David Webster
President
EMC Corporation, Australia and New Zealand

As President of EMC Australia and New Zealand, David Webster is responsible for all EMC ANZ business functions and for driving the strategic growth and operational performance across the region.  Headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, with nearly 31,000 employees operating in more than 50 countries, EMC is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage. EMC reported revenues in excess of US$14 billion in 2008. Its current market capitalization places it among the 10 most valuable information technology product companies in the world.

Mr Webster’s career spans over 20 years in the Information Technology industry across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia pacific.  Prior to EMC he held the position of Vice President & Managing Director Australia & New Zealand for PeopleSoft Inc.  In this role Mr Webster led the organisation through significant business growth, the acquisition, merger and integration of JD Edwards and continual organisational development and change.

Mr Webster spent 12 years at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems where he held senior management positions including 4 years as Managing Director ASEAN countries based in Singapore, and preceded by roles as Sales Director ANZ, Marketing Director ANZ and Channel Sales Manager Australia.

Mr Webster commenced his career in Information Technology through working as a Systems Software Engineer for Australian CAD/CAM Software company  ComputerPower following study in Architecture and Computing.

Paul Harapin
Managing Director
VMware, Australia and New Zealand

Paul Harapin is the Managing Director, VMware Australia & New Zealand and is responsible for the Sales and Marketing of VMware in Australia and New Zealand. He has been in the role for more than two years and has grown VMware, in this region, from a start-up company to a fast growing organisation that now has offices in all major capital cities.

Mr Harapin brings vast experience in the building and management of multi-million dollar IT corporations and his experience spans 18 years across Asia and the USA including Chairman & CEO of Singapore-based managed services provider, TySat Software and Vice President, ASEAN, Australia & New Zealand, for Micromuse Inc.

He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1989 with degree in Economics (International Finance).

Kevin Bloch
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Cisco, Australia & New Zealand

Kevin Bloch is Chief Technology Officer at Cisco. He provides leadership of technology vision and leadership of people within Cisco to communicate and execute on that vision. An important aspect of the role is to communicate the benefits organisations can achieve from emerging technologies and market transitions.

Kevin joined Cisco 9 years ago. Previously, he held positions with other telecommunications equipment manufacturers, systems integrators as well as with Telstra. He has held several roles in the telecommunications industry including management, strategic planning, marketing, sales, systems engineering and technology development. His expertise covers the fields of internet technologies and architectures, narrowband and broadband access, transmission and switching.

Kevin holds a B.Sc (Computer Science) and a B.E. (Engineering Hons) from the University of New South Wales and is the author of several notable publications and technical reference books.

The contradiction of needing to underpin your business with an agile and responsive IT infrastructure whilst cutting back on expenditure is leaving many organisations puzzled.

Fortunately Virtualisation solves many of those issues. A virtualized datacenter requires scale, performance, integration, support and, most of all, vision in order to deliver on its promises.

This year's keynote presentation features the 3 industry leaders sharing their unified vision for the virtualized datacenter, how each contributes to creating this revolution in the industry, and just what outcomes organisations can expect from this strategic combination.

Every day, backup challenges just get bigger. Missed backup windows, increasing service levels and stagnant or shrinking IT budgets are just some of the challenges magnified by today's explosive data growth rates.

During this session we will discuss how you can leverage data de-duplication technologies to reduce your data footprint and associated costs, while storing more data, in less time, more often, for longer periods - and provide faster access to that data.

Also, Dimension Data will discuss data de-duplication, the merits of available technologies, and identify how to save cost from your backup operations.

CLARiiON is the leading mid-tier storage platform and has introduced a number of technologies that set it apart from the rest of the storage market. The Celerra has introduced data-deduplication, compression and compliant file level retention.

This session will look at the new capabilities such as flash drives and virtual provisioning that have helped increase utilisation, reduce costs and simplify administration. Of particular interest will be the new integration with the vStorage API's from VMware, providing an amazing platform for virtulisation.

The next generation of storage is on the way, and it's being re-designed to fit the virtual datacenter of the future.

This session will look at how the leading high-end storage system, EMC's Symmetrix, will fit into this new computing architecture.

Attendees will hear about the impact of the virtual datacenter on the storage layer, while learning about the direction and new features of Symmetrix and how it is re-defining storage architecture.

See how the newly announced EMC SourceOne family can help reduce costs and improve operational efficiency for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino environments.

The demo of EMC SourceOne Email Management will show customers how they can proactively manage mailbox sizes - lifting restrictive user mailbox quotas while providing seamless user access to archived content. Email Management also features new capabilities to collect and centrally manage PST files scattered through your organisation.

In today's ever-changing world of storage two facts are becoming inevitable:
1. The need to consolidate further through virtualisation in order to minimise cost and complexity 2. The evolution of Virtual Infrastructure to vSphere – making the 100% virtualised datacenter possible

Join EMC and VMware to discover how to build and deploy high-density consolidation in a vSphere environment, with specific focus on demonstrating scale, performance, high availability and tight technology integration.

EMC and VMware, two industry leaders, will help demystify what vSphere will mean for the customer's environment and what's involved in building the most robust, scaleable solution possible.

RSA and Microsoft have integrated DLP with AD RMS to automate the application of RMS protection and policies to sensitive data at rest. With this solution, customers can discover sensitive legacy documents at rest and automatically apply RMS protection using a centrally managed set of policies.

In this session, attendees will:

• Discover how to find and protect their most important information today with best in class RSA DLP and ERM solutions
• Learn to leverage data security processes and workflows already in place
• Identify ways to reduce the cost and complexity of securing information across the enterprise