Cloud computing technologies have evolved exponentially over the last few years. While large corporations are moving to the cloud and everyone agrees that the move to the cloud is imperative, the actual migration is slower than the excitement on the topic. Leadership in organizations are facing various challenges with this move to the cloud. Below are some of the topics that we would like to focus on during the session:

• Business benefits and opportunities for convincing your board and defining the business case
• Clarity of business priorities and business results
• Identify the decision criteria for selecting cloud-computing-related IT services
• Challenges in moving out of legacy Infrastructure
• Map applications and workloads to the associated cloud services.
• Opportunities to Sunset large legacy systems
• Opportunities for offshore team / software services companies to demonstrate leadership in the cloud migration journey for large corporations

Nick Folkes, Group CIO G4S Plc will be talking about how an Enterprise can take the journey to the cloud and touch upon a lot of the above areas as well as other nuggets of wisdom based on his experience of charting this journey from a large organization's point of view.

Panel Discussion on Cloud Computing Security:

Cloud Computing is a new computing paradigm that has a lot of advantages due to its ability to reduce cost associated with computing while increasing flexibility and scalability for computers. Cloud Computing is a new concept of providing scalable and virtualized resources, bandwidth, software and hardware on demand to consumers. however, security issues especially data security and privacy protection issues, remain the primary concern for its adoption. This Session outlines the meaning, scope, the main security risks and privacy issues of the cloud computing environment. Finally, the Session provides an insight on data security and privacy protection issues associated with Cloud Computing and the possible Solutions.