A SUPERB April Forum 2010

Thank you for joining us at The Cloud Circle April Forum last Tuesday, it was a fantastic and successful day.

Many thanks to our sponsors for supporting The Cloud Circle, including:

Platinum: InTechnology

Gold: Google with key partners Ancoris and Cloudreach

Microsoft with their 2 key partners Dot Net Solutions and IMGROUP

SunGard Availability Services

Silver: Mimecast

RSA, The Security Division of EMC Consulting.

Some of the sponsors have their own dedicated page where you can find relevant case studies and ehite papers which may be of interest.

We would like to thank the guest speakers including CloudOrigin, Ashurst LLP, EasyJet, Health Protection Agency, University of Westminster and RiskMetrics, who were excellent and very informative. If you are interested in viewing their presentations please click here.

Thank you also to Ashurst LLP, EasyJet, Erith & Cluttons, Health Protection Agency and InTechnology for hosting private lunch tables at the event.

Our April Forum 2010 was described as "One of the best events I've been to in 20 years" and "My understanding is enhanced having seen and heard real world examples of moving to cloud, I am more confident in writing a business case" by a senior representive from BP and Robert Walters.

"Excellent Cloud Circle Forum. We had a huge number of meetings with prospective customers on the day with follow up meetings already." - Cheif Executive, Dot Net Solutions

Our aim was to deliver to our sponsors! We delivered 231 end user attendees, which exceeded our target of 200, and had a dropout rate of just 2.6%. The meetings and networking aspect of the event as very successful, on average our sponors receieved 80% more pre scheduled one to one meetings than originally planned.

Attendees on the day include:

ACE Group, Airbus, Arup, ASOS, AXA UK, BAE Systems, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclaycard, BBC, BNP Paribas, BP, British Film Institute, Brooks Macdonald Group, Brother International Europe, Bupa, City of Westminster, City University London, Cluttons, Coca Cola Enterprise, Corps Security, Deritend Industries, Deutsche Bank , dunnhumby, EasyJet, Eli Lilly, Erith, E*Trade Financial, Eversheds, Experian, Financial Risk Management, Flight Centre UK, Freshfields, Groupama Insurances, Guardian News, Hammerson, Harrods, Haymarket, Herbert Smith, Hilco UK, HMRC, Home Retail Group, Huntsworth, Hutchison Ports, IKEA, Institute of Cancer Research, Jaguar Land Rover, John Lewis, Kimberly Clark, Lloyds Banking Group, London Councils, Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP, Marks and Spencer, Metropolitan Police, Ministry of Justice, Monsoon, National Energy Services, NPIA, Ocado, Rexam, Robert Walters, Sony, Standard Life, Ticketmaster, Taylor Wimpey, TfL, Thomson Reuters, TNT, Unilever, University of Westminster, VISA, Wraggle & Co LLP........and many more!

If you feel that a colleague would benefit from becoming a member of The Cloud Circle or attending our next Cloud Circle Forum on 8 July 2010, please contact Richard Taylor.