Cloud Expo Europe 2012

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Cloud Event: Cut through the jargon and hype surrounding “the cloud”

Cut through the jargon and hype surrounding
“the cloud” and get to the point at Cloud Expo
Europe 2012, the cloud event for business.

• Be inspired by 130 world-class speakers in a packed multi-stream seminar programme, all completely free of charge
• Learn first-hand from 40 killer case studies including major blue-chips, the public sector and dynamic smaller businesses
• Get practical “how to” advice from 100 leading international suppliers
• Whether you are developing a cloud strategy or running an advanced private cloud, this is the one event of the year you need to attend
• See inside for list of world-class speakers

Hear from and meet with 100 leading suppliers. Participants including:

> Adapt
> Amazon.com
> Amplidata
> Arista Networks
> Attrix5
> Autonomy
> BCS
> B2Net
> Boston Limited
> Box-it
> CA Technologies
> Callidus Software
> Cap Gemini
> Channel Cloud
> Citrix
> Claranet
> Cloudreach
> The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF)
> Cloud Security Alliance
> CommVault
> Coraid
> Daon Biometric & Identity Management
> Datapoint
> Equinix and partners
> Eucalyptus
> Evault
> F5
> FST Financial Sector Technology
> FireHost
> Flexiant
> Fusion-io

> GoGrid
> Hexagrid Computing
> HP
> Huawei
> Huddle
> i365
> ICM
> Infiniserv
> Interoute
> Interxion
> I Think Security
> Kognito
> Logica
> Long Jump
> Microsoft
> NaviSite Europe
> Nebula
> NextIO
> Nimsoft
> NTT Europe
> OnApp
> OpSource
> Oracle
> ORBiT Software
> Outsource
> Over Achievers
> OW2
> Peer 1 Hosting
> Photobox
> Ping Identity
> Rackspace

> Radware
> Recruitment Genius
> Revevol
> RightScale
> Rise
> Rittal
> Riverbed
> Rodmatic
> Secure-Bastion
> Safenet
> Salesforce
> Savvis
> ScienceLogic
> Soft Export
> SoftLayer
> SunGard
> Symantec
> Talend
> Tata Communications
> TechTarget
> Techgate
> Telehouse
> ThinkGrid
> Thompson Snell Passmore
> VADition
> Virtustream
> Zeus Technology
> Zinstall
> Vtesse Cirrus

 A game-changing technology event for business Cloud Expo Europe 2012 has much to offer, whatever stage your organisation’s journey to the cloud has reached. Whether you are developing a cloud strategy, implementing a virtualisation programme or running a private cloud there will be plenty here to help you. Learn from real-life case studies, from organisations which have gone through the same experiences you might be facing. Find the best solutions for your organisation with 100 leading suppliers in the exhibition.

Who should visit?
IT Professionals from enterprise, public sector and small businesses making both cloud investment and strategy decisions and developing and executing specific cloud projects.

• CIOs /COOs/ CTOs/IT Directors
• IT Management
• IT Architects
• Line of business managers and directors
• Security Professionals
• Data Centre Managers

Business and Technology leaders, CTOs, channel and partner managers, business development, analysts and infrastructure teams from cloud service providers, telecommunications, ISPs, ISVs and the IT channel and industry serving the cloud community.

Why visit?

• Get beyond the hype surrounding the cloud – measure the real benefits for your organisation
• Check out the full picture on the most relevant emerging products and services
• Learn from more than 40 real-life case studies, sharing user experiences and honest appraisals
• Get the latest thinking from industry experts including CTOs from the world`s leading cloud service providers, software companies and major analysts
• Source the leading cloud technologies and services in the major exhibition
• Discover how you can revolutionise your business securely, save money and improve efficiency
• Find new relationships, investment opportunities and business models
• Network with your peers and industry leaders
• Gain information and inspiration from a conference programme worth literally hundreds of pounds

What you will see
Cloud Analytics • Cloud Applications • Cloud Clustering • Cloud Databases • Cloud Lockin vs. Cloud Interoperability • Cloud Standards • Collaboration and innovation in the cloud • Compliance • Connectivity • Content Delivery Networks • Datacentre • Desktop as a service (DaaS) • Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) • Elastic Computing • Hardware as a Service • HPC in the Cloud • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) • Leveraging cloud based technology • Managed Services • Managing and Building Cloud based infrastructure • Networking • Performance monitoring • Platform as a service (PaaS) • Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds • Scalability • Security and Governance • Software as a service (SaaS) • Storage Architectures • Virtual Private SaaS (VPS) • Web-scale monitoring

Where can you see it?
The show takes place at Olympia National Hall, Hammersmith Road, London, W14 8UX.

For all your travel and accommodation needs, please go to our website at www.cloudexpoeurope.com

The show opening times are: 10-5, Wednesday25th and Thursday 26th January 2012.

Amazon.com CTO, Dr Werner Vogels, heads the all-star cast at major cloud computing forum in London

Five of the world's “Top 10” cloud computing leaders to address Cloud Expo Europe [Olympia 25-26 January]*

Dr Werner Vogels, credit: Guido van Nispen

With its opening less than two weeks away, Cloud Expo Europe has revealed that five of the world`s Top 10 leaders in cloud computing will be keynoting at what is being billed as “the largest and most authoritative gathering of cloud computing expertise ever assembled in the UK”.

The five are Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon.com, USA, Mark O’Neill, UK Government Digital Service, UK, Marten Mickos, Eucalyptus, USA, Joe Weinman, HP, USA and Sam Johnston, Equinix, Switzerland.

Other new top flight speakers include experts from blue chips such as HSBC, Honda, Microsoft, Google and BBC who join a line-up of over 130 speakers across six seminar theatres. Remarkably, the conference is free to attend.

Interest in the event is running at a record high – with registrations already double last year`s total - and it is set to attract its biggest audience yet of IT architects, managers and directors as well as technologists in C-suites keen to learn how the Cloud can further their IT and business strategy.
Also, new exhibitors are still signing up - most recently including Adapt, Datapoint, Vtesse and Equinix. “Cloud Expo Europe is absolutely not yet another blue-sky event, it`s a ‘how to’ exhibition and conference designed to help organisations plan and execute cloud strategies , not just talk about them,” said event director Maggie Meer. “Big or small, private or public, whether you are committed to or still exploring how to deliver effective cloud and virtualisation strategies on time and on budget, you will find plenty of practical help here.”.

According to top market analyst Gartner cloud computing is a huge opportunity that is growing rapidly. It says the global cloud services market will surpass $90bn in 2014 – with the UK hitting $6bn, more than double the current market. Nearly half of all businesses expect to have most of their IT running through cloud computing over the next four years.

The keynote theatre is packed with leading thinkers and shapers of the modern Cloud including Dr Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com, Stephen McGibbon, the regional CTO, EMEA, at Microsoft, David King, the global CTO of Logica, Joe Weinmann, Hewlett-Packard’s world wide lead on the Cloud, and former NASA IT chief and CEO of Nebula Chris Kemp.Joining this programme include Mervyn Eyles, the IT Director for Honda UK, Jas Virdee, Mothercare’s Group IT Change and Business Planning Director, Barry Childe, the Head of Research & Development for HSBC and David Jack, who is CIO at, The Trainline.com.

Backing them up are six further theatres which will give a sharp focus to some of the issues of the Cloud including:

• Cloud & virtualisation infrastructure & platforms
• Management, services and applications
• Mobile, wireless and communications
• Security and governance
• Cloud service providers
• The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) theatre

The exhibition features some of the biggest, and the most innovative names in Cloud computing including Firehost, b2Net, CA technologies, Claranet, f5 Networks, Oracle, Rise Partners and Techgate. The applications and solutions on offer range from data centres to disaster recovery, from hosting to hardware, and clustering to connectivity.

Entry is free to qualified business visitors although pre-registration is advised. You can register at www.cloudexpoeurope.com

For more information contact:
Maggie Meer on 0207 348 5275, maggie@cloudexpoeurope.com
or Sophie Baker on 0207 348 5275 s.baker@closerstillmedia.com

*TechTarget`s Top 10 cloud computing leaders 2010 -2011

Congratulations on Achieving your New Year's Resolutions in January

Congratulations - you will successfully achieve your New Year's Resolutions by visiting Cloud Expo Europe 2012

The Cloud Revealed - Get beyond the hype surrounding the cloud and measure the real benefits for your organisation.

As registrants, you will be simply achieving your New Year's Resolutions by visiting Cloud Expo Europe 2012, Olympia National Hall, London. 25th & 26th January. Register your colleagues now for FREE tickets.

How?
Through 130 world-class speakers in a packed multi-stream seminar programme and 100 leading international suppliers available in the commercial exhibition to give practical ‘how to’ advice.

Through dozens of real-life case studies available to choose from, featuring organisations like yours who have faced – and overcome – similar challenges, and who are already deriving measurable benefits from cloud implementations.

Securely:
One theatre is dedicated to security and governance: protecting networks and ensuring businesses’ critical data is secure are key issues facing companies moving to the cloud.
Speakers include:

• Des Ward, President, Cloud Security Alliance UK & IRL - on whether the future is secure.
• Brian Shorten, Risk and Security Manager, Cancer Research – on securing an organisation when resources are stretched.
• Niall Sclater, Director of Learning, Teaching & Quality, The Open University – on the cloud in educational institutions.
• Martin Lee, Senior Sorftware Engineer, Symantec - on how adopting the cloud can improve your security

Cost effectively:
Speakers include:

• David Munn, Head of GLA Information Technology, Greater London Authority – on-going green and saving money at City Hall through the cloud.
• Richard Norris, IT Director, Callum Capital Ventures - on using the cloud to get performance and cost improvement.
• Amr Hassan, Segmetrix on - DaaS enabling big data management and analytics at a fraction of the cost.

And efficiently:
Speakers include:

• Olivier Maes, Senior Director Cloud Infrastructure, Citrix – on building your own highly scalable cloud.
• Andrew Perrin, Senior Product Manager, Virgin Media Business - on overcoming the challenges of cloud computing.
• Rhys Sharp, CTO, SCC on - ‘Optimising the cloud’ – a better way to deliver IT services?
• David Jack, CIO, The Trainline.com - on Innovation and scale with/or without the cloud
• Aidan Paul, CEO, Vtesse - on configuring the data centre to deliver energy-efficient customised solutions.
• And The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) theatre includes seminars - on Negotiating Cloud Contracts.

Click here to view the full programme and to register your colleagues for FREE entry to the show. Your free pass will allow you and your colleagues access to ALL the sessions and to over 100 leading suppliers on the exhibition floor.

We look forward to seeing you on the 25th & 26th January 2012 at Olympia National Hall

Best wishes,

The Cloud Expo Europe Team

Cloud Expo Europe 2012 Conference and Exhibition will demystify Cloud for business and the public sector

Get your head in the Cloud but keep your feet on the ground

London - Dr Werner Vogel, CTO of Amazon.com and one of the world`s leading Cloud experts, joins more than 100 other world class speakers in demystifying the Cloud for businesses and the public sector in a remarkable free conference and exhibition next month - Cloud Expo Europe.

Amazon CTO, Dr Werner Vogel heads a stellar line-up of speakers - that also includes senior executives from HSBC, Honda UK and Mitchells & Butlers - in helping businesses strip away the jargon and the hype from Cloud computing in order to exploit this fast growing IT phenomenon. Cloud Expo Europe, 25th & 26th January 2012, Olympia National Hall, London, will also feature special sessions for small and medium-sized businesses and public sector organisations who are keen to exploit the cost, flexibility and efficiency gains that can be secured via a switch to a cloud-based IT strategy.

In total, Cloud Expo Europe 2012, features more than 130 world class speakers spread across seven packed seminar theatres as well as over 100 leading suppliers. This line-up is reckoned to be “the largest most comprehensive gathering of Cloud expertise ever assembled in the UK”. As access to all this content – worth literally hundreds of pounds to delegates - is also free, the event is set to draw a huge crowd of IT architects, managers and directors as well as technologists in C-suites.

The keynote theatre is packed with leading thinkers and shapers of the modern Cloud including Dr Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon.com, Stephen McGibbon, the regional CTO, EMEA, at Microsoft, David King, the global CTO of Logica, Joe Weinmann, Hewlett-Packard’s world wide lead on the Cloud, and former NASA IT chief and CEO of Nebula Chris Kemp. These inspired keynotes are supported up by a range of practical, problem-solivng sessions and real life case- studies.

Backing them up are six further theatres, which will give a sharp focus to some of the issues of the Cloud including:

• Cloud & virtualisation infrastructure & platforms
• Management, services and applications
• Mobile, wireless and communications
• Security and governance
• Cloud service providers and Channel theatre
• The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) theatre

The exhibition features some of the biggest, and the most innovative names in Cloud computing including Firehost, b2Net, CA technologies, Citrix, Claranet, f5 Networks, Oracle, Peer1, Rise Partners and Techgate. The applications and solutions on offer range from data centres to disaster recovery, from hosting to hardware, and clustering to connectivity. “Every issue for every level of practitioner is covered at Cloud Expo Europe,” said Event Director, Maggie Meer. “Big or small, private or public, whether you are committed to or still exploring how to deliver effective cloud and virtualisation strategies on time and on budget, then this is a must-see event".

“Cloud Expo Europe is not about abstract theorising. It is about practical content and proven expertise from a host of practitioners – about getting your head around the Cloud but keeping your feet firmly on the ground.”

Andy Burton, chairman of CIF, welcomes people to join the discussion on the future of Cloud Computing and what issues need to be addressed in order to achieve unhindered adoption of private, public and hybrid cloud solutions.

“The rapid adoption and growing interest in cloud computing makes Cloud Expo Europe highly relevant, by bringing the industry together to address end user concerns such as transparency, accountability and capability.”

Leading analyst Gartner says the global cloud services market will top $90bn in 2014 – with the UK hitting $6bn - more than double the current market. Gartner reckons that nearly half of businesses expect to have most of their IT running through cloud computing over the next four years.

To register for free:
http://closerstill.circdata-fusion.co.uk/CEE/CEE12.aspx?source=pressrelease1onwebsite

For more information, please contact:

Cloud Expo Europe,
Red Publishing and Events & Closer2Media,
Unit 17, Exhibition House,
Addison Bridge Place,
London,
W14 8XP

Maggie Meer
+44 (0)20 7348 5275
maggie@cloudexpoeurope.com

Thomas Standley
+44 (0)207 348 5273
thomas@cloudexpoeurope.com

Cloud Expo Europe - Dedicated Event Cloud Computing and Virtualization

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Cloud Expo Europe is the longest running European event dedicated to cloud computing and virtualization.

With even more speakers and industry insiders than last year, this event truly showcases the possibilities and opportunity of cloud computing.

Now in its third year, and to accommodate the huge growth, Cloud Expo Europe will run at the National Hall Olympia, on 25th - 26th January 2012. It is now established as the leading seminar-led exhibition, focused solely on all aspects of cloud computing and virtualisation.

Post show delegate research indicates 92% of attendees will be attending in 2012, and almost nine out of ten will be recommending the show to their peers and colleagues. The seminars, the exhibition, and the marketing campaign have all been dramatically expanded to ensure Cloud Expo Europe delivers the dynamic cloud market and all its complexities in one action-packed two day event.

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