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We’re off to Las Vegas at the end of the month, to attend the DevConnections conference at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino from 31 October to 4 November.

Demonstrating our Geo-Replicator® technology and celebrating our rebrand to iOra, we’d love to see you if you’re at the event. Come and meet our team on booth 626 and find out how our replication and compression technology can help your business become more efficient and reduce its costs.

You can find out more about the conference at www.devconnections.com

November sees us heading to Barcelona to exhibit at the Inmarsat Global Partner Conference in the city from the 8th to the 11th.

We already work alongside several technology and business partners – including Inmarsat, Microsoft, Regs4Ships and HP – to share expertise and ensure we continuously develop our Geo-Replicator® compression and web virtualization technology to best meet the needs and requirements of our clients.

Come and visit us to find out more about our partnership program and how we can benefit from working together.

You can find out more about this conference at www.inmarsat.com

John Thompson joined iOra on 1 September 2011 as our new chief executive officer.


John is well placed to lead our ongoing strategy of investment and growth having a proven track record in small and medium-sized technology companies. In 2001, he co-founded Commerce Decisions Ltd, a procurement software and professional services company, before selling it to QinetiQ plc in 2008, and has held senior roles at Prime Computer, Xerox, and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA).

We are delighted that he is bringing his expertise to help us drive the business in developing our product and delivering the best solution to our clients.

Guildford, UK (PRWEB UK) 31 July 2011

As part of this program iOra has been able to demonstrate a broad set of replication capabilities using their Geo-Replicator software platform. iOra was able to demonstrate replication between Microsoft SharePoint servers, replicating Lotus Domino backup files, and other third-party anti-virus data files. All these demonstrations were conducted in the typical military maritime environment of highly restricted low bandwidth with intermittent connectivity. The trials were conducted on a live coalition SECRET Network.

During testing, it was established that updates to deployed Lotus Domino databases could be distributed using Geo-Replicator’s special compressed files that were under 0.5% of the original source content. A UK MoD technical source stated: "iOra Geo replicator has been proven to provide impressive levels of compression on our operational databases and has allowed us to trial new techniques which if implemented could radically affect how we distribute classified data to deployed units."

iOra participated in the UK based trials throughout June in Portsmouth, United Kingdom,.
Lawrence Poynter, Product Director, commented, "We are indebted to the Trident Warrior team for giving us the chance to prove that our replication platform can move all types of data over challenging networks. Collaboration between military units in different organisations and time zones can be vastly enhanced by information systems which operate reliably in low bandwidth conditions."

About iOra
iOra provides data replication solutions to the world’s largest military organizations including the US Navy, the US Army and the UK’s MOD. iOra Geo-Replicator technology allows the changes made to huge volumes of information to be rapidly synchronized to remote servers or laptops to allow continuous use of collaborative systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, as well as access to the latest mission critical information in low-level, file-based systems. For further information please visit:

http://www.iora.com/

About Trident Warrior
Trident Warrior 2011 (TW11) is a US Navy led annual series of experimentations sponsored this year by Commander, 2nd Fleet and Commander, 5th Fleet, and directed by US Fleet Forces Command. It focuses on technical experimentation of more than 50 critical maritime initiatives. Primary goals are to improve networks capabilities, platform tactical communication networks, and interoperability between U.S. and coalition partners. The iOra testing was conducted in the US and UK as part of the AUSCANNZUKUS organisations contribution to TRIDENT WARRIOR.

It’s not just Steve Jobs who’s promoting storing your data in the cloud. The mad scientists at Darpa want a secure cloud for the military. Their counterparts at the Office of Naval Research are moving in the same direction.

Just one problem. Unlike Apple, the military’s networks are going to have to work in low-bandwidth environments, like the Afghan mountains, under the oceans or evenAntarctica. There’s more data to share than there is bandwidth to carry it all. That’s where a European company called iOra comes in.

iOra created a software solution called Geo-Replicator that allows users of military networks to share data while cutting down on bandwidth-draining redundancies. The idea is that low connectivity environments don’t have to be isolated nodes in the military net. That way, “the network doesn’t become the barrier to sharing information,” says Lawrence Poynter, iOras’ chief technology officer.

Poynter spoke from the Naval Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command’s San Diego laboratory, where he’s showing a test of the software that purports to get data around networks running as slow as 2 kilobytes per second. The Navy’s been a customer of iOra’s products for the last eight years. Its software helps the Navy’s “Distance Support” network keep technicians out at sea connected to maintenance manuals for complex naval systems. Same thing with the Marine Corps.

An anecdote Poynter shares explains the gist behind Geo-Replicator. Not long ago, a NATO commander in Germany wanted to send his subordinates daily updates to “a beast” of a PowerPoint presentation sized at 50 megabytes. “It froze the network. Everyone was trying to download 50 megabytes of content,” he recalls. He ran the same file out through Geo-Replicator, and the software searched for redundant data between the last version of the PowerPoint and the new update, sending out only the new stuff.

All that transmitted was in the low tens of kilobytes. But “once you transmitted the update file, you then regenerated a 50 megabyte PowerPoint file, and everyone could read that local file. All that bandwidth traffic zapped out,” Poynter says.

And that’s in highly-connected Germany. Ultimately, NATO’s Document Handling System will use Geo-Replicator to push information out to Gen. David Petraeus’ headquarters in Kabul and then “down to the FOBs,” the bases in remote areas of Afghanistan, Poynter says.

Not that troops necessarily need more access to PowerPoint presentations. But if the military’s increasingly looking to the cloud to store its data, and push it out to mobile devices like smartphones, iOra’s method of trimming out the fat clogging the bandwidth arteries might be worth studying.

Spencer Ackerman is Danger Room's senior reporter, based out of Washington, D.C., covering weapons of doom and the strategies they're used to implement. 

San Diego, CA (CWID 2011) - June 6, 2011 – iOra’s Geo-Replicator, SharePoint collaboration technology, will be participating this week in the US Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) event in San Diego.

iOra will be taking part in trial ‘4.15 - IGR_USUK_IOP,’ a former demonstration from the UK CWID program which plans to link a unit in the US with a similar unit in the UK to test the benefits of sharing operational information. The technology allows changes made to huge volumes of information (terabytes) to be synchronized to remote servers or laptops for continuous Microsoft SharePoint access to the latest mission critical information.

Running June 6-16, CWID 2011 features 37 Interoperability Trials, 22 multi-national Programs of Record and two Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations (JCTDs). Technology trials range from web-based situational awareness tools, enhanced wireless technology, Blue Force Tracking systems, maritime surveillance, translation devices, and enhanced information assurance and validation innovations. CWID 2011 will be hosted by SPAWAR, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific.

Jay Iannacito, US Navy Site Lead for CWID, said: "CWID’s focus is improving information sharing during Joint and Coalition Military operations, man-made and natural disasters for our Homeland Security Stakeholders. Through the CWID trials we hope to discover the most advanced technology and capabilities in order to meet that requirement."

Lawrence Poynter, CTO, iOra, said: "As a company we have the experience and the knowledge to continue to push the boundaries and improve information sharing within military operations. Our technology is already being used by the US Navy, the US Army, NATO and the UK’s MOD. This trial gives us the opportunity to stretch our legs and show how far replication technology has come."

The iOra Geo-Replicator products allow users to quickly access content that is local to the user even when there is unreliable reach back capability to headquarters, and even allow the bi-directional transfer of information. The trial will demonstrate a live synchronization over a simulated satellite link of typical operational data from a simulated headquarters environment to a deployed user. For CWID 2011, iOra will work within a vignette that allows the trial to extract operational relevant content to access the benefits of sharing this information via replication.

If you’d like to contact iOra during the event please email

infonic@lewispr.com.

About iOra

iOra (previously Infonic) provides Microsoft SharePoint replication solutions to the world’s largest military organizations including the US Navy, the US Army and the UK’s MOD. iOra Geo-Replicator technology allows the changes made to huge volumes of information to be rapidly synchronized to remote servers or laptops to allow continuous Microsoft SharePoint, and file-based access to the latest mission critical information. For further information please visit:

http://www.iora.com/

 

About CWID

U.S. Government, Department of Defense, first response agencies and multinational counterparts all sponsor technologies, called Interoperability Trials (IT), into CWID consistent with the warfighter-defined objectives. Technologies are assessed using operationally inspired warfighter, Homeland Security/Homeland Defense and emergency responder scenarios. During demonstrations, technologies may receive three types of assessments which include User Utility, Interoperability and Information Assurance. Assessment results are captured in CWID’s annual assessment report which informs the defense, federal and state acquisition communities with decision-quality data. The report is published annually each November.

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