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ITARC Malaysia 2009 ~ Speaker & Content Synopsis

Opening Keynote

Hasan Ganny

Head of Marketing Division, Time Engineering Berhad

Hasan Ganny bin Hanif Francis has been working in the IT industry since 1990. He spent his entire career in the software development activities and since 2000, he focused mainly in the area of IT architecture where he has architected large and complex systems with one of Malaysian largest conglomerate group of companies. Since 2007, he works as the CEO of Time Engineering Berhad.

Thaib Mustafa

General Manager, Telekom Malaysia Berhad

Thaib Mustafa is General Manager, IT Strategic Planning, Group IT, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM). He has more than 17 years of experience in Telecommunications and ICT industry. He accumulated well-rounded business & technology (ICT) working experience within TM and its international subsidiaries. With wide exposure in telecommunications and ICT services over the years specifically in corporate governance, strategic business and IT alignment, technology and business architecture, systems and business development, merger and acquisitions, shared services, outsourcing, and information security management. He was instrumental in setting up and managing several projects for Telekom Malaysia such as MSC’s Flagship Application Project for Smart School, Business Continuity and Recovery Services (BIZ-Secure) for TM Product Marketing, E-Payment Gateway Services for TM Subsidiary, Group IT Master Plan, TM Group Shared Services Organisation (SSO), and TM Group Strategic Business Planning for TM Corporate Strategy. He is a member of Technical Committee 5 – Information Security Management System (ISMS) since 2005 under the Standards Malaysia/SIRIM ISCG on Information Technology – Security Techniques (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27).

Aaron Tan Dani

Chairman, IASA Asia Pacific

Aaron Tan Dani has a strong passion in the IT Architecture related field as he believes that only with proper understanding and implementation of the IT Architecture blueprint that IT will bring maximum values to the business. With this passion, he has been actively involved as a co-founder and the Chairman of International Association of Software Architects (IASA) Asia Pacific since 2004 and was actively involved in setting up and leading IASA Chapter across Asia Pacific countries. Aaron is well connected with the industry leaders and government bodies in the respective APAC countries.

With a unique combination of expertise in business, technology, culture and politics, he has more than 16 years experience in start-up companies, MNCs, government, ISV, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, consulting, FMCG, FSI and setting up of NGO bodies like ISAC-M and IASA in various countries and involved in various IT projects and roles across Asia Pacific, the US and UK. Aaron is also an active and frequent public speaker in various Industry Conferences; Seminars & Workshops presenting various IT & Business related topics across Asia Pacific regions. He is a charismatic, passionate and entertaining presenter and consistently received top 20% of Speaker Rating at various regional and international events.

Aaron was previously working as a Director of Financial Services Platform Strategy with Microsoft for more than 6 years and prior to that he was a Regional Chief Architect with one of UK’s leading IT and business strategy consulting firms based in Singapore. He holds a Master of Technology from the National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences from the University of Western Australia.

Welcome Keynote

YBhg Datuk Badlisham Ghazali

Chief Executive Officer, MDeC

Datuk Badlisham Ghazali was appointed as a Member of Perbadanan Harta Intelek Malaysia (MyIPO) on 2 July 2007. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Northern Illinois, United States of America. He is a Member of MyIPO’s Risk Management Committee and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDec).

How Market Leaders Achieve Their Business Goals Using Enterprise Architecture In These Challenging Times

The German Computerweek did a survey to find out " what would have been different .if the management could introduce an ERP system the second time ". 80% of the respondents said that they will pay more attention to the optimization of their business processes.

This is a clear indication of the need to better align our IT to our business in complex enterprise system implementation which involves heavy investment. Oracle Fusion Middleware Platform, provides a tool to optimize your business processes, to establish an Enterprise Architecture to ensure the implementation of IT system is aligned to the business objectives and strategies and to support the SOA approach for improved reusability of IT components and agility to cope with changes.

Albert Tay

Director, Service Oriented Architecture, Oracle Corporation

Albert Tay is Director and Certified Sales Leader for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In his current capacity, Mr. Tay is responsible for driving the sales and strategy of SOA products and solutions across the Asia Pacific region.

Mr. Tay brings to Oracle a broad base of experience in the middleware and enterprise business integration space. Over the last 15 years, he has developed expertise in key focus areas such as the creation of new growth engines, management of partner and skills ecosystem initiatives, and strategic business planning.

With 15 years of experience in Information Technology, business strategy and complex IT architectures and infrastructures, Mr. Tay has worked with major corporations in evaluating and adapting emerging IT technologies into existing corporate frameworks. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences and technical symposiums on topics such as SOA, open systems & software, and on-demand.

Mr. Tay holds a Bachelor Degree of Management and Marketing from Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, and is an Exco member of the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) SOA Chapter.

Beyond Business Intelligence

SAP BusinessObjects “Beyond Business Intelligence” - discover how you and your organization can benefit beyond the traditional BI benefits. At this session, you will also hear case studies of how other organizations leverage Business Intelligence to their advantage.

Learn how BI can be put into the hands of all users – from analysts to information workers to senior executives as everyone can access, understand and use information without complex programming skills, technical expertise, or knowledge of underlying data sources or structures.

Find out how you can reach a whole new level of organizational intelligence and how easy it is to put information in context and facilitate collaboration with highly visual, customizable management cockpit view to allow you to make effective and smart business decisions. Empower users, radically improve business performance, and allow IT to play a more strategic role in the organization. Be Business Intelligence enabled and not just leverage it as a tool but a critical part of your business to help you turn every opportunity into profit.

Eric Sin

Senior Director - Business User, SAP South East Asia

As the Senior Director, Business User, South East Asia, Eric is responsible for sales, marketing, professional services and strategic partnerships in South East Asia. Based in Singapore, Eric previously served as Senior Director for Mid-market Sales and Channels, and Alliances for SAP BusinessObjects, South Asia, where he was instrumental in leading the channels landscape and partner programs across the region. He was also in charge of all sales to the midmarket segment across ASEAN and India.

Eric has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. He has been involved in systems evaluation & selections, implementations, system developments, presales, direct sales, and channels management. He consulted and sold to various Industry sectors; including but not limited to telecommunications, media, Hi-tech manufacturing, food/beverages manufacturing, wholesale/distributions, logistics and transportation sectors. He enjoys enriching his experience through taking on new challenges, working with diverse culture across geography.

Prior to joining Business Objects in 2007, Eric was the director for mid-market strategy at Oracle in Asia Pacific covering all aspects of channel recruitment, enablement, engagement and measurement.

Eric is an accountant by training. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with the Bachelor of Accountancy Degree. He started his career in computing technology at Andersen Consulting (now know as Accenture).

Model-Driven Engineering Using Fact - Orientation

This presentation explains how to formulate data models with a wide variety of business rules using the very high-level graphical and textual languages supported in fact-oriented modeling, and validate those models via automated verbalization and sample data populations. It also discusses how fact-oriented data models may be used to produce data models in alternative notations, such as ER and UML, and automatically generate implementation structures such as relational database schemas and datalog schemas.

Professor Dr. Terry Halpin

INTI University College, Malaysia

Dr. Terry Halpin, BSc, DipEd, BA, MLitStud, PhD, is a Professor in computer science at INTI University College, Malaysia, and also a Principal Scientist at LogicBlox. Dr. Halpin will be leading the launch of INTI’s new Masters in Business Technology program (approval pending) in October 2009.

His industry experience includes several years in data modeling technology at Asymetrix Corporation, InfoModelers Inc., Visio Corporation, and Microsoft Corporation. His doctoral thesis formalized Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM), and his current research focuses on conceptual modeling and rule-based technology. He has authored over 150 technical publications and six books, including Information Modeling and Relational Databases and has co-edited five books on information systems modeling research. He is a member of IFIP WG 8.1 (Information Systems), is an editor or reviewer for several academic journals, is a regular columnist for the Business Rules Journal, and is a recipient of the DAMA International Achievement Award for Education (2002) and the IFIP Outstanding Service Award (2006).

The State of Software Development - how IT is Evolving Now and in the Near Future

You have heard buzzwords of cloud computing, SaaS, Storage in the Cloud and Green IT. Ultimately what does it mean to you? In current situation where managing IT is more challenging than ever you have to know what matters to you. If you are keen to find out what separates the reality and the myth of all those buzz words, join us as we give you an IT manager-centric view of Microsoft's latest roadmap for cloud computing as well as the power of choice with the latest from Microsoft.

Dr Dzaharudin Mansor

Microsoft National Technology Officer Malaysia

Dr. Dzahar received an Honors Degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University, Australia, and completed his PhD in Computer Science at La Trobe University, Australia. Dr Dzahar joined Microsoft in 2005 and has more than 24 years of professional experience in ICT and telecommunications. He started his career as a lecturer at the department of Computer Science, La Trobe University, and moved on to as a R&D engineer at Telecom Australia Research Laboratories. On returning to Malaysia, he was appointed as the R&D manager at Celcom and left the company as the Vice President for R&D and IT divisions. He subsequently worked at HP in Singapore, Vsource (M) Sdn. Bhd. and Object Innovations (M) Sdn. Bhd. in R&D, operations as well as leadership positions.

He also presently holds, and has held several associate positions including as an Adjunct Professor at UTHM, Associate Professor at UPM, Senior Management Associate of the Malaysia Industry -Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT), a councilor at PIKOM and academic advisor at several public and private Universities.

Dr. Dzahar is passionate about technology and aspires to contribute towards the nation’s Knowledge Economy initiative.

IASA IT Architect Certification Unveiled

Paul Preiss

Chief Executive Officer & Founder, IASA Global

Paul received a bachelors degree in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin. He went on to become a project manager for Human Code. Later, Paul was the Applications Manager and Architect for Dell Pan Asia based in Kawasaki, Japan. He then became the Sr. Architect for a software consulting firm in St Paul Minnesota, where he provided architecture consulting for numerous government and private enterprise clients. Paul went on to become the Director of Engineering and Chief Architect of a digital asset management company. More recently Paul has spent most of his time creating and managing the International Association of Software Architects.

Aaron Tan Dani

Chairman, IASA Asia Pacific

Cloud as Infrastructure?

The term Cloud Computing has been overloaded to mean many different things. Despite the hype, cloud does represent much of the promise of the internet for enterprise IT. Dr Michael Harries of Citrix Labs brings some clarity to the story with a look at the cloud definition; the types of offerings branded ‘cloud’; what virtual machines and desktops in the cloud can bring to the enterprise; the state of play today; how cloud is likely to evolve; and implications for enterprise architecture and infrastructure.

Dr. Michael Harries

Director of Strategy & Communications, CTO Office and Citrix Labs

Dr Michael Harries is Director of Strategy and Communications at Citrix Systems, CTO Office and Citrix Labs. As part of the Research and Development team, Dr Michael’s remit is to keep Citrix ahead of technological and market innovation. Within the CTO Office, Dr Michael acts as a technology futurist with a particular interest in cloud computing and the future of web technologies. In Citrix Labs, he steers research and investigation activities toward innovative new technologies and strategic entry to new markets. Michael holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and a Bachelor of Economics.

Forum: Achieving Holistic End-to-End IT Architecture Building Blocks

This interactive forum will address the holistic view of building blocks that make up a complete IT Architecture. The panelist will share their view points and experiences in designing, implementing and experiencing the IT Architecture building blocks i.e. The 8 Building Blocks of IT Architecture as defined by IASA:

- Business & Technology Strategy Rationalization
The experiences required for an IT Architect to identify, design, plan and support a technology environment that provides the basis of competitive advantage for the company.
- System Design & Architecture
The experiences required for an IT Architect to deliver and implement the IT Architecture strategy that is fully aligned with the business strategy.
- IT Environment & Supports
The experiences to describe and implement the functional and procedural aspects of technology organization as well as to define the various roles of an IT Architect in the technology organization.
- Quality IT Attributes
The experiences to design a robust system by focusing on the horizontal perspective across all quality aspects of business and technology architecture strategy.
- Human Dynamics & Organization Behaviour
The experiences in dealing with human aspects of characters, motivation and political situation. It encompasses the IT Architect skills associated with managing individual and team in achieving a common goal for the business.
- Software Architecture
The experiences in designing, developing and implementing technology strategy related to software and solution to be delivered that incorporates design principles, quality attributes and IT Architecture best practices. It will enhance the software quality, the robustness and reduce the maintenance cost.
- Infrastructure Architecture
The experiences in focusing on the development and delivery of technology strategy related to hardware, networking, operations and similar concern.
- Business Architecture
The experiences to define and deliver advanced technology strategy within business capabilities and business verticals that include stakeholders management, investment justification and mapping customers need and expectation into the requirements.

Moderator:

Ng Wan Peng

Chief Operating Officer, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC)

Ms Ng Wan Peng is Chief Operating Officer of Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC). MDeC is a Malaysian Government owned company, responsible for the coordination, promotion and development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and selected services in the country.

Ms Ng has more than 19 years’ experience in the ICT field. She has extensive experience in managing large-scale projects, in the areas of Strategic IT Planning, Project Management, Systems Integration, and Methodologies Development. Ms Ng has consulted for both private and public sector organizations in IT policy and project implementation in government, defense and education sectors in Malaysia and abroad.

Forum: To Boldly Go Where No IT Architect Has Gone Before

The Panel session will discuss and explore the role of IT Architects focusing on the impact and the benefits IT Architects bring to the business in the current downturn.

•    What kind of impact will IASA make by introducing the Certified IT Architect (CITA)?
•    Can CITA change the landscape of the ICT Industry?
•    What is the primary difference between CITA and other existing IT Certifications in the industry?
•    Will the IT Architect be recognized as a new profession like accountant, doctor and lawyer?
•    What tips can we learn from the panelist who are currently Industry IT Architects practitioners?
•    How will IT Architecture create new opportunities that has not previously existed?

Moderator:

Aaron Tan Dani

Chairman, IASA Asia Pacific

Extinction of IT Architects. Are We Needed?

Paul Preiss

Chief Executive Officer & Founder, IASA Global

Defining, Training and Certifying Architect’s Competencies

There is still a lot of confusion on what to expect from an IT architect. A debate is ongoing around Architect’s roles and specializations: Software, Application, Solution, Infrastructure, Information, Security, Business architects, to name a few. How do you know what kind of architect you need for you company? How do you know what knowledge and skills the architects should bring to the table?

It is little known that core IT Architect competencies are fairly well defined by several industry training and certification programs. While some competency areas and skills seem to be shared by all IT architects, some may be specific to certain specializations.

Your organization may leverage this knowledge in several ways:

You could identify development needs of your architects
You could raise the level of your Architecture organization by training them in the competencies that they may lack
Finally, if you decide to hire certified architects, you will know what to expect from them and their results will be more predictable

Max Poliashenko

Vice President, Strategic Architecture Management, Bank of America

Despite having a Ph.D. in Physics, Max has been in IT for about 15 years. Currently, Max works for Bank of America in Strategic Architecture Management of Consumer and Corporate Staff IT. He also leads enterprise architecture SOA Model workgroup at the bank. Prior to that, he worked at Sage Software as Chief Architect of its Small Business Accounting division. Max is a Microsoft Certified Architect and member of MCA BOD. He was awarded Most Valuable Professional title from Microsoft in 2009. He also serves in advisory capacity at Microsoft’s Interoperability Executive Council and at IBM’s Industry Modeling Advisory Board, collaborating with IBM on SOA and BPM reference models for financial sector. Max is also the President of IASA Atlanta chapter. Max has written numerous articles on various topics and has given presentations at many conferences, most recently at ITARC 2007 and ITARC 2009 in Atlanta.

Survival Kit of IT Architects in the 21st Century

With increasing adoption of SOA and growth of enterprise service portfolios, organizations struggle to provide effective service life-cycle management that scales across the enterprise. As such, architects today understands that good governance practices are a pre-requisite to success with a Service Oriented Architecture.

Therefore, a new set of tools which provides a means to control costs, reduce risk, maintain business alignment, and show business value of SOA investments through a combination of people, process, and technology is fast becoming the new survival kit for IT architects in the 21st century.

Ken Ng

Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Corporation Malaysia

Ken Ng's a Sales Consulting Manager for Fusion Middleware at Oracle. He brings with him a deep knowledge in the Middleware space with over 5 years of experience, from being a hands-on implementor to a sales consultant for some of the largest middleware vendors, helping some of the largest corporations and organizations both in the public and private sector achieve an agile IT infrastructure to support their expanding business.

Ken has worked in both BEA Systems and IBM prior to joining Oracle and holds a BSc. in Computing degree from University of Malaya.

Designing with Right Quality Attributes in Mind

Architecting your solution to meet the functional requirements is not sufficient to assure its success. Your customers probably have quite specific expectations about how your solution should perform, also known as non-functional requirements. Besides that, you may have to think about cost of maintaining and evolving your application or product in the future, as well as of costs of supporting it in operations. If you plan for it or not, but your IT system always has Quality Attributes that affect all these aspects and areas. It is much better when you get requirements for them, plan, architect measure and manage them rather than letting it happen by chance. Each Quality Attribute has unique set of considerations and sometimes, they compete. It is important for you as an Architect to understand what architectural decisions may affect these attributes, how to measure such impacts, and what to be guided by when dealing with trade-off points.

Max Poliashenko

Vice President, Strategic Architecture Management, Bank of America

A Unified Architecture to Enable a Dynamic Data Center for Now and the Future

As companies strive to keep pace with ever-expanding data growth, success calls for streamlining the infrastructure and process inefficiencies. Find out how to manage costs and respond quickly to the demands of business. The session covers the elements of the NetApp® unified storage architecture – of true multiprotocol support, a single management interface, integrated data protection, support for multiple tiers of storage (primary, secondary, and archive/compliance), quality of service, and the ability to act as a front end for legacy

storage systems.

Lam Kok Hoong

Technical Consultant, NetApp Malaysia

The Next Frontiers; Are You Ready?

Paul Preiss

Chief Executive Officer & Founder, IASA Global

Green Computing? I Know but I Don't Care!

Alecia Heng

President, Gorgeous Geeks

As an IASA (International Association of Software Architect) Vice President of Women in Technology SIG and entrepreneurial leader with diversified experiences, Alecia has more than 14 years of experience in various strategic initiatives and engagements to help businesses in leveraging Information Technology. Her experiences include Strategic Enterprise Management, Business Values of IT, BPR, Knowledge Management, e-Business Initiatives & Strategic Consultancy for the industry sector of Education, manufacturing, Logistics & FSI.

Alecia is the co-founder of ATD Solution Sdn Bhd, a regional IT Architecture, Technology & Delivery company in helping clients to leverage on IT Architecture best practices through IT Architecture Training, Coaching, Mentoring and Consultancy services. ATD Solution prides itself in being able to deliver solutions that unlock business value and design agility through proper IT Architecture adoption and practices. In addition, ATD solution also aimed to develop the professional learning platform to encourage knowledge exchange and continuous learning for the professional.

Alecia is also the Co-founder and President of Gorgeous Geeks Asia Pacific. Gorgeous Geeks (www.gorgeousgeeks.org) is a women interest group that aim to provide mentorship and support for women in the ICT industry as well as to inspire other women to use technology as part of their lifestyles.

She is frequent public speakers in the IT & Business conferences across region. Alecia holds a Master of Technology from the National University of Singapore, Postgraduate in Information System from Curtin University, Australia and a Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences from the University of Western Australia.

Greener Data Centers with Virtualization

Global warming will cause sea levels to rise and eventually effecting everything on earth including our health. Every little thing we do can help... and Virtualization is one of them. Learn how adopting a well planned Virtualization strategy can reduce the amount of carbon footprint and help save the earth. The reward for doing this is a potentially huge savings in operating and maintaining costs of your data center. And of course, improving your overall health. This session will share how companies near you have adopted this approach and saved money.

Raymond Chou

Principal Consultant, Redynamics Asia

Raymond Chou is the Principal Consultant of Redynamics Asia, an accomplished consultant, trainer and presenter with 12 years of experience in the IT industry. Of those years, 8 were spent on specializing on the systems and operations management space. He is awarded and is a current-standing Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in System Center Operations Manager and Essentials and uses his knowledge and skills to help large enterprise companies, SMEs and Microsoft Partners implement the various System Center suite of technologies. Raymond is also the first batch of System Center Certified professionals in the world possessing the MCTS: Configuring, System Center Operations Manager, MCTS: System Center Configuration Manager, MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Virtualization, Configuring and MCTS: Configuring, System Center Virtual Machine Manager certifications.

Architecting Eco-Friendly Application

Azli Paat

Vice President, DAPAT VISTA

Azli Paat is the vice president of DAPAT VISTA which sets the standard in SMS communication. It pioneered the way on how the public can interact with the organization via SMS. Azli has maintained very close relationship with all Telcos, TV, Radio and newspaper organizations. He has more than 19 years’ of experience in ICT fields. He gave training and consultation to more than 2000 companies in implementing technology in their operations as well as leveraging technology in their daily lives. Azli holds Master of Science (Computer Science) and Bachelor of Arts (Computer Science) from University of Iowa.

Talking Green in Multimedia Delivery

The phrase - “A picture is worth a thousand words” can be used to reflect the network traffic demand for multimedia delivery. In fact, it requires more than a thousand words to encode a video to be sent over the internet. With the explosion of multimedia traffic, the notion of “green” will become important in the system delivery. This talk will focus on the “green” aspect from a technology perspective in the different parts of a multimedia delivery system.

Dr Heng Wei Jyh

Chief Technology Officer, ATD Solution

Dr. Wei Jyh Heng has eight years of research and development experience in various high-tech companies and global organizations that range from fast paced start-up, well organized government research institution to structured international companies, across Singapore, Australia and United States. He began his career back in 2001 as a Research Engineer in a Singapore telecommunication start-up company creating the wireless PDA phone. Thereafter, he became a Research Scientist in the Institute for Infocomm Research, a government research institute in Singapore, focusing on signal processing for E-learning content. He later worked in Canon Information System Research Australia, creating intellectual properties in video and image compression techniques in the area of printer and camera technology, and had some involvements in video standardisation work. Later, he joined a US telecommunication equipment manufacturer and worked as a Principal Research Engineer in California, focusing on video quality improvement for 3G circuit and packet-based video streaming, and also assisted in creating and handling intellectual properties for the company.

Dr. Heng has published various papers in renounced IEEE conferences and journals, and a book. He has also applied for several international patents. His field of research includes improving compression technology of various video codec, image and video analysis, and multi-modal signal processing. Besides multimedia signal analysis, processing, compression and transport, he is also interested in improving the process from generating new ideas and creating prototypes, protecting intellectual properties to transferring the technologies for Engineering development. He holds a Ph.D degree, Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Western Australia in Perth.

The Changing Landscape of Services Architecture and How S+S, SOA and Cloud Computing Are Part of the Evolution

Cloud computing, SOA, SaaS and S+S are buzz words from IT vendors but what does it mean to you as an IT consumer? Services computing are part of the evolution that started since days of mainframe and how you can take advantage of your existing environment to streamline and align better with your enterprise business goals. Come to this session and decide yourself what are the best path you should take your enterprise to offer services where no one has done before.

Lai Hoong Fai
Senior ISV Technology Advisor, Microsoft Malaysia

Lai Hoong Fai ia a Senior ISV Technology Advisor with Microsoft Malaysia. He engages the community of ISV (Independent Software Vendors) developers in Malaysia. He reviews ISV partners’ existing architecture and provide guidance on emerging technologies to help ISV partners to strategically align with Microsoft product roadmap and plan for the future. He has worked in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia in the areas of academic teaching, software architecture, R&D, project development, and consulting.

He pursued his Master of IT at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Fai also holds a Bachelor of Computing from Monash University Australia.

Vision Cloud

Find out how NetApp’s cloud computing approach towards driving a Dynamic Data Center, the next generation datacenters helps companies achieve flexibility, improved SLAs and reduction in cost. The Dynamic Data Center is a fully automated service-oriented architectures that enables companies to change the IT infrastructure and services as per business needs.

Raymond Siow
Program and Alliances Director, NetApp, ASEAN

Raymond Siow is the Program and Alliances Director for NetApp ASEAN responsible for driving sales and marketing programs and initiatives in data protection and retention, virtualization and internet protocol for storage with strategic alliance partners, global system integrators and major service providers in the region.

With over a decade a decade of experience in the Storage industry, Raymond’s last appointment was Country Manager for South Asia at Decru, an independent division of NetApp, managing the security business to achieve business targets and objectives. Prior to joining NetApp, Raymond was Regional Director at SUN/StorageTek focusing in the regional markets in South Asia and at LSI Logic Storage Systems, a major OEM supplier of high performance storage systems to many of the big system vendors in the industry.

Raymond graduated from RMIT, with a Bachelor of Business in Business Administration

The Future of the End User Computing Experience

The end user’s computing experience is being affected by a perfect storm cutting across the end user device, applications, and expectations. A significant enabler of this is computing in the ‘cloud’. Dr Michael Harries of Citrix Labs will discuss the major trends, both technological and sociological that will dramatically change our computing experience over the coming 5-10 years.

Dr. Michael Harries
Director of Strategy & Communications, CTO Office and Citrix Labs

Scalable Database Design in Grid Computing Architecture

"Grid Computing represents an evolutionary phase in the history of distributed computing architectures.

Grid's servers approach allows organizations to pool the servers in order to harness the power of the newest generation of high-performance and low-cost systems. Grid computing is a way to consolidate your hardware – eliminating islands of underutilized computers thus increases the efficiencies of enterprise resources.

Grid computing can dramatically lower the cost of computing, provides the scalability and availability of computing resources, deliver higher productivity, and higher quality."

James Lim
Pre - Sales Consultant, Oracle Corporation Malaysia

James Lim has more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry. His involvement in various IT projects ranging from the host based, client server, distributed computing, mobility and grid computing had provided him with various knowledge on database implementations and evolution. Currently James works as a pre-sales consultant in Oracle and had spoken in various events on Oracle's latest technology offerings such as Grid Computing, Information Lifecycle Management, Real User Experience Insight and Virtualization Technology. James is also involved in advising partners /customers on data consolidation using Oracle's grid computing technology.

How Do You Secure a Cloudy Cloud??

Cloud computing is becoming a promising solution for organizations challenged by the current economic downturn and looking at significantly reducing IT expenditure. The global appeal of cloud computing has grown by leaps and bounds, aligning itself with top business priorities, which traditionally have been about increasing profits and reducing cost structures. As one of the new, alternative computing models, cloud computing allows existing IT capabilities to be extended, or new capabilities added, with no or a low up-front costs as it minimizes investments in new infrastructure, training of new personnel or licensing of new software. While the key question here remains on whether a country like Malaysia is ready to embrace the path of 'On Demand Services', one cannot help but ponder the security aspects of this service, taking into account the infallibility, potential risks, as well as compliance and regulations that govern the usage of the cloud.

The presentation will discuss the security issues evolving around one of the fastest growing areas of the ICT industry, and what security capabilities are available to secure the cloud.

Sudev Bangah

Senior Analyst, IDC Asia Pacific Consulting Group

As Senior Analyst of IDC’s Asia/Pacific Consulting Group, Sudev Bangah is responsible for consulting research projects in the ASEAN region. Based in the Kuala Lumpur office, Sudev project manages each consulting project within his scope, provides clients with insights and the framework for cross-product consulting projects as well as market intelligence in a range of Go-To-Market services such as market entry analysis, market segmentation and buyer behaviour. With these tailored analyses, clients gain invaluable and intelligent insights to help attain their business objectives. Sudev recently completed several IDC Consulting projects in the area of Business Processes Outsourcing (BPO), specific technologies, Information Security (IS) and telecommunications.

Prior to joining IDC, Sudev was a Senior Executive at Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC), the organization entrusted to spearhead the ICT industry in Malaysia. During his tenure in MDeC, he was responsible for managing the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) IT Service Management Program (ISO 20000) rollout to further increase the adoption of the standard across Malaysia. Sudev also worked on various strategy implementations to increase performance capabilities amongst Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises. In addition, he led department wide communication initiatives by placing processes and frameworks surrounding inter-department communication protocols and policies while at MDec.

Sudev is ITIL® certified and a committee member of the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) for the Malaysia Chapter. He has been invited to speak and present findings at several industry events on ITSM implementation in Malaysia. Sudev holds a Bachelor of Psychology degree from Curtin University of Technology, Australia and has successfully completed the ISO 9001 Lead Auditor course..

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