Track 2
Enterprise Clouds Session Chair: Ang Kheng San (National Grid Office)
Virtualization Session Chair: Ang Kheng San (National Grid Office)
Session Chair: Ang Kheng San (National Grid Office)
Cloud Enablers Session Chair: Ian Ho (National Grid Office)
Session Chair: Ian Ho (National Grid Office)
Grid Service Providers Session Chair: Ian Ho (National Grid Office)
Enterprise Clouds Abstract Biodata . . . Abstract
Biodata This includes driving the overall commercial engagement model and strategy for major global opportunities for IT specialized solutions; engaging the Engineering team to develop tailored solutions; and representing our IT specialized services portfolio and solutions as a subject matter expert in application management. These solutions have been deployed across various geographies and within various industries, with a specific focus on aligning IT to the business. Rosengrave has extensive experience in the Asia Pacific ICT industry. His previous roles include SOUL Telecoms (formerly Comindico) and Hutchison Telecoms. . . . Abstract . . . Abstract In his current role, Chaudhry leads a team of enterprise architects focused on providing architecture advisory to IT and business executives. Chaudhry also supports strategic customer and partner/alliance engagements and is a frequent speaker at industry and Oracle events on IT trends, Grid computing and infrastructure optimization techniques. He has done extensive work around compliance and data security standards. Chaudhry joined Oracle in 2005 as Regional Director. Prior to his tenure at Oracle, Chaudhry has worked for Hitachi Data Systems, Siebel Systems & USC School of Business Management. An industry veteran for over 16 years, he has worked in Finance, Telecom and Public sectors across Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Chaudhry holds a Masters Degree in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California. Virtualization Abstract . . . Abstract
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. . . Abstract Biodata Jim is a veteran at VMware with previous assignments in Palo Alto and Tokyo where he has been instrumental in establishing international operations since 2000. Lenox brings with him 18 years of experience is managing international operations for high tech companies involved in software, communications, and aerospace. Lenox holds a Masters of Science degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, a Masters of Arts degree in Asian Studies from the University of the Philippines, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. . . . Abstract Cloud Enablers Abstract Biodata Prior to working at NetApp, Mathew spent 7 years working in the Telecommunications sector managing secure networks and reducing the time to market for services. Since moving to NetApp, Mathew has been the lead architect responsible for the development of the NetApp Dynamic Data Centre - a solution that assesses the people, process and technology aspects necessary in the transformation of a data centre, beginning at the storage layer. In recent years Mathew has had a global role within NetApp. He has assisted organisations to begin their journey to IT-as-a-Service by re-evaluating how they are utilising their storage, network and compute infrastructure to identify the benefits that IT-as-a-Service can bring to their business. . . . Abstract In order to achieve this vision, all the component technologies in the data center need to be integrated and delivered as a cohesive and consistent virtualized infrastructure stack, a capability which VIFX leads the way with across Asia. In fact, VIFX believe that the higher the level of integration achieved within the stack, the less time customers will need to spent on managing infrastructure, the more efficient the entire IT environment. This translate into a greater ability for IT to deliver lower cost services, higher availability, faster time to deploy, and improved business continuity the ultimate goal for all clients looking to realise the advantages of this compute platform in the future. Biodata Prior to his current role, Damian was Vice President for Lenovo’s Relationship Business in Europe and also served as Vice president and Chief Operating Officer across Europe, Middle East and Africa from 2007 based in Paris. Damian has more than 15 years Global Enterprise Management experience having led Dell’s Enterprise Systems Group for Asia-Pacific and Japan from 2002 to 2007 in an Executive Director and General Manager capacity, in addition to leading Enterprise businesses across Europe and Australia during his 13 years career there. During this period, Dell became one of the largest independent providers of Enterprise Systems across Asia with Revenues surpassing $2 Billion. Damian has established ViFX as the leading Advanced Virtualisation & Storage centric consulting services company in the Asia-Pacific region by providing world-class solutions to companies seeking to virtualize their IT infrastructure including Servers, Storage, Networks, and Desktops. ViFX is uniquely positioned through our expertise, resources, and delivery experience to provide outstanding Service Delivery execution within an Engagement framework that maximizes the Business and Technical benefits to our clients. . . . Abstract Biodata Prior to joining Software Group, she managed a number of initiatives in IBM's Research Center. She received a PhD in electrical engineering from Brown University and BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Mumbai. . . . Abstract Biodata Prior to starting 1degreenorth, Laurence was the Director of Platform Computing in Singapore holding multiple portfolios which includes: R&D Centre Director for Platform's Open Source Grid Development Centre which is responsible for the development and overall product strategy for Platform's HPC management software, Director of Platform's Cloud Innovation Centre helping customers in Singapore and the region to be Cloud enabled, and Platform's HPCCommunity.org Community Manager - a portal for the global HPC community. Laurence is a veteran of the open source and HPC/Grid/Cloud community and has been promoting the use of Linux/HPC/Grid/Cloud since 1998. He was involved in building the very first commercial Linux cluster for a local research institute in 1999 and has since implemented and consulted for many organizations in APJ, Europe and US, on HPC, Grid and now Cloud. Laurence also led a team from 2002- 2006 in Singapore to co-develop the San Diego's Supercomputer Centre Rocks toolkit - the world's most popular open source HPC cluster management system. Laurence graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with First Class Honours in Engineering, and holds a Master in Knowledge Engineering from NUS. . . . Abstract Biodata . . . Abstract Other than trusting the Cloud service provider to safeguard your confidential business information, we should also consider data protection solutions that allow us to control the access to sensitive information in order to minimize the risk of data breaches. In this presentation, we discuss some of the viable data protection strategies and technologies that could help to safeguard confidential information in the Cloud, and allowing the businesses to fully leverage the power of Cloud Computing to provide the agility required to move quickly in the highly competitive business environments. Biodata He founded SecureAge Technology in 2003 to focus on creating and commercializing innovative data security solutions. These solutions are now successfully deployed by various governments and large enterprises in the Asia Pacific region. Dr Ngair has a Ph.D in Computer science (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA) and MA, BA in Mathematics (Cambridge, UK). . . . Abstract Biodata
. . . Abstract Biodata Grid Service Providers Abstract Biodata Jee Yen has 18 years of experience in the IT industry. His experience spans from sales and marketing to management of business operations. He had covered markets in South East Asia and Indochina. Prior to joining the Alatum Team from 2005 - 2008, he had been running an Joint Venture unit for SCS in Indonesia achieving an annual turnover of about USD 40 millions with about 450 headcounts. His career portfolio gave him a strong foundation in understanding the challenges of all aspects of business solutioning; including Technical, Pre-sales, Project Management and Sales. In his various management positions, he was responsible for setting the strategic direction for revenue growth as well as profitability. . . . Abstract Biodata Alan has struck strategic partnerships with software/hardware vendor, data center operators and ISPs in various collaboration programs. His most recent achievement is leading the nGrid consortium for Call-for-Collaboration on grid service provisioning with the National Grid Office. Alan holds a degree in Computing & Information Systems from University of Oxford Brookes. He possesses extensive experience in Internet Architecture, Ecommerce, Mobile Media, Broadcast, Data Center Consolidation and Managed Services. . . . Abstract Biodata He holds a BSC Degree in Business Administration, Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Diploma in Marketing. . . . Abstract Biodata |
Par Botes is CTO for EMC Corporation in Asia Pacific & Japan. He is involved in the evolution and advancement for EMC's information infrastructure platforms, software and services, including storage, backup and recovery, archiving, virtualized data centers and private Clouds. Par also works directly with EMC's customers and leading technologists to develop future IT product direction. He is named as inventor on 18 patents pending with the US Patent Office and is a frequent industry speaker on system and storage architecture and large scale commercial systems. Par joined EMC in 2007, with over 20 years of IT experience specializing in online transactional systems, very large data bases, networking, storage technologies and data protection. Par has a degree in Telecommunications from his native home of Stockholm, Sweden. Par is currently based in Singapore. EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.
David Rosengrave is Asia Pacific Practice Manager, IT Solutions, working within the Global Services organization. In this role, he has a broad range of responsibilities including driving the company’s IT specialized services across the region. 
Edward Chew manages Platform Computing's Cloud Innovation Center (CIC). CIC is setup in collaboration with IDA to promote Cloud Technology adoption among Singapore based enterprises. Edward has over 12 years of experience in the field of High Performance Computing. Prior to joining Platform Computing, Edward was in charge of Motorola Asia’s Advance Compute Engineering team, delivering HPC/GRID solutions and maintaining its infrastructure across Motorola campuses in Asia and Europe. Edward graduated from Nanyang Technological University with Bachelors and Masters of Engineering degrees.
Kaleem Chaudhry is Regional Director, Enterprise Technology for Oracle Asia Pacific, responsible for market development and business strategy for Oracle’s database line of products. 
Gabriel is a senior IT technologist with extensive experience in High Performance Computing and Virtualisation technologies spanning all the major verticals (Finance, Oil and Gas, Digital Media, biotechnology, Academia, Automotive, Gaming). He possesses deep infrastructure architecture skills across Databases, Servers, Desktops, Storage, Networking, System management technologies, and is passionate about deploying innovative IT technologies that bring tangible business benefits to an organisation.
Daniel Mar is the Technical Services Manager for a local IT consulting company TechniCom IT Solutions. He has been working in the IT industry for over 10 years and has extensive experience with Server Virtualisation technologies deploying virtual infrastructures into small and medium sized enterprises to large multinational corporations.
Alastair has extensive experience spanning more than 13 years in the IT industry. He has worked with numerous multi-national companies including IBM and General Motors to drive operational efficiencies in their IT and the adoption of new technologies internally and externally. In his current role as General Manager (South Asia) of IGEL Technology, he has the opportunity to share his knowledge of ‘centralised’ computing paradigms ranging from ‘Service Oriented Architectures’ to desktop virtualization and Cloud Computing.
Reuben Ernest is a NCS consultant with over 15 years of experience in the ICT industry. He has led several major IT projects across different industry domains in both public and private sectors, some of which include IRAS, HDB, MOE, NTUC Income and Chartered Semiconductor. A VMware certified professional, Reuben's areas of specialisation cover virtualization, Win Admin, VERITAS/ Microsoft Cluester and XenApp.
Jim Lenox is the General Manager, ASEAN, at VMware. Based in Singapore, Lenox is responsible for driving VMware growth and leadership in Southeast Asia. In this role, he is responsible for delivering and supporting VMware’s range of virtualization solutions for new and existing markets and developing the strategic partnerships to support the company’s accelerated growth in the region.
Ratnesh Sharma is the Director of Product Management and Marketing at Citrix Systems and is based at the Citrix R&D Center in Bangalore, He is currently focused on Cloud-based Applications, Virtualized Network Appliances, Application Networking and growing the APAC/EMEA markets. He has over 20 years of experience driving products to winning solutions and market leadership in both global Fortune-500s and high-growth entrepreneurial environment. Prior to Citrix, Ratnesh was the Director of Product Management at Oracle, responsible for the Enterprise Manager product. As an entrepreneur, Ratnesh headed up Product Management at three successful startups - newScale, Webify (acquired by IBM) and Covigo (acquired by Symbol Technologies). He has also held product leadership positions at Sun Microsystems/ Netscape and Baxter Healthcare. Ratnesh has an MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, a Masters in Engineering from Clemson University and a BSEE from the Birla Institute of Technology & Sciences, Pilani, India. An avid runner, he is training for his sixth marathon and his first in India.
Mathew is an Enterprise Infrastructure Architect at NetApp, with more than 10 years experience in the IT sector. 
Damian Crotty is responsible for the General Management and Expansion of VIFX's International business growth across the Asia Pacific and Japan markets through industry leading consulting and specialist service practices committed to Virtualization and Storage Technologies. 
Dr. Jayashree Subrahmonia, Director, Advanced Customer Solutions, joined IBM's Software Group in September, 2003. She manages a team whose mission is to work with leading edge customers to develop Cloud solutions. Her team spread across a number of world wide Cloud Centers works with customers to pilot Cloud solutions. 
Laurence Liew is the CEO and Founder of 1degreenorth Pte Ltd, a provider of next-generation High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing infrastructure solutions.
Dr. Pierre Lagier is Chief Technical Officer of Fujitsu Systems Europe, his key focuses include High Performance Computing and Cloud technologies, with Sofware Service Stack approach rather than traditional software stack. He holds Ph.D. In Computer Science on distributed operating systems from Toulouse University (France). He started working as a system analyst at the Software Engineering Institute in Paris and then joined the French National Space Agency to design a new generation of spacecraft control center. In 1989 he left this position and moved to Alliant Computer Inc. In Boston to work as system architect. He joined Fujitsu Ltd. In 1991, where he has been responsible for the design of message passing library (MPI2) for all Fujtisu high performance computing hardware platforms; the design of performance analysis techniques for very large distributed applications; and various software tools, for example Parallelnavi/Workbench. 
Dr. Ngair spent 13 years as a researcher in Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL, now known as Institute for Infocomm Research) As a Senior Member of Research Staff, he was engaged in R&D works and innovative commercial product development on information security, multi-lingual computing and Artificial Intelligence. 
With over a decade of IT security experience, Kelvin Wee is the regional specialist for the RSA Data Security Group. Kelvin has been involved with the implementation of security solutions in the Asia Pacific region with technologies on 2-Factor authentication, Secure Incident and Event Management (SIEM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) .
Mike Murphy is chief technology officer for the Asia-Pacific region of Nokia Siemens Networks. In that position, Mike is responsible for supporting customer engagements related to strategic technical directions, and through that dialogue, developing new product solutions and influencing corporate product roadmaps. Mike was formerly Japan Country Manager for Nokia Networks where he supported the rapid growth of WCDMA in that country. Mike has an extensive background in Research & Development and global business activities. In the former, Mike led the the WCDMA program at his previous employer. In the latter, he has led wireless teams throughout Asia, and has lived in China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, France, and Canada. Mike has a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, in Canada. Mike is now based in Bangkok, Thailand. 
Lim Jee Yen’s role as a Director in SingTel, involves taking charge of the Sales and Operations for Alatum, a SingTel unit offering Cloud Computing Services for the Singapore market. In this role, he oversees the overall marketing and sales strategies for cloud services offered through Alatum.
Alan Woo is CTO and co-founder of NewMedia Express where he has spent several years in enabling local SME web presence.
SS Lim is the Managing Director of PTC System (S) Pte Ltd., a leader vendor in enterprise data management and content delivery. Under SS's leadership, PTC has grown and is now recognized as the market leader in Data management.
Alex runs a Managed IT Service and Cloud Service company, providing innovative managed IT services and Cloud solutions for SMBs, enterprises and government. Services such as Cloud infrastructure providing compute, storage, VPDC, global server load balancing service, and other infrastructure based solutions. Cloud hosted IT solutions such as Cloud hosted desktop, applications and SaaS based business solutions such as ERP, CMS, DCM, etc. Alex is a hands-on entrepreneur who is always on the look-out for technologies that will enhance IT utilization in SMEs and enterprise, and help stakeholders make use of IT to improve their business, efficiency and effectiveness.
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