Our objective is to share meaningful insights on how your business must now evolve to stay in the lead. It is no longer viable for YOU, being the decision-makers to be a follower. The future calls for a more proactive approach to how a business is managed.
   
 
Steve Lam
Manager, Technology & Security Risk Services
 

Steve is a Manager with the Technology and Security Risk Services practice of Ernst & Young. He is part of the Security and Technology Solutions team comprising nearly 30 professionals specializing in the Attack & Penetration, Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessments, IT Risk Management, and IT Governance. He leads the Ernst & Young Singapore Advanced Security Centre, where he is involved in advising clients on their strategic IT initiatives as well as the resulting compliance and risk issues with the adoption of next-generation technologies.

Steve has been invited to speak at several conferences around the region. In these conferences, he delivers presentations on the recent trends in security attacks and what companies should do to protect themselves against such threats.

 

Compliance and Convergence: Achieving a Balance of Risk and Performance

With the constant industry bombardment of buzzwords and the latest and greatest in technology, it is important for us to be able to take a step back and take a look at the bigger picture. Although compliance-based initiatives continue to be the primary driver of information governance and security, many information technology leaders have begun to recognise that meeting business objectives is as critical as managing traditional IT risks.

We will go through several industry trends and analyse the basis for building a consistent, cohesive and effective business-centric IT roadmap. We will also explore how a governance and effectiveness framework can help you align IT objectives, mitigate IT risks and most importantly, demonstrate value to the business.

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Matthew Hardman
Platform Strategy Manager
 
As a Platform Strategy Manager for Microsoft Singapore, Matthew Hardman has been in IT for over ten years, working in a variety of industries from industrial engineering to IT Services to web design firms. At Microsoft, Matthew has spent many years working with customers on the adoption of cutting edge technologies to enable new and innovative application experiences for their customers and users. Matthew’s current role has him focused on strategies involving Security and adoption of the Microsoft platform in customers environment.
 

Saving with Green Computing

The term “Green Computing” has rapidly become popularized in the IT industry as organizations are pushed to embrace a more environmentally friendly culture in the way they do business. The good news is that the adoption of “Green Computing” practices need not be an arduous or costly exercise, in fact it can actually save you money in many areas, at the same time giving you a strategic advantage in running your IT. In this session you will learn how Microsoft technologies are enabling customers to land “Green Computing” to not only realize the cost savings associated with this initiative but a higher level of computing agility.

 
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
 
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John Boiardi
Head of Business Development, Data Solutions
Asia Pacific and Japan
 

John Boiardi is responsible for driving awareness of F5’s industry leading file virtualization technology with both partners and customers across the region.

Working with a dedicated team within the region, John ensures that F5 employees and partners have the information and skills needed to identify and close file virtualization opportunities across a wide spectrum of industry verticals.

John has over 17 years of experience in sales and business development within the high technology industry having worked for companies like Chipcom Corp/3Com, Bay Networks, and Cisco Systems, and spent the last 10 years working for early stage technology companies spanning networking, application deliver/web switching, and file virtualization. These companies included Prominet Corporation, an early Gigabit Ethernet company acquired by Lucent Technologies in January 1998, ArrowPoint Communications, the industry’s first content aware web switching technology which was acquired by Cisco Systems in July of 2001, and Acopia Networks, the industry’s leading intelligent file virtualization technology company acquired by F5 Networks in September 2007

John holds a BA from Boston College, USA in Psychology with a Minor in Economics. He recently re-located to Singapore to drive the Data Solutions initiatives within the region.

 

The Future of Data Centre [FUTURE]

In a rapidly changing environment, we are constantly racing to keep IT services running longer and faster. How do you do this while ensuring maximum uptime and avoiding over provisioning of your IT infrastructure? How do you reduce operational costs while providing a more flexible environment to facilitate rapid application deployment? In short, how do you minimize the impact of change? Find out how to create an intelligent service-oriented architecture where the network traffic is decoupled from their physical links, virtualizing the data centre architecture – from the web and application servers to the storage tier.

 

As a global leader in Application Delivery Networking, F5 brings proven experience in ensuring your applications are fast, secure and available. Our solutions optimize network, server, and storage environments ensuring the highest levels of performance, security, and availability at the lowest possible cost.

 
Yvonne Soh
Product Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific
 

Yvonne Soh is the Product Marketing Manager at F5 Networks for the Asia Pacific region. She is responsible for managing the various product lines at F5 – ensuring sales readiness, product lifecycle management and managing launch activities.

Yvonne has over 10 years of experience in enterprise solutions sales and marketing. Previously, Yvonne was at Dell and has been based in both Singapore and Shanghai, China. She joined Dell in 2000 and held a number of regional sales, product marketing and brand management roles within the company.

Prior to joining Dell, Yvonne has held sales and technical positions at NCS and Pacific Internet. 

She holds a Bachelor of Arts, honours degree from the National University of Singapore. 

 

Next Generation Data Centre [FUTURE]

How do you define the next generation data centre? How do you keep up with the growing demands on your infrastructure,  while ensuring maximum uptime and avoiding over provisioning of your IT infrastructure? How do you reduce operational costs while providing a more flexible environment to facilitate rapid application deployment? Find out proven techniques and technologies for staying a step ahead of your escalating demands on your data centre.

 

As a global leader in Application Delivery Networking, F5 brings proven experience in ensuring your applications are fast, secure and available.  Our solutions optimize network, server, and storage environments ensuring the highest levels of performance, security, and availability at the lowest possible cost.

 
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Terence Chau
Director of Risk & Compliance, Asia Pacific
 
Terence Chau is the Director of Risk & Compliance Business Unit for Asia Pacific region at McAfee. Terence has over 14 years information security experience from wireless/mobile to wired environments. He started his career as a security consultant at Hewlett-Packard, provided security infrastructure, policy review, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing services to government, telco and financial services sectors. He had built several public certification authorities (PKI) and security operation centres (SOC), conducted forensics investigation and PCI-DSS on-site audit. He started up an Asian joint venture in 2001 for a NASDAQ listed company and an Asian telecom, and headed up the operation as VP Asia Pacific. He has an extensive background on identity, threat, risk & compliance management technologies and services. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree with double majors in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from the University of Sydney, Australia.
 

Managing IT Risk effectively with the right tools [BUILD]

Companies are investing a lot of money on different technologies to improve their IT security. However, they still suffer from attack due to uncovered vulnerabilities. In this presentation, we will go through the tools that can help your organization to discover and prioritize your IT system vulnerabilities so as to minimize risk effectively.

 

With our unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee helps home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers to comply with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities and continuously monitor and improve their security. Our products are unique in how they work together to make security affordable and manageable. These days, the threats are tougher, and the perpetrators are trickier. But as we have for more than 20 years, McAfee delivers superior protection that is trusted by millions of people.

“What we’ve seen in the industry [is] our customers have problems dealing with multiple consoles and multiple policy engines, whether it’s network or agent-based,” George Kurtz, SVP & GM of Risk and Compliance Business Unit at McAfee said,. “So now because of our technology…what we’re actually doing is we’re unifying them together. So in one place you’ll be able to set policy and the system will…actually go out and behind the scenes perform a policy audit, come back and be able to report on that without you having to log into two different consoles and configure two different systems.”

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Mr Benjamin Low
Managing Director, Southeast Asia & India
 

Benjamin Low is Managing Director, Southeast Asia and India for Secure Computing Corporation, a leading enterprise gateway security company. Low manages the operations and sales for Secure Computing’s offices in Southeast Asia and India. He plays a pivotal role in the consultation and provision of a wide range of security solutions for the protection of critical Web, email and network assets of corporations.

Low has more than a decade of regional management experience in the IT security and enterprise software markets in Asia Pacific. Throughout his career, Low has specialized in delivering single sign-on, identity management, and security technology solutions to enterprises.

Prior to joining Secure Computing, Low was Sales Director, APAC at Entrust, a world leader in securing digital identities and information, in which he was responsible for establishing Entrust’s operations in North Asia, ASEAN and India. During his tenure at Entrust, he played an instrumental role in forging strategic customer relationships, leading to several sizeable public-key infrastructure encryption implementations throughout Asia.

Low was formerly Regional Manager, South Asia for RSA Security. He also held several key sales roles at a number of leading IT vendors, including Computer Associates.

Low holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Adelaide, Australia and recently completed an Executive Program in International Management with Stanford University.

 

Enabling User Access to Web 2.0 Applications: Web Gateway Security [BUILD]

The Web has entered a new era usually referred to as Web 2.0. Security managers have found it extremely challenging to provide their users access to these applications since traditional security tools developed for the Web 1.0 era do not adequately mitigate risks associated with Web 2.0 applications. Yet there are vast business drivers demanding access to these new applications, making them at odds with traditional Web 1.0 security policies based upon “blocking” access. The good news is that a Positive security paradigm now exists for the Security manager to safely allow users access to Web 2.0 applications.

 
Secure Web delivers a comprehensive security solution for all aspects of Web 2.0 traffic.
Powered by TrustedSource™ technology, Secure Web malware protection is rated #1 by av-test.org.
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Steve Fallin
Director, Rapid Response Team
 

Steve Fallin, Director of the Rapid Response Team, has been with WatchGuard since 1998. One of the original architects of WatchGuard's popular LiveSecurity Service, Steve has spent the last seven years researching, writing, and speaking about network security for the small- to medium-size enterprise. Steve's involvement with Internet technologies predates the World Wide Web. Much of that time has been spent figuring out how to break things or keep them from being broken, due to Steve's work experience as a penetration tester and firewall expert for government clients in Washington, DC. Steve believes that when it comes to network security, one size fits nobody.

 

XTM: The next generation of UTM [FUTURE]

eXtensible Threat Management (XTM) is the future of Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions. As a category, it represents the next wave of comprehensive, integrated and highly secure network security appliances. Extensibility means having the ability to extend or add on to. For WatchGuard, the term has a dual purpose in that our solutions are fundamentally extensible in multiple ways, as well; they also are extensible in giving customer multiple choices.

 Extensible Security
 Extensible Management
 Extensible Choice
 Extensible Ownership
 Extensible Market Impact

 

Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of network security solutions, providing mission-critical security to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management (UTM) appliances and WatchGuard SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network security, unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education programme. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and has its Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore, with other offices in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.watchguard.com.

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Kenny Ng
Director, Solutions Architects & Consulants
Enterprise Business Group
Asia Pacific Region
 

Kenny Ng joined the company in November 1995 as Network Consultant, Asia for XYLAN Corporation, now part of Alcatel since Apr 99. He is one of the pioneer in setting operation for XYLAN Asia Pacific region.

He has been in the networking arena for more than 14 years. Prior to Xylan, he was working as Network Engineer for ADC Fibermux that deals with fiber-optics equipment.

Kenny’s international experience began when he first joined Alcatel as a Network Consultant. He was subsequently appointed System Engineer Manager for Asia. In his present position, he travels extensively to Asia Pacific to support the enterprise solutions business and providing network design & consultancy to business partners and customers.

His experiences in IP Networking, IP Telephony, Wireless LAN, IP Security and Network Design methodology has resulted him creating training certifications on Design Network Academy (DNA) for Security on Network Design, Wireless LAN Network Design, IPT Network Design and High-Availability Network Design.

 

Building a Green IT and Communication Strategy [GREEN]

As many organisations face new challenges for implementing ‘greener IT’ and Communications strategies, this session from Alcatel-Lucent explores a number of priority topics across IP Networking infrastructure, Data Centres and new communications solutions to help reduce energy bills and streamline the way we work.

 

Alcatel-Lucent is leading the competitive transformation of its enterprise and government customers by delivering secure, end-to-end, business-critical communications solutions that enable new business generation. We deliver a portfolio of solutions and services that addresses the needs of today's enterprises, enabling them to drive their communications network as a competitive weapon, while they create profitable and lasting customer relationships, and empower their employees, boosting productivity

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Kevin Tseng
Technical Director, APAC
 
Kevin Tseng is responsible for driving Aruba's technical direction in Asia Pacific region. Mr. Tseng has 15 years of technology and over 10 years of experience in wireless networking. Prior to joining Aruba Networks, Mr. Tseng held wireless technical director positions at NetVersant Solutions, a U.S. nation-wide data networking company now with 500M+ revenue and Sr. Security Consultant in Unisys Global Networking Services - Greater China region. During those times; Mr. Tseng consulted many national and multi-national companies on security and wireless design and implementation to pass ISO17799 qualification. He holds an MBA with honors from Radford University and BS, in Consumer Economics, from Cornell University.
 

Keep the Green - Next Generation Secured Mobility [GREEN]

The business is changing towards green - the IT green transformation

1. Information between the repository and the knowledge worker
2. What is knowledge worker requires? is it inline with CIO's request?
3. Energy saving in informaiton storage
4. Energy saving in information transfer
5. Energy saving in information utilization

 

Aruba securely delivers the enterprise network to users, wherever they work or roam, with user-centric networks that significantly expand the reach of traditional port-centric networks. User-centric networks integrate adaptive WLANs, identity-based security, and application continuity services into a cohesive, high-performance system that can be easily deployed as an overlay on top of existing network infrastructure. It enables IT to deliver the scalable network to users with the highest grade of security in an energy-saving fashion.

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Matt Bennett
Sales Director, Asia Pacific
 
Matt Bennett is Blue Coat’s Sales Director for Asia Pacific. He has been with Blue Coat Systems for more than four years occupying both EMEA and APAC roles. He was formerly managing the UK, Israel and South African Territory at Blue Coat for three years. Matt is responsible for numerous global accounts within Blue Coat and has more than ten years experience in the IT industry.
 

Application Delivery Networks: Envision the Future [FUTURE]

The business landscape is changing. The network is evolving. Server consolidation is imminent. Companies are pushing their employees closer to where the money is. With the increase of mobile and remote users come serious performance and security concerns as users and data get pulled apart. Envision one solution that allows you to see, accelerate and secure the applications as they’re delivered over distributed networks. Envision Application Delivery Networks.

 

Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat's family of appliances and client-based solutions - deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers - provide intelligent points of policy-based control.

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Ong Kuay Hock
Systems Engineering & Business Development Director, Asia
 

Kuay Hock, is the Systems Engineering and Business Development Director with Netscout. He is responsible for the Asia technical pre-sales services and business development. He has involved greatly in helping companies to align IT with business services. KuayHock is a certified ITIL Foundation Trainer.

He started his career managing infrastructure support including network’s availability, operations, reliability and support in Singapore Airlines. He then moved on to work with Candle and BMC to lead major systems and network management and automation projects implementations in Asia

 

Managing the Modern IP Services Performance & Assurance [BUILD]

In today's highly complex and rapidly changing IT environments, IT team is challenged to manage the data, voice, video convergence, MPLS, WAN, Market data, FIX, Financial multicast, complex multi-tier applications, Mobile Valued Added services and IP Services performance assurance. In this session, NetScout will take a solutions approach to illustrate the essential role it plays in providing the operational intelligence required to assure that critical networked applications and services run efficiently and reliably, meeting or exceeding user expectations, and increasing return on investment from the infrastructure.

 

NetScout Systems is the leading provider of integrated network and application performance management solutions for organizations worldwide. Through the combination of Sniffer® and nGenius® technologies, NetScout enables customers to maximize the performance and efficiency of applications and content delivered across globally distributed networks.

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Goh Teck Han
Technical Manager, Regional Sales Support
 
Teck Han joined Transition Networks in September of 2007 as Regional Sales Support. Before joining Transition Networks, he has experiences in various system integration for SDH/IP/WDM networks. Teck Han has a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2nd Class upper honours) from Nanyang Technological University in 2003.
 

Media Conversion Technology [BUILD]

Why Media Conversion? Transition Networks' full line of feature rich media converters transparently connect one type of media, or cabling, to another – typically copper to fiber. Bridging the gap between legacy copper infrastructures and fiber growth, our media conversion products provide an economical path towards extending the distance of an existing network, extending the life of non-fiber based equipment, or extending the distance between two like devices.

 

Transition Networks offers networking connectivity solutions for fiber conversion including Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit, T1/E1, DS3, ATM, V.35 and more. The product portfolio also includes network switches for facilitating low-cost network evolution with unique solutions.

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