The cloud awaits, but are you ready for the jump?

Cloud and virtualisation is there for the taking, but deploying systems beyond the bricks and mortar data centre can be a difficult journey...

Cloud and virtualisation is there for the taking, but deploying systems beyond the bricks and mortar data centre can be a difficult journey.

Computing assembled a panel of experts to discuss the issues of cloud deployment, and joining us at the Data Centre and Infrastructure Summit 2014 were:

• Panel chair Bola Rotibi, research director at analyst firm Creative Intellect;
• Alistair Roberts, head of IT at M&C Saatchi;
• Richard Giles, IT director at Ladbrokes; and,
• Ian Turfrey, group board IT director at City & Guilds.