What ‘The Customer’ thinks and what the industry needs to clarify and define before it will all make sense

Ray Titcombe – Chairman CUA

Prior to hearing from the industry leaders regarding the ‘Cloud thing’ Ray will put a number of thoughts and considerations that he in his professional life needs answers to, before taking any more steps towards use of ‘The Cloud’ services. Ray will seek to use his experience within the I T industry to probe behind the hype and expose the ‘basics’ that we should all seek.

Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet

John Easton, IBM Systems and Technology Group

Today's IT solutions require systems that can quickly and dynamically respond to changing needs. For more than six decades, IBM has pioneered innovative hardware and software systems. As the amount of data continues to grow, and as IT departments need to be more agile, organizations in all industry segments are taking advantage of IBM's economical and efficient approach to integrated systems to handle their transactional and analytical workloads. IT infrastructure is all about managing complete systems of any size - from electronic payment to enterprise healthcare systems, power grids and traffic systems. Vastly different workloads require optimized hardware, software and services. Not every vendor gets it. IBM does.  

IBM Update – News and Announcements and Practical examples of IBM Midrange ‘In the Clouds’

Nigel Adams, UK & Ireland Power Systems i Product Manager, IBM UK
2010 is a big year for IBM's Power Systems and for the IBM i Operating System. A new model range based upon POWER7 processors has been announced. And a new release of IBM i - 7.1 - has also come out. This session will explain all the details of these new announcements from IBM. If you want to understand all the latest in IBM's midrange hardware and software technologies and the benefits that these new and enhanced capabilities can bring you this is the session for you.

Conversion to SAAS (Software As A Service) - Legal Issues and Other Considerations

Simon Halberstam  - Kingsley Napley LLP

In most sectors of the IT industry, there are now extreme pressures and sometimes compelling reasons to convert to the SAAS model.  However there are other factors which militate against such a move. We will look briefly at some of the key legal and commercial issues.