The cloud is part of a 'bow wave' of multiple changes that are affecting every part of our organisations. The questions about cloud computing have moved on from last year's questions about the possibilities and the feasibility of cloud computing to this year’s questions about implementation. What should I move to the cloud? When should I do it? What layers of the cloud stack should I use? And how should I do it?
At this Discussion Group, Doug Neal, LEF's resident cloud expert, will share lessons learned from early cloud adopters, following the publication of our recent report on this topic where we identified a wide range of cloud usage in applications as diverse as testing and development, peak load support, streaming media, email, collaboration and many forms of social networking. That this usage included many firms with strong security requirements was especially impressive.
Doug will also highlight the findings from our recent Study Tour (October 2009) based in California, which dug further into the issues of using the cloud to deal with cost, agility and innovation.
Finally, Steven Luitjens, Director of the GBO (Shared Management Organisation of Dutch Government), will outline GBO's thinking with regards to deploying cloud computing within the enterprise.
Please join us as we discuss and debate this exciting topic with peers challenged with similar issues and strategies on the afternoon of Tuesday 15 December. The event will commence at 3:00pm and conclude at 6:00pm.
To attend, please contact Willem Korteweg on +31 611 928 401 or email Willem at wkorteweg@leadingedgeforum.com.
View our Cloud Domain
View the report Cloud rEvolution: Laying the Foundation (Volume 1)
View the report Cloud rEvolution: The Art of Abstraction (Volume 2)