Symantec Vision 2006 - Visionaries

For the past two years, industry leaders from around the world have been recognized at Symantec's annual Vision conferences for their innovative use of technology in achieving business value. At the different Vision events in the Asia-Pacific region in 2005, a total of six Visionaries were recognized. And on September 5, the first Visionaries for the Asia-Pacific region were announced.

At the Vision event in Seoul, Korea on September 12, four additional Symantec Visionaries were recognized by Symantec Chief Technology Officer Mark Bregman and Asia Pacific and Japan Senior Vice President Bill Robbins: Kyunghee Kim, team leader for Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs; Joongwon Kwon, managing director of business planning at LIG Insurance Co., Ltd; Kangwon Seo, the CIO at Korea Broadcasting System; and Jinseol Yang, the CIO at Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd.

More than 70 nominations worldwide have been submitted by the Symantec sales and services organizations in 2006. The nominations for the Korea Vision event were evaluated based on technology innovation, business value impact, and involvement of Symantec partners and services.

“The challenges facing IT organizations today are growing in scope and difficulty,” said Mark Bregman, chief technology officer, Symantec. “The Visionaries for the Korea region are true technology thought leaders, achieving tangible results in lowering costs, ensuring business continuity, and improving quality of services.”

2006 Symantec Korea Region Visionary Award Winners

Kyunghee Kim

Team Leader, Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs

Driving Business Value through Technology Innovation for Government Ministry

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The internal IT challenges for a government organization with the charter of leading government technology are intimidating. Kyunghee Kim, the team leader at the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, is recognized as a 2006 Visionary for spearheading efforts at the Ministry to implement an IT software infrastructure based on components of the Symantec Data Center Foundation that delivers optimal service levels at peak operational efficiency. Some of the key results include cutting unexpected downtime in half, improving backup efficiencies by more than 50 percent, and achieving a two-fold reduction in the time required for allocating storage. Please join me in congratulating Ms. Kim…

Joongwon Kwon

Managing Director of Business Planning, LIG Insurance Co., Ltd.

Becoming a "First-class Insurance Group"

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Becoming a "First-class Insurance Group" providing superior trust and satisfaction to clients, shareholders, employees, and partners requires a robust, high-performance IT infrastructure. Lower total cost of ownership and improved system availability were central business drivers in a mainframe to UNIX migration initiative for LIG Insurance Co., Ltd. Managing Director of Business Planning and 2006 Visionary Joongwon Kwon led the migration initiative, which included standardization of the data center software infrastructure on Symantec Data Center Foundation tools and implementation assistance from Symantec Consulting Services and Symantec Partner 3SSoft Co., Ltd. Some of the notable results of the initiative include a 70 percent reduction in backup time, a 40 percent improvement in IT staff productivity, a 40 percent improvement in application performance, and a six-fold decrease in storage allocation time. Please join me in congratulating Mr. Kwon…

Kangwon Seo

CIO, Korean Broadcasting System

Responsibilities of Being the Most Trusted Media Organization

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When the need to upgrade the network infrastructure at Korean Broadcasting System became a pressing issue, CIO and 2006 Visionary Kangwon Seo spearheaded efforts to design and implement a next-generation data center software infrastructure. A primary concern for Korean Broadcasting System, which is known as the most trusted media organization in Korea, was 25 percent annual growth in storage, which stands at more than 160 terabytes today. With implementation assistance from Symantec Partner MAJORTECH, Mr. Seo and his team implemented a standardized data center software infrastructure based on Symantec Data Center Foundation tools. Business value resulting from the standardization initiative includes 100 percent payback on the data protection solution in six months and high availability solution in one year. Lower total cost of ownership includes a 50 percent reduction in staff time for managing backups and the ability to manage 10 times the amount of data and hardware with only twice as many IT staff. Please join me in congratulating Mr. Seo…

Dr. Jinseol Yang

CIO, Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd.

The "Life Insurance Dragon of Korea" Breaths Business Value

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Known as the "life insurance dragon of Korea," with more than one-third of market share, Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd. is relentless in its pursuit of quality-of-service excellence. A core part of its IT strategy is migration from a mainframe-based environment to one based on UNIX systems, coupled with the virtualization of storage management. 2006 Visionary and CIO Dr. Jinseol Yang led efforts in the IT transformation at Samsung Life Insurance. The initiative includes data center software standardization on Symantec Data Center Foundation tools. Results are notable, including an estimated cost reduction of 20 billion won (US$20 million) for the next four years, the ability to recover a failed database in less than two hours, and average online response times of one second. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Yang…