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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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Philippe de Marcillac
Senior Vice President of International Business Unit, IDC |
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9:15 am |
Datacenter Priorities in A/P: What is Most Important for End-Users? |
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Avneesh Saxena
Group Vice President, Asia/Pacific Systems, Storage and Software Research, IDC Asia/ Pacific |
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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, Avneesh 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 |
The Greener The Merrier: Why A Green Datacenter Matters |
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Ringo Cheung
General Manager, Services, Information System and Services Division, Fujitsu Hong Kong |
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As governments around the world are adopting more stringent regulations and requirements to protect the environment, reducing the operational footprint has become a major concern across businesses to ensure regulatory compliance. In light of this, Fujitsu will explain in detail why a Green Datacenter has become a serious matter of consideration for business and IT decision-makers. In this session, Fujitsu will give an overview on the operational approach of a Green Datacenter that can help users cut costs without compromising efficiency and performance through innovative technologies. Other effective measures such as server consolidation, virtualization and Datacenter management tips will also be discussed.
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10:15 am |
Virtualization 2.0: Management, Mobility and Optimization |
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Herman Ho
Director of IT Operations, Atos Origin Hong Kong |
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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 |
Optimizing Your Datacenter with Open Source Virtualization and Management |
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Tony Li
Senior Technical Manager, Novell Beijing |
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Novell® sees virtualization as a tremendous opportunity for its Datacenter customers. Novell envisions virtualization-enabled Datacenters in which there is highly sophisticated integration of components that are largely isolated today. It is an environment in which Novell expertise and technologies will play prominent roles. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10, the flagship Linux* platform from Novell, continues to lead the way in Datacenter virtualization, with support for both x86-based processors and mainframes. |
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11:15 am |
Coffee
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11:30 am |
Chairperson's Remarks |
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Philippe de Marcillac
Senior Vice President of International Business Unit, IDC |
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11:40 am |
10 GbE Virtual Datacenter Architectures |
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Jeremy Stieglitz
Director of Product Marketing, Force10 Networks |
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Consolidation of Datacenter 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 Datacenters has been occurring for some time. |
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12:10 pm |
Cisco Datacenter 3.0: The Next Generation Datacenter Vision |
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Benny Chan
Business Development Manager of Datacenter, Cisco Systems Asia Pacific |
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Cisco has a vision for next-generation Datacenters called Datacenter 3.0. In this vision, Cisco introduced a broad array of innovative new datacenter products and solutions that will enable customers to better utilize their datacenter resources, deploy more robust business continuance, build cost-effective storage area networks, and enhance data security. Cisco Datacenter 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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12:40 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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1:10
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Closing Remarks |
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Philippe de Marcillac
Senior Vice President of International Business Unit, IDC |
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1:15 pm |
Networking
lunch/End of Conference |
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