Featured Speakers
Brian Jones
CIO
Smiths Group plc
David Jack
CIO
thetrainline.com
Chris Swan
CTO Security
UBS
Dr Zafar Chaudry
Chief Information Officer
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Peter Clarke
CTO
Isle of Man Government
Tom Dalglish
Chief Information Architect
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Previous Speakers
Steve Matthews
Executive Director - Enterprise Infrastructure
Morgan Stanley
Ian McDonald
Head of Infrastructure and Cloud
News International
Andrew Bull
Head of Infrastructure Services
HMRC
Afzal Ballim
Chief Information Officer
International Committee of the Red Cross
Steve Bowes-Phipps
Head of Datacentres
University of Hertfordshire
Jacqui McCluskey
ICT Programme Manager
Sandwell PCT
Richmond Hill Hotel
Virtualisation & Cloud Computing Executive Summit UK
23rd & 24th May 2012
The Richmond Hill Hotel, Richmond, Surrey, UK
From Virtualisation to Cloud Computing: Building a cost effective, flexible and agile IT infrastructure in a dynamic world.
In times of economic challenge businesses look more and more at the pivotal role that IT has to play in helping to stabilise operations, lower costs and ultimately to enable potential growth through a scalable infrastructure.
As pressure continues for businesses to establish and evolve new initiatives, IT platforms and infrastructure cannot afford to be poorly placed to support new, evolving and pervasive business technology strategies such as e-commerce, mobile working and the shift from media consumption to media sharing.
Virtualisation and cloud computing adoption provides the transformational technologies to allow you as an IT leader to meet the requirements of:
While delivering:
The business landscape is changing and concentrating on cost alone will not deliver better performance; it is the agile enterprise that will succeed. By deploying virtualisation and cloud computing technologies, businesses can focus on accelerating service delivery to improve customer experience and gain competitive advantage.
Whether you are considering desktop virtualisation across the enterprise, building a private cloud for internal users, or a public cloud on which to host external or paying customers, The Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Executive Summit will provide you with real life insights and expert analysis to help radically transform your IT processes.
The conference programme will cover the critical issues and considerations that you need to be aware of when planning your IT strategy for 2012 and beyond to “cloud-enable” your IT infrastructure.
Sessions at the summit will include keynotes, case studies and workshops covering the most relevant topics when the dual pressures of budget constraints and business demands require a radical acceleration of the adoption of virtualisation and cloud technologies.
Focus Areas discussed at the 2012 conference will include:
The Richmond Hill Hotel, Richmond, Surrey, UK
From Virtualisation to Cloud Computing: Building a cost effective, flexible and agile IT infrastructure in a dynamic world.
In times of economic challenge businesses look more and more at the pivotal role that IT has to play in helping to stabilise operations, lower costs and ultimately to enable potential growth through a scalable infrastructure.
As pressure continues for businesses to establish and evolve new initiatives, IT platforms and infrastructure cannot afford to be poorly placed to support new, evolving and pervasive business technology strategies such as e-commerce, mobile working and the shift from media consumption to media sharing.
Virtualisation and cloud computing adoption provides the transformational technologies to allow you as an IT leader to meet the requirements of:
- Cost Efficiency
- Flexibility
- Scalability
While delivering:
- Business Agility
- Increased Simplicity
- Enhanced security
The business landscape is changing and concentrating on cost alone will not deliver better performance; it is the agile enterprise that will succeed. By deploying virtualisation and cloud computing technologies, businesses can focus on accelerating service delivery to improve customer experience and gain competitive advantage.
Whether you are considering desktop virtualisation across the enterprise, building a private cloud for internal users, or a public cloud on which to host external or paying customers, The Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Executive Summit will provide you with real life insights and expert analysis to help radically transform your IT processes.
The conference programme will cover the critical issues and considerations that you need to be aware of when planning your IT strategy for 2012 and beyond to “cloud-enable” your IT infrastructure.
Sessions at the summit will include keynotes, case studies and workshops covering the most relevant topics when the dual pressures of budget constraints and business demands require a radical acceleration of the adoption of virtualisation and cloud technologies.
Focus Areas discussed at the 2012 conference will include:
- Desktop Virtualisation
- VM Management
- Security; Cloud Security, Endpoint Security, Risk and Compliance
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Cloud Computing; Public – Hybrid – Private Cloud, Platform as a Service, Software as a Service, Cloud Infrastructure Management
Sponsors
The Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Executive Summit provides solution provider participants the opportunity to meet senior IT decision makers from enterprise organisations in the UK.
