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HighWire Press Partners with the Middle East Institute to Launch Enhanced Digital Platform for The Middle East Journal

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2 months ago

May 1, 2026

The upgraded HighWire Hosting platform delivers a reimagined user experience, advanced search and discovery, Salesforce integration, and COUNTER-compliant analytics—empowering 75+ years of distinguished regional scholarship in a modern digital environment.

NEW YORK, May 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — HighWire Press, a leading provider of digital publishing solutions for the global scholarly community, today announced the successful launch of a fully upgraded hosting platform for The Middle East Journal (MEJ), the flagship publication of the Middle East Institute (MEI). The new platform replaces MEJ’s legacy system with a modern, flexible, and fully branded digital home—purpose-built to reflect the Journal’s prestige and serve its global readership.

The Challenge: A Platform That Didn’t Do Justice to the Content

The Middle East Journal has served as an indispensable resource for research and analysis on one of the world’s most complex regions since 1947. Yet its digital presence lagged behind its editorial reputation. MEI sought a platform transformation that would deliver a superior user experience, meaningful journal branding options, improved search and discovery, flexible site customization, and robust usage analytics—and they needed it fast.

Selecting HighWire’s industry-proven hosting platform gave MEI a partner with the expertise, technology, and responsiveness to execute a complex migration on an accelerated timeline—without compromising quality or continuity for readers and subscribers.

The Solution: A Modern Platform Built Around the Journal’s Mission

The new HighWire-hosted site was developed in close collaboration with MEI and designed in conjunction with a comprehensive rebranding of the Journal. Key enhancements include:

Flexible Customization and Branded Design: A fully redesigned site architecture gives MEI unprecedented control over look, feel, and content presentation—ensuring the digital experience reflects the Journal’s long-standing authority.

Seamless Access Management via Sigma: HighWire’s identity and access management system, Sigma, was integrated with MEI’s Salesforce CRM in close collaboration with MEI’s Salesforce consultant—delivering a smooth, secure experience for subscribers and institutional users alike.

COUNTER-Compliant Usage Statistics: MEI now has access to industry-standard, COUNTER-compliant analytics, enabling precise tracking of readership, engagement, and impact across their portfolio.

Full-Text Content Delivery: Starting with content published in 2026 forward, the platform features full-text availability—significantly increasing accessibility to MEJ’s critical regional analysis for researchers worldwide.

Enhanced Search and Discovery: Improved search functionality ensures readers can navigate MEJ’s rich archive and surface relevant content with greater precision.

“The Middle East Institute sought a platform that could evolve as quickly as the region they study. By migrating to our advanced hosting solution, MEJ now benefits from a highly customizable environment that prioritizes the reader’s journey while providing the Institute with the robust backend tools they need to grow.”
— Joshua Routh, Product Director, HighWire Press

Looking Ahead: A Unified Knowledge Ecosystem

The collaboration is built for the long term. HighWire and MEI are already working on an ambitious roadmap to integrate the MEJ platform directly with the main Middle East Institute website. This integration will allow MEJ’s specialized peer-reviewed content to be searched and displayed natively from the Institute’s primary digital hub—creating a unified knowledge ecosystem that serves researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who rely on MEI’s work.

Why HighWire?

For publishers facing the dual challenge of modernizing their digital infrastructure while maintaining uninterrupted service to readers and subscribers, HighWire delivers more than technology—it delivers partnership. From migration strategy and CRM integration to ongoing analytics and future-facing roadmaps, HighWire’s platform and people are designed to reduce friction and maximize impact for scholarly publishers of all sizes.

About HighWire Press

HighWire Press is a leading provider of digital publishing tools and platform solutions across all aspects of the publishing lifecycle, including content management and hosting, e-commerce, access and identity management, manuscript submission and tracking, and analytics. Founded at Stanford University, HighWire is now powered by MPS Limited, a global partner to the world’s leading publishers of scholarly and eLearning content. For more information, visit www.highwirepress.com.

About the Middle East Institute

Founded in 1946, the Middle East Institute is the oldest Washington-based institution dedicated solely to the study of the Middle East. The Middle East Journal, published quarterly since 1947, remains a premier venue for peer-reviewed analysis on the contemporary Middle East. For more information, visit www.mei.edu.

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Technology

Monnit Introduces NIST Detachable Leads to Streamline Compliance Monitoring

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54 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

New hot-swappable lead architecture reduces downtime, simplifies recertification, and helps organizations maintain continuous monitoring.

SALT LAKE CITY, June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Monnit announced new NIST Standard and Low Temperature and Humidity Detachable Leads for compatible ALTA® Sensor Bases designed to simplify sensor recertification, reduce downtime, and support continuous compliance monitoring.

“Organizations shouldn’t have to choose between maintaining compliance and operational continuity,” said Brad Walters, Founder and CEO of Monnit. “Our detachable lead architecture allows customers to hot-swap certified leads in minutes while preserving traceability and keeping trusted monitoring programs running.”

Each NIST Detachable Lead is uniquely calibrated and designed to support traceability requirements aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards.

Rather than removing and shipping an entire sensor for recertification, customers can disconnect only the lead, connect a certified replacement, and send the original lead for recalibration. This approach is ideal for pharmaceuticals, healthcare facilities, laboratories, food storage operations, manufacturing environments, and other applications that require calibration records.

In addition to these hot-swappable, removable leads or cables with probes, we offer short Monnit Standard Temperature and Humidity Detachable Non-Leaded Probes that you can connect to compatible sensor bases.

Each NIST Detachable Lead or Probe connects to compatible ALTA Industrial and Enterprise Sensor Bases via sealed, keyed M8 6-pin connectors designed for field installation. Embedded memory within the lead stores unique lead and sensor identification, calibration data, certification information, and traceability records.

Key features and benefits include:

Hot-swappable lead replacement that minimizes downtime and monitoring interruptionsNIST-traceable calibration support and ISO 17025-accredited lab certificationSupport for FDA 21 CFR Part 11 workflows and audit programsAutomatic synchronization of calibration information with iMonnit® SoftwareLogging of lead connection and disconnection events in iMonnitHot-swapping capability while powered on or off for easier servicing

Monnit and its accredited lab partner, Sensor Calibrations, provide 25-month certificates for NIST Detachable Standard Temperature Leads and 13-month certificates for NIST Detachable Low Temperature and Humidity Leads.

Compatible ALTA Sensor Bases automatically recognize connected lead types and maintain digital maintenance records, helping organizations avoid monitoring gaps caused by traditional recertification.

About Monnit Corporation
The origin story of the Internet of Things (IoT) begins with Monnit. Before our inception in 2010, we were already at the forefront of embedding technology into machines and devices to enable them to talk and deliver valuable data to business leaders. Monnit Remote Monitoring Solutions for nearly any industry use case have delivered 72B+ data points in 130+ countries for 90K+ customers. Monnit’s 80+ long-range IoT sensors remotely monitor many conditions such as temperature, light, humidity, water, vibration, pressure, and more. You can analyze data using iMonnit cloud software and get alerts via email, text, push notification, or call when our sensors detect a change you should know.

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Technology

Monnit Introduces NIST Detachable Leads to Streamline Compliance Monitoring

Published

54 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

New hot-swappable lead architecture reduces downtime, simplifies recertification, and helps organizations maintain continuous monitoring.

Each NIST Detachable Lead is uniquely calibrated and designed to support traceability requirements aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standards.

Key features and benefits include:

Compatible ALTA Sensor Bases automatically recognize connected lead types and maintain digital maintenance records, helping organizations avoid monitoring gaps caused by traditional recertification.

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David Hill
Marketing Communications
801-505-8172
417089@email4pr.com

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Technology

deepset Joins HPE’s Unleash AI Program to Accelerate Sovereign Agentic AI

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54 minutes ago

June 18, 2026

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — deepset, the company behind Haystack, the production-ready open-source AI agent framework and platform, today announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program to help government, defense, and regulated enterprises deploy production-grade AI systems in sovereign, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments.

As part of the collaboration, deepset will leverage the Haystack Enterprise Platform, deepset’s platform for building, orchestrating, and governing AI agents and applications, and HPE’s AI ecosystem and infrastructure portfolio to help organizations rapidly identify and operationalize high-value AI use cases while reducing deployment complexity and risk. This enables customers to access AI-ready infrastructure, strategic guidance, and accelerated pilot execution to address their most challenging AI adoption and operationalization needs.

Together, the companies enable organizations to deploy AI agents, multi-agent systems, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications on self-hosted, sovereign, and air-gapped infrastructure while maintaining full ownership over sensitive and classified data, models, and AI operations.

Customers can leverage the joint architecture to operationalize governed AI applications faster while maintaining the security, compliance, and deployment flexibility required for sovereign and mission-critical environments.

The HPE Unleash AI partner program is a curated ecosystem, combining ISV solutions that go through comprehensive validation testing with engineered HPE AI systems, including HPE Private Cloud AI and the broader HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA solutions, to deliver the performance, security, and scalability enterprises need for production AI. By joining the program, deepset expands access to governed AI platform capabilities designed for organizations operating in highly regulated environments, including public sector, defense, cybersecurity, and enterprise industries.

The Haystack Enterprise Platform enables organizations to:

Build and govern AI agents, multi-agent systems, and RAG applicationsDeploy AI on self-hosted, private cloud, and air-gapped infrastructureOrchestrate modular AI pipelines across models, databases, and enterprise systemsEnforce governance, auditability, and lifecycle management for production AISupport sovereign AI initiatives aligned with European and national security requirements

The collaboration builds on deepset’s experience supporting sovereign AI initiatives with organizations including the European Commission, the German Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), and other government, defense, and enterprise organizations deploying sovereign AI systems under strict governance and security requirements.

“With agentic AI moving into operational deployment, organizations need infrastructure and AI platforms they can control and trust,” said Milos Rusic, CEO and co-founder of deepset. “The challenge is getting agentic systems into production while maintaining control over infrastructure, governance, and sensitive data. Together with HPE, we’re helping customers deploy governed AI systems faster across highly regulated and mission-critical environments.”

Use cases supported through the joint architecture include:

Sovereign AI platform for public sector & regulated industry institutionsSovereign AI intelligence and decision-support systems for classified operationsCybersecurity investigation and threat analysisAI agents for technology, manufacturing, research, legal, and financial workflows

“The Unleash AI program is designed to help organizations deploy AI solutions faster and with greater operational confidence,” said Robin Braun, Vice President of AI Business Development, Hybrid Cloud, HPE. “Together, HPE and deepset are delivering secure, governed AI solutions that combine enterprise-grade infrastructure with flexible and governed AI agent capabilities to help customers operationalize AI across hybrid, sovereign, and classified environments.”

For more information, visit https://www.deepset.ai

About deepset

deepset is the company behind Haystack, the leading open-source framework and platform for building production-grade AI applications and agentic systems. deepset enables enterprises and public sector organizations to develop, deploy, and govern flexible AI applications powered by their choice of large language models, enterprise data, infrastructure, and governance policies across cloud, hybrid, and sovereign environments.

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