Octagon’s 200th up now in Mindoro
MANILA, Philippines, 29 August 2022– Upson International Corp. (Upson), the country’s largest retailer of personal computers and information technology (IT) products, recently launched its 200th store with the opening of the newest Octagon Computer Superstore in Pinamalayan, Mindoro.
This newest retail store occupies a corner lot in a roadside location within the town proper, offering a retail space of 180 square meters. “We are excited to be able to reach out to more customers across the country through our expansive network. With the opening of our 200th store, Upson aims to continue to provide direct access to an updated suite of IT products to every region in the Philippines,” shares Upson President & CEO, Ms. Arlene T. Sy.
Earlier this month, Upson also opened 3 other retail stores — a Micro Valley branch in SM Sucat as well as two other concept stores, namely Acer and Brother, in Limketkai Mall, Cagayan de Oro City.
“It has been 18 years since we opened our first Octagon Computer Superstore” Ms. Sy adds. Today, Upson offers over 13,000 IT products in their various retail outlets like Octagon Computer Superstore, Micro Valley, and Gadget King. Upson also has concept stores to carry exclusive brands such as Acer, HP, Brother, and Silvertec.
Upson’s long-standing and close partnerships with various suppliers of global brands have garnered industry insights that helped Upson provide IT products that are relevant and responsive to market needs and lifestyle changes.
Further, Upson prides itself in being awarded Certifications of Authenticity and Untampered Products from some of the leading suppliers of computer and IT brands. These wide variety of IT products are available at uniform prices in all Upson’s retail branches which can be found in 16 out of the 17 regions in the country.
“Upson is committed to developing new ways to meet these changing demands to equip more Filipinos with the right technology and authentic IT products. We aim to be the partner of choice of our clients for their digital future,” says Ms. Sy.
Upson’s expansion plan aims to build 250 additional branches or a total of additional 25,000 square meters of retail selling space over the next 3 to 5 years.
To know more about Upson, you may visit their website at www.upson.com.ph.
Del Monte signs five-year agreement with Kyndryl to manage its infrastructure workloads
Manila, Philippines, September 1, 2022 – Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced that Del Monte Philippines, Inc (DMPI), a world-renowned original plant-based food company, has engaged Kyndryl in the Philippines in a five-year technology services agreement to manage their Infrastructure workloads. This transformation journey will enable DMPI to achieve greater flexibility and scalability to support its business growth.
DMPI is a leading producer, distributor and marketer of premium quality, healthy food and beverage products. It has been in operation in the Philippines for 95 years and is a market leader in the packaged pineapple and mixed fruit, ready-to-drink juices, tomato sauce and spaghetti sauce categories. It also markets products under its second-tier brand, Today’s. DMPI innovates, produces, markets, and distributes its products worldwide.
As businesses across the global economy continue to grapple with the ripple effects of pandemic-induced supply chain disruption, enterprises within the food and beverage sector are modernizing their technology infrastructure to capture greater market share by accelerating the speed of product to market.
Since the inception of integrating an SAP system in 2009, Del Monte has been looking to Kyndryl as its technology partner for managed services for IT operations as it continues to modernize its aging hardware. In this renewed collaboration, Kyndryl will offer Del Monte services critical to its transformation journey, application management for SAP Solutions in any cloud, and technology infrastructure services support to over 2,000 end users across 14 locations in the Philippines. Taken together, these enhancements will help Del Monte advance how it leverages the cloud to gain more agility in how it meets the evolving demands of its customers.
“Del Monte’s partnership with Kyndryl is one that stands on trust and accountability. Since the beginning of our relationship, Kyndryl has demonstrated its capability in managing our SAP infrastructure as well as migrating our workloads to any cloud, irrespective of the hyperscaler chosen. As a business, this has offered us high availability support and improved levels of control and governance as we work towards fulfilling our consumers’ growing desire to eat healthier foods,” said Tsikee Esguerra, IT Operations Director at Del Monte Philippines, Inc.
“Our customers acknowledge the differentiated value that our cloud technologies offer them in a highly competitive business landscape, especially in streamlining operations and enhancing visibility into mission-critical workloads. Kyndryl is pleased to partner with DMPI as they embark on new cloud transformation strategies, and further strengthen their leading market position in the Philippines,” said Wilson Go, Managing Director, Kyndryl Philippines.
ManageEngine integrates with Sectigo to automate
Certificate Lifecycle Management
Manila – August 30, 2022 – ManageEngine, the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corporation, today announced the integration between its key and certificate lifecycle management solution, Key Manager Plus, and Sectigo, an industry-leading identity-first security Certificate Authority. A testament to Sectigo’s push for openness and interoperability in the identity, public key infrastructure (PKI), cryptography space, this integration enables IT admins using Sectigo certificates to confidently automate the entire certificate lifecycle from a secure, central platform.
Customers can leverage this integration to:
- Accelerate the procurement of Sectigo certificates with automated domain validation from Key Manager Plus.
- Maintain the acquired certificates in a consolidated, up-to-date inventory.
- Prevent unforeseen outages with automated renewal of Sectigo certificates.
- Plan renewals proactively with timely notifications on certificate and domain expiration.
- Gain visibility with exclusive reports for certificates issued by Sectigo.
“With work environments going perimeter-less and integrity issues at play in increasingly complex and untrusted IT environments, organizations are looking to step up their certificate lifecycle management (CLM) programs,” said Rajesh Ganesan, president of ManageEngine. “The integration of Key Manager Plus with Sectigo is an important step in helping security teams protect applications and infrastructures, improve their overall CLM maturity, and reduce risks to their reputation.”
David Mahdi, Chief Strategy Officer and CISO Advisor, Sectigo added, “We are delighted to partner with ManageEngine to further progress the mission of openness and interoperability in the identity, PKI, and cryptography space. Increasingly, we are seeing CISOs needing a robust CLM solution to enable them to cope with the growing number of human and machine identities, which need to be authenticated and secured. The future of identity-first security which includes, CLM, PKI, and machine identity management, will be underpinned by openness and interoperability, and so integrations like this are vital to enable CISOs and their teams to overcome traditional operational challenges with certificate and machine identity management.”
The Standard Edition of Key Manager Plus starts at $475 per year for 25 keys and is available for download at https://mnge.it/Tli. A fully functional, free, 30-day trial version, the Evaluation Edition, is also available to download, which automatically turns into the Free Edition at the end of the trial period. Find detailed pricing information here: https://mnge.it/vrW.
Anito Legends early access out now
Starting August 31, players can use their Anito NFTs to play the early access version of the game.
Manila, Philippines, August 31, 2022, – The much-awaited early access of Filipino-made autobattler title Anito Legends is finally here!
Playable on multiple platforms such as PC, Mac, Android, and iOS, Anito Legends early access comes with all the features implemented in the game’s beta version. This includes two different game modes – Adventure Mode (PvE) and Arena Mode (PvP), synchronized player data across different platforms via Cloud Save, and all quality-of-life elements that ensure smooth and enjoyable gameplay.
“We are very excited to see what our community thinks about Anito Legends early access,” shares James Chua, Anito Legends Chief Executive Officer. “We hope that everyone will enjoy playing through both Adventure Mode (PvE) and Arena Mode (PvP) as much as the team has enjoyed working on it.”
“Early access is just the start of the Anito Legends roadmap,” says Jayvee Fernandez, Chief Marketing Officer of Anito Legends. “The community has much content to look forward to, and we are excited to share every single step of the journey with our community members.”
Three (3) Anito NFTs are required to play the Anito Legends early access. Fans and community members who were able to participate in the game’s recent private and current public sales will get to utilize these Anitos to jumpstart their in-game adventures starting August 31, 2022.
For those interested in getting into Anito Legends, an upcoming public sale via the Anito Legends Marketplace will be open on September 1, 2022.
More features such as Battle Pass, special towers, additional Anito classes, scholarship programs, and more, will be coming soon. To know more about Anito Legends, visit www.anitolegends.com.
