What others are saying
"IQPC are putting together a blue ribbon attendance list and it promises to be stimulating and valuable event. I look forward to being part of it."- Alan Perkins, Chief Information Officer, Altium
“I welcome the opportunity to be involved as a speaker at Cloud Computing Australasia. This is a perfect opportunity to not only highlight the successes and lessons learnt to date on Visy’s cloud journey, but also to engage with my peers on the critical topics of data security, trust and control.”- George Khoury, Enterprise Architect, Visy
“By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems on corporate networks.” – Gartner, 2010
“We will never buy another rack or server or storage device or network device again. I will never let any organisation that I work for get locked into a proprietary hardware or software again.” – Michael Harte, Chief Information Officer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
“This thing called cloud computing is not going to go away.” – Greg Farr, Chief Information Officer, Department of Defence
The most comprehensive, end-user led event yet for the exploration of Cloud value, planning strategies and solutions to security, compliance, and interoperability concerns
Event Aims and Objectives
Over the past few years the concept of ‘Cloud Computing’ has grown in interest and popularity. The concept has been in practice for some time but the momentum continues to grow as the business value potential starts to be tested and realised.
Enterprise Cloud Computing Australasia will focus on meaningful discussions about practical plans for implementation and preparedness for migration to the cloud. Drawing on the lessons learnt by early adopters, the event will enable delegates to fully investigate the strategies to harness this transformational business concept.
The market in Australasia is still tentative about moving core business functions into the cloud. The power of proven experience and substantiated business value is never more important than to the future adoption of cloud computing in the Australasian market.
Whether you are ready to migrate your business operations to the cloud or would like to allay fears regarding trust and control of data, there will be insights shared that fit your current business needs.
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Presentation Topics and Points for Discussion
In-depth research with over 60 CIOs has enabled us to identify the most pertinent and thought-provoking themes for the conference. The two-day event will consist of C-level panel discussions, leading case studies on the business value being achieved by early adopters, and issue based roundtable discussions.
The event will primarily focus on:
- Establishing a universal definition of Cloud Computing
- The business case for the new value from Cloud Computing
- Leading domestic and international implementation case studies on SaaS and IaaS
- Trends in consolidating IT and virtualisation
- How to prepare to migrate to the cloud
- Assessment of privacy and data security concerns and solutions
- Security in the context of enterprise mobility
- Data ownership
- Disaster recovery and business continuity
- Ensuring SLAs and contract arrangements are in line with business objectives
- Pricing and forecasting – exploring variable vs. fixed costs
- Public vs. Private cloud
- Organisational appetite and capability for change
- Interoperability for existing applications
- Future trends in enterprise IT