Data Centers 101: How enterprises benefit from colocation and outsourced IT management

The data center sector in the Philippines is facing exciting times. Pandemic lockdowns triggered an increased need from local companies to shift servers and Information Technology (IT) equipment from their premises to data centers. Foreign groups are also looking at establishing their facilities in the country.

Recently, Globe entered into a $350-million joint venture partnership with ST Telemedia Global Data Centres and Ayala Corporation to develop and operate data centers. Globe already has several data centers but believes that the joint venture will help it become a leader in the space. (more…)

ExtraHop expands presence in ASEAN with new distributors in Philippines and Indonesia

Westcon-Comstor and Virtus Technology Indonesia join ExtraHop’s partner network in ASEAN

Manila, Philippines – April 12, 2022 – ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network detection and response, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with global technology distributor Westcon-Comstor to bring advanced threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities to Indonesia and the Philippines. In addition, leading IT infrastructure solution partner Virtus Technology Indonesia (VTI) has joined the ExtraHop reseller community, adding network detection and response (NDR) to its cybersecurity portfolio. (more…)

Rocket Software names Darlene Williams Chief Information Officer, Phil Buckellew president of Infrastructure Modernization

Manila, Philippines – Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, today announced Phil Buckellew will serve as President of Infrastructure Modernization and Darlene Williams will serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Buckellew and Williams step into their roles as Rocket Software continues to innovate at scale and solve today’s most complex infrastructure problems. (more…)

Simplify and expedite your migration to Amazon Web Services with AWS Application Migration Service

As more companies are moving to the cloud, it is essential to understand which tools can be used to successfully migrate our existing applications. For this talk, you will be introduced to the Amazon Web Services Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) — an AWS provided service used for flexible, reliable, and highly automated “lift and shift” migration to AWS Cloud. The speaker will give an overview of this migration tool as well as provide a run-through on the basic steps needed when using this service. Through this discussion, the main goal is to understand AWS MGN, its benefits and features, and how it can be leveraged for seamless migration to AWS for our future projects.

About the speaker

Veronica Gail Medrano, commonly known as Nica, is a Cloud Engineer at Cascadeo and an aspiring Cloud Solutions Architect who aims to work with her clients in improving their business according to their set goals and objectives, with the use of vast cloud services.
She is currently a certified AWS Cloud Practitioner and Solutions Architect Associate with experience in both Software Development and Cloud DevOps.

She also likes working with people and learning new things. Doing what she loves drives her to always work hard and to continue improving both her soft and technical skills to add value to every project she engages in.

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Mimecast opens office in Singapore to continue expansion in Southeast Asia

The Philippines, 7 April 2022 – Email security and cyber resilience company Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), has today announced it is continuing its expansion in the Asia Pacific (APAC) by establishing an office in Singapore as a regional hub for focus on South-East Asia. The company has appointed Stanley Hsu as its Regional Vice President, to help improve the cybersecurity posture of organizations and supply chains, in this expansion in the APAC region. For Mimecast, South-East Asia is a focused strategic growth market. Organizations in this region are experiencing a rapid digital transformation, and as cybercrime becomes a growing concern for governments and businesses alike, cybersecurity needs to be a core component in their transformation journeys.

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ICTSI partners with Rimini Street to deliver reliability, stability, and efficiency to its global ERP system and enable business growth

A leading multinational company in the Philippines and one of the world’s top container terminal operators choose Rimini Street software support for SAP to optimize ERP investments and align its ERP roadmap to business priorities

Philippines – March 31, 2022Rimini Street, Inc. (NASDAQ: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP software products, and a Salesforce partner, today announced that International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), has switched to Rimini Street’s award-winning software support services for SAP. Rimini Street will support business-critical functions such as financials, treasury, asset tracking, equipment maintenance, and repair that powers the entire sea freight business for the Philippines and other ICTSI-operated terminals. (more…)

Globe Business introduces Work Anywhere Solution

According to Harvard Business Review, when done right, ‘’all-remote organizations may indeed emerge as the future of work’’. Now more than ever, there’s an undeniable need for technologies that enable work anywhere, whether in the office or at home. (more…)

Cisco 2022 APJC Innovation Unleashed

Innovation Unleashed

Cloud Smart in a Complex World

For most businesses today, your applications are the business. In a time where digital is now a necessity to drive new products and services, support hybrid work, and reach new audiences. Applications have been looked upon to enable these new age requirements.

As a platform, the cloud makes all this possible. The cloud enables users to access innovation from anywhere and everywhere, whenever and wherever users want while enabling new capabilities to be created instantly with thousands of APIs at your fingertips. This flexibility and agility of IT allows businesses to build powerful experiences that engage customers, and scale to everyone at a time where the workforce is scattered in a hybrid work environment. Now, businesses can be more prepared for disruptions and accelerate digital capabilities.

Achieving best-in-class application experience along with a shift to cloud and microservices architecture is a complex task, requiring everything and everyone across the IT stack work in harmony.

Join us at Innovation Unleashed and learn how Cisco can help you speed up and maximize the cloud experience to

  • Deliver the best application experience for your users
  • Connect teams and technology in entirely new ways – higher up the application stack and deeper into the infrastructure
  • Provide analytics and insights that help can help IT prioritize issues and reduce time to troubleshoot

Date: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Time: 10am to 11.35am SGT

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Event Agenda & Synopsis

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Time Topic Sypnosis
10:00am Welcome to Innovation Unleashed  
10:10am Cloud Experience The pandemic has caused businesses across the globe to rethink their strategies and accelerate transformation initiatives. For many this has sped the adoption of cloud technology. It enables developers to do what they do best, offers you a choice across on prem, SaaS and public cloud environments, and improves infrastructure with intelligent automation. So, how do you deliver the best cloud experience possible for your users?

Join this session to understand Cisco’s cloud vision and how you can bridge all the clouds to deliver the experience you desire.​

10:35am Insights, Automation and Operations Many organisations are facing similar challenges in their IT environments today, including how to effectively optimise resource utilisation, respond quickly to significant disruptions, and prevent costs exploding due to increased complexity. The key to solving all these issues is to know what’s going on within your cloud environment.

In this session our experts will discuss these challenges and how Cisco’s cloud technology can help to solve these challenges with insights, observability, intelligent automation and simplified cloud operations.​

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