November 12, 2025

Denodo Achieves Databricks Validated Partner Status for Its Seamless Integration in Support of AI and Analytics Leave a reply Working Together, Both Technologies Enable Greater Trust and Agility for Joint Customers PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Denodo, a leader in data management, announced that it has achieved the Databricks Validated Partner designation, reinforcing the growing collaboration between the two companies to help enterprises accelerate AI and analytics on governed, trusted data. The Denodo Platform, a logical data management solution, underwent rigorous technical validation by Databricks, assessing its compatibility, interoperability, performance, and security alignment with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. This included testing integration with Unity Catalog as the governance backbone for lakehouse assets. This technical review confirms that Denodo meets Databricks’ standards for partner interoperability, giving customers confidence that the two platforms work together to unify access to data across hybrid and multicloud environments, while enforcing consistent governance and accelerating time-to-insight for AI and advanced analytics initiatives. Denodo and Databricks currently serve more than 150 joint customers globally, empowering enterprises to unlock the full value of their data through a secure architecture comprising a physical lakehouse optimized by logical data management and integration that enables faster, more confident AI adoption. “Earning validated partner status from Databricks reflects our continued commitment to delivering value and trust to our customers,” said Suresh Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President at Denodo. “Together with Databricks, we’re helping organizations modernize their data ecosystems so they can use governed, real-time data to power agentic AI innovation and achieve better business outcomes.” Through this collaboration, joint customers have benefited from: Higher ROI: An independent analyst (Veqtor8) found that companies gained higher returns when combining their data lakehouses with the Denodo Platform. Modernized Data Infrastructures: Power AI applications and self-service use cases with governed data drawn

iHerb Kicks Off Global Gifting Season with its Annual Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales Event Leave a reply Wellness and Beauty Take Center Stage for Month-Long Promotions Featuring Discounts Starting at 20% Off iHerb Kicks Off Global Gifting Season iHerb, one of the world’s leading online retailers for health and wellness, launched its premier holiday event: Black Friday. This month-long celebration of savings is available to customers worldwide, giving shoppers ample time to secure essential vitamins, supplements, beauty products, sports nutrition, grocery items, and more. IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — iHerb, one of the world’s leading online retailers for health and wellness, today launches its premier holiday event: Black Friday. This month-long celebration of savings is available to customers worldwide, giving shoppers ample time to secure essential vitamins, supplements, beauty products, sports nutrition, grocery items, and more. The promotion kicks off immediately with pre-Black Friday discounts starting at 20% off across numerous top categories. The savings will increase significantly the week of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with deals starting at 25% off sitewide.* The Black Friday season has undeniably become a global shopping phenomenon, with international consumers increasingly seeking to purchase health essentials and holiday gifts online. A recent analysis indicates that cross-border e-commerce activity related to Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2024 grew by over 40% compared to the prior year**, underscoring the event’s reach as a worldwide season for securing personal wellness needs and preparing for the holidays. iHerb’s Black Friday Month is specifically designed to meet this massive global demand. “Black Friday shopping at iHerb isn’t a fast-paced, hectic sprint—it’s a season of joy and thoughtful discovery,” said Hyeyoung Moon, Chief Revenue Officer for iHerb. “By releasing new savings every week and offering dynamic discounts, customers everywhere can take their time

SASE OpsLab Partners with Netskope to Revolutionize SASE Deployment at Scale for Frictionless Customer Experience Leave a reply Integration uses prepackaged automation to make large-scale SASE rollouts faster, easier, and inherently more secure through error-free tunnel orchestration DUBLIN, Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — UBiqube, the leader in multi-domain IT infrastructure orchestration and automation, today announced the expansion of its SASE OpsLabs enablement portal with Netskope, a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era. The new integration introduces automation kits for deployment and migration use cases, providing Fortune 5000 companies with a faster and highly flexible path to SASE adoption and migration–further reducing manual operational burdens With this integration, building and managing secure tunnels from multivendor Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) to a Netskope point of presence (POPs) and migrating private application definitions within Netskope One Private Access becomes a seamless process. By eliminating error-prone manual configurations and shortening the lead time for tunnel set up and changes, organizations benefit from dramatically accelerated rollouts of Netskope’s leading services with no overhead cost. “At Netskope, we focus on combining our leading technology with best-in-class customer experiences,” said David Willis, VP of Technology Alliances at Netskope. “The SASE OpsLab partnership leverages infrastructure automation technology to help remove potential operational burdens from customer SASE journeys, which is part of what makes this a winning integration.” “The shift to a cloud-centric cybersecurity model enabled by SASE requires that particular attention is given to tunnel operations and connectivity change management in general,” said Hywel Edwards, VP of Strategic Alliances at UBiqube. “Our integration with Netskope will lead to a continuous stream of SecOps automation solutions delivered to Netskope’s ecosystem for a frictionless SASE delivery and migration experience.” About SASE OpsLab SASE OpsLab is an automation marketplace for prepackaged deployment and migration

‫لين إسميك تطلق شركة LI Architects لتجسّد رؤيتها في التصميم والعمارة من أبو ظبي إلى العالم Leave a reply إحدى شركات HAMIC Group، تجمع بين الإبداع الإماراتي والابتكار العالمي أبو ظبي، الإمارات, Nov. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — لين اسميك، شابة إماراتية شغوفة بعالم الهندسة المعمارية والتصميم الداخلي، حولت حلم طفولتها إلى واقع ملموس. استلهمت شغفها من تراث أبو ظبي الغني وثقافتها الأصيلة، ومن والدها الذي اقتدت به، لتنطلق اليوم بفخر في تأسيسLI Architects ، إحدى شركات HAMIC Group، وتنقل رؤيتها من أبو ظبي إلى العالم. وتقول لين إسميك المؤسس والشريك الإداري لشركة LI Architects “كبرت وأنا اتطلع إلى التطور الذي تشهده أبو ظبي بتقدير ودوافع كبيرة، وأتخيل كيف يمكن لكل خط، لكل لون، ولكل مجهود أن يروي قصة جديدة. اليوم، من خلال LI Architects ، نحاول أن نشارك ونكون جزء من تحويل هذه الأحلام إلى واقع.“ كما عبرت لين إسميك عن تأثرها منذ طفولتها بأفكار والدها، رجل الأعمال حسن إسميك رئيس مجلس إدارة مجموعة حسن إسميك، إذ تقول “تعلمت أن لا شيء مستحيل، وأن الجرأة والسرعة يمكن أن تسيرا جنبًا إلى جنب مع الدقة والجودة.” وهذا الإرث العائلي أصبح بوصلة لرحلتها المعمارية، حيث تجسد رؤية LI Architectsمزيجًا من الجرأة التصميمية والدقة الهندسية. وتعكس تصاميم لين اسميك مزيجًا فريدًا من الأصالة والحداثة، حيث تدمج التقاليد الإماراتية العريقة مع اللمسات العصرية العالمية لتبتكر مساحات تنبض بالحياة وتحكي قصة الهوية والإبداع، ويعزز هذا التوازن بين التراث والحداثة هويتها في كافة المجالات من التخطيط العمراني إلى التصميم الداخلي وتجارب المساحات التي تضع التجربة الإنسانية في قلب المعادلة. ويمثل تأسيس LI Architects ، خطوة نوعية جديدة في مشهد التصميم الإماراتي الذي يشهد نموًا متسارعًا؛ فالإمارات كواحدة من أكثر البيئات ديناميكية في العالم في مجالات التصميم والعمارة، إذ تشير التقارير إلى أن سوق التصميم الداخلي بالدولة بلغت قيمته حوالي 1.77 مليار دولار في 2025، ومن المتوقع أن يصل إلى 2.84 مليار دولار بحلول 2030 بمعدل