Upcoming CSC LEF Executive Forum Events

Findings from the 2009 Study Tour: Doing Business in the Cloud: What it Means for Cost, Agility, and Collaboration | 24 November 2009

EventType: Web Conference
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TimeDescription: The meeting will commence at 4pm UK time, 11am EST and will run for 60 minutes.
Presenters: Douglas Neal,Donal O'Shea
StartDate: 2009-11-24
EndDate: 2009-11-24
Region: Global Event
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EventDescription: 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.
FurtherInfo: Participation is free to Senior Executives of the Leading Edge Forum - Executive Programme
EventContact: Victoria Gristwood
ContactEmail: vgristwo@csc.com
ContactPhone: +1 (703) 641 3479
OnlineRegistration: Yes
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RegistrationEnds: 2009-11-20

In Pursuit of Digital Trust - Conveying the Security Message to Your Organisation

EventType: Web Conference
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TimeDescription: The meeting will commence at 11am Australian Eastern Daylight Time and will run for 60 minutes
Presenters: Donal O'Shea
StartDate: 2009-11-25
EndDate: 2009-11-25
Region: Australasia
Location: Australasia
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EventDescription: While executives recognise the importance of security practices, information security budgets are often viewed as a cost of doing business with little positive value attached. The impact in our attempts to convey the security message often gets lost with technology details leaving organisations baffled.This web conference is designed to help address the challenges in conveying security messages to our organisation by shifting our discussion from risk towards trust. It follows on the back of a report we released in March 2009 entitled In Pursuit of Digital Trust – An Executive’s Guide to Information Security and will position security on the offensive as well as defending the organisation’s assets.The report's author and presenter, Donal O'Shea, is a Research Associate for the LEF Executive Programme and has participated in several research topics for 15 years. Donal has held executive positions at Amdahl, the Open Software Foundation and the Liberty Alliance as well as Unix and database start-ups. As a consultant, Donal has worked with enterprise CIOs, IT users and vendors from around the world to help them to understand new technologies, and to determine how to effectively deploy them.
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EventContact: Jaclyn Graetz
ContactEmail: jgraetz@csc.com
ContactPhone: +61 3 8695 1401
OnlineRegistration: Yes
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RegistrationEnds: 2009-11-24

Doing Business in the Cloud - What it Means for Cost, Agility and Innovation | 15 December 2009

EventType: Regional Event
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Presenters: Douglas Neal
StartDate: 2009-12-15
EndDate: 2009-12-15
Region: Netherlands
Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
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EventDescription: 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)
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EventContact: Willem Korteweg
ContactEmail: wkorteweg@leadingedgeforum.com
ContactPhone: +31 611 928 401
OnlineRegistration: No
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