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.