Themed with "Business Transformation Motivated by IT innovation", 2008 China IT Basic Frame Summit will be open on July 18, 2008 in Shijijinyuan Hotel in Beijing.
The theme of the meeting is "Business Transformation Motivated by IT Innovation". Nowadays business environment for an enterprise is changing with each passing day. New business, new demand constantly test the ability of IT systems to adapt to new business. This is a bitter-sweet reality for the IT industry. But what is encouraging is that IT industry construction has therefore become a major strategic business and investment, what is worrisome is that IT professionals are therefore face a more difficult task ¨C to produce more with less budget. CIOs are becoming aware that: the expectation for business keeps changing, so that IT system must adjust to the changes and provide stable support - it is not only necessary to keep the scale, availability and effectiveness, but also flexibly respond to the ever-changing business needs. In fact, the challenge is not only centered on the establishment of new structure, but on the renovation of old structure of the IT system. The original structure is complex, so it needs a large number of investments and even may lead to chaos if renovation is conducted.
In recent years, many companies (particularly the enterprises applying extensive IT solutions) has purposely done something to reduce the complexity of their IT systems. Active methods used include: conformation, integration, and even outsourcing some of the IT frame. They learned a lot of valuable lessons years on their way of exploring. At present, it is the very time to find the right solution to building an innovative, flexible and secure IT frame.
It is learnt that this summit will introduce topics such as how virtualization can make the CIOs survive through less budget and increasing service requests, whether the virtualization can support the enterprisesĄŻ core business systems, whether the drop in cost brought about by virtualization will affect the security and stability safeguarded by the business systems, whether the innovative virtualized IT infrastructure has brought about any innovation in data center construction and management, and have made discussions on how IT innovation can push business transformation. In 2010, the virtualized software and services market revenue in Asia-Pacific region will grow by 42 percent, breaking 1.35 billion U.S. dollars. Also the virtualized services revenue will reach 1 billion U.S. dollars, and business users will expend more than three times on the virtual services as much as on the virtualized software. According to a survey, nearly half of the CIOs hope to adopt virtualization solutions in the next year and a half to two years. Virtualization market growth has accelerated IT innovation, IT innovation-driven business transformation. It is believed this summit will provide valuable experience in virtualization implementation for more information directors and more and better information and resources for the whole virtualization industry.
As an innovative event, the summit has become a hub for enterprise information officers to exchange and cooperate. The information and the dynamic forefront in the future expressed by the summit not only receive great concern for information officers, but also play a guiding and influential role in the future of corporate IT innovation. Through the summit, we can clearly sense the importance of IT innovation to enterprises.
The summit receives great attention from business users, IT companies, the media, research institutions, and other organizations, and they will plug in with indepth participation, extensive support, and comprehensive cooperation. It is expected that you will have the opportunity to discuss with the following attendees to exchange views and make cooperation: information officers of various companies, IT companies, senior experts and information directors from various domains. It is believed that this event will bring you more value. Meanwhile, many official leaders, experts and CIOs have attached great importance and participated enthusiastically to the summit.
