ADMU bags 5th CFA Institute Research Challenge Local Finals

Midas Investments, composed of students from Ateneo de Manila University won the 5th CFA Institute Research Challenge (IRC) Local Finals held at the PSE Auditorium in Ortigas, Pasig City, besting 4 universities in the local finals out of the seven universities that joined this year’s CFA IRC.

The ADMU team, composed of Mary Kryslette Bunyi, James Nicolas Cruz, Edrielle Paule Enriquez, Mikhael Florelio Llado, and Ma. Regina Paz Onglao, won PhP 100,000 as a cash prize and earned the spot to represent the country at the regionals in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as team “CFA Philippines.”

XSTIG: Dell Launches 12th Generation Servers

Dell announced a portfolio of blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers optimized for use in demanding enterprise environments. As the only one of the top five server vendors to grow server revenues in Q4 2011 with 9.7 percent year-over-year revenue growth , Dell continues to innovate to deliver features that are industry firsts and make the PowerEdge 12th generation servers the company’s highest performing, most manageable servers ever. With this new server series, customers ranging from small businesses to hyper-scale data centers can help maximize efficiency by streamlining and automating operations, help achieve better business application performance and business continuity.  

“Dell designed the new PowerEdge servers with input gathered from more than 7,700 customer interactions in 17 countries across four continents,” said Christopher Papa, Country Manager, Dell Philippines. “Our customers told us that they need end-to-end solutions to handle the complex workload problems they face every day. As such, we built our new generation of servers, systems management and workload solutions to address the needs of business end users who require maximum performance to run mission-critical applications and IT departments which demand more efficient, secure and reliable operations.” 

PowerEdge 12th Generation Server Portfolio 

The new PowerEdge R820, R720, R720xd and R620 rack servers, the M620 blade server, the T620 tower server and C6220 based on a shared Dell infrastructure server built on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 product family are the foundation of a complete, flexible IT solution including Dell’s extensive portfolio of storage, networking and client components and professional IT services. The next-generation PowerEdge servers, along with systems management and workload solutions, are designed to deliver performance and management gains to effectively power the most demanding applications, including collaboration, IT and web infrastructure, high performance computing, decision support and business processing.