The CIO Cloud Summit team have announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Virtualization Review, an online media outlet, bi-monthly magazine and independent guide to the latest technology products, vendors and issues.

The CIO Cloud Summit, May 22-25, 2011, will bring together CIOs and IT executives who are currently planning, implementing or want to optimise cloud computing projects at their organisations. The technology event’s agenda is designed to encourage idea sharing and in-depth conversation among the event’s attendees, and currently features networking breaks, think tank sessions, open forums and analyst Q&A sessions.

Virtualization Review, owned and operated by 1105 Media, reaches 40,000 senior-level IT management and C-suite executives in large U.S. organisations. The publication and online media outlet includes information on server, application, PC and desktop virtualisation as well as virtualisation management and infrastructure. Other resources on the site include a buyer’s guide, product reviews, webcasts, and more.

“Virtualization Review is full of the in-depth information that enterprise technology executives need to get and stay ahead of the technology curve. I am excited to be partnering with Virtualization Review for the upcoming event and look forward to sharing their resources with our event attendees,” said Glenn Willis, Event Director, CDM Media.

CIOs and IT executives, as the subject matter experts, are invited to present the agenda sessions at the CIO Cloud Summit. Current agenda topics include cloud computing governance, the transformation of traditional IT, cloud computing optimisation and exploring cloud storage technology.

If you are interested in speaking at the CIO Cloud Summit, fill out the call for speakers page, www.ciocloudsummit.com/callforspeakers/. For more information about the event, visit www.ciocloudsummit.com or contact Torey Herr, Events & Marketing Manager, CDM Media, at torey.herr@cdmmedia.com or 808-694-3660.

Frost & Sullivan will be hosting the Next Generation Communication & Collaboration Summit on December 7, 2010. This one day summit aims to bring together industry players and subject matter experts to discuss and evaluate some of the present and future challenges facing the Industry through interactive panel discussions along with stand-alone presentations.

The business landscape in Asia Pacific has in recent years undergone tremendous change in the way organisations communicate and collaborate internally, as well as with each other. With Asia Pacific having very high diversity, different regions or countries have adopted collaboration solutions according to their cultural preferences and economic development. The high growth of Asia Pacific as a region has led to innovative and competitive solutions that seen in the market place today.

The changing landscape, coupled with the global financial crisis and competitive market environments, have led to enterprises focusing on productivity to drive efficiency, collaboration to drive innovation within their enterprise and cost reduction through cloud services.

“The computing industry is preparing for a paradigm shift in the way computing is performed worldwide. There is a growing awareness among consumers and enterprises to access their information technology (IT) resources extensively through the Internet, a development broadly called ‘Cloud Computing’”, says Arun Chandrasekaran, Research Manager at Frost & Sullivan.

He adds, “The primary restraint for the adoption of cloud is the security and privacy issues. Customers are apprehensive about factors such as regulatory compliance, inadequate service level agreements, shared infrastructure (for public clouds), data storage issues, and unclear legal implications. In the absence of clarity on the aforementioned issues, most CXOs err on the side of caution and limit the usage of public clouds.”

This one day forum will look at 3 main topic tracks: Unified Communications, Collaboration and Cloud. The Unified Communications (UC) Track will look at the current state of the market, the adoption trends, opportunities in the market and the business case for UC. The Collaboration Track takes a closer look at some of the audio, video and web technologies in the market, their market potential in Asia Pacific, and presents customer successes stories to better understand the explosive growth in this market while the Cloud Track looks at how enterprises are shaping the market dynamics in the cloud computing space and pushing the industry to a higher level of maturity.

Key topics include Leveraging Unified Communications to improve business processes; Driving Innovation through Collaboration; Getting ready for Cloud Computing – IT Strategy, Architecture & Security; Using IT to help companies to become more ‘green’; Leveraging Social Media to Improve Customer Service; and How tablet computing will change the way we use information.

For a detailed program agenda and speaker list, please visit http://www.frost-ngcc.com/summit.html.

Microsoft is a Platinum Sponsor for the summit while Aspect, Dell, HP and Plantronics are Gold Sponsors. Datacraft, InterCall, Jabra and Polycom are Silver Sponsors while Avanade is a Partner. ZDNet Asia is the official online media partner while CIO Magazine, Computerworld Singapore and MIS Asia are media partners for the summit.

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