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Know Your Equipment: Proper Installation and Commissioning is Essential to Machine Reliability

In almost any industry, machines and equipment play a critical role in any process whether it’s in the manufacturing of products or operating services. Without these, progress will either be slow or quality severely compromised. For Jay Marzan, Chairman of JP Marzan Project Ventures Inc., one of the leading logistics providers in the country, the proper installation of vital equipment or machinery is of paramount concern if the project is to be completed properly and at the least amount of time. "Multiple companies and projects rely on their machines and equipment to finish difficult tasks quicker and safer. For these businesses to receive the reliability they expect from these machines, it is important that the people handling it are well-trained and knowledgeable about it in each step it takes to install and commission it," Marzan added.  To ensure that the machines and heavy equipment are used properly, JP Marzan designed a step-by-step plan to guide companies on the right machin

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Palo Alto Networks Announces Prisma Cloud 2.0, the Industry’s Only Comprehensive Cloud Native Security Platform

Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) today announced Prisma™ Cloud 2.0 which includes four new cloud security modules, enhancing its standing as the industry’s only comprehensive Cloud Native Security Platform (CNSP). A CNSP is designed to secure multi- and hybrid-cloud environments and cloud native applications integrating security across the full DevOps lifecycle. This announcement integrates Aporeto and builds on the November 2019 introduction of Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud. The new Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud modules include: Data Security delivers data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities, offering discovery, classification and malware detection for AWS S3. Enterprises operating in regulated industries can leverage Data Security when adopting the cloud to help meet various compliance requirements. When used in conjunction with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) capabilities, Data Security provides customers important context about their true cloud risks around data exp

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Huawei Philippines Launches Seeds for The Future 2020

Huawei Philippines has launched the 6th Seeds for the Future program, with over 60 students coming from 15 universities and Smart Sweep member schools joining the program this year. This is also the biggest delegation by far in the history of Huawei Seeds in the Philippines. Information and communications technologies (ICT) have become crucial growth engines for many different industries. As an ICT leader, Huawei is committed to promoting ICT industry development in Philippines. Education is vital in creating opportunities that support sustainable and fair development. The company also seeks to close the gap between knowledge learned in the classroom and the skills required by the industry, as well as enhance knowledge transfer. Huawei's Seeds for the Future program is an initiative that aims to help cultivate young talent, ensuring that the tech-savvy and change-resilient young people have the skills and mindsets needed to be competitive in the workplaces of the future. In the past

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Public school teachers get specialized training from Globe

Globe further enhances its support to the Department of Education (DepEd) by helping public school educators keep up with the demands of the new normal through free professional development training designed to provide teachers with essential knowledge and skills on digital literacy, blended learning and 21st century learning methods. The program is part of Globe’s Global Filipino Teachers (GFT) initiative and is being implemented through a combination of webinars and downloadable self-paced materials for teachers to apply their learnings. GFT was launched in 2009 to deliver information and technology-based training to public school teachers across the country. With the nation’s shift to remote learning, Globe found it essential to partner with Habi Education Labs and Teach for the Philippines, as both are well known for their exceptional work in forwarding 21st century learning in public schools nationwide. Habi Education Lab is a non-profit organization known for developing progre

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Grundfos Foundation’s grant helps bring clean water to the community in Baseco

Grundfos Philippines along with ASSIST Asia will install two water treatment systems and initiate sustainable programs on livelihood and improved sanitation With more than 60,000 inhabitants in a 53-hectare land area, the Baseco compound is one of the largest and densest slums in Manila. This congested community suffers from poor sanitation and access to safe and affordable drinking water. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to strike on businesses and other livelihood sources, families in Baseco need immediate help in alleviating their worsening condition. Through the Grundfos Foundation’s Community Grant of P7.1 million, the community in Baseco will receive two water treatment systems to bring clean water, sustain education on proper sanitation and livelihood opportunities to this community. Grundfos Philippines together with non-profit organization, Asia Society for Social Improvement & Sustainable Transformation (ASSIST) will install these Grundfos systems, which are solar powered

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Microsoft Launches Imagine Cup 2021, opening registrations to Filipino students

The “Olympics of Technology” competition seeks digital solutions created by students from all over the world Microsoft’s premier student competition, Imagine Cup engages new technologists around the world to promote platform adaption, expand market access, and source top talent.  By participating, young science and tech entrepreneurs create new and innovative projects that highlight their passion and ingenuity, and will have the opportunity to network with professionals, gain new skills, win funding to further implement their ideas and receive mentoring from topnotch technology leaders. Through several rounds of online and in-person competition, they compete for the championship, the cash prize, and the mentorship. Past Imagine Cup winners have spurred economic opportunities and employment, with many great innovators seeing their career change after the competition. Some of the previous winners have gone on to work for Microsoft, delivering their innovation back to the market. Other

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NTT LTD. ACCELERATES SECURE BY DESIGN SOLUTIONS

The addition of Cisco’s cloud security technology aligns with NTT Ltd.’s managed security services to architect secure networks for enterprises NTT Ltd., a world-leading global technology services provider, announced that it is expanding its existing security services portfolio and reference architectures with Cisco, to provide enhanced secure networking to organizations around the world. During the global pandemic and now into the expected recovery phase, organizations need to move quickly to ensure their infrastructure, which was designed to support one way of working, can now keep a new remote and distributed workforce connected, productive and secure. This requires a Secure by Design approach to ensure agility, while at the same time not compromising the organization’s security posture. “Secure by Design means being cybersecurity conscious at all levels of business and building security into the solution from the very start,” says Matthew Gyde, Chief Executive Officer and Preside

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Brother Philippines and SEA Institute donate to Batangas public schools

In line with its continued thrust to promote environment-friendly practices and provide support for underprivileged communities, Brother Philippines once again partnered with non-profit organization the SEA Institute to donate printers and toners to public schools in the town of Mabini, Batangas. The donation, which was done in two legs in September and October 2020, saw eight public schools from Mabini each receive a Laser Multifunction Machine, toner cartridges, and reams of bond paper for the teachers’ and students’ needs. SEA Institute President Robert Suntay was personally present for the turnover of the donations. The eight schools were:San Teodoro Elementary SchoolMainit Elementary SchoolBagalangit Elementary SchoolPanay Elementary SchoolMabini Central SchoolMainaga Elementary SchoolTalaga Elementary SchoolSolo Elementary School The first four schools were chosen by the SEA Institute for their location near Barangay San Teodoro in the town, in which the organization has a ree

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PH Digicon 2020 features ​Salesforce’s​ David Schmaier

The CEO of Salesforce Industries is set to discuss industry digital solutions PLDT Enterprise, which is holding the first fully-virtual Philippine Digital Convention (PH Digicon) 2020 from October 28-30, will have Salesforce Industries CEO David Schmaier as one of the event’s headline speakers. Carrying the theme, “IMPACT”, this year’s PH Digicon aims to inspire attendees to embrace the call of making a positive impact on society through the adoption of innovations and technologies set to define the new future of work. Schmaier is set to talk about Digital Transformation: A Point of Impact Across Industries—giving a look at how online service companies have disrupted the global work landscape with game-changing platforms. He founded and was CEO of Vlocity, a startup and three-time Forbes Cloud 100 company (201, 2018, 2019) that has built several industry-specific CRM tools such as media and entertainment and healthcare and government, which Salesforce acquired in June this year fo

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Boomi Partners with Aible to Equip Business Users with AI Insights

Unique Solution Places Low-Code AI with Business Users, Simplifying Tasks and Accelerating Time to Value Boomi, a Dell Technologies business and leading provider of cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS), today announced a partnership agreement with Aible, a leading automated machine learning platform, to help business users more simply and rapidly build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) models at an enterprise scale. The partnership will enable businesses to rapidly drive AI projects from data acquisition to model development, deployment, and user engagement, all in low-code without deep data science expertise. With skyrocketing enterprise data processing needs, businesses are scrambling on their AI journey to understand and leverage their data to create a competitive advantage. But AI technologies are traditionally complex, requiring a highly technical skill set to build and deploy AI models. Aible has abstracted away the complexity of AI model development to p

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