Business Cloud Summit 2009: a conference from BusinessCloud9

Sift Media, publisher of BusinessCloud9, is pleased to announce the inaugural Business Cloud Summit, taking place in early December 2009 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London.

The shift to Cloud Computing is particulary well suited to the current economic downturn, when cost pressures on IT departments are intensifying. The Cloud offers attractive cost benefits, low total cost of ownership and quantifiable ROI. It provides opportunities for CIOs and their teams to shift away from the more mundane aspects of their jobs and enables them to focus on innovative value add activities that contribute to the corporate bottom line. It's no surprise then that investment in Cloud Computing is set to soar.  A recent Gartner report estimated that worldwide cloud services revenue will increase 21% this year to exceed $56.3 billion, and will rise to more than $150 billion by 2013.

The Business Cloud Summit 2009 brings together CIOs from large blue chip organisations and the major Cloud players - drawn from the software, infrastructure and consulting sectors of the market -  in a business-led exploration of the opportunities of Cloud Computing and what it can bring to your business.  Through in-depth panel sessions, expert presentations and real-world case study testimony, the conference will focus on the opportunities of doing business in The Cloud.

Key topics include:

Cloud 101 – why it matters

Maximising and guaraneeing ROI

CIOs and ‘The Cloud’ - Threat or Opportunity?

Case studies of Cloud and Saas in practice

The Business Cloud – the new generation of mission critical business applications

Infrastructure and security

The role of third party consultancies in the Cloud

The Great Cloud Debate: theleading Cloud thought-leaders put firmly in the spotlight and their claims and
strategies put to the test

For information on attending the conference, contact Verity Tarrant at verity.tarrant@siftmedia.co.uk

For information on sponsorship opportunities, contact Tom Cogswell at tom.cogswell@siftmedia.co.uk [1]