Richard DiVenuto

Project Edge- ULT X Speeds up Remote Computing of Large Data

An experienced consultant and advisor, Richard DiVenuto works with biotech and technology companies. Residing in Balmville, New York, with his wife and three children, Richard DiVenuto provides advice to investors who seek to invest in promising technology companies in California, Florida, and Boston, Massachusetts. One of the companies he has promoted is Vcinity Inc.

Project Edge (a tech company) ULT X is a product of combined hardware and software components or entirely software solutions specially designed to suit remote, public, Edge, private, and hybrid cloud applications. The product is built with features that significantly diminish operational latency in both premises and cloud data centers. Such undesired latency occurs when there is a need to remotely upload to or access large quantities of data in the cloud (which may be located thousands of miles away) while restricted to the wireless area network (WAN). While WAN works well over vast geographical distances, transferring huge amounts of data tends to push its performance to its limits.

With Project Edge’s ULT X, Project Edge incorporates local area network speed into wireless area network delivery and allows remote users to have this advantage at their disposal. The remote user gains unparalleled access to large datasets anywhere. Project Edge’s ULT X allows in-place data computing, which means the editing of data can be done without prior caching, staging, copying, or downloading from the database.

How SARS-CoV-2 Progresses in the Lungs

A New York technology consultant who has worked with biotechnology and information technology firms spamming California, Florida, and Boston, Massachusetts, Richard DiVenuto has a strong interest in cell therapy to address complex diseases. A current area of focus for Richard DiVenuto centers on understanding COVID-19, which has impacted Americans across the country.

Novel coronavirus begins with symptoms such as fever, sore throat, body aches, and loss of taste or smell. In cases where the immune system does not successfully fight off SARS-CoV-2, the virus can progress down the windpipe and enter the lungs, where it can become deadly.

The threat centers on alveoli, which are air sacs at the end of distant, thin branches of the respiratory tree. Each alveolus has a single layer lining of ACE2-receptor rich cells. When functioning normally, oxygen can cross from the alveoli to the tiny capillaries that bring oxygen to the rest of the body. However, this is disrupted by the COVID-19 triggered response that the frontline white blood cells unleash, as part of the immune system response.

The inflammatory chemokine molecules released by white blood cells bring more immune cells into the battle and eliminate virus-infected cells. What is left behind is pus, a mixture of dead cells and fluid, which provides the underlying pathology of pneumonia.

While some patients recover from this stage, others may enter into a state of (ARDS) acute respiratory distress syndrome, in which blood oxygen levels decrease rapidly, and breathing becomes a struggle. Even being placed on a ventilator at this point may not be enough to prevent a fatality.

Project Edge Offers Technology Differentiation

Devoted father and husband Richard DiVenuto leverages decades of consulting experience across a range of industries as an advisor to Biotech and Technology companies that are disruptive in nature. An accomplished entrepreneur, Richard DiVenuto also serves as a driving force behind the technology firm Project Edge.

An innovative technology startup, Project Edge provides patented data management technologies for commercial applications. The platform draws on support from the United States intelligence community in addition to leading providers of networking and cloud solutions to offer local area network (LAN) like performance for operations across a wide area network (WAN).

Project Edge differentiates itself from other WAN providers and extreme file transfer companies by bringing users to the data through a virtual platform. This approach not only reduces cost, but also provides better information security via “in-place” data processing that minimizes unsafe data transfers. Moreover, the company offers excellent data replication and transportation performance at speeds greater than any competing company through a mix of patented software applications and integrated appliances.

Project Edge – Delivering Reliable, Secure High-Speed Connectivity

Based in New York, Richard DiVenuto provides knowledgeable consulting services to companies in areas such as nutraceuticals, biotech, and IT. In the latter sphere, Richard DiVenuto is integrally involved in working with Project Edge on its proprietary Ultimate X (ULT X) solution. This provides LAN-like real time high-speed connectivity capabilities over existing WAN systems.

The background of this disruptive platform is a convergence of technologies such as Hybrid Cloud, IoT, smart devices, and 5G, which are generating a rapid increase in global data flow. Connectivity that is virtually real time is essential, as delays associated with relocated and colocated data can have a significant impact on the bottom line of data center customers.

At the same time, major concerns exist among diverse enterprises about extremely sensitive data shared on the public cloud being exposed to risk. An advantage of the Project Edge approach is that its patented technologies were supported by the U.S. military and employed in mission-critical functions in which vulnerability and failure are not options. Through Project Edge technologies, data can be stored wherever customers want and used to perform computational tasks, with no need to move or transfer data. The end result is security, reliability, and unsurpassed speed for the cost.

Technology Advances in Boating and the Call for Safety

An entrepreneur residing in New York, Richard DiVenuto also offers expert advice to businesses. Outside of his profession, Richard DiVenuto enjoys boating in his free time.

Today’s boating enthusiasts benefit from a lot of the advances in the activity, including technological ones. Technology has made the experience of boating much more pleasurable. From smart lightings, such as colored mood lighting and underwater lights, to remote monitoring, these technologies have made it possible to manage a boat from a phone. Moreover, digital switches have replaced mechanical toggle switches and allow users to automate most functions, including alarms, lights, bow thrusters, and climate control devices, from a phone.

Outside of technology, there has been a push to focus on boating safety. Many of the accidents that happened in the last few years were related to the mistakes of boat operators who did not receive proper training or have been influenced by alcohol. This is expected to launch an effort to see guidelines established for boat safety. In New York, for example, the state created a bill establishing guidelines for requiring safety courses and for addressing operating a boat under the influence.

Connections-Stress, the Nervous System and Cancer Metastasis

New York resident Richard DiVenuto is an advisor of a biotech company that focuses on stem-cell research. As an advisor, Richard DiVenuto performs a wide range of functions related to insurance coverage, entity formations, M&A, and retirement planning.

Cancer research, throughout the years, has focused on several causes for the disease that ends so many lives. But in recent years, researchers have connected the metastasis of cancer cells (tumors) with stress and the nervous system.

Researchers have found that stress, among other psychological and behavioral factors, is an influencing factor in the development and progression of cancer. Stress starts in the brain with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and is connected to setting the stage for cancer by contributing to cell growth and development. However, stress’s impact on the nervous system is just one factor contributing to the proliferation of cancer cells.

Another influencing factor on the metastasis of cancer cells is located in the peripheral nervous system. During synapses, nerve endings release neurotrophins, neurotransmitters, and neuropeptides. These neural-related processes contribute to metastasis and tumor growth. The study reported in the Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research in 2018 states that not only do these processes lead to increased metastasis of cancer cells but also pain related to cancer can contribute to the development of cancer cells and tumors.

Links Between Low Muscle Mass and Cancer Progression

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An established presence in the financial advisory sphere, Richard DiVenuto has successfully helped restructure a wide range of family enterprises. With a strong fitness and nutrition focus in his daily life, Richard DiVenuto has extensive knowledge on the role that muscle mass and physical strength has in fighting cancer.

One connection centers on sarcopenia, or the loss of muscle mass associated with aging. A 2018 study published in JAMA Oncology focused on more than 3,000 patients with stage II and stage III breast cancer, and found that those patients with sarcopenia, or low muscle mass, at the time they were diagnosed had a significantly lower chance of survival. This was despite the fact that, in all patients studied, diagnosis occurred before cancer had spread past the breast.

These findings also apply to a wide range of non-metastatic cancers, with a similar trial finding a connection between low muscle mass and poor prognosis when it comes to non-metastatic colorectal cancer. When sarcopenia is combined with high body fat, the patient outlook is even worse, with this combination increasing mortality rates by 89 percent.

The study’s authors call for physicians to work with cancer patients on implementing strength training, as well as dietary changes and weight loss efforts, into any lifestyle program for reducing breast cancer recurrence risks.