Cloud Computing

Date: Tuesday 24th January 2012Time: 08.30 - 10.30am (GMT)Location: LondonCost: Free of ChargeEnrol: Click hereOverview: There's so much to learn about moving your business to the cloud - and Sapphire Systems want to help. Step Up to the Cloud is a FREE education breakfast briefing where you will learn everything ... read more..

On the Radar: Mycroft Mycroft was founded eight years ago to provide a secure connection to classified data across the internet. Its initial customers were in the military, but it has expanded its market into the commercial sector. In 2010 its customers started to expand their use of mobile devices ... read more..

enterprise cloud computing Sean McAvan from Datapipe explores how the cloud can realistically drive productivity, reduce costs and improve ROI. Most enterprises are more than aware of the potential benefits of the cloud, but few believe that it currently offers a panacea. At a simplistic level, the ability to marry ... read more..

Media release PA Consulting Group and The National Computing Centre (NCC) launch new Guidelines 12th October 2011 PA Consulting Group and The NCC have launched a new set of guidelines to help organisations identify both the potential and the pitfalls of cloud computing. The guidelines in the report show ... read more..

Chatter challenges the new world of social mediaSalesforce.com has unveiled its new Chatter Servicethis allows enterprises to integrate and use publicly available information about their customers via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook with their CRM.Chatter Service is intended to improve the customers experience because enterprises have ... read more..

cloud computing The pros and cons of cloud computing may be regularly debated by the IT team but what about the rest of the business? How many financial directors (FDs) are still afraid to take the plunge? Most are familiar with the compelling benefits of lower capital expenditure, improved financial ... read more..

security Looking ahead, cloud computing and its subsequent incarnations will change the way IT is delivered for all categories of business, from consumer and SME to large enterprise, but for the moment were still seeing only a cautious uptakeJulian Dyer takes a look at the key inhibitors. In todays competitive ... read more..

July 2011 Best Practice Outsourcing Best Practice A guide to outsourcing based on the outputs of NCCs Professionalism Programme Cloud computing overcoming the key inhibitors an NCC Guideline These Guidelines define cloud the way a lay person might, then they drill down into the issues associated with ... read more..

7 July 2011 Download the presentations Introduction (141KB PDF) Ian Jones, NCC Managing data in the era of the cloud (5.4MB PDF) Gareth Fraser-King, Head of Global Technical Enablement Symantec and Cloud ... read more..

In challenging economic times a low cost, low hassle service is very attractive to executive boards, especially as the most well known providers of cloud services, such as IBM, Microsoft, on the technology side and Amazon and Google on the service side, are also trusted household names. Their products and ... read more..

InfrastructureAs more and more businesses of all types and sizes continue moving to the cloud for a wide range of IT solutions, the risks from a failure at any of the many cloud computing providers becomes even more important to business and IT professionals. In fact, a series of recent ... read more..

NCC's Quarterly Members Conference, 28 June 2011 The Trades Union Congress, London Download the presentations Cloud Strategy (4.2MB PDF) Steven Heeney, IBM Cloud Computing Strategist, IBM UK VDI - Technology roadmap (6.2MB PDF) ... read more..

Linking social, mobile, and cloud July 2011 Catalyst Driven by changing business needs and global economic factors, organizations are starting to do things differently. Speed, agility, mobility, reuse, and innovation are the transformative factors forcing organizations to push aside old technologies and communication models to make way ... read more..

Managing application development, from Agile and cloud to embedded systems and mobile apps June 2011 Catalyst Application lifecycle management (ALM) is a process and philosophy as well as a software solution to support the process. After a period of relative stability, several factors are beginning to reshape ... read more..

Where are you on the cloud journey? Book your place on the next NCC Members Conference 28th June 2011, at The Trades Union Congress, LondonNCCs Enabling the flexible enterprise: Cloud, Virtual Infrastructure, Security conference will provide a snapshot of the key issues in deployment of virtualisation technologies and the ... read more..

outsourcing trends Ravi Pandey, senior vice president of NIIT Technologies UK, looks at the trends and factors that will affect outsourcing in 2011. IT outsourcing is now a mature practice that has gained widespread adoption as organisations look to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. The drive to achieve these goals ... read more..

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Pan-HP collaboration a missed opportunity at the HP summit On day one of HP Summit 2011 for industry analysts, there was little mention by the company senior executives of how they push collaboration with other business units. The executives primarily focused on the issues and strategies within their own business ... read more..

Mint Hotel, Manchester, 30th March 2011 The question was. has vendor hype devalued the promise of unified communications and caused confusion with the move to cloud computing? The conference had a good mix of delegates across the sectoral divide approx 35% public sector and 65% across all verticals of ... read more..

cloud computing Cloud computing is arguably one of the hottest topics in computing at the moment. It seems from the evidence of the past few years though that this particular topic is about more than just hype. Sin John, distinguished engineer at Symantec, provides a fresh take on ... read more..

cloud computing Steve Salmon, principal advisor at KPMG Performance Technology predicts that 2011 will see cloud computing move from infancy to adolescence. As Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings mature and gain wider market acceptance, the topic of cloud will quickly capture the attention of CEOs and boards, eventually ... read more..

virtual desktop infrastructure If you were a fly on the wall at any IT departments strategy planning meeting for 2011, chances are that virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be on the agenda. While the financial arguments rage (quite correctly) about the costs and benefits, it is the good old foot ... read more..

cloud computing Cloud computing was one of the IT buzzwords for 2010, and as 2011 has started, a consensus around what the cloud really can deliver to businesses is now being formed. However, one of the biggest issues in the debates around cloud computing is trust. How can companies be sure ... read more..

cloud computing All businesses who are thinking about embracing the cloud as their core IT service delivery route quite rightly should fully understand the risks as well as the well-documented rewards The main concerns centre around service reliability, accessibility and security of data stored in the cloud. Here, Mark Seemann, ... read more..

HP buys Vertica, joins Big Data party Less than a month after stopping support of its ill-fated NeoView data warehousing range, HP has acquired Vertica Systems to fill the gap for Big Data warehousing and analytics. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. This is ... read more..

SAP getting its arms around Sybase mobile The mobile development and deployment framework was one of Sybase's crown jewels that came to SAP via acquisition last summer. SAP has a golden opportunity to use Sybase's framework to extend its footprint further into the enterprise, as Sybase's offering is one of ... read more..

cloud computing Why are businesses resisting the leap into cloud computing? David Ebsworth shares his thoughts on overcoming the key business inhibitors. Every business is exploring why they should be implementing a cloud computing strategy. The industry tells us the reasons every day. Often the first flag flown is expenditure; ... read more..

web applications Assessing the quality of application development for the web is often a matter of rigorous testing prior to deployment. While much is written about how pre-deployment testing helps avoid unpleasant surprises, less thought is given to potential challenges when applications face the onslaught of real users. For that ... read more..

cloud innovationThe consumer world paves the way to step change in service delivery, a UK perspective from Erudine CEO Martin Rice and Strategic Adviser John Riley.The structure of the consumer marketplace is rapidly transforming and demanding new ways of delivering services. We see this all around us, with our iPads, ... read more..

Understanding the organizational, governance, and cost implications November 2010 Catalyst Cloud computing promises to tackles two hitherto irreconcilable IT challenges: the need to lower costs and the need to boost innovation. However, it will take a lot of effort from enterprises to actually make it work. Instead of moving their ... read more..