Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 38 | Page 14

NEWS Ring announces its first-ever indoor-only security camera R ing, whose mission is to make neighborhoods safer, has announced the company’s first-ever indoor-only security camera. With its compact design, the new Ring Indoor Cam can be mounted just about anywhere in the home and features up to 1080p HD video, motion zones, night vision, two-way talk and motion- activated recording. The device also includes privacy features that enable users to disable motion and audio recording right from the app, and an indicator light that displays whenever the camera is recording. Ring has also announced the third- generation Ring Stick Up Cam, the most versatile of the company’s cameras. The new Stick Up Cam can be installed indoors or outdoors and comes in two power options: Plug-In and Battery. Featuring up to 1080p HD video, motion detection, night vision, two-way talk and a wide viewing angle, Stick Up Cam provides flexible home security and privacy wherever it’s needed most. Jamie Siminoff, Founder and Chief Inventor of Ring, said: “We’re excited to bring customers our most affordable camera yet, and provide even more security options with Ring Indoor Cam and the all new Ring Stick Up Cam. As a team of inventors, we are constantly pushing ourselves to identify innovative, cost effective and easy-to- use security products that make our neighbourhoods safer. “With our growing lineup of both indoor and outdoor cams, varying in size and functionality, our customers have choices when determining how best to secure their homes.” ////////////////// TechSoft announces support for Apache Pulsar in TIBCO Messaging T echSoft International, backed by TIBCO Software, a global leader for integration and analytics, has announced that Apache Pulsar will become a fully supported component in TIBCO Messaging. technologies,” said Unai Ormaechea, Chief Technology Officer at TechSoft International. “With its support of Apache Pulsar, TIBCO is giving customers freedom of choice when selecting messaging tools that can assist with the real-time processing of high volumes of data, particularly in the development environment.” With these capabilities, customers can now leverage advanced application-to- application messaging in an Apache and TIBCO environment. The announcement highlights TIBCO’s ongoing support of open source technologies and will enable South African customers to take advantage of Apache’s popular pub-sub messaging system, to create a single, fully integrated application integration infrastructure and ensure developers have the freedom to choose their own messaging tool. “The local open source community is exceptionally active, and at TechSoft we 14 INTELLIGENTCIO By adding Apache Pulsar, TIBCO becomes the only messaging vendor to offer a comprehensive, versatile approach to open source and both commercial messaging and streaming solutions. Unai Ormaechea, Chief Technology Officer at TechSoft International are seeing a growing demand for increasing support within TIBCO for open source The business differentiator is that customers can benefit from seamless connectivity from a data distribution solution that provides the broadest support of streaming and messaging infrastructure, allowing for flexible solutions for streaming, event processing, data analytics and AI/ML. www.intelligentcio.com