Doug Neal and Donal O’Shea report on our recent Study Tour to Santa Barbara and San Francisco, United States.  The tour investigated the topic of Doing Business in the Cloud:  What it Means for Cost, Agility, and Collaboration, and visited Eli Lilly, Eucalytpus, Rightscale, Bechtel, Appirio, VMware, Amazon, Canonical, CohesiveFT, Cloudera, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce.com and Cisco.  Participants on the Tour saw leading suppliers of cloud products and services, and also had the opportunity to talk with companies actually deploying the technologies and gaining real value from computing in the cloud. 

In this web conference, we report on what we heard, and on the discussions we had.  We also tell you how the Leading Edge Forum intends to continue this journey of helping our clients identify and address the issues as this transformational IT technology moves forward.

See event:  Findings from the 2009 Study Tour: Doing Business in the Cloud: What it Means for Cost, Agility, and Collaboration (24 November 2009)