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Originally published Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Some interesting items from the inaugural ITPro/CloudPro Cloud Summit yesterday:
- Max Cooter of CloudPro: When lastminute.com launched, it cost £6m to fund IT infrastructure, it would now cost £300,000
- Laurent Bachal of Ovum: Don't ask if the cloud is ready for you, ask if you are ready for the cloud
- Bob Harris of Channel4: SLAs mean users can get some money back. What users really want is for their IT to work
- Liam Quinn of Richmond Events: Don't forget the comms piece in the cloud - latency is the killer
- Rene Millman of IDC: there is a perception that just because it's cloud, it's insecure
- Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro: Treat cloud service providers like estate agents: get quotes from several CSPs and choose the one in the middle
- Nigel Beighton of Rackspace: Although cloud providers are secure, you should approach them as if they are insecure to ensure *you* take security into account when adopting cloud
- Nigel Beighton of Rackspace: Cloud does some things really well but others not so well
- David Chalmers of HP: To avoid the US government using the Patriot Act to seize your data, ensure your data centre is in Europe
- David Chalmers of HP: Cloud contracts are all about the exit. Getting in is easy. You should plan for the exit.
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