Guardtime today announced that its China General Manager Jian Tan has been awarded the 2M RMB Shanglin prize from the ZheJiang Cixi government to help establish Keyless Signature Infrastructure in China.

Beijing, China, October 02, 2012 — Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) today announced that its China General Manager Jian Tan has been awarded the 2M RMB (approx. U.S. $317,000) Shanglin prize from the ZheJiang Cixi government to help establish Keyless Signature Infrastructure in China.

Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party.

“The Shanglin prize is very prestigious and we are thrilled to be the first foreign company to be awarded the prize,” said Jian Tan, General Manager of Guardtime China.

Jian Tan added, “The 2M RMB award will allow us to accelerate Guardtime’s ( http://www.guardtime.com ) vision of bringing transparency and security to China’s communication networks. With keyless signatures integrated tightly with messaging protocols it is possible to provide a completely independent audit trail for machine to machine and human communication removing any doubt about the integrity, time and origin of the communicated data. ”

Wang Liyun, Chair of the Shanglin nomination committee said, “Keyless Signature Infrastructure is a revolutionary technology with the potential to greatly advance the transparency and security of the China’s communication networks. Mr. Jian Tan, Chief Executive of Guardtime China is a skilled entrepreneur and we are delighted to award him and Guardtime China the Shanglin prize.”

Guardtime CEO Mike Gault said, “Guardtime recently joined the Global Cloud Network of infrastructure and software companies including Joyent, Fixmo and Voxeo labs that are dedicated to building a next- generation cloud infrastructure for mobile first markets such as China and winning this award reiterates the importance placed on transparency and security.”

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of signing time, entity and integrity of data. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information.

About Shanglin:
The Shanglin prize is provided by the CIxi government in Zhejiang province yearly to award the top entrepreneurs in China who show great potential with unique technologies that can help accelerate China’s economic progress. The prize includes 2M RMB award along with numerous commercial benefits. For more information visit: http://slyc.cixi.gov.cn/chinese/newsinfo.asp?id=32.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR for Guardtime
Beijing, China
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

Joyent and Guardtime’s cloud computing technology enables Levira, the Estonian government’s majority owned service provider, to offer secure cloud-computing services to Governments and enterprises in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Palo Alto, CA (USA), Friday – June 29, 2012 — Joyent and Guardtime’s cloud computing technology ( http://www.guardtime.com ) enables Levira, the Estonian government’s majority owned service provider, to offer secure cloud-computing services to Governments and enterprises in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe. Levira also aims to start providing secure cloud services for multinational corporations that need to comply with the data residency requirements also outside of their home soil.

“Joyent’s double hulled virtualization and Guardtime’s keyless signature technology makes a formidable combination for enterprises and governments who wish to move to a cloud computing environment but hesitate due to security and trust-related concerns,” said Mart Einpalu, CEO of Levira. “Our mission is to become a leading cloud computing service provider in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe and our unique ability to give our clients tools to prove with mathematical certainty that their data has been safe and in compliance with the regulations is a paramount requirement to achieve that.”

Joyent’s Smart Data Center technology today powers numerous carriers and large scale service providers around the world including Uniserve Communications, LinkedIN and others. Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent said, “Estonia is at the forefront of technology innovation and it is no surprise that companies like Skype and Guardtime are developing cutting edge technologies there. We are thrilled to have a strategic partnership with Guardtime to offer the world’s first tamper-evident cloud.”

“Previously the clients of cloud computing services had no choice but to blindly trust their service provider,” added Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime. ( http://www.guardtime.com ) “With the integration of Guardtime’s keyless signature technology into Joyent’s Smart Data Center, clients can have an independently verifiable audit trail for everything that happens in their service provider’s environment. Our strategic partnership with Joyent represents a major breakthrough in enterprise risk management and audit preparedness in distributed IT infrastructure and will ease the transition to cloud computing, especially important for governments and enterprise clients with heightened security and compliance requirements.”

About Levira:
Levira is the provider of infrastructure services to IT, media and telecom segments. Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Levira is the largest provider of TV playout services in the Northern Europe and the main TV- and radio broadcast transmission provider in Estonia. Levira operates one of the largest datacentres in Estonia and provides public and private cloud services using Joyent’s Smart Data Center technology. Levira provides IT, media and telecom infrastructure and business process outsourcing services to many multinational and regional players like Turner, Fox, TeliaSonera, Sony, MTG and others in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

About Joyent:
Joyent is the cloud infrastructure performance company, offering enterprises and developers the best public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure for today’s modern data-intensive, real-time (DIRTy) applications. JoyentCloud.com delivers public cloud services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, including LinkedIn, Voxer, and Gilt Groupe. Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript project owned and stewarded by Joyent, provides developers and enterprises such as Microsoft with the most powerful runtime for developing data-intensive, real-time apps. SmartDataCenter orchestrates Joyent’s technologies into a cohesive, reliable and distributed system that can stand up to the compute demands of the modern world. For more information, visit http://www.joyent.com.

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Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

Guardtime’s Keyless Signature technology enables Cognuse, to offer trustworthy, tamper-evident e-health products by providing proof of origin, time, and integrity for all data processed by the CognuseManager system, including patient health records.

Palo Alto, CA (USA), Thursday – June 07, 2012 — Guardtime’s Keyless Signature technology enables Cognuse ( http://www.cognuse.com ), creator of the world’s most comprehensive executive functions rehabilitation system, to offer trustworthy, tamper-evident e-health products by providing proof of origin, time, and integrity for all data processed by the CognuseManager system, including patient health records.

The Guardtime integration into CognuseManager, which is the central management system for Cognuse’s products, will cover all critical data within the system, including web server SSL logs, application logs, anonymized/non-anonymized patient profile database transaction logs, patient health record database transaction logs, routine backups, and archived data. For future purposes, Cognuse is also looking into utilizing Guardtime’s Keyless Signature Service for automatic PDF signing for patient progress and incident reports.

“In healthcare, making decisions based on accurate data is a matter of life and death. Guardtime’s solution gives healthcare professionals a good reason for transitioning to e-health applications as they can be certain that the patient’s data is valid and intact,” said Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ).

“Guardtime keyless signing technology is an easy-to-use solution for e-health applications and plays a critical role in building the trust required within our target medical community in several markets. Processing of patient health records is constantly being scrutinized for privacy and security concerns and we are excited to be working with Guardtime in getting a step closer to a highly trustworthy e-health application,” said Andres Mellik, CTO of Cognuse.

About Cognuse
Cognuse produces and manufactures systems and devices specifically for cognitive rehabilitation. Cognuse’s clients are professional healthcare service providers who specialize in brain health treatments, diagnostics, and rehabilitation services – facilities such as hospitals with in-house mental health rehabilitation, mental health rehabilitation clinics, and elderly care institutions.

For more information visit: http://www.cognuse.com

Cognuse Contact
Andres Mellik, CTO
andres.mellik@cognuse.com

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

All company names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com