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Welcome Address by Novell/ IDC Asia Pacific

Businesses are critically impacted by IT service quality and continuity. While companies in Asia Pacific are taking steps to consolidate and virtualise the infrastructure and IT workloads, it is pertinent that organisations understand the new best practices, reviewed in the context of IT workload optimisation, monitoring and migration that impacts business service quality. Many new and old factors now impact IT quality of service. New emerging solutions need to be considered and factored into organisation IT blueprint. These are now available that are cost effective in leading a new way of measuring IT services, managing disaster recovery IT services and optimising virtualised and physical IT workload management with a view to improve service quality and resilience. IT workload needs to be reviewed in the context of holistic enterprise architecture alignment towards manageability, availability and simplicity. New transformational approaches to simplify management and reduce capital and operational costs are now the focus.

This session reviews trends, pressing issues, challenges, emerging technologies, trends, best practices pertaining to IT workload management. New insights that will take organisations to a new level towards a dynamic virtualised IT environment which is essential to today’s leading mantra of “invest to save, invest to lead and invest to grow” will be presented with a new perspective of building, managing and measuring IT virtualised workload.

Clouds on the Horizon - A tale of modern IT
Paul Kangro, Applied Technology Strategist
Novell

The future always looks like a distant place until you get there - its only then you realise that you should have planned things a bit better. Cloud Computing, if you only believe some of the hype, will allow you a whole new way of putting all the lego blocks together - a whole new architecture. What can you do now to help you plan for the fast approaching future? Understanding your current workloads and using heterogeneous management tools for virtual systems is a good start. Understanding how your applications fit into your companies value chain is better still.

This presentation will give an evaluation of how current technology will morph into the cloud and how to get the best advantage for your enterprise in the near term.

Closing Remarks & Networking