Data center consolidation and server centralisation are two top IT initiatives that can save organisations significantly on hardware, software, and operating costs. But they can also make it more difficult to maintain application availability, performance, and security.

So how can you implement a branch-office in-a-box solution both securely and effectively? And how do you ensure successful delivery of local services?

Dexter Wee

Mr. Dexter Wee is the General Manager, Network Integration & Performance Optimisation for Datacraft Asia Pte Ltd. In this role, he oversees a team of industry experts to provide network, network optimisation solutions to customers, to connect and optimise end user experience.

Wee has a wide range of experience in the computer industry having worked in Defense, Computer Associates, IBM, and started several businesses in the IT industry, with regional roles in Technical Services, Solutions in Network and System Operations. He had acquired several professional certifications such as: ITIL, CISSP, CISA, CA Unicenter, amongst other industry certifications.

Mr. Wee graduated from the University of South Carolina with a double major in Business Administration in Marketing and Management Science in the United States of America.

Many enterprises are realising that they already have private clouds, or a short step away from reorganising their assets into a private cloud format. Private clouds offer the benefits of the public cloud-- centralised storage, virtualisation, minimal management administration and reliability-- while enabling enterprises to retain full application performance visibility and control. Learn why private clouds are a good interim step for migrating to public cloud computing or creating hybrid private/public cloud networks. What are the similarities and differences in the performance characteristics of private vs. public clouds, and how can issues such as data transfer bottlenecks (latency) and application performance unpredictability, (which have not been widely covered), impact cloud computing models? Understand why cloud applications have different needs than cloud storage what new technologies will solve that problem. The speaker will also address the implications of network distances between where the processing happens, where the data is stored, and where users are located-- aiding attendees in making the right architectural decisions.

Paul Serrano

Mr. Serrano has more than 30 years of experience in the networking and security arena and has extensive experience in sales, marketing and business development. Prior to Riverbed he served as VP of Marketing APAC for CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing Corp). Mr. Serrano performed as Director for security products marketing for Juniper Networks via the acquisition of NetScreen Technologies where he held a variety of senior management positions, including Sr. director of product management (USA) and Sr. director of marketing APAC. Prior to NetScreen, he was director of business development at Bell Labs Research.

Serrano also co-founded and served as CEO for Network Tools. He served in senior positions in sales, marketing and product management at start-up SynOptics Communications/Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel). He was vice president at the HSBC banking corporation as well as serving in senior management roles at JP Morgan Bank and Citibank. Serrano spent nine years with the US Air Force and was responsible for the planning, design, installation and deployment of large-scale communication systems, including satellite systems, fiber optics, voice and data systems, cryptographic systems and wireless communications. He is a member and participant in the IEEE and IETF forums.

With the intense business competition, the complex networked infrastructure and the adoption of virtualisation and voice/video convergence, organisations are stretched to improve business services performance with better operational efficiency. Months and even days of troubleshooting for intermittent performance degradation are no longer tolerated.

How is the performance of your Trading, eBanking, Financial and your corporate applications? Where is the bottleneck in your performance degradation? Is it within the firewall, servers, databases, web tiers or WAN optimisation? How are your remote branches performing?

The comprehensive and high definition visibility of the complex network and applications performance from the data center to the end users, from physical and virtual server farms, 10G to 2Mbps WAN, over the MPLS crowd to the 100Mbps client, is crucial to proactively manage the network and applications performance and troubleshooting.

Netscout will share with you our latest nGenius Services Assurance and case studies for managing the critical business services performance.

Ong Kuay Hock

Kuay Hock, is the APAC Systems Engineering and Business Development Director with Netscout. He is responsible for the Netscout Asia technical pre-sales and Mobile industry services. He was involved greatly in helping companies align and improve their business services delivery over the increasing complex network and application architecture.

He started his career managing infrastructure support including network availability, operations, reliability and support in Singapore Airlines before moving into IT Organisations to lead major systems, network management, automation projects and implementations.

Kuay Hock is a certified ITIL foundation trainer and has received many awards and achievements in his career including some major IT accolades from the National Computer Board. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in Information Technology, majoring in Computer Science.

1. reduced capital expenditures on IT infrastructure,
2. reduced and/or deferred bandwidth expenditures,
3. increased productivity,
4. enhanced collaboration,
5. improved backup and replication, and
6. improved data security.
   

Using Riverbed's technology, Datacraft enables critical business applications to run up to 100 times faster over the WAN and reduce bandwidth by up to 95%.

Dexter Wee

Mr. Dexter Wee is the General Manager, Network Integration & Performance Optimisation for Datacraft Asia Pte Ltd. In this role, he oversees a team of industry experts to provide network, network optimisation solutions to customers, to connect and optimise end user experience.

Wee has a wide range of experience in the computer industry having worked in Defense, Computer Associates, IBM, and started several businesses in the IT industry, with regional roles in Technical Services, Solutions in Network and System Operations. He had acquired several professional certifications such as: ITIL, CISSP, CISA, CA Unicenter, amongst other industry certifications.

Mr. Wee graduated from the University of South Carolina with a double major in Business Administration in Marketing and Management Science in the United States of America.