mashup* - Cloud Computing - 28th April

mashup* Event:  28th April 2009, 6pm - 9pm

Theme:   Cloud Computing 

 "What does the cloud do best.....?"

This mashup* event will focus on which are the best applications to run in/on the cloud and which ones locally and why!  Like outsourcing, not everyone should do it, not every service is sensible and there are stong opinions in both camps.

The debate will cover data ownership, security, privacy, backup, staffing, policy and governance.   There are many applications that should run on the cloud but is company policy protecting the directors or delivering shareholder return?

In assoication with: Sun Microsystems Ltd.

Location:

Regis House
45 King William Street
London
EC4R 9AN

Postcode & Map: EC4R 9AN

Registration: £35 + VAT 

Programme:

18h00 - Registration (tea/coffee & biscuits)
18h30 - Speakers/Panel
19h00 - Panel/Q&A
20h10 - Networking & Demos

Speakers

Steve Clayton 

Steve Clayton heads the Software plus Services strategy in Microsoft International. In this role he works with products team and business groups in Redmond on strategy and products related to S+S. Prior to this, Steve was CTO of Microsoft's UK Partner Group. He has worked at Microsoft for over 10 years in a range of sales and technical roles - always with a passion for technology and its potential impact.

Steve has a keen interest in all areas of technology but notably the arena of Web 2.0, social media and their impact on Microsoft and the industry which he covers on his award winning “Geek in Disguise” blog. 

Prior to Microsoft, Steve worked for Astra Zeneca on their global Intranet team and holds a 1st class honours degrees from Loughborough University in Information and Computing. Outside of work he’s a fan of Liverpool FC, design and scuba diving. More on Steve's blog

James Love - Onsoftware

James worked at BT during the 90s putting together mobile and fixed line joint ventures notably in France, Japan and with BSkyB. In 1999 he founded an integration middleware start-up with a patented product based on Sun’s Jini technology which was financed by 3i. In recent years he turned round a French mobile testing company for the investors moving the product to a SaaS model before selling it to Keynote Systems. In the last 6 months James has set up Onsoftware a company designing, building and managing online businesses using SaaS-only applications. 

Stewart Townsend - Program Manager for Startups for EMEA, for Sun Microsystems

 Stewart Townsend manages and drives the Startup Essentials programme, across the UK, Ireland and Europe.  He is responsible for driving Sun into the vibrant Startup and SMB community, aiding and supporting young companies to get off the ground rapidly at lower cost, whilst building a scaleable futureproof platform. The programme supports this by offering, discounted enterprise hardware, hosting,networking, Introductions, Hot Desks,  and free technical support. In his spare time he likes to race cars, shop for wild vibrant shirts and take his Chihuahua dogs for walks up Pendle hill.

Moderator

Jonathan Robinson - Chief Operating Officer- Netbenefit

Jonathan Robinson is a co-founder of NetBenefit's parent company Group
NBT plc. He has been responsible for successfully consolidating leading
domain name services company, NetNames, with NetBenefit and driving the
business into a leading position in its sector. With his wide and
comprehensive knowledge of the international domain name industry, his
role includes market analysis, identifying possible targets for
acquisition and strategic planning across all brands.

Jonathan was previously deputy chairman of the Internet Council of
Registrars (CORE) and is a current director of the .info registry,
Afilias Limited. In the past, he has also been a member of the board of
the .uk registry, Nominet.

Demos  

VORARI provides open source and cloud computing services for the enterprise market with workflow integration expertise.  Offering shared and bespoke solutions in the cloud on Amazon's ec2 and VMWare.  VORARI's flagship offering, Zimbra, enables companies to integrate with and harness the power of Zimbra as their digital nervous system: providing the ultimate framework for accessing, manipulating and interfacing both web and company information from their messaging and collaboration infrastructure.

 

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