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Unilever has built a private cloud computing setup for its key basic applications, using the new Microsoft System Center 2012 platform.

New Keynote Speaker announced!

Most large organisations have virtualised their server estate or plan to over the next 2 years according to our survey carried out in January 2012. 17% of respondents had all their servers virtualised, 66% had virtualised over 50% of their server estate and 29% will be 100% virtualised in the next 2 years.

By Todd R. Weiss

We are delighted to announce Mike Gogola, CIO of HCA International will be speaking at the May Virtualisation and Cloud Computing Executive Summit, UK event 23^rd/24^th May 

The Tech:Touchstone team read an interesting viewpoint on deployment of cloud computing and mobility and the effects that this may have on the future of IT function/CIO role.

Here is a sample of well-respected analyst Phil Sayers’s presentation from the Information Security Executive Summit 2012. In this selection Phil looks at Cloud Computing and its security issues.

Phil Sayer- Key issues and points around Info... by Techtouchstone

Traditionally, CISOs and their security teams thought about how best to defend security perimeters using such tools as firewalls, network intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems (IDS and IPS). The approach was to keep the crown jewels – the company’s proprietary data and applications – protected inside the perimeter. Mobile computing busts this concept wide open. Mobile users will be outside the perimeter, will be accessing data and applications over the Internet and often from a device over which the CISO has no control, such as a ‘bring your own device’ (BYOD) laptop, tablet, or smart phone; a PC in an Internet cafe, or an Internet TV in a hotel bedroom.

TechTouchstone recently carried out a survey with senior executives working within Virtualisation and Cloud Computing to find out what the key issues might be in 2012 and how budgets will change from 2011.