Terra Nova Energy Ltd. Announces Change of Auditor

CALGARY, AB--(Marketwire - August 29, 2012) - Terra Nova Energy Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: TGC) ("Terra Nova" or the "Corporation") announces that its former auditor, Morgan and Company ("Morgan"), has resigned effective August 17, 2012, at the request of the Corporation, and KPMG LLP ("KPMG") has been appointed as the successor auditor. In accordance with National Instrument 51-102, the Corporation intends to file a Change of Auditor Notice on SEDAR, together with letters from Morgan and KPMG, each confirming that it is in agreement with the statements contained in the notice, as applicable.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

 

Contact Information

For more information please contact:
Terra Nova Energy Ltd.
Norman J. Mackenzie
Chief Executive Officer
(403) 815-5204
njmack14@gmail.com

 

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July Systems Named as Finalist in the 4th Annual 2012 Golden Bridge Awards for Mobile Innovative Products or Services - Innovations

Winners Will Be Honored at the Golden Bridge Awards Dinner in San Francisco on October 2, 2012

 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - August 29, 2012) - July Systems has been recognized as a finalist in the Annual 2012 Golden Bridge Awards for its mobile experience platform. The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products, services and innovations from every major industry in the world. Winners will be honored in San Francisco on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 during the 4th annual awards dinner and presentations.

 

July 4.0 Mobile Experience Platform is an agile mobile experience platform that enables marketers, ecommerce teams and creative digital teams to build mobile experiences, sites and applications in hours and without need for IT support. It is a platform built on mobile-first best practices for acquiring, engaging and retaining consumers and tested using real-life use cases from 100s of global brands that currently run their mobile services on July's mobile platform.

 

The Platform also comes pre-integrated into an ecosystem of partner services including commerce, advertising, couponing and messaging.

 

"It's an honor to be named a finalist by Golden Bridge Awards and recognized by an esteemed group of industry peers," said Rajesh Reddy, CEO, July Systems. "These awards are a testament to July's commitment to innovation on mobile & building a mobile experience platform to deliver robust & compelling consumer experiences globally."

 

About the Golden Bridge Awards
Globee Awards from Silicon Valley are conferred in four programs: The Info Security's Global Excellence Awards, The IT Industry's Hot Companies and Best Products Awards, The Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, and Consumer Products Guide's World Choice Awards. These premier awards honor organizations of all types and sizes from all over the world including people behind them, the products, performance, innovations, public relations and marketing. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com

 

About July Systems
July Systems is the leading provider of cloud based mobile application platform for businesses worldwide. Our Mi(tm) Platform is the only cloud based modular app platform that enables a business to build, run and manage real-time connected mobile applications across devices with unparalleled levels of innovation, speed of deployment and cost effectiveness. Mi(tm) Platform powers over 100 customers including some of the world's largest global brands: ESPN, CBS Sports, NDTV, Unilever, Toys R Us, Discovery Channel, NBCU, to name a few.

 

July Systems was founded in 2001 and has offices located in San Francisco, New York, London and Bangalore, with a service footprint across 150 countries.

 

Contact Information

 

Media Contact: 
Heather Pond 
Atomic PR for July Systems 
415-593-1400 
julysystems@atomicpr.com

 

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BMO Financial Group Increases Dividend

 

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - August 29, 2012) - Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO)(NYSE: BMO) today announced that the Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.72 per share on paid-up common shares of Bank of Montreal for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012, an increase of $0.02 from the previous quarter.

 

For the current quarter, the Board of Directors also declared dividends of:

 

--  $0.33125 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 5;

--  $0.28125 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 13;

--  $0.328125 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 14;

--  $0.3625 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 15;

--  $0.325 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 16;

--  $0.40625 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 18;

--  $0.40625 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 21;

--  $0.3375 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 23; and

--  $0.24375 a share on paid-up Class B Preferred Shares Series 25.

 

The dividend on the common shares is payable on November 28, 2012, to shareholders of record on November 1, 2012. The dividends on the preferred shares are payable on November 26, 2012, to shareholders of record on November 1, 2012.

 

The above-mentioned dividends on the common and preferred shares are designated as "eligible" dividends for the purposes of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and any similar provincial and territorial legislation.

 

The bank also changed its target dividend payout range (common share dividends as a percentage of net income attributable to shareholders less preferred share dividends) to 40%-50%.

 

Common shareholders may elect to have their cash dividends reinvested in common shares of the bank in accordance with the bank's Shareholder Dividend Reinvestment and Share Purchase Plan (the Plan). Under the Plan, the Board of Directors determines whether the common shares will be purchased on the secondary market or issued by the bank from treasury. For the dividend payable on November 28, 2012, given the strength of the bank's capital position, the common shares purchased under the Plan will be issued from treasury without a discount. Previously, common shares purchased under the Plan were issued at a two per cent discount from the average market price of the common shares (as defined in the Plan).

 

Any registered shareholder who has not enrolled in the Plan and wishes to do so must sign a Reinvestment Enrollment - Participant Declaration Form and return it to the bank's transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company of Canada, at:

 

Computershare Trust Company of Canada                                      

100 University Avenue, 9th Floor                                           

Toronto, Ontario                                                           

M5J 2Y1                                                                     

 

Reinvestment Enrollment - Participant Declaration Forms may be obtained from Computershare Trust Company of Canada on its website at www.computershare.com\bmo, or by calling 1-800-340-5021 from within Canada or the United States or 514-982-7800 from all other countries.

 

To participate in the Q4 2012 Dividend, Reinvestment Enrollment - Participant Declaration Forms from registered shareholders must be received by Computershare Trust Company of Canada before the close of business on October 29, 2012.

 

Non-registered shareholders must contact their financial institutions, brokers or other intermediaries for instructions on how to participate in the Plan and should do so well in advance of the above date in order to participate in the Q4 2012 Dividend.

 

Contacts:
For News Media Enquiries:
Ralph Marranca, Toronto
(416) 867-3996
ralph.marranca@bmo.com

Valerie Doucet, Montreal
(514) 877-8224
valerie.doucet@bmo.com

For Investor Relations Enquiries:
Sharon Haward-Laird, Toronto
(416) 867-6656
sharon.hawardlaird@bmo.com

Michael Chase, Toronto
(416) 867-5452
michael.chase@bmo.com
Internet: www.bmo.com

 

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KSC Commander and KSC Pilot for Studio D at SWR Mainz

 

BFE Studio and Media Systems GmbH at IBC in Amsterdam (September 7-11, 2012) in Hall 3, Stand B20

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS and MAINZ, GERMANY--(Marketwire - August 28, 2012) - Revamping the production technology for Studio D at SWR Mainz included the extension of the master controller with another KSC Commander as well as a KSC Pilot Client component.

The KSC system from BFE enables the control and monitoring of equipment and components from different manufacturers within large-scale and complex broadcast infrastructures. The combination of discrete and embedded audio channel management required a simple solution for a challenging situation. This was accomplished in conjunction with the expansion of the central audio router with a new generation of routers. Through a combination of timeline controller and label transfer with channel number completion, simple switching operations and label transmissions are possible via several routers including video and audio mixers.

With the aid of the discrete Snell Deembedder parameter control, it is also possible to carry out simple audio channel selections with the KSC controllers from BFE. As an additional component for the revamping of Studio D, the loading of existing multi-viewer layouts and the transfer of tally messages and label displays has been implemented for the new Harris multiviewer as well.

The camera control can be used to assign single button measurements of the existing Remote Control Panels (RCPs) to the two measuring monitors via a simple key assignment procedure. The KSC Pilot client is used to save and load production-specific salvos for the assignments of the multiviewer and the video and audio mixers in the form of tabular or graphic events.

 

About SWR:
The Südwestrundfunk (SWR), with its broadcasting studios in Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz, is the second largest ARD institution. The daily television, radio and Internet programming of the media company is broadcast to Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate and is received by nearly 15 million people. In addition, SWR reaches audiences all over Germany with broadcasts supplied to the ARD joint programming ("Das Erste") as well as the stations 3sat, ARTE, PHOENIX, KI.KA and ARD Digital.

About BFE
As a system house that provides manufacturer-independent systems integration, BFE Studio and Media Systems GmbH has been satisfying customers for over 40 years through the provision services and turnkey projects. As the manufacturer of its own KSC product family, it also markets innovative solutions for the professional television and radio industry. For more information, please visit www.bfe.tv

 

BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH
Jurgen Loos
Phone: +49 6131 946 120
e-mail: jloos@bfe.tv
www.bfe.tv

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Eucalyptus Announces Strategic Partnership With Ingram Micro to Accelerate On-Premise Cloud Deployments in India

Ingram Micro Becomes Authorized Distributor in India; Joins Eucalyptus Authorized Education Partner Program

 

SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - August 27, 2012) - Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the world's most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform, today announced a strategic distribution partnership with Ingram Micro, a Fortune 100 company and the world's largest technology distributor. Under the agreement, Ingram Micro will offer Eucalyptus Infrastructure as a Service software to its Value Added Resellers (VARs) who serve both commercial companies and public sector organizations in India. Additionally, Ingram Micro will become Eucalyptus' first Authorized Education Partner in the country.

 

India has quickly become one of the fastest growing cloud computing markets. A recent study by The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) and Deloitte estimates the Indian cloud computing market will reach USD 16 billion by 2020, and a Microsoft-IDC study states that cloud computing will generate over 2 million jobs in India by 2015. Cloud computing is poised to have a profound effect on the Indian economy as it provides small and medium enterprises with access to cost effective technologies and services for the first time.

 

"In nascent markets like India, companies look for proven solutions as they begin to adopt new technologies such as cloud computing," said K. Jaishankar, managing director of Ingram Micro. "Eucalyptus leads the industry with its built-in AWS compatibility and its innovative and open approach to cloud computing. We've already seen early demand for Eucalyptus and believe it will provide commercial companies and public sector organizations in India with the best solution for on-premise and hybrid cloud computing."

 

As a Eucalyptus Authorized Education Partner, Ingram Micro will deliver authorized training courses using Eucalyptus Certified Instructors (ECI). Eucalyptus Authorized Education Partners serve as a critical link between Eucalyptus and customers based on their expertise in implementing private and hybrid cloud architectures.

 

"The Indian market will play a pivotal role in the overall growth of cloud computing in the next several years," said Said Ziouani, EVP of Worldwide Sales at Eucalyptus. "To meet the increasing customer demand from APAC, we're continuing to rapidly expand our distributor, training and partner ecosystem across the region. Our partnership with Ingram Micro will be instrumental in educating customers on best practices for implementing cloud computing, and bringing our AWS-compatible cloud platform to companies across India."

 

To learn more about Eucalyptus and cloud computing, interested parties may attend Interop Mumbai to visit the Eucalyptus booth for an introduction and product demonstration. The show will take place October 10-12 at the Bombay Exhibition Center, Goregaon, Mumbai.

 

About Eucalyptus Systems
Eucalyptus Systems provides IT organizations and technology businesses with the most widely deployed cloud software platform for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Eucalyptus is built as an open source cloud product and is uniquely suited for enterprise-class private cloud or hybrid cloud computing. As the architect of the on-premise cloud category, Eucalyptus is enabling 25,000 cloud starts each year, including instances at more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies. Eucalyptus customers are achieving the benefits of agility, elasticity, and scale for highly demanding development and test, scalable web services, and big data applications. The platform supports industry-standard Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud APIs, and all major virtualization platforms. The company has an active and growing ecosystem of customers, partners, developers, and researchers that benefit from Eucalyptus' open, fast, and standards-compliant path to cloud computing. For more information about Eucalyptus, please visit www.eucalyptus.com.

 

Eucalyptus and Eucalyptus Systems are trademarks in the U.S. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Other product or company names mentioned may be trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.

 
CONTACT

Eucalyptus Systems
Karli Overmier
Barokas Public Relations
eucalyptus@barokas.com 
206-264-8220

 

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Nutanix Complete Cluster Brings SAN-Free Virtualization to Hadoop

 

Nutanix complements VMware’s Project Serengeti, bolstering virtualized Hadoop with scale-out Fusion-io accelerated platform

SAN JOSE, CALIF. – August 28, 2012 – Nutanix (www.nutanix.com), the provider of SAN-Free data center solutions for VMware virtualized workloads, announces aturn-key platformthat employs VMware’s core virtualization technology and Fusion-io(NYSE:FIO) flash for cost effective virtualizedHadoopdeploymentsthat demand high IO performance and rapid capacity expansion without the need for a SAN orNAS.  This news follows the Series C Funding announcement of 8/21/12.

Elastic Provisioning meets Elastic Infrastructure.  Nutanix’s Complete Clustercollapses the conventional two-tiered datacenter design -- compute and storage -- into one scalabletier of infrastructure. Inside each appliance, Nutanix software runs on top of VMware vSphere®, transforming localstorage devicesinto a distributed virtualized cluster. The software-based approach to storage provided by Nutanix Complete Cluster is ideal for running virtualized scale-out workloads such as Hadoop. Its innovative use of server-attached Fusion-io flash memory and 10GbE network speeds, deliversultra low-latencyand performance at any scale. Clusters startatfour nodes,but can dynamically expand to several hundred. This powerful combination of commodity hardware, flash and software-based scale out storage offers a compelling solution forBig Data deployments that demandhigh-end Hadoop performance optimized for virtualized datacenters.

"In order for Hadoop to thrive in the private cloud, it must borrow from the scale-out converged architectures prevalent in the public cloud -- virtualized, elastic, and with multi-tiered storage. To succeed, vendors must address this problem for the mass market with a software-defined approach delivered on off-the-shelf hardware" said Merv Adrian, a Vice President at Gartner.
“Nutanix Complete Cluster software-based storage capabilities enable a flexible deployment model ideal for running Hadoop workloads on VMware vSphere®virtualized workloads,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. 

Software based scale-out storage delivers massively parallel performance.

Rack-busting performance, enterprise-grade data management:Nutanix’s network-less NFSdelivers up to 2000 MB/s of sequential throughput in a compact 2U 4-node cluster for Hadoopworkloads. A Terasort benchmark yields 250 MB/s in the same 2U cluster providing more than 200 percent better performance density than the nearest bare-metal rival. Throughput scales linearly by stacking more blocks.   

"Hortonworks and Nutanix have incredible alignment in making Hadoop the next generation data platform for the enterprise," said Mitch Ferguson, VP Business Development at Hortonworks. "Running Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) on Nutanix Complete Cluster platform brings an extremely simplified scale-out enterprise-grade Big Data stack to the marketplace."

Nutanix has built a general purpose distributed filesystem that can bring enterprise-grade features to Hadoop and general purpose VMs, including snapshots, cloning, DR, data tiering, low-latency flash memory performance from Fusion-io, advanced HTML5 UI, and high-density x86 hardware for maximum rack utilization.
“In virtualized Hadoop environments, low-latency access to data is the key to successful deployment, and the Nutanix Complete Cluster successfully leverages the power of VMware and Fusion ioMemory to realize highly scalable compute performance, while also offering significant value through savings on capital and operational expenditures associated with the rapid scale-out of traditional storage arrays,” said Tyler Smith, Vice President of Alliances, Fusion-io.

Accelerate Hadoop projects with Nutanix’s turnkey scale-out appliance.

Encapsulate Hadoop for more cost effective and agile infrastructure. Bare metal implementations re-introduce operational challenges of having to deal with the expense, downtime, and underutilized CPU consequences of physical servers. Virtualizing Hadoopis the obvious answer, but such architectures have had to rely on SAN/NAS arrays that constrict HDFS performance. Nutanix offers the best of both worlds; a high performance turnkey SAN-Free server platform for virtualized Hadoop workloads. Nutanix solutions reduce complexity and speed time-to-value for sophisticated Hadoop projects. It also allows IT to benefit from all the valueof centralized VM management and provisioning (VMware vCenter™, VMware vCloud®and Project Serengeti™) while taking advantage of high performance server-side flash.

“By unifying commodity x86 servers, VMware vSphere, and ascale-out software based storage layer, Nutanix provides an optimized environment for virtualized Hadoop workloads,” said  Dr. MohitAron, Co-Founder and CTO of Nutanix. 

Harmonize all workloads onto a single tier of infrastructure  

Balancing Hadoop, End-User Computing, and Server Virtualization Workloads onto Nutanix’s general purpose virtualization platform avoids the pitfalls of having to size and tailorinfrastructure gear for every application and use case, allowing IT lower costs by avoid heterogeneous hardware silos that only serve a single purpose. 

Designed and fine-tuned to deliver local bus-speed storage performance with distributed redundancy, Nutanix allows customers to deploy homogeneous infrastructure for a diverse set of workloads. Hadoop specifically, designed for local storage, makes virtualizing it on centralized storage a challenge -- Nutanix’s Distributed File System (NDFS) resolves this dilemma by presenting high speed local server attached Flash to all vSphere hosts using intelligent data tiering and decentralized replication services to safeguard data.  
 

Learn more

 Hadoop on Nutanix Reference Architecture

Nutanix Hadoop Solution Brief

See us at VMworld-- We guarantee you'll leave your SAN in Francisco after visiting booth #835!

 

• Speak to our existing customers in person
• Discuss your specific problem/challenge with VDI or Big Data “solution scientists”
• Sign up for a product roadmap update, with and without NDA
• See live solution demos- UI Overview, Clones, View, UI Provisioning, Nutanix Diagnostic Performance and others
• Learn more and sign up here

 

 

About Nutanix
Nutanix (www.nutanix.com) is the first company to offer a radically simple compute and storage infrastructure for implementing enterprise-class virtualization without complex and expensive external network storage (SAN or NAS). Founded in 2009 by a team that built scalable systems such as Google File System and enterprise-class systems such as Oracle Database/Exadata, Nutanix is based in San Jose, California, and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Battery Ventures, and Blumberg Capital.

Nutanix and Nutanix Complete Cluster are trademarks of Nutanix Inc. Other marks mentioned herein are trademarks that are proprietary to other companies.
VMware, VMware vCenter, VMware vCloud, Project Serengeti and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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Press Contact:
Sarah Reynolds
Press and Analyst Relations
Nutanix, Inc.
pr@nutanix.com

 

 

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Bruno Wang Excited to Be in Hong Kong on the Eve of Comic World 34

 

Bruno Wang, a Long-Time Fan and Passionate Follower of Music, Sports, Theater and Anime Among Other Cultural Phenomena, Hereby Announces That He Is in Hong Kong and Ready to Experience All That Comic World 34 Has to Offer Over the Weekend; Mr. Wang's Web Site URL Can Be Found at http://www.brunowangtaiwan.com, and Comic World 34 Opens Tomorrow With a Wide Range of Exhibits and Events for Fans of Anime and Science Fiction to Take In and Enjoy 

HONG KONG--(Marketwire - August 24, 2012) - Bruno Wang, a lifelong supporter and aficionado of anime, music, sports, theater and other performing arts all over the world, has arrived in Hong Kong with Mrs. Wang and is ready to take in the experience that is Comic World 34 that runs through this weekend in this historic and legendary place. Mr. Wang is prepared to see several exhibits and presentations with other fans of these forms of expression from around the world.

Comic World 34 opens on August 25 and runs through the next day in Hong Kong, and it will be held at the Kowloonbay Hong Kong International Trade and Exhibit Center. The event is one of the largest of its kind and the event's planners are expecting to be host to thousands of guests from different parts of the world. As a result, two entire exhibition halls at the host facility have been reserved and filled with exhibits and stages.

Attendees of Comic World 34 who will be joining Bruno Wang and Mrs. Wang at the event in Hong Kong will be able to enter the facility at 11:30 a.m. The event will run until 8 p.m. Shuttle buses will be available for people who may not be staying immediately adjacent to the exhibition hall, and attendees can enjoy the event for $30 if a person is a student or an adult or for $15 for children and senior citizens. 

Comic World 34 continues with a tradition and history that got its start in 1998. In present times, three different countries are host to these events, including Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. Bruno Wang has attended all of these different events, and each is considered the Comiket of its country. These events are held on a biannual basis.

Bruno Wang and Mrs. Wang are continuing with their summer of travel, and they look forward to experiencing Comic World 34 in Hong Kong as well as all of the other opportunities that are presented by this incredible place.

 

Bruno Wang Taiwan
brunowangtaiwan@gmail.com
415-286-5837
http://brunowangtaiwan.com/

 

 

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