DOST- ITDI taps global markets, 2020 Techno Offering showcases improved products

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The Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) will end the year 2020 with a techno offering of eight commercially viable food products for the food industry. Some eight improved products and processes will be presented on December 11, 2020, during the “2020 ITDI Techno Offering” in a bid to drive forward food industry thrusts.

At the crest of global demand is increased consumer awareness and the need for food products with improved functionalities such as sports nutrition, functional beverages, and dietary supplement.

A previous decrease in the functional beverages market from $128.66 billion in 2019 to $125.39 billion in 2020 is expected to recover post the COVID-19 crisis. Economic projections point to a growth rate of 8.07% from 2021 thus allowing the market to reach $158.28 billion in 2023.

ITDI will thus be presenting isotonic coco drink and mungbean coconut milk drink under this category. The former is a coconut water-based beverage, which is naturally rich in potassium and considerable amounts of sodium, magnesium, and chloride. It can thus help in hydration and maintenance of the body’s balance of electrolytes, supplying energy during or after heavy physical or sports activities.

The latter, mungbean infused with coconut milk, is a great alternative for lactose-intolerant consumers. We can now satisfy their thirst with a twist for wellness in a shelf-stable, non-dairy, and ready-to-drink beverage.

However, the multiplicity of functions come naturally to these two products for they can also complete your "Go Bag" during emergencies together with two other ready-to-eat foods in the techno offering. Thus, RTE Smoked Fish and RTE Sweet Potato plus isotonic coco drink and mungbean coconut milk drink can help you successfully pass away your first 48 hours during an emergency.

Further, this year’s Techno Offering considers the current global cocoa and chocolate market, which is projected by the candy industry to reach $67.22 billion by the end of 2025, up from the $43.13 billion it was at in 2017.

In support, ITDI is offering an improved process to produce gourmet chocolate, otherwise known as tablea liquor in a bar, and ready-to-drink tablea. The process produces ultra-smooth and chocolatier chocolate drinks.

Upwards of the convenience food market, a changing lifestyle of consumers in North America, Europe, and South East Asia is demanding for convenience food, mostly ready-to-eat food products.

Most of these products use iodized and, or plain food-grade salts as a preservative. With more and more food-grade salts being used as a flavor enhancer, the trend is encouraging many salt manufacturers to innovate and introduce new flavored food-grade salts.

Tagging along these lines, ITDI has improved its salt iodization machine and has developed gourmet salts to serve these markets. During the Techno Offering, it will be presenting aroma infused salts with extracts from seaweeds like “lato" or sea grapes, shiitake mushroom, and shrimp heads. Others include salts with a smoky aroma of guava, mango, and tamarind leaves.

The 2020 ITDI Techno Offering is open to businesses interested to know more about the new food products of ITDI. Just register to the link indicated here. (AMGuevarra\\ DOST-ITDI S&T Media Service)

On International Day of Human Rights: Fulfillment of women’s rights to jobs, livelihood crucial to children’s health, well-being

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More jobs and livelihood for women in conflict-affected Mindanao provinces will improve the lives of thousands of displaced children and their families who face risks from lingering armed conflict, and the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The child rights organization Save the Children Philippines marks the International Day of Human Rights, calling for the strengthening of women’s rights to economic empowerment, and critical participation in the labor force.

“The realization of women’s rights to socio-economic development is critical to the fulfillment of children’s rights to health and survival, access to learning and well-being,” said Atty. Alberto Muyot, Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children Philippines.

In partnership with the Task Force Bangon Marawi and local government agencies, Save the Children Philippines is implementing emergency assistance for the recovery of Marawi City through the Restoring Livelihoods and Learning Project, funded by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction through the Asian Development Bank.

BARMM recorded the highest unemployment at 21.50 per cent (Philippine Statistics Authority, September 2020) as an adverse impact of the global pandemic and displacement due to armed conflict in the area contributing to the financial crisis of affected families in Marawi.

Edwin Horca, BARMM Team Leader of Save the Children Philippines said the project aims to provide emergency income and livelihood support to displaced families, with focus on supporting the role of women, youth in Marawi and its neighboring municipalities.

“We aim to expedite the delivery of gender sensitive interventions on emergency employment, livelihoods and education. We want to empower women by promoting their right to participate in their community’s economic progression. Women’s empowered participation in economic activities contribute to a transformative and authentic peacebuilding,” said Horca.

The project is now providing skills training, financial and livelihood support for women’s group in different communities for traditional weaving and other local products which were identified by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Task Force Bangon Marawi.

Baicon Cayongcat Nuska of Raheemah Women’s Group said the project will not only help the Maranao women on their financial needs but will significantly contribute to the overall economic advancement of the city promoting their local products. “These women will be our future manpower for the upcoming establishment of the Raheemah Economic Hub and Development Center in Marawi.”

“We are thankful for this project for its efficient and effective strategy to ensure that conflict-affected women are given the opportunity to livelihood and that no woman will be left behind,” said Nuska.

Photo Caption: Conflict-affected women living in Mipaga Transitory Site, Marawi show their skills in beadweaving which they learned from the training with Raheema Women's Group. Raw materials are supplied by the Restoring Livelihoods and Learning in Marawi project funded the Japan Government through Asian Development Bank in collaboration with Save the Children Philippines and the Department of Trade and Industry.  Photo taken in Marawi on November 26, 2020. Photo by Aedrian Araojo/Save the Children Philippines 

Which one do you choose- AWS or Microsoft Azure?

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Any organization whether it is vast or small works on data that can be in any form. Data storage becomes an essential part of the organization, as each step of the business plan depends upon data, and with growing businesses data increases significantly. Traditionally, data storage solutions were physical storage like a hard drive, then those devices need to be secured somewhere. In today’s time, companies and businesses are much more conscious about the safety and security of storing their business information in one place. In the digital era, every step we take and every move we make online will be counted, which is super essential for organizations to understand the buying and consumption patterns of their consumers. Not even online, but also offline, this is the time of smart devices which are self-data generating and well connected to the internet, thanks to the internet of things (Iot). With the help of Iot, we can get the details, how products are used. Because the smart devices are connected and help in understanding the consumption patterns. 

With the launch of technological innovations, corporations have moved from conventional storage machines in the direction of more augmented and efficient cloud storage solutions. Now, Business does not have to worry about losing their vital data because cloud storage program helps to keep their crucial industry data protected. Cloud has renovated the direction in which organizations manage their data. The information is on cloud-based storage servers is retrieved with the help of the internet. The companies which provide the network services and structure for the cloud are called cloud service providers (CSPs). Amazon and Microsoft are the two cloud help sources.

The public cloud platforms help consumers gain new resources, without including investing in new hardware or software anymore. Instead, they pay their cloud service supplier a subscription fee or pay only for the reserves they use. Merely by fill up web forms, users can set up accounts and spin up virtual machines or provision new applications.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are two of the greatest names in the world of public cloud computing. Which one is right for you? To help you make that conclusion, let us have a look at how these are putting their steps into the real world.

 

 

Microsoft Azure	Amazon Web Service (AWS)
Azure is the cloud service platform provided by Microsoft, which delivers services in various domains, like compute, storage, networking, database, and other functionality that supports businesses. Microsoft announced Azure in 2010. It is evolving as one of the prominent business-related cloud service suppliers. Software Developers and other personnel employ these services to build, operate, and coordinate services and applications through the cloud. Azure services are divided into the platform service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)	The name of the cloud service platform provided by Amazon is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS was launched in 2006 and turn out to be the best cloud platform amongst the other cloud platforms. The various domains it provides services in are- Storage Service, Computing Service, and other functions that support businesses to expand. These services cater to operate with each other to generate an accessible and efficient result. These can be applied to develop and coordinate several applications in the cloud platform. Amazon Web Services are further classified into three types such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and platform as a service (PaaS).
Microsoft’s estimating is also pay-as-you-go, but they cost per minute, which offers a more precise pricing model. Azure also provides short-term promises with the alternative between pre-paid or monthly charges.	Amazon Web Services charges per hour. Amazon has a pay-as-you-go model. Services are purchasable on the following models: On-demand: Pay for what you use without direct cost. Reserved: Example for 1 or 3 years with direct cost on a user basis. Spot: Clients bid for extra capability available.
Microsoft offers Virtual Network (VNET) that enables users the ability to create isolated networks as well as subnets, route tables, private IP address ranges, and network gateways. Both services offer solutions to prolong the on-premises data center into the cloud and firewall option.	AWS provides VPC, i.e., Virtual private cloud facilitates the user to create separated networks inside the cloud. Within VPC, a user can build subnets, route tables, private IP address ranges, and network gateways.
Azure users choose Virtual Hard Disk (VHD), which is corresponding to a Machine Instance, to create a VM. Virtual Hard Disk can be pre-shaped by Microsoft, the user, or a 3rd party. The user should require the number of cores and memory.	AWS EC2 users can set up their own VMs or choose pre-configured device images or modify MIs. Customers select the size, power, memory capacity, and number of VMs, and choose from various areas and accessibility zones.
Azure is accessible to Hybrid cloud systems. Tools like- SQL database and Active Directory work well with Azure.	AWS is enclosed to private or third-party cloud providers. AWS also delivers more elasticity, capacity, and customization. But there is a learning curve with AWS.
Being a topnotch IT Provider, Microsoft has great assistance for hybrid cloud services, with platforms like Hybrid SQL Server, Azure StorSimple, and Azure Stack, a new hybrid cloud podium product brings almost full public Azure functionality to your own on-premises data centers using the same pay-as-you-go pricing model it offers for its public cloud.	AWS unveiled Snowball Edge, a 100TB hard drive for shifting loads between its cloud and clients’ data centers. It also added a hybrid element to its portfolio when it collaborated with VMware to allow its customers to rush into its cloud environments.
Azure brings native integration for the tools like- VBS, SQL database, Active Directory, in case one is already using these window development tools. Azure supports open source and now can run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Apache Hadoop clusters, despite Microsoft has not always incorporated the model.	In this platform, there are more open-source integrations available which include GitHub and Jenkins. And it also supports Linux servers.
Microsoft alleges to have more than 50 compliant offerings, which include ITAR, DISA, HIPAA, CJIS, FIPS.	Amazon compliance offerings include certifications in ITAR, DISA, HIPAA, CJIS, FIPS, and more.

 

Final Thoughts-

With the above comparison or explanation, one can easily select the required services, both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services are capable of catering to the best of their abilities and still evolving. Cloud is a new technology and any addition to these technologies will not surprise us in the future. It is found that these two cloud platforms have strong competencies. It is hard to select any one of them. It depends upon the business need while choosing from, you’ll be obtaining the profits of a hyper scalable cloud solution that can encounter your growing business requirements. Where on one side AWS is more flexible and provides additional features, but when it comes to Hybrid cloud and integration with Microsoft stack, Azure is an exceptional choice. Therefore, organizations can choose any of the cloud platforms, according to their requirements.

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Author’s Name- Palak Airon
Author’s Bio- Data Scientist personnel with over 8 years of professional experience in the IT industry. Competent in Data Science and Digital Marketing. Expertise in professionally researched technical Content Writing.