Programme

Day One
Tuesday 20th October 2009

 Analysing the Business Case for Cloud Computing

Jason Stamper
Editor
Computer Business Review

Warm-Up Session
A Beginners Guide to Cloud Computing – Bringing you up to speed on all the technical aspects and business applications of cloud to determine the opportunity within your business and maximise your learning experience at the Cloud Computing Adoption Strategies Conference

• Dispelling the myths - What does cloud computing encompass and what is it not?
• An overview of the opportunities and challenges presented by cloud computing to determine the benefits for your business
• A round up of industry buzzwords to bring you up to speed on the latest theories and technologies 
• Evaluating future opportunities and how the technology is progressing to enable you to develop a long term cloud strategy within your business

Paul Cheesbrough
Chief Information Officer
Telegraph Media Group

Keynote Presentation 1
Defining Cloud – Reaching a conclusion on the definition of cloud computing for a business in terms of potential to effectively align your IT strategy with your core business goals

• Highlighting what cloud computing means for end user businesses
• Establishing which definitions of on-demand computing are applicable to existing cloud solutions and are achievable now
• Identifying the terminology that refers to future technology and speculation
• Future proofing your IT strategy by evaluating what cloud may mean in the future and how it may tie in with existing technologies – for example the merging of private and public clouds.

Q&A

Neil Ward-Dutton
Research Director
MWD Advisors

Keynote Presentation 2
The Reality of Cloud – Separating the substance from the spin by establishing exactly what is achievable and what the risks are for different business types and identifying who is leading the path to adoption

• Dispelling the myths – what level is the technology at now?
• Revealing the business applications and drivers for on-demand computing
• Identifying the groups and industry sectors who are actually using cloud now and to what extent it has been implemented
• Reviewing the possible levels of implementation (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) to identify what is right for you now and in the future
• Highlighting the downsides of using the cloud to ensure you have the full picture, including:
• Security
• Availability
• Reliability
• Viability

Q&A

Evangelos Kotsovinos
Vice President Hosting
Morgan Stanley

Keynote Presentation 3
The Benefits of Cloud as a Business Strategy – Identifying the potential applications for cloud computing within your business and pinpointing the opportunities for the greatest ROI in terms of cost and business efficiencies

• Evaluating the potential cost savings to clarify ROI
• Costing the lifecycle of on-demand computing to ensure long term cost efficiency
• Ensuring the time invested in migrating to the cloud is in balance with the long term savings
• Maximising the possibilities of cloud to streamline the business and better align IT services with business goals and departments
• Predicting where the maximum savings can be made based on realistic and accurate understanding of your requirements and cloud computing

Keynote Presentation 4
Bridging the Gap – Revealing key strategies for migrating to the cloud whilst retaining flexibility and control

• Identifying the key points of consideration in order to retain control
• Developing strategies to avoid vendor lock in and retain your ability to move provider to ensure optimum service level agreements
• Implementing changes and updates to cloud hosted applications with minimum disruption to critical business operations.
• Ascertaining exactly what services you should migrate to the cloud and in what order to achieve the optimum balance of service levels, security and cost efficiency

Q&A

Lunch

SME & Start-up Track

Enterprise Track

Government & Public Sector Track

Increasing the flexibility of your business with a  dynamic cloud infrastructure

• Evaluating the potential OPEX and CAPEX saving
• Assessing the business benefits for an SME when using on-demand services
• Achieving the best service delivery for your business
• Revealing the additional business flexibility that the cloud could offer and the direct business benefits this creates.

Adopting cloud solutions through the incremental development and testing of a dynamic infrastructure

• Assessing alternative implementation strategies
• Developing and incremental testing strategy
• Maximising the benefits of existing systems
• Managing and transferring applications to the cloud

Simon Stapleton
Chief Innovation Officer
Skandia Investment

Identifying the opportunities and risks of cloud computing within the public sector

• Evaluating the increased risks for the public sector
• Identifying the opportunities and benefits of cloud computing for enterprises
• Utilising on demand services to effectively manage public sector services

Q&A session

Q&A session

Q&A session

Predicting the Cost of a Cloud Strategy

• Revealing the initial outlay and lifecycle costs to predict the departmental budget
• Predicting the potentials cost savings
• Comparing the costs with other IT and data management models
• Evaluating the changing cost model of IT – Are we moving to a true open source where there are no costs?

Case Study: Determining the possibilities and methodologies behind creating a private cloud - Is it possible and how do you do it?

• Overcoming security concerns with a private cloud
• Blending public and private clouds to optimise business critical and business additional services
• Supplementing data centre capacity with a private cloud
• Evaluating the cost model of private clouds verses other IT strategies to determine the potential cost/ benefit ratio

Case Study: Implementing cloud solutions within a leading university – identifying the key drivers and evaluating the choice 12 month on

• Highlighting the benefits of cloud services to the wider university population
• Effectively integrating staff and student requirements
• Community engagement – getting the university community to utilise the system to best effect
• 12 Month review – what would we have done differently and what do we know now that we wish had then?

Q&A session

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Q&A session

Networking Break

Case Study: Integrating and developing cloud  services as your business grows to maintain efficiencies and manage your business costs

• Developing an initial cloud strategy
• Evaluating the opportunity for a growing business to utilise cloud
• Developing a testing strategy
• Examining how migrating to the cloud can impact your business strategy

Detailing the initial outlay and life-cycle costs of an enterprise level cloud solution to accurately evaluate the business case for your organisation

• Evaluating the different cost models available
• Drawing comparisons with different IT systems to determine the benefits
• Maximising the cost and time savings by migrating only the essential applications to the cloud
• Demonstrating how the migration to the cloud aligns with the overall business cost goals

Case Study: Cloud computing for the armed forces – establishing the benefits, viability and risks of cloud computing for military purposes

• Utilising cloud computing to release your IT services to develop pioneering strategy and align with an efficient business
• Evaluating the potential cost savings to clarify ROI
• Highlighting the key stumbling blocks to implementation that must be overcome for successful implementation
• Evaluating the potential for future applications within the wider government system

Q&A session

Q&A session

Q&A session

Networking Break

Keynote Presentation 1
Security Considerations – Highlighting the key factors of both network and physical security that need to be considered when creating a cloud security strategy

• Pinpointing the key factors that must be considered to execute a cloud strategy securely
• Selecting a cloud provider with the appropriate security conditions to ingrain your trust in the cloud
• Evaluating and verifying the security credentials of your supplier to safeguard your information
• Data Access – What happens do your data when it is in the cloud?
• Can you get it back
• Competitor access and protection
• Accessing and analysing your data

• Obtaining full disclosure from your provider – where is the data and is it safe?
• Should providers be educating their clients on local and international data protection law according to where their data is being stored/
• What are the legal implications of data that has no specified or multiple locations
• Evaluating potential regulatory changes in to achieve future compliance

• Evaluating how security strategies need to change in order to adapt to on-demand computing
• Developing a verification strategy to confirm your data security credentials
• Demonstrating best practice in house for continuous measurement of security and safety, to ensure the ongoing protection of your information assets
• Lessons learnt from previous security audit attempts

• Analysing and accessing your data that is held by 3rd parties
• Developing tools and best practice for measuring levels of service
• Highlighting and preventing common mistakes when entering in to an SLA
• Evaluating whether the SLA will become redundant as the culture shifts to on-demand computing

SME and Start-up Track

Government & Public Sector Track

Ensuring a 360 degree security approach for the appropriate level of security for your business

• Identifying specific security consideration to be made at SME level
• Selecting the right  security partner for a small or medium sized business
• Evaluating how your business security requirements will change as you grow
• Protecting yourself against future liability

Minimising the risk of hosted infrastructure by implementing and operating the appropriate security measures both in front of and behind the firewall

• Evaluating the differing security considerations at enterprise level
• Developing appropriate strategies in front of the firewall
• Evaluating the security approach from behind the firewall
• Highlighting easy mistakes to miss and  easy things to incorporate to improve your security
• Increasing “Offline Access Capabilities” and assessing the impact on security

Case Study: Implementing a cloud solution within a large collaborative e-Science research project - identifying the key drivers and evaluating the choice

• Demonstrating the differing requirements for large scale research projects and identifying the deliverables vendors must provide
• Evaluating the increased security threat and need for additional service protection
• Strategies for overcoming the increased risks - How can this be overcome
• Developing a growth strategy for a project consistently growing in size, how will the up-scaling be met, and what lock in problems have occurred

Q&A session

Q&A session

Q&A session

Data Integrity – Best practice in completing a security audit and risk assessment in the context of cloud computing in order to meet data protection laws

• Developing strategies to prevent data leakage
• Demonstrating  legal compliance with a new, unproven style of computing
• Evaluating the strategy of sharing security credentials with your supplier
• Drawing license model cost comparisons to select the most cost effective solution

Case Study: Deploying Cloud Computing within Tesco to enhance the customer experience and achieve key business objectives

• Utilizing Microsoft Azure to host a new API with increasing scalability
• Efficiently managing a cloud within an international enterprise to ensure best practice and appropriate usage
• Highlighting the cost savings for an enterprise when moving to the cloud
• Evaluating how the SLA with Microsoft Azure has helped Tesco meet its core business objectives

Selecting a partner that can effectively deliver your requirements and provide an appropriate SLA for government purposes

• Implementing the appropriate virus and malware protection
• Confirming the  security credentials of  your supplier
• Ensuring the professional viability of your supplier to safeguard your services
• Developing a trust relationship with the data stack to gain peace of mind and maximise the opportunities of on-demand services

Q&A session

Q&A session

Q&A session

Networking Break

Experts Question Time
Delegates are invited to submit questions during the registration period and over the course of the conference for our panel of experts to address any unanswered questions or advice on your specific queries.

Q&A session

Q&A session

Q&A session

Networking Break