Technlogy News
Merlin Entertainments Hyperconvergence with SimpliVity

SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure revolutionizing enterprise IT, today announced that Merlin Entertainments has standardized on SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure to revolutionize its data center. SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure dramatically reduces capital and operational expenses (CAPEX and OPEX), while ensuring high performance and availability for Merlin’s business-critical applications. As a result of its recent move to SimpliVity, Merlin projects a three-year total cost of ownership (TCO) saving for its new theme parks and attractions, compared to alternative solutions, of 25%.
The £1.2 billion organization is the largest European-based entertainment company. Globally, Merlin operates 110 attractions in 23 countries. Some of the most renowned and famous resort theme parks and midway attractions in the world are operated by Merlin, including LEGOLAND® resorts, Madame Tussauds, and SEA LIFE aquariums, among others.
Merlin was looking to streamline operations, simplify management, and free up its IT team to work on more innovative and business-progressing initiatives. The organization needed a solution that would reliably support its revenue-critical retail systems, ticketing and admission systems, hotel management systems, and core IT services. After vetting solutions from a number of vendors, Merlin decided that SimpliVity was the perfect fit for the global entertainments company.
“The product’s built-in data protection capabilities, ease of implementation and operation, and tight vCenter integration were major differentiators,” said Sean Channon, Global Infrastructure Architect, Merlin Entertainments.
“With SimpliVity, we no longer have to rely on in-house server or storage experts for routine system admin and support tasks. Instead, a small team of IT generalists efficiently manages our entire global operation.”
Thanks to SimpliVity’s operational efficiency, Merlin can now get a site up and running quickly, deploying the essential IT required to run attractions in hours when it used to take days with the organization’s previous data center technology, enabling faster time to revenue. The SimpliVity solution also offers built-in data protection and enables data backup and recovery to occur in seconds or minutes as opposed to hours or even days with its previous IT infrastructure.
“It’s great to see Merlin Entertainments benefitting from the exceptional operational efficiencies that SimpliVity delivers,” said Klaus Seidl, vice president of EMEA sales, SimpliVity.
“IT is changing dramatically, as leading companies spur the move from maintaining complex infrastructure to serving the current and future needs of their businesses with the power of simplified IT.”
SimpliVity’s operational efficiency is a global trend. According to an April 2016 IDC White Paper sponsored by SimpliVity1, customers increased the time spent on innovation and new projects from 16% to 29%–the equivalent of an 81% increase. Organizations in the study were also able to spend their budget more wisely as the study notes that companies increased the percent of budget spent on new technology projects and purchases by an equivalent of 33%, as opposed to budget spent maintaining existing infrastructure.
SimpliVity remains the only hyperconverged infrastructure provider to combine all the functionality of an entire data center stack below the hypervisor—including compute, storage, network switching, replication, backup, and more—onto industry-standard x86 hardware. The company was founded on the belief that modern data centers need to be greatly simplified in order to function at the highest level of performance and efficiency, and deliver the greatest economical value to businesses.
SimpliVity Hyperconvergence is available in the Philippines through its partner distributor, MSI-ECS. To learn more about it and how it can help your business, contact MSI-ECS at (02) 688-3509 / (02) 688-3501 or email them at inquiry@msi-ecs.com.ph. Visit http://www.msi-ecs.com.ph or follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Stratpoint
#Stratpoint Reinforces Ability to Deliver Modern Software Architectures through Partnership with #MongoDB

Stratpoint Technologies, accelerator of digital transformation through software, managed QA, cloud, data, and AI, is now a value-added reseller and consulting services partner of MongoDB. The partnership allows Stratpoint to offer more companies a comprehensively modern software architecture and, in turn, increases MongoDB’s footprint in the Philippines.
MongoDB is the developer data platform that provides the services and tools necessary to build distributed applications fast, at the performance and scale users demand. At the heart of the platform is MongoDB’s document database that stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents, making it the best way to work with data. MongoDB’s distributed architecture also makes high availability, horizontal scaling, and geographic distribution simple and seamless.
“We chose to partner with MongoDB because of its ability to support modern software architectures such as microservices — a perfect fit in the technology portfolio of Stratpoint. Using MongoDB as part of the solution architecture modernizes the migration of customers to the cloud. With MongoDB as part of our portfolio, we will provide more value to our clients, as we help them respond to the increasing demands of the digital economy,“ said Sonny Carlos, Cloud and Data business head of Stratpoint.
“The Philippines is a hugely exciting market for MongoDB, with a large and talented population of developers and thousands of innovative companies.We look forward to working with Stratpoint to help these organizations harness the full power of MongoDB by equipping their technical teams with the tools, training, and certifications they need to succeed,” said Stewart Garrett, Regional Vice President ASEAN at MongoDB.
With Agile software development, MongoDB, and AWS services, Stratpoint delivers a truly modern and future-ready approach to digital transformation.
Companies who want to leverage the power of MongoDB may acquire it from the AWS Marketplace, MongoDB’s cloud service Atlas, or directly from Stratpoint. For more information, visit www.stratpoint.com.
About Stratpoint Technologies
Stratpoint accelerates digital transformation of businesses, delivering enterprise-grade solutions globally for more than 20 years. We specialize in agile software development, managed QA, cloud, data, and AI. Visit www.stratpoint.com.
About MongoDB
MongoDB is the developer data platform company empowering innovators to create,
transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Headquartered in New York, MongoDB has more than 40,800 customers in over 100 countries. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 365 million times and there have been more than 1.8 million registrations for MongoDB University courses.
Technlogy News
Why Innovation Matters: Revolutionizing #Education with #EdTech and #AI

Education is changing in different ways, but the future is bright because of the innovations EdTech and AI can offer
The existence of AI and EdTech platforms is something that learners and educators cannot question anymore. They have changed how education runs, and it will continue to be adapted to the growing innovation in learning. But why does it matter?
While there is skepticism towards using AI and technology in education, 21st-century learners and educators won’t deny how it assisted them to become better performers in the classroom. It helped drive growth by streamlining innovative methods that a traditional classroom cannot do alone. The support it can give to schools is needed to create future-ready learners. However, even with the existence of AI, it will never replace teachers, but it will complement and extend their expertise for every learner.
Quipper and ELSA Speak wanted to highlight this when they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) last year.
“Our collaboration aims to support the education sector in elevating the quality of education in the Philippines by integrating the power of EdTech and AI. ELSA Speak, an AI-driven English-speaking coach, together with Quipper, the leading EdTech and LMS platforms in the Philippines, aims to revolutionize education beyond the current means that we have,” said Yusuke Takagi, CEO of Quipper Philippines
Here’s how AI and EdTech can help elevate learning in classrooms, as shared by Quipper and ELSA Speak:
Increases efficiency in a classroom. Most of the time, teachers must spend hours evaluating a student’s homework and activities. It takes away the time to create, update, and deliver lessons to students. Without an ample amount of time, teachers will sacrifice the quality of education that they can give to students.
With AI and an EdTech platform, it can help manage the teachers’ workload by intervening with their operational activities. For example, on ELSA’s speech recognition platform, AI evaluates students’ spoken English and provides detailed feedback on pronunciation, grammar, and fluency with accuracy rate of 95 percent. Grading English lessons will now be easier for teachers. Moreover, an EdTech platform like Quipper offers automated checking of students’ activities and an item analysis feature to monitor students’ performance in class easier.
Learning is more personalized for students. Nothing beats a learning environment where students can excel while elevating their individuality. But due to the number of students a teacher handles, most of the time, educators need to offer their attention to fully assist them in their growth.
That is why AI supports teachers by giving them data that can be used for proper assessments, like how ELSA’s adaptive system uses a student’s behavior and performance to create a personalized learning path. Whereas with Quipper, teachers can access over 4000+ downloadable study guides as alternatives to textbooks and 1000+ video lessons to enhance their students’ learning.
To develop their teaching profession. Teachers must adapt to the changing tides of education, so professional development is vital to improving an educator’s effectiveness in delivering quality learning.
For example, ELSA Speak, as an AI-driven English-speaking coach, can help deliver excellent lessons for learners and educators to improve their English communication skills. It will enhance their competitiveness as a teacher. On the other hand, Quipper, as an EdTech and LMS platform, can help offer comprehensive guides and other teaching resources to support the learning environment they will provide for their students.
Indeed, there is much to gain when innovation is prioritized in education. The collaboration of teachers and students while integrating technology—AI and EdTech—will develop a conducive education for all.
“Our move to collaborate with Quipper aims to bridge the gap between teachers and EdTech plus AI. We want to demonstrate how vital it is to adopt this pairing to improve the education we can offer our students. This is a change for the better, and we hope to see this even more in the future,” said Vu Van, Founder and CEO of ELSA Speak.
To learn more about Quipper Philippines and its other programs and initiatives, visit https://www.quipper.com/ph/.
Technlogy News
TPV Leads the Philippines as #1 in Unbundled Market for 2021 – International Data Center

TPV Technology Limited, the global manufacturer of leading PC Monitor brands AOC and Philips Monitors, is #1 in the Philippines in the Unbundled Market in 2021, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker, 2021 Q4.
In its Fourth Quarter report, the International Data Corporation revealed market figures capturing the performance of different monitor brands in the Philippines. The data shows that for the entire 2021, TPV leads the market as the #1 monitor manufacturer in unbundled sales in the Philippine Market.
TPV, which manufactures AOC and Philips Monitors, sold over 155,000 units in 2021, representing 18.46% of all unbundled units sold in the Philippine market for the year. This large market share is a testament to the continued trust that consumers put into monitors made by TPV – showing how many users still prefer AOC and Philips Monitors over other brands, especially coming from a very unprecedented time in global events these past few years.
Many users continue to trust TPV-manufactured monitors because of the consistent high-quality products that TPV produces. Both AOC and Philips Monitors offer products that showcase innovation on different use cases. AOC and Philips Monitors are known for innovative features that make their products more productive for work like the SmoothTouch-enabled Philips Monitors 242B9T, and give a better entertainment experience for gaming and movies, like the entire line of AOC AGON Gaming Monitors.
With this recognition, TPV will not be resting with its laurels. Being #1 inspires TPV to continue bringing to market innovative monitors designed with the users’ experience in mind as the first and primary consideration.
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