1. IT Technology Trends
for
Thailand ICT Policy
Framework
Dr.Thanachart Numnonda
Business Development Director
Software LOB
Sun Microsystems (Thailand) 1

2. Trends in
Information Technology
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3. Proliferation of Computing Devices
Data Center Application Edge Client
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4. Mobile Devices Are Becoming
Major Computing Platform!
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7. Everything and Everybody Join the
Network!
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8. Web As a “The” Computing Platform
• Email
• Online shopping
• Travel reservation
• Instant messaging
• Social networking
• Internet phone
• Map search
• ...
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9. Growth Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software Idea
Packaged Applications/Shrink Network Services
Wrap
Customer’s Developer’s
Target Data Center
Computer
Distribution CD Internet
Customer
Economics High cost Low cost
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11. Open Source Software
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13. Open Source software
• Cost saving
• Innovation
• Adaptability
• Stability
• Security
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14. Open Source Landscape
• Production-quality Open Source
equivalents exist for almost all
proprietary software, also in the
enterprise.
> Internet Explorer -> Mozilla Firefox
> Microsoft Office -> OpenOffice.org
> Outlook -> Thunderbird
> Windows -> OpenSolaris, GNU/Linux Apache Web Server Market Share
> Proprietary app server -> GlassFish, Tomcat, (source: Netcraft)
Apache Web server
> Proprietary Web app framework -> Struts,
Echo2, Tapestry, Spring MVC many more
> Database -> MySQL
> Visual Studio -> NetBeans, Eclipse
> Proprietary CRM -> Sugar CRM 14

15. Deployment of
Open Source Software
Time
“By 2012, more than 90% of enterprises will use open source in direct or embedded forms”
Gartner, “The State of Open Source 2008” (Yefim Natis 04/03/08)
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16. Top 10 Strategic Technologies 2010
• Cloud computing • Social computing
• Advanced Analytic • Security – activity
• Client Computing monitoring
• IT for green • Flash memory
• Reshaping the • Virtualization for
Data center availability
• Mobile Applications
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17. 1. Cloud computing
• using cloud services, developing cloud-based
applications and implementing private cloud
computing environments
• Everything will be available as a service
• SaaS, HaaS, PaaS, IaaS
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18. Cloud Computing Provider
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19. Examples of Government Cloud Computing
• USA.gov – US federal government information
portal
■ General Services Administration (GSA) project
■ Over 100 million visitors per year to web site
■ Initially developed as FirstGov in 2000, with co-
funding from 22 agencies and led/ administered
by GSA
■ Operated by Terremark Worldwide
■ Awarded Feb 2009
■ IaaS, public cloud
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20. 3. Client Computing
• Virtualization is bringing new ways of
packaging client computing applications and
capabilities.
• choice of a particular PC hardware platform,
and eventually the OS platform, becomes less
critical
• Thin Client
• VDI
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21. Sun Virtual Display Computing Offerings
Data Center
Sun Secure Global Sun Ray™
Desktop Software Software
Enhance existing devices Deploy virtual display clients
by providing secure access to for end-users that don't
applications of any type require a PC
Sun Ray
Clients
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22. 6. Social Computing
• Taking advantage of social media tools to
build community
• Do not ignore the role of the social profile to
bring communities together.
• Social network analysis can be used both to
detect fraud and to change business
processes to boost internal efficiency.
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23. 10. Mobile Applications
• By year-end 2010, 1.2 billion people will carry
handsets capable of rich, mobile commerce
providing a rich environment for the
convergence of mobility and the Web
• the mobile applications market has grown
from almost nil to overflowing in the last year
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24. Thank You.
thanachart.numnonda@sun.com
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twitter.com/thanachart
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