Cyber Security Technology - Who, Where, Why, When and How in the Southwest!

WHO is CyNam?

CyNam is a non-profit networking organisation for the UK's cyber security and technology

community in the South West of England.

WHERE are they based?

Up until quite recently, cyber hubs and technology investment groups have focused their activity around Bristol, Birmingham and Oxford, but Cheltenham has calibre for cyber technology, particularly within the areas of big data analysis and information security initiatives.

WHY was CyNam created?

The goal of CyNam, which launched in 2016, is to bring together industry innovators from local SME’s and start-ups to make full use of the strong cyber security community around Cheltenham.

WHEN can I get involved?

CyNam hosts regular cyber events once a quarter and they are attended by senior business leaders in the cyber field as well as young start-ups and entrepreneurs. Nigel Norman, MD - Sarsen Technology has attended some of these events and found them incredibly useful for networking as well as discussing new technology and developments in the cyber arena with other interested parties.

CyNam has been shortlisted for the 2019 Cyber Security Awards, as 'Not for Profit Team of the Year’. The awards are on 4th July and we wish CyNam the best of luck in their category!

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HOW do we support Cyber Security at Sarsen?

Sarsen Technology supports a wide variety of cyber security, intelligence, surveillance and secure communications projects across the UK. The applications we support must accommodate the strictest security measures as well as aggressive data bandwidths, and in most cases must reduce size, weight, and power (SWaP).

We work with some of the best manufacturers in the world to supply a select range of unique products including 19” rackmount systems and FPGA based hardware. The latest addition to our product line is REFLEX CES, whose designs and solutions for both evaluation and prototyping, are built using the latest FPGA technology solutions based on Intel FPGA or Xilinx FPGA, modified COTS, or full turnkey designs.

For a detailed review of your application please contact one of the engineering team to discuss your requirements - info@sarsen.net

Christos Flouris Nominated for Elektra Awards!

The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards is a hugely important night, circled in calendars across the entire European electronics industry. Open to any company involved in Electronics the awards cover everyone from manufacturers and distributors to universities and design teams.

On Thursday 1st December the industry will get together to celebrate the most exciting new products, technology innovations and company performances of the year. An independent panel of judges will compare the merits of all the entries and the winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

We are very excited to announce that one of our Sales Engineers, Christos Flouris, has reached the final shortlist of the Rising Star New Engineer of the Year category. This award is given to a talented young engineer in their first five years in the industry, who has shown an extremely high level of practical skill and ambition which has contributed significantly to the business.

Christos graduated from the University of Bath in 2015 with a MEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree. Since joining Sarsen Technology in September 2015 as a Sales Engineer, Christos has worked on some major projects, specialising in technologies including FPGA , Single Board Computers (SBCs), ARM based System on Modules (SoM) and rugged system level solutions.

Congratulations to Christos, we look forward to the announcement of the winners in December!

Altera SDK for OpenCL Recognised at the 2014 Elektra Awards

Author - Laura

The Altera SDK for OpenCL has been selected by Electronics Weekly as its design tool of the year at the annual Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards gala in London. This award is the latest in a series of recognitions the Altera SDK for OpenCL has received since its release in 2012. 

Altera offers the industry’s only OpenCL-conformant solution in today's market that allows software programmers to easily implement OpenCL applications on FPGA accelerators.

Founded by Electronics Weekly in 2003, the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards are the most prestigious product, technology and business awards in Europe, recognising the achievements of individuals and companies in the electronics industry. A panel of independent industry experts and representatives from Electronics Weekly selected the Altera SDK for OpenCL as the winner in its "Design Tools and Development Software” category.

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BittWare’s OpenCL Developer’s Bundle provides the tools necessary to begin developing applications for the Altera Stratix V using OpenCL. OpenCL dramatically simplifies FPGA development by enabling designers to code their systems and algorithms in a high-level C-based framework, directly generating FPGA programming files from a pure software development flow. 

The OpenCL Developer’s Bundle includes BittWare’s S5-PCIe-HQ (S5PH-Q) half-length PCIe board, the BittWorks II system development software, the Altera Quartus II software, and the Altera SDK for OpenCL. This development bundle gives developers access to the latest generation of high-performance FPGAs on a validated COTS PCI Express board, while also significantly reducing their time-to-market by using OpenCL to develop their application.

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About the Altera SDK
The Altera SDK for OpenCL allows programmers to develop algorithms with the OpenCL language and harness the performance and power efficiencies of FPGAs. The Altera SDK for OpenCL includes a rapid prototyping design flow that allows OpenCL kernel code to be emulated, debugged, optimized, profiled and re-compiled to a hardware implementation in minutes. The re-compiled kernels can be tested and run on an FPGA immediately, saving programmers weeks of development time. 

ZNYX Ultra5™ ZX2000 Platform Receives 2014 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award

Our friends at ZNYX Networks had cause to celebrate this week, as they announced on Tuesday that the Ultra5™ ZX2000 platform has received a 2014 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), the world's leading business to business and integrated marketing media company.

"It gives me great pleasure to recognize ZNYX with a 2014 Product of the Year Award for its commitment to excellence and innovation," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "In the opinion of our distinguished judges, the ZX2000 has proven to be among the best communications and technology solutions on the market in 2014. I look forward to continued innovation from ZNYX Networks."

The ZX2000's unique design provides 6 payload slots in a 5U ATCA chassis, which is 50% more than the 4 payload slots offered by Kontron, Radisys, Emerson, or ADlink. The ZX2000 switching environments delivers the highest ratio of Ethernet Ingress capacity to backplane capacity in any ATCA chassis. The 10G platform provides 60G of Ethernet Ingress for a 60G backplane, and the 40G platform provides 160G of Ethernet Ingress for a 240G backplane.

The winners of the 2014 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year are featured in the January/February 2014 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine and online at www.itmag.com.