April 28, 2022

Delphix Accelerates Growth, Profitability for Second Consecutive Year at Scale

Data Security, Compliance Drive Urgent Adoption of Delphix DevOps Test Data Management Platform

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Delphix, the industry leader in DevOps test data management (TDM), today announced closing fiscal year 2022 with a second consecutive year of accelerated revenue growth and profitability at a scale well over $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR).

With increasing activity from hostile nation states and ransomware gangs, companies around the world need a solution to automate and secure test data for enterprise applications. As a result, the company also reported 36% faster year-over-year growth of its large, enterprise customer base driven by increasing data risks.

Delphix’s growth comes as companies around the world continue to invest in innovative DevOps solutions to accelerate application delivery, modernize legacy infrastructure, and move applications across the multicloud. Delphix offers the only DevOps TDM platform that automates the delivery of secure, compliant data for test and development, enabling up to 10x faster innovation.

“Enterprise applications all need test data for fast, quality releases,” said Jedidiah Yueh, Delphix Founder and CEO. “But test data has traditionally been slow, complex, and filled with risk. Delphix helps companies like Banco Carrefour, The University of Manchester, and BNP Paribas release applications quickly while improving data security and compliance.”

Banco Carrefour in Brazil utilizes the Delphix DevOps Data Platform to accelerate application releases while ensuring data security and compliance with privacy regulations such as Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD). Delphix empowers development teams with 320x faster data availability for financial reporting and analytics, enables faster application releases, and helps save 70% on storage.

Delphix delivers an innovative API-first data platform that transforms application delivery with comprehensive data controls. By automating data delivery into test environments, Delphix helps software developers innovate faster while reducing compliance and security risk.

Delphix also helps companies recover faster from ransomware attacks by continuously protecting data and making historical data immutable.

“We selected Delphix, because we like the technology as a tool to move data efficiently from one place to another, to reconstruct, to travel to the past,” said Yves Caseau, Group Chief Digital & Information Officer at Michelin. “If we look at what we’ve done, we used Delphix to move data from our Exadata server legacy to community Linux servers to get more scalability and lower cost.”

“We are also using Delphix as a way to accelerate innovation and set up new test and development environments faster. We can get all the appropriate data very fast with a few pointers and a few clicks and have a virtual transfer of the data as opposed to a physical one,” Caseau added.

Test data management is a critical component of application development but is often slow and manual. The Delphix DevOps Data Platform enables teams to create, manage, and automate hybrid cloud-based data environments to support CI/CD pipelines and train AI/ML algorithms.

“Compliant test data is the lifeblood of DevOps and ensuring continuous access to it is key for enterprises to accelerate application delivery,” said Jim Mercer, Research Director of DevOps and DevSecOps at IDC. “With digital transformation becoming increasingly essential for enterprises to compete across today’s marketplaces, we continue to see the need for modern TDM solutions across multiple industries.”

Delphix Growth Highlights

Accelerated growth and profitability over the last two years at a scale greater than $100M of annual recurring revenues.
Expanded large enterprise customer base:
- Increased the number of new enterprise customers won year-over-year by 36%.
- Broadened global customer base with large brands such as Banco Carrefour, Choice Hotels, Michelin, and Molina Healthcare.
Appointed new additions to the global leadership team, including:
- Robert Stevenson, VP of Japan Operations, to expand Delphix in APAC.
- Josh Harbert, Chief Marketing Officer, who brings decades of experience to scale Delphix’s global marketing programs and amplify product and brand awareness.
- Pritesh Parekh, Chief Trust & Security Officer, VP of Engineering, who adds proven DevOps and security expertise.
- Steve Barrett, Senior Vice President of International Operations, who leads revenue operations for both EMEA and APJ.
- Tammi Warfield, Chief Customer Officer, a former Microsoft executive who drives customer success by helping customers realize business value.

Delphix also introduced multiple innovations across the company’s product offerings in last fiscal year, including:

Continuous Vault, a ransomware-specific capability that boosts the Delphix platform’s data isolation capabilities and strengthens data protection for enterprises.
Data Compliance Capabilities for Salesforce Customers, which helps Salesforce customers protect data privacy and security, while unlocking the value in Salesforce data across clouds and on premises data centers.
Data Control Tower, which provides a single point of control for API-driven test data automation across development pipelines at scale.
Masking Algorithms for Continuous Compliance, which deliver new, industry-leading algorithms for masking sensitive data along with an SDK enabling the development and automation of custom algorithms.
SAP-certified integration with SAP NetWeaver® and SAP S/4HANA®, which allows businesses to use Delphix to mask and automatically deliver efficient, virtualized SAP data via APIs.

About Delphix

Delphix is the industry leader for DevOps test data management.

Businesses need to transform application delivery but struggle to balance speed with data security and compliance. Our DevOps Data Platform automates data security, while rapidly deploying test data to accelerate application releases. With Delphix, customers modernize applications, adopt multi-cloud, achieve CI/CD, and recover from downtime events such as ransomware up to 2x faster.

Leading companies, including Choice Hotels, Banco Carrefour, and Fannie Mae, use Delphix to accelerate digital transformation and enable zero trust data management. Visit us at www.delphix.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

Josh Harbert     
Chief Marketing Officer   |   Delphix
913.972.6180

April 28, 2022April 29, 2022

BARD Foundation establishes DESCON Endowment Fund at University of the Punjab

Lahore, April 28, 2022 (PPI-OT): Bilquis and Abdul Razak Dawood (BARD) Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of the Punjab’s Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology (ICET) to establish DESCON Endowment Fund.

DESCON Endowment Fund will be available to both male and female students (preferably from rural areas) enrolling in the institute from the next academic year (2023 – 2024), based on their financial backgrounds and academic skills. The students eligible for this fund will be selected from across the country by a special committee, which will also include a BARD Foundation representative.

The MoU signing ceremony was graced by BARD’s Board of Governors including Faisal Dawood and Farooq Nazir, Vice-Chancellor of Punjab University Dr. Niaz Ahmed Akhtar, Dean of ICET Dr. Abdullah Durrani and ICET Director Dr. Rafiullah Khan.

Talking about this initiative, Faisal Dawood stated, “Our youth is ambitious and talented, and at BARD Foundation, we are willing to utilize our resources to ensure they get the chance to not only succeed at life but also positively impact their communities. We will continue to explore similar industry – academia linkages to empower students with the right tools and resources.”

While appreciating BARD Foundation’s academic-enrichment initiative, Dr. Niaz Ahmed Akhtar thanked the BARD Foundation and DESCON for setting up this endowment fund, stating that this is a novel way to empower students from underprivileged backgrounds. The students at University of the Punjab already receive industrial-training at DESCON and this MoU further strengthens the business relationship between the two organizations.

BARD Foundation is a human-development initiative, founded by the renowned industrialist, Abdul Razak Dawood and his philanthropist wife, Ms. Bilquis Dawood. The foundation seeks to utilize its resources to support the talented but less-fortunate individuals, helping them achieve their true potential. This initiative is also supported by Descon Engineering Limited, a leading Pakistani enterprise which has successfully built several large-scale, infrastructure-projects in many countries.

For more information, contact:

Registrar,

University of the Punjab

Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan

Tel: +92-42-99231102

Fax: +92-42-99231103

E-Mail: registrar@pu.edu.pk

Website: http://pu.edu.pk/

April 28, 2022April 29, 2022

Punjab University announces Eid Holidays

Lahore, April 28, 2022 (PPI-OT): Punjab University will remain closed from Monday, 2nd May 2022 to Friday, 6th May 2022 on account of Eid-ul-Fitr holidays. However, Saturday, 14th May, 2022 will be working day in lieu of additional holiday of 6th May, 2022. It is pertinent to mention here that PU will remain open on (today) Friday, 29th April, 2022 for university employees and teaching staff however there will be no academic activity for the students.

For more information, contact:

Registrar,

University of the Punjab

Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan

Tel: +92-42-99231102

Fax: +92-42-99231103

E-Mail: registrar@pu.edu.pk

Website: http://pu.edu.pk/

April 28, 2022April 29, 2022

Hamza Shehbaz, Shehbaz Sharif, Deputy Speaker and IG Punjab are responsible for the crisis in the assembly: Ch Parvez Elahi

Lahore, April 28, 2022 (PPI-OT): Speaker Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that Hamza Shehbaz, Shehbaz Sharif, Deputy Speaker and IG Punjab are responsible for the crisis in the assembly. Members of the Assembly were attacked at the behest of Shahbaz Sharif. Police interference has breached the privileges of the entire assembly. There is no constitutional crisis in the province. Sardar Usman Buzdar is even today Chief Minister of Punjab.

He expressed these views while addressing a press conference along with PML and PTI MPAs in the Punjab Assembly here today (Thursday). Ch Parvez Elahi said that we had accepted the court judgment regarding Chief Minister Punjab election but situation deteriorated when police attacked the MPAs inside the assembly without any justification, our MPA Asiya Amjad was tortured, till now she is struggling between life and death and is on the ventilator.

Ch Parvez Elahi further said that under the Constitution all business for election of the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and the Chief Minister and no confidence motion etc is conducted by sitting on the Speaker’s chair but the Deputy Speaker conducted the entire election from the Visitors’ Gallery which is unconstitutional, furthermore where our members were to cast their votes, police had blocked that lobby. He said through the illegal police interference privilege of the entire assembly has been breached, in this regard motion is under consideration of the Privileges Committee on which action will be taken in accordance with the Rules of Procedure.

The Speaker said that the court should tell us whether the assembly business to be run by the police or us? Even today without the permission of the Speaker policemen in plain clothes are present on the assembly gates and assembly compound, we will give photographs of these policemen to the media.

Ch Parvez Elahi said that nobody in the streets and mohallas bothered about Sharifs, we got them seated in the assembly and gave respect, issued their production orders, safeguarded their rights under the Privileges Act, made the entire administration stand before them, for the first time in the history IG Punjab Police was summoned to the assembly and the IG apologized to the MPAs and now today he is insulting the assembly.

Ch Parvez Elahi said that the Sharifs have not changed even after five years, commit vengeful activities, they got power six times but they have remained unchanged the same. Ch Parvez Elahi said what is the crime of Secretary Coordination Punjab Assembly Inayatullah Lak that he has been arrested, orders for arrest of Secretary Assembly Mohammad Khan Bhatti under 3-MPO are also illegal.

Speaker Ch Parvez Elahi said we enhanced the prestige of the Assembly, Sharifs humiliated them in just five minutes, tattered the 18th Amendment into pieces. Addressing the press conference, MPA Mohammad Basharat Raja said that during the last three and half years we enhanced the prestige of the MPAs, we respected N-League’s narrative of Give Respect to Vote.

He said that still N-League has not been given full powers and they are insulting the MPAs, a chief minister elected unconstitutionally wants that he should be given powers of the province, this cannot happen, our candidate was injured and pushed out of the House, our 26 MPAs who have gone towards them, even today if they are minus then N-League is left with no majority.

Raja Basharat said that we have gone to the court against the turncoats, Election Commission has given the date of May 6. PTI MPA Murad Ras said this cannot happen that the Constitution and all laws are for PTI and N-League be exempted from these. MPAs Mian Aslam Iqbal, Mian Mahmood-ur-Rashid, Sibtain Khan, Ch Zaheeruddin, Hafiz Ammar Yasir and also women MPAs were present in the press conference.

For more information, contact:

Mediacell, Pakistan Muslim League

30-C, Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi Road,

Gulberg-II, Lahore, Pakistan

Tel: +92-42-35878428

Fax: +92-42-35877329

Website: www.pmlmediacell.com

April 28, 2022April 29, 2022

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister felicitates Chairman Bilawal on assuming office

Islamabad, April 28, 2022 (PPI-OT): Foreign Minister, Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari received a telephone call from Kuwaiti Foreign Minister, Dr Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah. Bilateral relations between the two countries were discussed. Kuwaiti Foreign Minister, Dr Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah has congratulated Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on assuming the office of the Foreign Minister.

Pakistan-Kuwait’s fraternal relations are ideal, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said. A large number of Pakistanis are residing in Kuwait for employment and are playing their role in the development of both the countries. We are committed to further strengthening bilateral relations with Kuwait, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said.

For more information, contact:

PPP Media Cell (Sindh)

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)

Peoples Secretariat Shikarpur Colony,

Behind Mazar-e-Quaid-e-Azam, Karachi, Pakistan

Cell: +92-305-3370383

Email: contact@ppp-tu.com

Website: https://www.ppp.org.pk

April 28, 2022April 29, 2022

Domestic season 2021-22 review concludes with day-long seminar

Lahore, April 28, 2022 (PPI-OT): Three-day-long domestic cricket season 2021-22 review concluded on Wednesday with a day-long seminar involving the 24 head and assistant coaches of the six Cricket Association sides, Pakistan men’s national team’s head, batting and assistant coach and national selector Muhammad Wasim.

High Performance Director Nadeem Khan spoke to the participants in the first-half of the seminar and made a presentation on players tracking system. The player tracking system has been in use for the last two seasons and aims to evaluate a player’s performance in an analytical manner with allocation of points.

Nadeem’s interactive presentation was followed by an extensive evaluation and review session which was conducted by the head coach of the Pakistan men’s national cricket team Saqlain Mushtaq. Chief selector Muhammad Wasim also spoke to the participants about the goals and objectives of domestic cricket and how the selection and playing strategies need to be in sync with the Pakistan men’s national cricket team’s needs and requirements.

On Monday and Tuesday, the 24 coaches were individually interviewed by a three-member committee that comprised Shahid Mahboob (Head Hanif Mohammad High Performance Centre Karachi) and NHPC coaches Umar Rasheed and Sajjad Akbar.

Director High Performance Nadeem Khan: “We have been making extensive reviews at the end of the domestic cricket season in the last two years. This year’s review seminar was once again focused on a comprehensive debrief of the season in the presence of all 24 head and assistant coaches, Pakistan men’s team’s head, assistant and batting coach and the chief selector.

“We carefully reviewed the player profiling process that we introduced to the system two years ago. Player profiling helps us in determining a player’s performance, progress and shortcomings. Each player’s profile is built from the age-group level, the coach speaks to the players and agrees with them on what all is expected of them both on and off the field and how they can progress in their cricket careers.

“Over the last two years, we have succeeded in developing a robust players profiling system that has helped us immensely in tracking players in all aspects of their development. At the seminar, we discussed on the ways and means of further improving the system and how it can serve us well in the forthcoming domestic and international cricket season. I am pleased that we also had the men’s team’s coaches and chief selector present as the aim of domestic cricket is to work closely and in alignment with the aims, objectives, targets and goals of Pakistan’s national men’s cricket team.”

Saqlain Mushtaq, Pakistan men’s national cricket team head coach: “This was a very fruitful and rewarding session for us as we all reiterated our aim of taking Pakistan cricket to the top in all three formats. We identified areas of improvement, discussed the method and brand of cricket we want to play at the domestic and international level and how we needed all stakeholders to be aligned to our ultimate goal.

“Our collective aim is to make Pakistan dominate at the international level and to achieve this we have identified a set of benchmarks. Through constant reminder, aggressive style of play and strategy we can surely achieve anything and everything and I am pleased that the coaches at the domestic level as well as our relevant stakeholders are focused and determined and want to produce players that become world beaters.”

Muhammad Wasim, Pakistan men’s chief selector: “Domestic cricket around the world is run in lines of the requirements at the international level to ensure that the gap between the two is as minimum as possible. In the last two years, we have delivered hugely competitive cricket seasons which have helped in improving both the pool of players as well as performance of the national side. We have been able to develop a quality-based domestic system with the reduced number of players which have helped narrow the gap between domestic and international cricket.

“Each year we have made robust reviews and have aimed to identify areas of improvement collectively so that all of us remain aligned. These reviews are extremely helpful in not only reviewing a cricket season but also in planning for the next cricket season and setting new targets and objectives for the coaches.”

Abdul Rehman, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa head coach: “This assessment process helps the coaches review their own performances and evaluate where they stand in terms of the delivery of their goals and objectives while preparing for the season ahead. These workshops and seminars are held in a cordial atmosphere where all participants provide their feedback in a candid manner.

“This year too we have had detailed discussions which were aimed to identify areas of improvement and alignment of our collective goals and objectives. As we now start our preparations for the next domestic season, this review will help us figure out our plans, short and long term objectives with the ultimate aim of making a healthy and significant contribution to the further improvement of Pakistan cricket.”

For more information, contact:

Media Manager,

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)

Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore 54600, Pakistan

Tel: +92-42-5717231-4

Fax: +92-42-5711860

Website: www.pcb.com.pk