DCD>Malaysia, May 18 at The Hilton’s DoubleTree Hotel saw the convening of key decision makers and thought leaders from government, financial institutions, e-commerce, manufacturing and other sectors, to consider the potential the digital landscape in Malaysia has to develop further, coupled with its synergy with its SEA neighbours.
“Malaysia has a lot of potential to grow as a regional data services hub. With investment opportunities in various key sectors, developments in the digital ecosystem and the strong push for digital adoption, as well as the recent news of Alibaba Cloud data center in Malaysia for example, Malaysia is set to stand out in the digital transformation journey in coming years. From Cloud, data center, connectivity, to data governance, DCD has once again given comprehensive coverage on these topics with international speakers to share their insights”, commented Wan Murdani Mohamad, Director of Enabling Ecosystem, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), who gave an opening address on Malaysia’s journey to becoming a digital economy.
The day delivered insights and practical strategies that the market could apply to achieve excellence in various areas of the data center space. Top local and international speakers such as Jeff Bullwinkel (Microsoft Asia Pacific & Japan), James Willman (Future-tech), Bernie Trudel (Asia Cloud Computing Association) and more dealt with key issues surrounding “Data Center and Cloud for the New Digital Economy” including cybersecurity, data sovereignty, smart cities and more.
The event also featured the SE Asia Datacenter Week Pre-event Launch with the revealing of mystery speaker, Sonu Nayyar, VP, Production Operations & IT at LinkedIn through a teaser video. Sonu together with 80 local and international speakers will be sharing their IT best practices and strategies at conference & expo DCD>Zettastructure, part of the SE Asia Datacenter Week 2017 (September 15-21, Singapore).
Supported by MDEC, VADS Berhad and ERS Solutions, the event also included Data Center Tours to the Iskandar Data Center Hub as well as VADS Berhad’s Iskandar Puteri Data Centre (IPDC). With VADS Berhad’s recent opening of a robust and structured twin core data centre, strategically located in Nusajaya, Johor to offer high value added services to enterprises and service providers in the southern region, 15 VIPs visited the site to learn about Malaysia’s first twin core facility. Together with its sister twin, Klang Valley Data Centre (KDVC), this twin core is being set up to address the growing datacenter needs both in the south, and central of Malaysia to attract enterprises who have invested facilities in Iskandar Malaysia and Klang Valley.
The SE Asia Datacenter Week and Datacenter Awards
Looking forward, DCD will be bringing conferences to the rest of the APAC community with DCD>Australia on June 27, looking at the current issue of Optimising Hybrid IT. This will culminate in Singapore with a week-long series of workshops, data center tours and the DCD>Zettastructure Conference & Expo building into SE Asia Datacenter Week (September 15 – 21). This has been described as “The South East Asian Digital Infrastructure Summit” and it will convene the whole APAC IT ecosystem in this era of Big Data and innovation.
The Datacenter Week will also mark the start of the release of results for the Datacenter Awards, with the finalists being announced in Singapore, and the winners in Hong Kong on November 10. What’s new - DCD will be launching Voted categories to involve the public in the nomination and selection process. Nominations are open, for more information, visit: www.datacenterweek.com/awards
Qualified end-users can apply for complimentary registration
DCD has moved to a ‘free-to-attend, by invitation’ event model for qualified end-user business executives, managers and technical professionals directly engaged with IT, data center and cloud infrastructure. If your company operates its own on/off premise data center(s), or if you are a significant end-user of data center and cloud services and you are involved in technology planning, procurement, implementation, and operations, then you may qualify.
New to DCD: A complimentary Professional Advisor Passes is also available to one engineering/technical professional with management title/responsibility from each A/E consultancy/advisory firm (subject to criteria).
Register for the next DCD APAC conference, DCD>Australia here.