Event Details

Organizations are faced with increasingly complex IT infrastructure and systems to cope with the expansion in the scale and scope of their business. For years, many enterprises have tried the proprietary approaches of decoupling the existing systems and many have in turn got trapped in the vicious, "stop-gap" cycle of reskilling, reimplementation, upholding costly annual maintenance fee of enterprise applications and relearning users' needs sporadically across organizations.

Virtualization and Service-oriented architecture (SOA) are buzzwords in the industry but what do they mean? Virtualization is the process of presenting a subset or grouping of computing resources so that they can be accessed in ways that give benefits over the original configuration. SOA is the underlying structure supporting communications between services and software. The word “Service” in SOA refers to business services, which capture business capabilities in digital form, making them available for reconfiguration and reconnection to meet a constantly changing landscape of business needs.

While Virtualization promises to simplify the hardware management task and make computing resources highly adaptable, SOA promises to break down the “prison walls” erected by conventional software applications platforms, making software resources more flexibly available. Together, virtualization and SOA help build a highly flexible system for IT consolidation and standardization to achieve optimum business performance efficiency. In a nutshell, it means moving away from a siloed world by breaking away from departmental stovepipes to a more integrated enterprise where IT and business are much more closely aligned.

An IDC worldwide forecast* in March 2006 projected that SOA spending in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan, is expected to increase rapidly at a compound annual growth rate of 71% from 2005-2010, exceeding that of America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. (*Source: Worldwide SOA-based Services 2006-2010 Forecast: Demand for Services Continues as Adoption Expands Across Industries and Geographies, IDC #35072, March 2006)

According to IDC’s end-user survey conducted in February 2006 with 447 respondents from a broad spectrum of US companies, the top 3 reasons for adopting infravision are the need to achieve optimal use of IT resources, increase internal process efficiency, and being able to support a dynamic business environment. However, senior management of most enterprises, with the exception of a few forward-thinking corporations, still question if Infravision is “reality” or just another one of those IT “fads” or “promises”.

IDC is pleased to launch the Asia/Pacific IT Infravision Conference, themed "Harnessing the Power of SOA and Virtualization!" from 12 September through to the 22 November across 12 cities in Asia.

At the conference, IDC will address the following topics on Infravision and more:

• Building a SOA: where to start- the business or IT side
  
• Types of Virtualization: What can be and what needs to be virtualized
• Building an architecture that helps in aligning IT decisions with business objectives
• Consolidation and integration of IT infrastructure with Virtualization to benefit the bottom line
  

This one-day event is designed for CEO, CFO, CTO, CIO, MDs, Directors, VPs, Chief Marketing & Sales Officers, Research & Development, Business Development and Strategy, Finance & Accounting, IT Directors & Project Officers, Consultants, Analysts, IT Administrators / Engineers, Systems Architect/Designers from some of these industries:

• Information & Communication Technology
• Government Bodies and Associations
• Banking and Finance
• Technology vendors
• Telecom & Media
• Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Chemicals
• Equipment & Design Manufacturers
• Travel & Transportation Services
• Warehousing & Logistics
• Energy & Utilities
• Engineering
• FMCG
• Services
  

You can register for this event on the IDC Circle at www.IDCcircle.com on a complimentary basis if you are a decision maker in an IT/ Marketing/ Sales/ Finance role from non-vendor organizations only otherwise a conference fee of HK$600 applies. IDC reserves the right to decline any registration deemed inappropriate both online and on-site.

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For any registration queries, please contact Holly Fung at email hfung@idc.com or tel: +852-2905-4225.