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Doug Neal and Donal O’Shea will report on our recent Study Tour to Santa Barbara and San Francisco, United States. The tour investigated the topic of Doing Business in the Cloud: What it Means for Cost, Agility, and Collaboration, and visited Eli Lilly, Eucalytpus, Rightscale, Bechtel, Appirio, VMware, Amazon, Canonical, CohesiveFT, Cloudera, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce.com and Cisco.
Cloud computing has become a business as well as a technical issue. The question is no longer whether your business will engage in cloud computing, but when and for what purpose? Our customers report that already their business colleagues are asking questions such as:
- How can we save money with the cloud?
- How do we use the cloud to respond more quickly to changing conditions?
- Can we improve collaboration by moving to the cloud?
- How will the cloud change the way we work and how we support users?
- Will the cloud let us analyse data that were too big for conventional systems?
- Is moving to the cloud more of a cultural challenge than a technical one?
To answer these questions, we needed to have a much deeper understanding of the cloud from both supplier and consumer perspectives.
The Study Tour enabled 35 motivated IT executives to do exactly that. Participants saw leading suppliers of cloud products and services, but they also had the opportunity to talk with companies actually deploying the technologies and gaining real value from computing in the cloud.
With the benefit of this experience, you can now start to make choices about the type of activities you could move to the cloud, and the level of cloud services appropriate to your business.
In this web conference, we will report on what we heard, and on the discussions we had. We will also tell you how the Leading Edge Forum intends to continue this journey of helping our clients identify and address the issues as this transformational IT technology moves forward.
Who should attend?
Senior Business and IT Executives.