Part 3: The Urgent Need for a Future-Ready Board
~ Dr. Justo Ortiz of UnionBank ‘shows us the money’!

Or, how to bring in the money, at the very least.

To be future-ready, one has to be future-thinking. Ortiz’s UnionBank seemingly is ahead of counterparts supported by some digital banking excellence global awards. The bank’s Board has ‘Future-ready’ written on its target bull’s eye.

The old model does not work anymore. The constant nagging of ‘Change in mindset’ beats ‘Unlearn and relearn only by a few blips.

Part 2: A few easy steps

“Boards that are digitally savvy outperform (their non-savvy counterparts),” shared Aliza Knox in a recent online general membership meeting of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP). Knox is Non Executive Director, Grant Thornton International Ltd.

Numbers don’t lie.

~ Immediate change in mindset first step towards digital transformation

Last Tuesday, 18 August 2020, the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) held its 6th Online General Membership Meeting. MAP president Atty. Francis Lim opened the session summarizing the association’s efforts in times of pandemic.

MAP easily transitioned to digital delivering GMMs on ICT, digital transformation, platforms, security, etc. “MAP is showing leadership and resilience in a digital ecosystem… with topics that are relevant, and speakers that are world class,” said Atty. Lim.

From: ADTMAG

Red Hat today announced the general availability of the 7.2 release of its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). This release comes with greater compliance with Java Enterprise Edition (EE) 8, JDK 11, Java SE 11 and additional support for Microsoft Windows and enterprise Java microservices.

From: DEV CLASS

Red Hat has shipped updated versions of Ansible Tower and Ansible Engine this week, just meeting the deadline it set back in January for the latest versions of its automation and configuration toolset.

From: The Daily Swig

Patches released for latest builds, but older versions are still vulnerable

Several vulnerabilities in open source email suite Zimbra could be leveraged in a chained attack leading to remote code execution (RCE), a security researcher has found.

From: ZDNet

The Department of Justice has approved IBM's acquisition of Red Hat. Since IDC thinks Red Hat Enterprise Linux alone is expected to contribute to more than $10 trillion worth of global business revenues in 2019, IBM's $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat is looking better than ever.

From: redhat.com

Building a better logo for us

There were lots of reasons why we changed our logo.

Starting over was never part of our strategy. We needed to keep a certain amount of recognizability, so we chose an evolutionary path.
 
 
Ok, so what happened to the guy?

UR Solutions was recently appointed by Untangle, The integrated Open Source Network Gateway software designed for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more, to be its RP partner for marketing and technical support. UR Solutions has been in the business of open source for the past three years and will be an ideal partner for this exciting new software that will make gateway management a much easier task.­

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