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Swim School Opens Its Franchise Model in Gilbert British Swim School, best known for its education of water safety as an essential survival skill amongst a fun and gentle environment, recently opened a location in the East Valley, at the LA Fitness on Gilbert Road in Gilbert. The brand operates with more than 37 years of experience. Everything is branded — including tables by the pool, changing tents, swim caps, rings, diapers, etc. The Gilbert location is also currently sponsoring Campo Verde Basketball team and will have a presence at upcoming local community events. The business model is to partner with other businesses in the area to bring the concept to communities, in this case with LA Fitness. British Swim School operates within their pool system, and, by working with businesses in the area, is provided with exposure to a new
customer base. This also helps increase British Swim School’s chances to approach a new customer base and create brand awareness. What attracted me to this franchise was its commitment to water safety for children and adults; water safety here is important because, even being in a desert, everyone has access to pools and lakes. British Swim School offers a two-step curriculum teaching children and adults of all ages — some as young as three months — water safety and survival skills, along with swimming skill development. The brand operates in nearly 200 schools in 20 states within the U.S., holds around 12,000 lessons per week nationally, and conducted nearly 600,000 swimming lessons in 2017. —Dejan Simurdic British Swim School britishswimschool.com
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Office Design Expresses Company Purpose Moving into its new office and manufacturing headquarters whose 17,000 square feet more than doubled the size of its previous location, Western Window Systems hired Ware Malcolm to provide interior architecture and design services for the building. The new facility is part of Western Window Systems’ increased investment in engineering and manufacturing capabilities to accommodate the company’s future growth in generating innovative solutions for indoor-outdoor living. “From our very first interview with Western Window Systems, we realized the company possessed a vibrant culture, rich with positivity and passion for their products. To capture this in the design of their new facility, our team sought to create areas that would cater to their high-energy atmosphere and showcase real-life applications of their products,” says Kevin Evernham, principal of the Phoenix office of Ware Malcomb, an international design firm that provides planning, architecture, interior design, branding and civil engineering services to commercial real estate and corporate clients. “An area that embodies their value of integrating work and fun is the central multipurpose space that serves as a reception and all-hands meeting area as well as an employee
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Tracking Privilege Access PowerBroker for Networks is an agentless solution that controls what commands users can run, records sessions, alerts, and provides a complete audit trail of user activity on network devices via the command line. This is a firstof-its kind privilege management solution for network, IoT, ICS and SCADA devices from BeyondTrust, the leading cyber security company dedicated to preventing privilege misuse and stopping unauthorized access. “PowerBroker for Networks moves ‘identity’ from a rolebased static event into an observable, fluid event where identity-change can be an Indicator of Compromise, or where SecOps can block access even for credentialed actors,” says Christopher Kissel, senior cybersecurity analyst with Frost & Sullivan. beyondtrust.com
For Cyber Security and Compliance The Secure Data Protection Platform (SDP2), engineered to solve key cyber security and compliance issues facing governments, was produced jointly by RackTop Systems, a leading provider of high-performance SoftwareDefined Storage embedded with advanced security, encryption and compliance, and Seagate Technology plc, a world leader in data storage solutions. The highperformance, simple, drop-in data storage solution to solving NIST 800-171 and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) security and compliance requirements was designed for use as file shares, storage for virtual machines, DevOps, databases and large data repositories, and is scalable to satisfy both small or remote offices, as well as large data center implementations. racktopsystems.com/sdp2
game area and lounge. All meeting rooms throughout the facility feature Western Window Systems window products, demonstrating the adaptability and functionality of their products. “Western Window System’s spirited character inspired Ware Malcomb to integrate function, form and fun, which contributed to a very unique and exciting project.” To maximize productivity, an expanded manufacturing area features state of the art CNCs and saws, additional loading docks, and an updated cooling system. Towering over the shop’s massive break room, which includes personal lockers, a TV, and arcade games, is a 925-square-foot mural by Phoenix artist Tato Caraveo. —RaeAnne Marsh
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Broadband providers can now deliver whole home Wi-Fi services without being locked to single vendor or proprietary hardware, with the new CHARIOT release v6.5 from Affinegy, a global provider of service enablement software and connected device management. With its patentpending method of abstracting the proprietary features of Wi-Fi gateways and access points into easy user experiences, Affinegy’s CHARIOT Platform onboards new devices, leveraging the unique intelligence of the CHARIOT ACS that systematically neutralizes vendor specific parameters. The result: user interfaces provided
Amazon has grown from its humble beginnings as an online bookstore to become the world’s most valuable brand, ahead of Apple and Google, according to the latest Brand Finance Global 500 report. The e-commerce giant’s brand value increased by 42 percent year on year to a whopping US$150.8 billion. brandirectory.com/Brand-Finance-Global-500-Report.pdf
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