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8:30 am |
Registration & Welcome Coffee & Tea |
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9:00 am |
Welcome Address and
Opening Remarks |
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Sapphire
Yong
Vice President, Marketing
and Strategy, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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9:15 am |
Datacenter Priorities in A/P: What is Most Important for End-Users? |
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Vernon Turner
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Infrastructure, Consumer and Telecom Research,
IDC |
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There is much talk around building more efficient and forward-looking datacenters such that IT can become an important enabler in business growth. Starting with the more mature markets, IDC expects an increased focus among the Asia/Pacific end users in rejuvenating IT datacenters to better support the rapidly changing business needs in the future. According to results from IDC’s latest end-user Survey conducted across 13 countries in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan in early 2007, end users have increased their focus on power, virtualization and cooling issues and are placing a lot of emphasis on improving availability/uptime and driving simplification through better tools. The more mature markets like Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, where the demand to invest in IT hardware has slowed-down relative to the emerging/growing markets are looking for better availability and seem more concerned about the power and cooling issues. In comparison, the rapidly growing hardware investments in growing & emerging countries like India, China and Vietnam are forcing end-users to prioritize deploying better management & automation tools to manage the rising complexity over other issues. Virtualization, which has started in the last few years in A/P, was rated equally important in both market segments
In this presentation, Mr. Turner will discuss the regional findings in greater detail comparing them with trends in US, and drawing conclusions around what IDC feels should be the key priorities for end-users. |
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9:45 am |
Innovations for the Future of Data Center Computing |
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William Wu
Regional Platform Marketing Manager, Server Platforms Group, Asia Pacific, Intel Technology Asia Pte Ltd
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IT faces significant challenges in managing data center cost and efficiency. Servers have proliferated but are often underutilized, leading to higher capital, support, maintenance, and power & cooling costs. The Data Center Infrastructure is evolving and about to change forever. Key technology innovations in Multi-Core, Virtualization, Energy Efficiency, Scalable Performance and Data Center designs are creating on a new generation of computing dynamics. As this generation emerges, traditional paradigms will evolve or disappear altogether. In this session, Intel will discuss new silicon innovations and platform technologies that will become mainstream in the next several years.
Intel is at the forefront of computing and along with the hardware, software and ecosystem partners, Intel is driving a Data Center vision that meets the needs of IT. |
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10:15 am |
Virtualization 2.0: Management, Mobility and Optimization |
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Kim Simon Ward
Senior Technical Consultant, Atos Origin |
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One of the key trends within Datacentre Server platform is a trend towards virtualization. The reasons for choosing virtualization are diverse, but generally related to factors such as:
- Improving server hardware utilization (often at 30-40% in many current implementations)
- Reducing server housing costs – particularly power and cooling
- Achieving greater flexibility within the Datacenter
However, virtualization brings with it an increased complexity:
- While each individual Virtual Machine is managed just like a standard server, the underlying virtualization software also requires management.
- The ease with which a Virtual Machine can be archived, paused, copied, brings new flexibility to the Datacenter. However, this proliferation of Virtual Machines can easily get out of control without sufficient management, maintenance and documentation. Virtual Machine provisioning is therefore a key new element within any Virtualization implementation.
- Larger virtualization environments spread the Virtual Machine load across a whole ‘farm’ of servers. This brings new and compelling redundancy capabilities and capacity optimization opportunities, but also brings the need for centralized management.
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10:45 am |
10 GbE Virtual Data Center Architectures |
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Jeremy Stieglitz
Director of Product Marketing, Force10 Networks |
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Consolidation of data center resources offers an opportunity for architectural transformation based on the use of scalable, high density, high availability technology solutions, such as high port-density 10 GbE switch/routers, cluster and grid computing, blade or rack servers, and network attached storage. Consolidation also opens doors for virtualization of applications, servers, storage, and networks. This suite of highly complementary technologies has now matured to the point where mainstream adoption in large data centers has been occurring for some time. |
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11:15 am |
Coffee
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11:30 am |
Chairperson's Remarks |
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Sapphire
Yong
Vice President, Marketing
and Strategy, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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11:40 am |
Enabling an Energy-Efficient Data Centre |
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John Chiam
Sales Director, Emerson Network Power Singapore |
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Emerson will provide an overview of current trends influencing the Data Center world with specific reference to the impact of High Density Computing. Insight into energy efficiency best practice, both from a proactive and corrective perspective, will be covered.
With an unparalleled pedigree in supporting critical IT Infrastructure that sees 100% of the Fortune 500 utilizing Emerson Network Power solutions, this presentation will benefit all IT professionals looking for enhanced system availability and flexibility while deploying the most energy efficient systems. |
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12:10 pm |
Optimizing Data Centre Performance, Operational Cost and Efficiency without Sacrificing your IT Budget |
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Tan Hong Hock
Director of Enterprise Computing, AMD |
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In today's ever-changing environment, AMD will present how a carefully planned choice of computing platform can determine the cost of deployment, management and future scalability of every data centre. While pressures to meet end-user demands continue to spiral, the presentation will also help audiences understand technology implementations that help unlock performance and cost bottlenecks which contribute to the overall running of a datacenter. |
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12:40 pm |
Driving Business Value Through Standardization |
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Sriram Iyer
Director, Enterprise Sales Finance Programs, Asia Pacific & Japan, Symantec Corporation |
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Standardization is increasingly recognized as a best practice to reduce complexity and improve IT efficiency. What are the business benefits and issues associated with standardizing on a common set of software tools and how do you evaluate them for your data center? In this session, Symantec will discuss the challenges faced in a typical heterogeneous datacentre and how standardizing on a single software layer enables consolidation, data migrations, and simplified operations of their data centers. |
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1:10 pm |
Networking
lunch |
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2:10 pm |
Chairperson's
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Sapphire
Yong
Vice President, Marketing
and Strategy, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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2:15 pm |
Blade Servers & Virtualization - Path to Utility Computing |
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Takafumi Sasaki
Director, Infrastructure Solutions, Global Business Development & Marketing Product Marketing Unit,
Fujitsu Asia |
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Information infrastructure optimization is the key focus of many companies today seeking to reduce cost while creating value for customers. Blade server virtualization technology helps build an agile operating environment that maximizes use of IT infrastructure for improved ROI, greater business continuity, enhanced availability and improved flexibility. |
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2:45 pm |
Cisco Data Center 3.0: The Next Generation Data Center Vision |
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Andre Smit
Managing Director, Data Center Asia Pacific, Cisco Systems |
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Cisco has a vision for next-generation data centers called Data Center 3.0. In this vision, Cisco introduced a broad array of innovative new data center products and solutions that will enable customers to better utilize their data center resources, deploy more robust business continuance, build cost-effective storage area networks, and enhance data security. Cisco Data Center 3.0 entails the real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server, storage and network resources, while optimizing application performance, service levels, efficiency and collaboration. |
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3:15 pm |
Building A Sustainable Corporate Growth Strategy |
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Cham Wei Heong
Business Manager, ASEAN, Red Hat (Intel-ISA Partner) |
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Understand how the upcoming release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1 provides additional high availability and storage virtualization technologies and scales to support any number of processors and guest environments thus making it the solution for today's large, high-performance Itanium systems. |
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3:45 pm |
Panel Discussion: Bringing it together - Towards a service-centric computing |
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Moderated by Avneesh Saxena
Group Vice President, Asia/Pacific Systems, Storage and Software Research, IDC Asia/ Pacific |
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4:15
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Lucky Draw |
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Stand to win an iPod Nano* worth S$248, sponsored by Intel!
* This raffle is open to all delegates attending IDC's Asia/Pacific InfraVision Conference 2007 in Singapore. All attendees have to fill up a survey form at Intel’s tabletop and the winner must be present during the draw to qualify. |
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4:20
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Closing Remarks |
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Sapphire
Yong
Vice President, Marketing
and Strategy, IDC Asia/Pacific |
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4:30 pm |
Coffee Break & End of Conference |
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The organizer reserves the right to amend the agenda,
as deemed necessary, without prior notice. The agenda
may differ across the cities where the event will
be held. |
