiliency to the ground floor of staking products. Our current focus is Ethereum, but in the future, we’ll have implementations with Cosmos and Ethereum L2 networks.”

“Obol Labs have excelled in bringing together a community of solo stakers and staking-as-a-service providers alike to advance Distributed Validator Technology. Obol plays a critical role in improving validator participation and scaling Ethereum through its next phase of growth. We are also excited to see how Obol advances DVT among other Proof-of-Stake blockchains in the coming year,” said Paul Veradittakit, General Partner of Pantera Capital.

Oisín Kyne, CTO at Obol Labs, added, “Today, we think of validators as individuals or single entities. We think validators should actually be run as groups. Instead of only being able to run a validator alone, we want to enable you to run validators with a community of other stakers cooperatively.”

Obol Labs is actively working with leading liquid staking protocols like Lido, Stakewise, and more to implement DVT into their operator set. In addition, a large majority of Obol’s earliest seed supporters are the likes of Coinbase Ventures, Figment, Blockdaemon, Chorus One, and a collection of other industry-leading validators that are actively testing, adopting, and helping build Obol’s DVT technology.

“Today, staking-as-a-service protocols and providers make up the most adopted segment of the staking industry, which makes it the most critical segment to advance infrastructures that improve staking resiliency and decentralization,” said Ash Egan, Founder and General Partner of Archetype.

In addition to working with larger validators, Obol Labs is helping to improve solo validator participation with their active community of 9,000+ members across 20+ countries. Together, at-home validators participating in Obol Labs testnets are running hundreds of multi-continent distributed validators on the Ethereum Goerli network with other operators using the recently launched DV Launchpad.

Obol Labs’ Series A will accelerate the Obol Network’s roadmap for bringing DVT to Mainnet Ethereum. Obol will also support the advancement of DVT across other Layer 1 Proof-of-Stake blockchains like Cosmos, as well as the L2 ecosystem to help address the resiliency of sequencers.

About Obol Labs:

Obol Labs is an R&D team building infrastructure technologies for Ethereum and other Proof-of-Stake blockchains to scale consensus and ensure decentralization. Consisting of members across 13+ countries, the core team is currently focused on bringing Distributed Validator Technology to Ethereum. Follow at obol.tech or @ObolNetwork.

Additional Resources:

• Obol talks on DVT at DevCon ’22
• Messari Report on DVT
• Staking Rewards Report on the Staking Ecosystem & DVT

Contact Information:
Brett Li
Growth Lead
brett@obol.tech
(510) 364-9038

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OKX Copy Trading

 

• Copy Trading allows users to view in-depth breakdowns of the trading habits of high-performing traders and replicate these strategies
• Experienced traders can earn passive income by becoming “lead traders”

VICTORIA, Seychelles, Jan. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OKX, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency platforms and Web3 technology companies, today launched its Copy Trading tool to its global user base on its Social Trading platform.

Copy Trading allows users to follow high-performing “lead traders,” receive real-time updates on their latest moves, and replicate trading strategies across more than 600 trading pairs.

Since May of 2022, OKX Social Trading has allowed users to view the portfolio breakdowns, transaction histories, PnLs and risk levels of high-performing traders.

Haider Rafique, Global CMO, OKX, said: “In the last year we have added a number of features that make it easy for new traders to follow or learn from other successful traders on the platform. Advancing social trading to include copy trading now adds more utility to the community of traders available to anyone on OKX. This feature is yet another way we believe we can help new traders to trade responsibly and manage risk while giving professional traders on our platform more ways to generate income.”

OKX Copy Trading also provides experienced and professional traders with a convenient way to monetize their trading strategies. When they become lead traders on OKX, high-performing traders receive a percentage of the profits they help their followers realize.

OKX lead traders had the below to say on their experience with OKX Copy Trading:

Kyledoops from Crypto Banter said, “One of the great things about OKX Social Trading is that it provides huge amounts of information on the lead traders and on their metrics and past performance hit rates. That gives the user the opportunity to make a very educated decision on if that trader is someone they want to align with or not.”

Grey Jabesi from Crypto University said, “I like the control that OKX gives you in comparison to most other exchanges when it comes to Copy Trading. I like that copy traders can get in and out of a position whenever they want to, without waiting for the lead trader to close their position first. This gives them the flexibility to walk away with their money on their terms.”

Find out more on OKX Learn, or check out OKX Copy Trading here.

For further information, please contact:
Media@okx.com

About OKX
OKX is one of the world-leading technology companies building the future of Web3. Known as the fastest and most reliable crypto trading platform for investors and professional traders everywhere, OKX’s crypto exchange is the second largest globally by trading volume.

To learn more about OKX, download our app or visit: okx.com

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