Modernising the Core: Are You Ready to Move Beyond Legacy?

Singapore Standard Time 8:00 AM - 11:10 AM (GMT+08:00) Rethinking Virtualisation to Simpler, More Intelligent and AI-Assisted Infrastructure • Legacy infrastructure is reaching renewal and end-of-life, forcing organisations to rethink ageing virtualisation environments. • Leaner IT teams are managing growing complexity, with more workloads, systems and operational demands than ever. • Fragmented infrastructure and networking are creating silos, making management, troubleshooting and performance optimisation harder. • AI and next-generation workloads are raising the bar, demanding greater performance, scalability, resilience and intelligent operations. • Business is under pressure to deliver visible progress on AI and digital initiatives. The challenge is no longer just modernisation - it is building infrastructure that is simpler to manage, more efficient and ready for what comes next. “The infrastructure built for yesterday’s workloads is not designed for tomorrow’s demands. Organisations must modernise before complexity becomes the bottleneck.” -OpenGov Asia Modernising the Core: Are You Lagging Behind? What was once a predictable, well-understood layer is now defined by opaque licensing changes, bundled entitlements that don’t align with actual usage, and renewal timelines that force decisions before the organisation is ready. Costs are rising faster than forecasts can absorb, partner engagement feels slower and less certain, and long-trusted operating assumptions are breaking down. At the same time, the business is under pressure to deliver visible progress on AI and digital initiatives already committed to the board. Every unplanned dollar consumed by virtualisation renewals directly competes with those investments. Engineering teams are caught between shifting product constructs and mounting operational complexity, while a shrinking pool of experienced administrators carries an increasing load. What looks like a licensing issue on paper is becoming a broader challenge of control, optionality, and timing - one that leadership can no longer defer without consequence. This is where modern virtualisation is becoming more than an infrastructure refresh. A more integrated approach can simplify infrastructure management, reduce operational overhead and provide organisations with greater visibility and control across the environment. The emergence of AI-assisted and embedded intelligence also creates new possibilities for monitoring, analytics, troubleshooting and day-to-day infrastructure operations. The question for technology leaders is therefore becoming: How do you move from a complex, legacy environment to an infrastructure foundation that is simpler to manage, more efficient to operate and better prepared for the workloads of tomorrow? Forward-looking organisations are reassessing the balance between: • Legacy environments and modern virtualisation • Infrastructure performance and total cost of ownership • Operational complexity and simplified management • Manual troubleshooting and AI-assisted operations • Virtualisation and network intelligence • Modernisation today and long-term infrastructure resilience Critical Takeaways for Technology Leaders: • MODERNISE legacy virtualisation environments for the next phase of enterprise IT • SIMPLIFY infrastructure management across compute, storage and virtualisation • OPTIMISE performance, efficiency and total cost of ownership • INTELLIGENTLY OPERATE infrastructure with embedded and AI-assisted capabilities • CONNECT & PREPARE virtualisation and networking for next-generation workloads Who Should Attend: • Chief Technology Officers • Directors and Heads of IT Infrastructure • Directors and Heads of IT Security • Heads of IT Operations • Heads of Networks • Heads of Operations