TIME | AGENDA | SPEAKER |
11.00 AM | Registration, Networking Buffet Lunch & Showcase Discovery |
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12.00 PM | Welcome & Opening Address | Teng Fang Yih, Editor, Computerworld Singapore & Computerworld Malaysia |
12.10 PM | No Running, Just Running
There is no escaping it. The global economic recession is a reality. The directive from top management and the board is always about enabling business growth. The information explosion is a reality. The shrinking ICT budgets are a reality. All these are problems in the brave new world that enterprise ICT executives and all professionals running data centres—regardless of level at their organisations—have to solve. This is an overview of the issues behind these problems, and the technologies and strategies that can take organisations some ways toward resolving them. | Industry expert |
12.40 PM | Optimising Data Centre Performance: Perfection by Design
Data centres host mission-critical applications within a tightly controlled environment. At the DC design stage, focus tends to be placed on ensuring that the applications can be deployed effectively on day one. However, equally important is a design imperative that the physical layer network architecture manages the numerous iterations of active equipment and applications that will be connecting to the network over its lifetime. This can only be achieved by taking a holistic design approach. | Dr Ispran Kandasamy, Vice President & Managing Director, Asia Pacific, CommScope Enterprise Solutions |
1.10 PM | Stop Buying Storage
In today’s economic climate, you need a smart strategy to meet the challenge of shrinking IT budgets. While many things are uncertain, one thing is sure: your business will continue to generate data. Take control of ever-increasing storage costs. Join us at this session and find out Symantec’s proactive four-step strategy to better utilise your existing storage assets.
| Samuel Ng, Technical Consultant, Symantec Singapore
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1.40 PM | Sponsor presentation | Industry expert, Check Point Software Technologies |
2.10 PM | Coffee/Tea Break & Showcase Discovery |
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2.40 PM | The Green Imperative, Bottomlined
Strategies for making your data centre a paragon of sustainable ICT virtue, delivering not just a great corporate reputation, but also the cost savings, infrastructural flexibility and the enablement of more revenue streams and business growth. There’s also the legal requirement for ‘greening’ that may come knocking… | Industry expert |
3.10 PM | Faster. Better. Stronger.
The consolidation initiative provide enterprises today with compelling benefit such as reduced total operating cost in the current economic weather. By simplifying & streaming the datacenter infrastructure; it helps to ease up the complexities of network security issues amid the growing sophistication of threats. In today’s session, we share how you can unleash the power of consolidation taking your data centre to the next level of competency.
| Robin Liao, Technical Manager, Fortinet Asia South and Hong Kong |
3.40 PM | Better by Design – Changing The Rules of Backup & DR
Software behind storage and server virtualisation that can deliver all the value it promises, and the architecture for its most effective deployment.
| Simon Ng, Regional Director, South Asia Pacific, FalconStor Software, Inc.
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4.10 PM | Panel Discussion: Eminently Do-able?
A discussion of whether major techologies driving the virtualisation, ‘cloud’ computing, software-as-a-service, and sustainable ICT movements, can really empower an organisation to do what it needs to do in the next 12 months to stay afloat and/or even thrive when the markets are shrinking.
| Panelists: All speakers
Moderator: Teng Fang Yih, Editor, Computerworld Singapore & Computerworld Malaysia
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4.30 PM | Lucky draw & Closing |
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