Mississauga, Ontario, May 30, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc. (“Skkynet” or “the Company”) (OTCQB: SKKY), a global leader in real-time cloud information systems, is pleased to announce that Francois van Vuuren, Director at Harmonic International AG, has joined Skkynet’s Advisory Board. Mr. van Vuuren has been certified as a Certified Licensing Professional, and is currently in charge of service sales in the EMEA and APAC regions for Silicon Valley-based Harmonic, and will be a valuable asset in assisting Skkynet with complex partnership and sales negotiations.
“We are fortunate to gain the benefit of Mr. van Vuuren’s wisdom and experience,” said Paul Thomas, President of Skkynet. “As the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market expands, solution providers will offer an increasingly wide array of IIoT products. Skkynet will grow its partnership portfolio to enable these products, and we expect Mr. van Vuuren to contribute significantly to our efforts.”
“I’m looking forward to working with the Skkynet senior team,” said Mr. van Vuuren. “The approach to secure connectivity taken by Skkynet is unique, and may well become a key factor in ensuring the success of cloud-based industrial computing.”
Skkynet’s software-based solutions allow industrial and embedded systems to securely network live data in real time from any location. They enable bidirectional supervisory control, integration and sharing of data with multiple users, and real-time access to selected data sets in a web browser, either on-site or remotely over insecure networks such as the Internet. Skkynet’s DataHub software and SkkyHub service are capable of handling over 50,000 data changes per second per client, at speeds of just microseconds over network latency. Secure by design, SkkyHub requires no VPN, no open firewall ports, no special programming, and no additional hardware. Seamless integration with Skkynet’s ETK provides for secure, end-to-end Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 connectivity for real-time, bidirectional data flow.
About Skkynet
Skkynet Cloud Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: SKKY) is a global leader in real-time cloud information systems. The Skkynet Connected Systems platform includes the award-winning SkkyHub™ service, DataHub®, WebView™, and Embedded Toolkit (ETK) software. The platform enables real-time data connectivity for industrial, embedded, and financial systems, with no programming required. Skkynet’s platform is uniquely positioned for the “Internet of Things” and “Industry 4.0” because unlike the traditional approach for networked systems, SkkyHub is secure-by-design. For more information, see http://skkynet.com.
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