Programme : Discussions by Tracks
Thanks to many recent innovations and the removal of many perceived barriers, businesses all over the world are now building cloud technology and services into their IT setup with the expectation of reduced costs, increased productivity and a boost in the efficiency of staff and the company as a whole.
But what's the right cloud strategy for your organisation? There are many, many options out there and picking the right one isn't as easy as you might think.
To help you decide on the right cloud strategy, we're running three workshops at Cloud Expo Europe in which we'll be discussing the benefits of Flexible Computing, Hybrid Cloud and Flexible Computing for Government.
Developing aplications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) or moving your business into the cloud is more straightforward than you think. Whether you are a developer eager to learn new skills, a solutions architect who wants to solve existing technology problems, the IT professional who wants access to cost-effective, on demand computing resources, attend the AWS lab sessions.
Some of the topics covered will include:
What is Cloud Computing with AWS and what benefits can it deliver?
Who is using AWS and what are they using it for?
What are AWS's products and how do I use them to run my workloads?
As the take up of Virtualisation still continues to increases at a rapid rate and as more and more businesses are using virtual, cloud infrastructures and platforms. Our headline speakers explore why the right strategies, platforms, and simplified infrastructure will offer a solid proposition for large and small enterprises alike.
New cloud technologies are changing the way organisations do and run their business. A successful IT strategy must ensure cloud-based resources, services and applications are living up to their promises. Choosing the right way to manage your organisations data, service providers, your customers and enabling faster and more efficient technology deployments are the key focus of this track’s content.
Protecting your networks, and ensuring your businesses critical data is secure are the key issues facing companies who want to move to the cloud, and indeed those that already have. We will be examining a variety of issues and solutions which will ensure delegates are fully armed and ready for any potential future threats. This track will also cover key governance, compliance and security policies for cloud businesses and client side organisations benefiting from cloud deployments.
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Open Cloud Forum is proposed by the OW2 Open Source Community.
Leveraging OW2’s open source expertise and numerous open cloud projects, the Forums deliver unique resources to explore the trends shaping the future of open cloud. Open Cloud Forums are interoperability-oriented events that demonstrate how innovation in cloud computing is driven by open source and open standards.
Are you an IT Architect? System Administrator? Project Leader? Register now for London's Open Cloud Forum at Cloud Expo Europe. Acquire technical knowledge based on today's main IaaS platforms (OpenNebula, CloudStack, OpenStack hands-on tutorials) and check out major European collaborative open cloud projects.
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The cloud movement is driven by savvy technology executives practicing a cloud first IT strategy across their business, coupled to a rapidly evolving, vibrant and booming cloud marketplace, one which is constantly pushing the cloud technology envelope. This theatre hosts foremost International cloud leaders, including the world’s top rated visionaries, senior industry speakers and executives driving this change. Speakers will deliver their outlook of cloud’s future, as well leading CIOs and senior IT on stage, who will sharing their roadmaps for cloud success.
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CIF is committed to ensure trust, transparency and confidence in the delivery of Cloud Services to business users. Our leading industry speakers from CIF members debate key issues impacting the development of the industry and share best practice strategies for both service providers (26th) and enterprises (27th). Including Case Studies from CIF certified providers, demonstrating how CSPs ensure they are accountable to their customers. Look out on 27th for the unveiling of winners in the first UK Cloud Awards, showcasing innovation, achievement and passion of British Cloud computing.
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The rise of the cloud service provider continues at break neck speed and the cloud offers huge rewards for service providers, both those running their own technology and those embracing technical, business and open source partnerships. For the best operators, the cloud promises enhanced services for customers, whilst generating financial rewards for business owners and shareholders. This theatre covers business models for cloud service providers, hosters, telcos, ISPs, VARs, SIs and ISVs looking to extend their own cloud services or partner with other service providers and cloud businesses.
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Service providers and cloud businesses must continue to embrace new technologies and interoperability strategies to ensure their customers reap the cloud’s rewards and they stay ahead of their competitors. This track is packed full of European Service Providers, international cloud leaders and analysts; it covers the key and current technology issues cloud service providers and the technology ecosystem must embrace to retain and win new customers.
The use of cloud technology across organisations of all shapes and sizes is growing rapidly – but is your business keeping pace with the latest and greatest technologies. This conference track hosts discussions on leading-edge cloud technologies and services, alongside live product demonstrations from cloud vendors and service providers.
The boom of on-demand cloud services, both public and private, the mobile workforce, distributed data centres, big data, all means more bandwidth is needed and the static architecture of conventional network must evolve. This track address the latest SDN and software defined data centre and network technologies better suited to meet the dynamic computing and storage needs of today’s data centres, campuses, carrier environments, applications, BOYD boom, infrastructure and today and tomorrow’s IT resources.
Data & analytics is one of the hottest topics for today’s technologists and business leaders, as the most savvy organisations know that a rock-solid, no stone unturned data game plan is the best way to unearth new business strategies, customers and revenue streams. This track highlights the best way to capture, curate, store, search, share, transfer, analyse and visualise your data.
