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Programme - Thursday, September 8, 2011 |
| 8.40 |
Welcome From The Chair |
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Gerry Murray, Public Sector Territory Manager, EMC Ireland.
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| 8.45 |
GOVERNMENT ADDRESS: Cloud Computing & Ireland’s future Economic Success |
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Enda Kenny, TD, An Taoiseach
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BUILDING A VIABLE CLOUD ADOPTION STRATEGY
As Cloud Computing enters the adoption era, companies are taking a serious look at cloud computing to lower costs and create a more agile IT environment. But cloud computing still has many risks regarding data security, vendor viability, disaster recovery, high availability, and liability. To date, cloud computing has been adopted in an ad-hoc manner, however, for cloud computing to be successful, IT departments need a well thought-out and executable cloud computing adoption strategy; one that takes into account the risks and rewards. |
| 9.00 |
OPENING ADDRESS: Dispelling the haze around Cloud Computing: Drivers, barriers and considerations for public and private cloud adoption |
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Cloud Computing is a model for enabling cost effective business outcomes through the use of shared application and computing services. Organisations considering adopting cloud computing must carefully strategise around delivery models, workloads and infrastructure readiness. What are the key steps and considerations for cloud adoption? |
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John Easton, Technical Leader for Cloud Computing, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM
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| 9.30 |
MORNING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The Cloud Computing Roadmap: the key steps in cloud enabling your infrastructure |
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- How do you make Cloud Computing work for the unique needs of your business?
- How to ensure you get the required return?
- How to build a long-term cloud roadmap and where to get started
- How to mitigate and manage the risk of moving to the cloud
- How to evolve your organisation to take advantage of the cloud
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William Fellows, Principal Analyst, The 451 Group, UK
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| 10.05 |
PANEL DISCUSSION:
How Cloud Computing can help businesses reach both their IT and financial goals |
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Thanks to the stagnant economy, every spending decision requires much more scrutiny and the age-old battle between cost and functionality is being won by cost. Luckily Cloud Computing is CFO-friendly, but, what are the critical financial issues you need to consider when deciding on a Cloud-based solution? What does the properly designed cloud strategy mean for the bottom line? Our panellists will discuss how cloud computing can help businesses reach both their IT and financial goals. |
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- Simon Withers, Strategy & Development, Cloud & Managed Services, Sungard Availability Systems
- Kyle Johnson, Head of Technical Sales, Leaf Consulting
- William Fellows, Principal Analyst, The 451 Group, UK
- John Easton, Technical Leader for Cloud Computing, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM
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| 10.50 |
Morning break |
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END USER EXPERIENCES
The following sessions are real world experiences from end-users transitioning traditional IT resources to the cloud. A Q&A session will follow the presentations. Speakers will address issues such as:
- Is Cloud Computing mature enough for my business?
- How can I separate the real risks from the perceived risks for my business?
- Private clouds as stepping stones to public clouds – stages in adoption
- Preparing your core enterprise systems for the cloud |
| 11.20 |
Loving Life in the Cloud: Why Cloud Computing works for SMEs |
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Chartered Accountants, Anne Brady McQuillans DFK is a mid-sized firm employing 25 people. The firm has moved their entire office system to the Cloud. Anne, the Managing Partner, explains what was involved, how long it took, dealing with the security concerns, has office productivity increased? And, what has been the impact on IT and associated costs? |
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Anne Brady FCA, Managing Partner, Anne Brady McQuillans DFK
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| 11.40 |
Peracton Ltd: Successfully building cloud-based applications |
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A spin-out company of NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute(DERI), Peracton provides a suite of services for financial services companies. Its technology was described as the “hot technology to watch for in 2010” in a report by Forrester. Having developed their services in the cloud, its founder has some pretty clear ideas of things software designers need to consider when building cloud-based applications. |
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Laurentiu Vasiliu, Founder & CEO, Peracton Ltd
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| 12.00 |
The K-Club: Moving to a private cloud |
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Ireland’s first AA Five Red Star Hotel, luxury resort The K Club introduced a policy of using the most advanced technology available to underpin its hotel, retail, conference and leisure facilities. Hear how the luxury resort is benefiting from its virtualised private cloud & high-speed network solution including achieving significant cost savings and a major reduction in their carbon footprint. |
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Mojtaba Akbari, Head of IT, The K Club
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| 12.20 |
The Challenges for Cloud adoption in the Enterprise |
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Friends First is a leading financial services group providing a comprehensive range of pensions, investment & protection products and services to over 250,000 Irish customers. For a medium to large enterprise, Cloud Computing presents a number of opportunities and challenges for the organisation. We'll hear about these and Friends First's roadmap to the Cloud. |
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Lavinia Morris, Head of IT , Friends First
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| 12.40 |
Discussion with Q&A |
| 1.00 |
Lunch |
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| 2.05 |
Welcome back from the Chair |
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| 2.10 |
How Irish organisations can realise Cloud Computing benefits |
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There has been a lot of hype around Cloud Computing with a proliferation of service providers, infrastructure, platform & application services on offer. What does this mean from an IT perspective? Microsoft believes the industry is going through a significant transformation that will lead to enterprise IT experiencing breakthrough business benefits. How can enterprises in the private and public sector realise these benefits with Cloud Computing? |
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Paul Rellis, Managing Director, Microsoft Ireland
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CLOUD COMPUTING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
A stated objective of our new government is to make Ireland a leader in Cloud Computing by promoting greater use of the cloud in the public sector. So, what can Ireland learn from governments in other countries who are leveraging the power of Cloud Computing & what is currently happening in the public sector in Ireland? |
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AFTERNOON KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Cloud Computing in the Public Sector: Transforming ICT Delivery |
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ICT faces the same need to cut costs as other areas of the public sector. Cloud computing offers a host of potential benefits to public bodies, including scalability, elasticity, high performance, resilience and security together with cost efficiency. The associated lower costs makes the Cloud model an attractive alternative to traditional on premise ICT projects. A keen advocate of cloud computing and shared services, our next speaker developed and implemented an exciting new ICT strategy based on the principles of customer centric service delivery, a zero infrastructure technology environment and transformational change for Westminster, delivering savings of 30% and turning around service quality and customer satisfaction. He is now establishing a new strategy for Essex County Council building on cloud, greater digital engagement and enabling a commissioning council to operate effectively through good use of technology, also as a leading part of a transformational change programme. |
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David Wilde, CIO, Essex County Council, UK
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| 3.20 |
Afternoon break |
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CLOUD CONCERNS
Cloud Computing offers a great opportunity for large and mid sized enterprise CTOs and CIOs to increase the pace of innovation within their organisations. Our closing session will focus on the practical hurdles and best practices for enterprise users. |
| 3.45 |
Security in the Cloud. What Next? How do I make Security Work for me in the Cloud? |
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As more people use cloud based solutions information security continues to cause issues either in terms of business buy-in to the overall strategy or across the services that are provided. Recent high profile failures highlight the importance of taking a broad risk management approach to adopting cloud computing and the need for shared responsibility between customer and provider. What are the current top-of-mind cloud security issues among CSOs and IT security experts and what should you be doing to address them? |
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Seamus Reilly, Director, IT Risk and Assurance, Ernst & Young
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| 4.10 |
PANEL DISCUSSION : Addressing the practical questions of enterprise CTOs and CIOs |
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CTOs and CIOs realise the potential benefits of Cloud Computing, but, they also have a number of practical questions. Our closing panel is an interactive session that answers your questions:
- Public Clouds v Private Clouds
- Hybrid Cloud and Cloud Migration
- Cloud reliability in the light of recent high profile cases: How can I achieve enterprise-class security in the Cloud? And, how can I trust a provider?
- What are the operational issues and best practices in running applications on the Cloud?
- How do you scale an application on the Cloud?
- What are the appropriate enterprise use cases for Cloud Computing?
- How do you build and deploy a highly available application on the Cloud?
- What do Cloud SLAs mean to enterprise users?
- What are the total costs of running an application on the Cloud?
- Is there a place for open source in Cloud Computing? |
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- Paul Norton, IT Manager, Jones Engineering
- Tim Murphy, Founder & CEO, Strencom
- David Cullen, Partner, Technology, IP & Commercial, William Fry
- Jerry Sweeney, Director of Operations, Cork Internet eXchange
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| 5.00 |
Closing remarks and summit close |