EMC

Chew Sze Lun
Senior Technology Consultant, Virtual Computing Environment (VCE), South East Asia EMC Corporation

Topic: Accelerating your Private cloud journey with EMC's Virtual infrastructure Leadership

Synopsis

• Everyone knows that Virtualization is the best way to increase service levels, reduce costs and reduce risks, and that VMWARE is the market leader in providing Virtualization to organizations of all sizes across the world. But did you know that 42% of all VMWARE customers use EMC?
• Hear how with EMC, you could take your virtualization projects to a whole new level. EMC's Virtualization and private cloud technologies can provide heterogeneous high availability for the infrastructure connected to your virtualized environment regardless of its location. Add to this, our market leading de-duplication and security solutions which have already been integrated into your virtualized solution as well as our experience in architecting and implementing these solutions and you will see that with VMWARE and EMC, your journey to the private cloud can actually be a pain free and enjoyable experience.

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Chew Sze Lun is the Senior Technology Consultant at EMC Malaysia. His responsibilities are to provide technical consulting and architectural solution design to EMC partners and customers that are adopting virtual computing environment solutions into their information infrastructures. Through his specialization in virtualization and cloud computing offerings-private cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud-Chew is able to help enterprise organizations, and service and telecommunications providers accelerate their adoption of virtualization and their journey to the private cloud.

Chew has more than 10 years of technology industry experience in designing, architecting, implementing and supporting various ICT solutions ranging from data protection, archiving, disaster recovery, storage subsystems, security management, IT compliance, LAN/WAN/Wireless networking, etc. His competencies include Solution Architecture Design, Project Management, Implementation, and Customer Support.

Glocomp

John Micheal
Director of Technology Consulting, Glocomp Systems

Topic: Instilling Confidence in IP Convergence

Synopsis:

Service Provider IP Convergence undeniably brings an enormous proposition from launching of innovative and dynamic services to efficient revenue management. But it has also brought together an increasing level of security fears and risk that require service providers to take proactive countermeasures to ensure sustainable proposition such as protecting customer, infrastructure and safeguarding reputation. From Glocomp Systems decade of experience in Service Provider technologies, we enable Service Providers to gain confidence in All-IP Convergence with our Security Offerings. A co-created offering with trusted collaboration between our valuable clients and technology vendor alliances.

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John Micheal, Director of Technology Consulting

John Micheal is the Director of Technology Consulting at Glocomp Systems with 12 years of experience in the IT and Telecom industry. His expertise in consulting, designing and integrating comprehensive IT Solutions has help organisations transform into an agile business. He has led many large IT Architecture and IT Service Continuity end-to-end multi-technology and multi-vendor projects including All-IP Convergence transformation and Next Generation Operational Support Systems.

John is a graduate in Computer Science and Networked Software Engineering. He is also a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), DRI International and an Associate Member of Malaysian Institute of Management (AMIM). He is also a qualified and practicing TOGAF 9 Enterprise Architecture (EA) and NGOSS/ETOM Architect.

Intel

Eddie Toh
Regional Platform Marketing Manager, Data Centre Group, Asia Pacific Intel Technology Asia Pte Ltd

Topic: Enterprise cloud computing

Synopsis

"Presentation will discuss the paradigm to shift to cloud computing and why it is a game changer to address growing data centre complexity. Intel IT's findings on cloud computing will be discussed along with an overview of Intel technologies for enterprise cloud deployments and why Intel platforms offer the ideal solutions for simple, efficient, secure and open cloud deployment."

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Eddie Toh is the regional platform marketing manager for Intel's Data Centre Group in the Asia Pacific region. His charter is to accelerate the deployment of the Intel® Itanium® & Xeon® processors-based platforms for the enterprise market segment and drive adoption through working closely with the industry ecosystem. In addition, Eddie also represents Intel to serve as the APAC representative on the Itanium Solutions Alliance (ISA).

Eddie has worked at Intel since 1997 holding various marketing positions across different groups over the last 10 years. Prior to his current assignment, he was the APAC Market Development Manager for the Intel Communications Alliance (ICA) program that focused on communications and embedded solutions for developers and vendors.

Eddie has over 17 years working experience in the IT & communications industry and holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia. He also holds an MBA from Macquarie University (Graduate School of Management), Australia.

NetApp

William Lum
Consulting System Engineer, Server Virtualization Asia Pacific, NetApp

Topic: Building Secure Multi Tenancy Infrastructure in a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center

Synopsis

A virtualized dynamic data center is an effective foundation for cloud computing and the realization of IT as a service. The main components include: Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) that reduces the number of network switches and integrates compute resources around a unified I/O fabric; NetApp unified storage architecture that supports multiple protocols as well as primary, secondary, and archive storage with a single platform; and VMware vSphere to provide the platform for infrastructure virtualization.

In this session, learn how you can:

• Implement a secure multi-tenancy infrastructure across server, network, and storage.
• Lower your data center costs by as much as 50%.
• Centrally manage your network, servers, storage, and cloud through a unified architecture.
• Leverage cooperative services and support from Cisco, NetApp, VMware, and our open ecosystem of partners.

Bio:

William is currently a Consultant with NetApp Asia Pacific, with a focus on Server Virtualization. He is also a part of a team of Consultants who work closely with Global and Regional Systems Integrators and Cloud Service Providers, and is one of the key technical contacts for alliance partners in the region, including Cisco, VMware and Citrix. William has over 16 years' experience in the IT industry, 10 of which have been in the area of enterprise networked storage.

In his current capacity, William has performed numerous end-to-end virtualization and data assessments for customers around the Asia Pacific region (including China, ANZ, India, and ASEAN). In addition, he has performed Proof-of-Concepts for customers, and architected virtualization solutions. As part of his charter, he also provides technical and sales enablement to NetApp business partners. He has trained over a hundred consultants in APAC on Architecting VMware on NetApp solutions. He is currently working closely with customers across the region in helping them transform their datacenters.

Avocent

Ng Kim Soon
Business Development Manager, Avocent Malaysia

Topic: Data Center Infrastructure Management – Transform Your Data Center Cost Structure for Greater Efficiency

Synopsis

Avocent offers a peek into some of the best practices organizations can leverage to reduce the costs associated with data center operations. We will share about various cost levers that CIOs can leverage to transform the data center cost structure. It will provide an insight into initiatives that can reduce OPEX and optimize efficiency with capacity planning management, which organizations can then invest into innovative measures that will enable business continuity and help improve IT agility to respond quickly to market dynamics.

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Kim Soon assume the responsibility of Avocent Business Development Manager for Malaysia sales and is base in Malaysia. His responsibility will include the development of the channels and developing a new growth strategy for Avocent Business. He will also be looking into Thailand sales as well.

He started his sales career with CSC (Formerly as CSA SDN BHD) covering manufacturing, financial sector and collaboration with software partners before he moved to IBM PCD (Now known as Lenovo) to increase the market share for IBM desktops & Notebooks for cluster account eg. Solectron, MAS, British American Tobacco, Malaysia National Bank and a few major banks in Malaysia.

He assumed the role of Business Development Manager (SEA) for LXE in 2006 and has seen constant increasing revenue growth over 3 years.

Kim Soon is a graduate from University of Portsmouth with a B.Sc (Hons) Degree in Computing.

Panduit

Eric Chng
Technical Sales Manager, ASEAN Panduit

Topic: Realizing Unified Physical Infrastructure for Your Business Foundation

Synopsis

Unified Physical Infrastructure

UPI-based solutions leverage an integrated physical infrastructure as the foundation to enable convergence across communication, computing, control, power, and security systems while reducing downtime risks, increasing flexibility, and reducing costs. PANDUIT will discuss how decisions made today on the network physical layer affect the ability of the data center to scale and address tomorrow's requirements. PANDUIT will figure its Worldwide HQ embracing UPI design and integration, mapping key physical layer elements to centralized, logical computing environments to achieve greater operational efficiencies and sustainability, and reduce operational cost.

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Eric Chng works closely with PANDUIT's ASEAN sales team in providing technical consultancy to strategic accounts, engaging System Integrators (SIs) and Consultants, especially on its Cabling and Connectivity, Data Center Infrastructure, Connected Real Estate, and Managed Network Solutions.

Before joining PANDUIT, Eric was with Expand Networks, a manufacturer of WAN optimization device, as Manager of Technical Services for Asia Pacific. He managed regional partners, distributors and resellers in providing consultancy on network infrastructure and prevailing networking technology. Prior to this, he worked with NetStar and Datacraft responsible for pre and post sales networking and security consultancy roles.

Eric's experience comprises a balanced blend of networking infrastructure and security consultancy from a reseller and a manufacturer perspective. He is well versed with the prevailing technology and has been providing technology, solutions, product consulting as well as technical support to clients and partners. Eric holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) degree and has professional certifications in RCDD, CISSP, PMP, CDCP, CCNP, CCDA and CWNA.

Frost & Sullivan

Andrew Milroy
Industry Director, ICT and Digital Marketing Groups, Frost & Sullivan

Topic: Business and IT Convergence in the 2010s

Synopsis

This presentation will focus on key trends in our industry and their impact on business. In particular, the presentation will discuss, the emergence and importance of cloud computing, the growing importance of social media for business, the borderless enterprise and tomorrow's collaboration tools. The presentation will also describe how IT and business are converging and shaping the ways we engage with each other.

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Andrew Milroy drives the ICT and digital marketing research and consulting business at Frost & Sullivan in Autralia and New Zealand. He leads a team of analysts and consultants responsible for delivering research and custom consulting studies, as well as syndicated project covering the Oceania region.

Since joining Frost & Sullivan in 2006, Andrew has contributed to regional and global research and consulting assignments across Europe, Australia and Asia. Having initially focused primarily on ICT services with emphasis on outstanding, his role and expertise today also includes software, hardware and telecommunications.

Andrew brings with him more than 15 years of experience in the ICT industry, having previously worked at IDC where he held a senior management position. He also co-founded NelsonHall, a successful BPO advisory firm in the United States.

He Often speaks at regional trade conference and is frequently featured in leading print and broadcast media, including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, CNN, BBC, Sky and CNBC.

He Holds a BSc, MA in Communications (Computing major) and earned his MBA from MGSM. Andrew also has a Diploma in Marketing from the UK-based Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Cisco Borderless Networks: Driving Innovation in Your Organization

By Shankar Subramanian, Sales Director - Asia, Borderless Networks

Synopsis
Borderless Networks is Cisco's next generation architecture for the agile delivery of services and applications to anyone, anything, anywhere, anytime - securely, reliably, and seamlessly.

It lets organizations be more responsive and customer focused, transforming the way IT manages, scales, secures, and governs networks by linking users, devices, applications, business processes, and the network into a holistic extensible architecture. As a result, Cisco's Borderless Network Architecture enables a truly borderless experience by bringing interactions closer to employees and customers. This enhances organization's customer relationships and lowers operational expenses.

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Shankar Subramanian is Sales Director of Borderless Networks in Asia region. He leads the team responsible for Cisco's foundational Routing & Switching, Security, Mobility and Acceleration technologies sales, systems engineering and business development across 7 countries in Asia region. His team is responsible for driving increased sales bookings, business relevance and customer satisfaction.

Shankar brings over 20 years of IT security, datacenter, server, internet application and networking experience to Cisco.

Prior to joining Cisco, he held various positions in companies such as HCL Hewlett-Packard, Iverson, Compaq, Network Associates Inc and Brocade Communications, covering sales engineering, customer support, product management, channels development & sales business development positions.

Transforming How You Do Business with Visual Communications

Nicolas Domeyko - Director of Business Development APAC (excluding China & Japan)

Synopsis:
Learn about some of the key challenges are faced by businesses today and how visual communications support businesses in addressing these issues. In this session we will also share with you findings on the impact of video adoption in some of the best-in-class organizations.

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Nicolas joined Tandberg in 2006. His current role as Director of Telepresence is to manage the Telepresence product portfolio across Asia Pacific. Telepresence has been and will continue to be instrumental in growing the visual communications market. As a result, the Telepresence business at Tandberg has grown over 100% year on year over the last 3 years. Prior to Tandberg, Nicolas worked at Cisco Systems and Microsoft where he has amount more than 15 years in IT sales and business management. Nicolas earned a Bachelor of Science from Menlo College and a Master's of Science from Boston University in International Communications.

Accelerating Telco Success with Services

Miguel Alava Director, Cisco Services Asia

Synopsis:
The presentation will cover how SP's Needs/Challenges have changed over time from just mere cost-cutting & operational efficiencies to continuous need to evolve infrastructure and drive additional revenue streams/competitiveness. It will also talk about Cisco strategy for SPs and how Cisco can help SP achieve success by delivering systems, solutions and new business models.

Cisco can truly enable and lead business transformation - increasing both technology integration and business relevance to help SPs differentiate their value proposition, expand their market opportunities, and achieve the business outcomes they are seeking.

Lastly we will talk our investments and our experience in the SP segment.

Bio Data

Miguel Alava is with Cisco Systems for 12 years now. In his various capacities, he's had exposure to the European, Middle East, Africa and Asian markets. Before he came to Asia Pacific, he was part of the EMEA Technology Practice group whereby he led a few practices across the region including Network Management System, Content & Storage, and with a particular focus on Security.

Miguel joined Cisco Services Asia Pacific in 2006 to take on the leadership role in the APAC Service Provider (SP) Services business in this region. In his most recent role as the Director for Services Asia, he leads a dynamic and multicultural team of seven countries under his charge - namely, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and South Korea. In providing leadership and contribute to the strong growth in this region, Miguel collaborates closely with various cross-functional teams and advocates for customers within the organization.

Miguel completed his CCIE in 1999. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain and a Master degree in Business Administration from Henley Management College in United Kingdom. In his leisure Miguel enjoys exploring Asia, practicing sports particularly running, biking and yoga; reading and spending time with his wife and his newly born baby boy.

The New Collaboration Experience

Peter Jakobsen, Director, Collaboration Architecture & Cisco Services, Enterprise & Mid-Marketing Marketing, Asia Pacific, Cisco Systems

Synopsis:

Effective collaboration has become critical in a complex work world where employees are geographically dispersed, travel and budgets have been reduced, and information overload is considered normal. Learn more on how industry-leading Cisco Collaboration solutions helps to:

• Build trust and accelerate decisions with rich, reliable interactions
• Quickly form teams across boundaries, companies, and continents
• Provide customers with instant access to experts
• Effectively share the most relevant business information
• Enterprise collaboration software solutions can help organizations accelerate productivity within and across teams, improve interactions, and drive innovation

Using Cisco's open architectural approach, you can flexibly integrate existing and new collaboration technologies - either on-premises, on-demand, or using a blended approach - to prepare your organization for the future today.

Bio Data

"Peter heads the Collaboration Architecture and Cisco Services Marketing efforts for Asia Pac covering Enterprise and Mid-market within Cisco Systems. Overseeing a team of marketing specialists this comprises the areas of Unified Communications, Business Video, Collaboration Software and Services. Having lived in Singapore for 15 years Peter was previously the Managing Director for GN Netcom(Jabra) in Asia for close to seven years looking after the end to end business in all of Asia excluding ANZ and Japan. In this role Peter was also responsible for Marketing across APJ.

Prior to coming to Asia in 1995 as the Export Counselor at the Danish Embassy, Peter worked within a subsidiary of the Danish Networking Gear Manufacturer Olicom focusing on Data Communications across EMEA.

Peter was also a founding member of the CCAS (Contact Centre Association of Singapore) where he was the Vice Chairman until 2008 and spearheaded the creation of Telemarketing Guidelines for the Financial Industry in Singapore working with the Government and the Industry.

Inside Cisco Peter is also a founding member of the Cisco Asia Civic Council which oversees the giving back activities across the Asia Sales region, inclusive of donation drives and collaboration with various NGO's"

Demystifying Cloud Computing Practical strategies for Implementing Cloud Computing

By Damian Ryan, Director, Data Center Business, Cisco Asia

Synopsis:
Cloud Computing is the current hot topic in the computing industry and is changing the way organizations want to deploy, consume and pay for IT resource. Much hype surrounds Cloud Computing and many organizations are grappling with how they can practically implement and gain the benefits associated with Cloud Computing.

In this session Cisco will discuss the trends in cloud computing, provide practical examples of internal and external cloud deployments and detail how Cisco in conjunction with our ecosystem partners can provide pre-tested and configured building blocks for Cloud Computing environments.

Bio Data

Damian Ryan is Cisco's Director for Data Center Asia, The Cisco Data Center team provides customers with network solutions that consolidate, Virtualize and automate the provisioning of Data Center application and computing resources to drive operational efficiency and business agility.

Damian has over 20 years experience architecting, designing and implementing network and data center environments. He has previously held consulting roles at British Telecom, Brocade Communications and the UK based NatWest Bank. At NatWest Damian was part of the team that architected, designed and deployed a multi-million dollar green field Data Center.

Winning Through Market Transitions with Cisco Services

By Steven Weeks, Vice President, Cisco Services Asia Pacific

Synopsis:
The world is undergoing a massive economic and social transitioning while many countries in Asia Pacific are going through hyper growths. Using Information and Communications Technology, these economic and social shifts offer great opportunities to transform industries and change economic cycles. In many emerging markets, people are now being connected to the Internet before the are connected to the utilities. The network is the platform to transform communities and cities. Steven Weeks will discuss in his presentation how Cisco Services can help organizations consume technology to win in these market transitions.

Bio Data

Steven Weeks is vice president of Cisco Services in Asia Pacific. In his role, Steven leads Cisco Services sales across Asia Pacific to drive service-led engagement. The Services organization provides innovative solutions that help customers improve productivity, reliability and time to market, enabling customers to maximize technology investments and to achieve business success.

Steven brings solid industry knowledge and global experience. His twenty years of global experience in IT and Telekom industries across sales, services and operations, combined with his leadership experience with cross-cultural teams make him a truly global manager with a well-rounded background required to drive company's vision of addressing customers top business requirements enabled by the network as the platform.

Prior to joining Cisco, Steven held multiple leadership roles in Avaya for both their Asia Pacific and EMEA operations. Under Steven's leadership, a strong consulting practiced was developed. He ahs also achieved substantial business growth and cultivated a very successful channel business model in Asia Pacific for the company. Steven began his career with Philips in Australia, and later lived in the Philippines, Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Steven holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from University of South Australia. He presently lives in Singapore with his family. Steven has a passion for the ocean to the extent that he has created the Yacht Charter in Singapore. He also enjoys playing tennis, squash and golf in his spare time.

Cisco Secure Borderless Networks: Intelligently Securing Today's Distributed Networks

Kevin Lai, Security Sales Specialist, Asia

Synopsis:

As business operations, behaviors, and ideas transcend both physical and network boundaries, they are shared in ways that may not be accounted for by current security models. These changes require a new way of thinking about enterprise security so threats can be averted, and those things most important to the organization-its people, operations, and assets-are protected. Anytime, anywhere, from any device.

It is security's role to help ensure that the correct people, using the right devices, are accessing the appropriate resources, while having a highly secure yet positive user experience. But effective security solutions that enhance the end-user experience require security systems with sufficient intelligence and granularity, so they can enforce policies that are much more user-oriented.

Cisco has a vision for the next-generation security architecture that is built around users, and will secure the emerging borderless enterprise. Thus Cisco defines the emerging "borderless enterprise" as "the delivery of business capabilities on demand through an architecture of virtualized resources and services that optimally provides secure, context-aware, rich media information to mobile, seamless communities of employees, partners, and customers."

Bio Data

Kevin currently holds the position of Security Technical Specialist at Cisco Systems (Malaysia) operations. His responsibilities include driving Cisco's security solutions growth within the Malaysia and overseeing partner's technical operations and capabilities. Kevin also holds extensive experience in numerous security implementation projects worldwide specializing in firewall and VPN technologies, intrusion detection and prevention technologies, security incidents correlation management, content security management technologies, end-point network admission control defense technologies and wireless security frameworks. Kevin is also a security advisor and consultant to numerous companies performing assessments for PCI-DSS security requirements and is a conference speaker in numerous regional regulatory compliance and security technology seminars and conferences in the Asia region.

Having over ten years of experience in data security and networking sector, Kevin comes equipped with a strong security understanding of the financial banking sector, government sector, manufacturing enterprise and service provider market requirements in the South East Asia region.

Kevin currently holds a Bachelor of Computing degree from Monash University, Australia and Masters of Business Information Technology postgraduate degree from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Connected Life and Opportunities for Revenue Generation

By Yongsub Lee, Senior Business Development Manager, APAC HQ Video Solution Group, Cisco

Synopsis:

Under the slow broadband growth and declining of broadband ARPU Service Provider keens to find new revenue generating business model.
With abundant last mile bandwidth end-user can enjoy digital media contents and entertainment over the PC and TV.
This session will provide how to generate new revenue and reduce the OPEX while it run new service with Connected Home Solution.
Cisco's Connected Home solution can deliver how to integrate TV and Internet with new communication resources.
It also provide more flexible and scalable managed service opportunity with various home area networking, home automation security and femtocell solution.

Bio Data

Yongsub is a Video Solution Leader in the ASIA region as part of Cisco APAC SP HQ.
He has significantly contributed video and cable solution development in the region including IPTV, Cable TV, Broadband Internet and Connected Home.
Mr. Lee has 20 years of Service Provider experience from various area including sales, service and consulting area.
He holds Service Provider CCIE and MBA from Rutgers Business School in U.S.