Conference Agenda

Time Content
8:30 - 9:00am Registration & Welcome Coffee & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10am Opening Message
by Chong Hoi Ming, Managing Director, Dimension Data Malaysia.
9:10 - 10:15am The Business of Cloud

Examine the impact of cloud computing to business and see how Dimension Data has impacted the same for their clients. The presentation will also include Dimension Data’s strategy and unique offerings like global cloud exchange and Managed cloud services that extend an entire suite of services for clients to adopt at various stages of their cloud journey.

Gain insights from Client case studies that Dimension Data has helped realise, along with key considerations that clients should not overlook while embarking on the cloud journey.

by Manish Pratap, Regional Lead – Cloud Business Unit, Dimension Data Asia Pacific

10:15 - 10:30am Coffee Break
10:30 – 11.15am Fabric Based Cloud Computing,

Free CIOs from the constraints, cost and confusion that have for years characterised Data Centers by taking a holistic approach to computing.

by Lim Char Boo, Product Sales Specialist, Data Center, Cisco Systems (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.

11:15 - 12:00pm Enabling Data Center Evolution Towards Cloud Computing

Accelerate your transition to the Cloud with the FlexPod™ data center solution. Find out how the integration of disparate compute, storage, and network components into a single architecture helps organisations to reduce business risk.

by Khoo Swee Chuan, Technical Consultant, NetApp Malaysia

12:00 - 12:45pm Securing The Cloud

Examine the security challenges of virtualisation, and explore the many ways in which you can protect virtual machines (VMs) from external threats as well as from each other.

by Khoo Kah Keong, Security Consultant, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

12:45 - 2:00pm LUNCH
2:00 - 3.15pm The Microsoft Private Cloud Strategy

Get insights into how Microsoft-based solutions are transforming the way organisations embark on their private cloud journeys through the use of familiar, cost-effective, reliable and scalable architectures and technologies.

by Neville Burdan, General Manager Virtualisation & Microsoft Solutions, Dimension Data Asia-Pacific and Eric Liew, Product Marketing Manager, Core Infrastructure, Microsoft Malaysia

3.15 - 4:00pm Next Generation Workspace

With the 'consumerisation of IT' and 'bring your own device (BYOD)' programmes, many companies are looking at desktop virtualisation to provide the answer. Smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks are ushering in a new way of enterprise mobility, in this session Dimension Data and Citrix discuss the relationship between mobility solutions enablement and cloud services.

by Neville Burdan, General Manager Virtualisation & Microsoft Solutions, Dimension Data Asia-Pacific
4.00 - 4.15pm Coffee Break
4.15 - 4:45pm Virtualisation Impact on Business

Identify key success factors to successfully implement cloud computing. Review the challenges and benefits of Virtualisation.

by Larry Yeo, Director of Operations, Training Partners.
4.45 - 5.15pm FORUM

Panel of speakers– Manish Pratap (DD), Neville Burdan (DD), Chin Kar Wai (DD), Lim Char Boo (Cisco), Khoo Swee Chuan (NetApp), Khoo Kah Keong (Check Point), Eric Liew (Microsoft), Larry Yeo (DD)

Moderator: William Phuah, Senior Solutions Specialist, Dimension Data Malaysia.
5.15 - 5.20pm Lucky Draw
5:20 - 5.25pm Closing Message
by Chong Hoi Ming, Managing Director, Dimension Data Malaysia.












For more information, please contact Dianne (Roots Asia - appointed agency) at 03-7494 0292.