Opening Keynote: Worldwide Storage Predictions 2010: Capitalizing on Transformation
In 2010, storage will move from a supportive and peripheral role to being an essential and fundamental pillar on which IT infrastructures will be architected.
Key Topics will be covered in this session include:
What are the hot storage software and hardware technologies in 2010?
How will massive server and desktop virtualization effect storage and the way it is managed?
Where does the Cloud play in the overall storage infrastructure?
How do these worldwide Predictions relate to organizations in Asia Pacific?
The presentation will also address some of the initial steps that APAC based organizations need to take to ensure that they are able to fully leverage the new solutions and methodologies in order to maximize efficiency within their storage environments, but also drive new business value through the effective use of information technology.
Mr. Simon Piff Director, Enterprise Infrastructure IDC Asia / Pacific
09:45 - 10:15
Keynote One: Storage for a Smarter Planet: Smart Movement and Management of Information
SSD provides great performance advantage over HDD. However, its high cost inhibits the application of SDD. Easy tier balances the cost and performance by placing data in the most appropriate tiers of storages based on the access. Since typical workload tends to concentrate most of the IO into small portion of storage. Easy Tier allow customers to enjoy the SSD performance without apply SSD to all storage.
Furthermore, the monitoring and relocation of data is fully automatic and continuous. Easy tier can greatly reduce the management overhead of tuning and optimizing the storage configuration due to workload changes.
Dr. Cheng-Chung Song Platform Architect, Storage System Divison, Systems and Technology Group IBM WW
10:15 - 10:45
Keynote Two: Agile IT for a Sustainable Future
How you differentiate the varied kinds of cloud environment? Which one is the right choice to you? In this session, you will learn how Hitachi Data Systems' agile cloud technologies can accelerate and simplify the adoption of enterprise cloud computing environments with an integrated platform creating a pool of virtualized block, and file and content storage to support the diverse uses evolving in cloud computing today. That enables organizations to adopt cloud services at their own pace. You will also learn the industry's first open and unified compute platform for enterprise data centers, including private and public cloud deployments. That platform delivers an intelligent orchestration layer for automated dynamic management of servers, storage, network and applications as a collective unit. It will help organizations centrally manage and coordinate the end-to-end processes for collective data center resources as a single unit, aligned with business processes.
Mr. Sunil Chavan Director, Software Group & Cloud Solutions, Asia Pacific Hitachi Data Systems
10:45 - 11:15
Keynote Three: Don't Fight Data Storage Growth; Embrace it!
Learn how you can create a smarter storage strategy to address the challenges presented by rapid data growth, including skyrocketing costs, painful data migrations, lengthy backups, user disruptions and costly downtime. Organizations around the world are finding relief by using F5 ARX solutions to implement strategies that simplify data management and reduce costs. Attend this presentation to learn how you can:
Reduce storage costs by 50% or more
Cut data migration times up to 90%
Shrink backup times and costs up to 80%
And easily integrate the latest storage technologies, including deduplication and private/public storage cloud
Morning Networking Coffee Break (Sponsorsed by HDS)
11:35 - 12:05
Keynote Four: Enabling Your Business through Data Efficiency and a strong Joint Partner Strategy
In this economy it's all about cost savings. Customer purchasing decisions will now be changed for the foreseeable future. Not only can NetApp help you lower the cost of IT while delivering superior efficiency, but NetApp is bringing it's enablement to the cloud service provider community and to your most valued trusted advisors - Systems Integrators. NetApp innovative products/solutions are designed to reach never-before seen levels of efficiency - by enabling this ever growing and emerging technology partner community, we can directly enable you to achieve your goals and work with our joint partners to bring those same results to meet your strategic business needs. NetApp users realize three key benefits through our approach:
Efficiency
Cloud Service Partner and Systems Integrator Enablement
Market Awareness
Industry Leadership
Now the market buzz is around 'unified storage'. NetApp has led this market trend for over 10 years and is striving to 1) enable yours and our partners to deliver efficiencies driven from this time proven NetApp-invented business enabler or 2) directly allow you to efficiently consolidate SAN, NAS, primary, and secondary storage on a single platform in your own data center.
Achieving these goals should not come at the cost of reduced performance or increased administration. Enabling your business via "Storage Efficiency without Compromise" is NetApp's promise: We deliver partners and solutions that reduce your storage burden while improving manageability and performance.
Mr. Paul Kessler Director of Diversified Pathway Program NetApp APAC
12:05 - 13:00
Executive Insights Panel I: The Changing Face Of Business Continuity And Strategic Planning
Once considered the flip side of disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning is fast becoming a critical tool for corporate success and even business survival. CIOs must expand their thinking beyond protecting people, space, data and equipment to encompass the increasingly complex threats and systemic exposures from global economic crises, natural disasters and more. During this panel discussion, the panelists will share with us the changing threat environment and how you should rethink your own strategic requirements around business continuity.
Moderator: Mr. William Yin, Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
Luncheon Presentation Speaker: Mr. Lawrence Li Systems Engineering Manager Symantec Hong Kong
14:00 - 14:35
Executive Insights Panel II: Practical Considerations - Enterprise Backup to the Storage Cloud
This panel consisting of users, technology providers and analyst will take a hard look at practical considerations when choosing the storage cloud for enterprise backup storage and disaster recovery. The panelists will discuss key considerations including performance, security, manageability, recovery time objective, recovery point objective, service level requirements, and regulatory compliance as well as financial considerations. Additionally, the panel will share lessons learned from past deployments and their recommendations on the best way to leverage the storage cloud as the backup storage media.
As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to:
Determine the benefits of storage cloud versus traditional onsite and offsite media options
Gain knowledge of the do's and dont's associated with backing up to the storage cloud
More effectively leverage the storage cloud for enterprise backup & recovery
Moderator: Mr. William Yin, Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
Keynote Six: Store More for Less - VTL+ De-duplication
Dr. Eric Chen General Manager, APAC FalconStor Software, Inc.
15:05 - 15:35
Keynote Seven: Leading WAN Optimization Technology in Data Replication and Disaster Recovery
Data Replication and Disaster Recovery have become integral and critical programs for the survival of any enterprise in today's world of "information on demand" and "24x7 data availability. BUT - creating a disaster recovery environment for back office systems cross WAN has always been difficult, complex and expensive - until now. Riverbed WAN optimization technology completely revolutionizes and enables fast, easy and cost saving DR programs. Riverbed can change DR times from 23 hours to just 2 hours!!
More than 7,800 customers, across a wide range of businesses, have implemented Riverbed WAN optimization solutions to improve employee productivity and enable a more agile IT infrastructure such as cloud computing. Many of these companies with large data centers are leveraging Riverbed Steelhead® appliances to accelerate DR processes up to 55 times faster, and to reduce WAN bandwidth requirements by up to 95%.
Mr. Bill Ting Head of Product Marketing, Greater China Riverbed Technology
15:35 - 16:05
Keynote Eight: The Storage Security Game Plan for 2010 and Beyond
Mr. Peter Koo Partner, Hong Kong, Enterprise Risk Services Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
16:05 - 16:35
Closing Keynote: CIO's Next Step: How Cloud Computing and New IT Infrastructure Shifts are Changing Enterprise Storage Strategies?
Mr. Mark Ross Founder Asia Cloud Computing Association
Remarks: The above agenda is subject to change without prior notice.
