The Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) is a multi-institutional Technology Centre, funded by Enterprise Ireland and the IDA, whose mandate is to carry out applied research in areas of cloud computing that are chosen by its industrial members.

IC4 holds regular events to disseminate results from the business and technical research that it carries out, as well as to promote the usage of cloud computing by Irish businesses. Details of all scheduled events can be accessed at http://www.ic4.ie/events/

Workshops 

October 15 ^th : “Cloud Computing – Increasing IT Effectiveness in Delivering Business Services”

Room Q301, DCU Business School (2pm to 6pm)

Register at: http://www.ic4.ie/event/cloud-computing-increasing-it-effectiveness-in-delivering-business-services/

This workshop is being hosted in conjunction with the IMCA (The Institute of Management Consultants and Advisers). This event is a free event and is open to all companies who have an interest in understanding how cloud computing can be applied to increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of their business.

The event will take the form of five, 30-minute presentations, which will be made by IC4 industry members and researchers, highlighting different use cases for cloud computing.

The presentation topics are (and may be subject to change):

1. ‘Is cloud based office productivity software right for your business’ (Microsoft Inc.)
2. ‘What is the right cloud architecture for my business’ (Egenera Inc.)
3. “Workflow automation in the Open Cloud” (Translation.ie)
4. ‘Using data analytics to leverage value from your business data’ (Emfasize Ltd.)
5. ‘Safeguarding your business data in the cloud’. (IC4)

November 10 ^th : “Interoperability and the Open Cloud”

DCU Business School (2pm to 5.30pm)

Register at; http://www.ic4.ie/event/interoperability-and-the-open-cloud/

Cloud computing is helping unleash the power of IT in every aspect of running a business and is now widely seen as having the potential to make a significant contribution to the future growth in world gross domestic product. For cloud computing to deliver these anticipated benefits, software applications must be interoperable and data must be portable across cloud platforms. This will allow cloud consumers to use ‘off-the-shelf’ cloud services and will accelerate the creation of an innovative and cost efficient environment.

Over the past year IC4 has invested significant research resources in helping to improve interoperability and portability. The purpose of this workshop is to both update members and the community on the results of its research as well as to create awareness of the broader developments in this area. IC4 has arranged for both industry and academic speakers to talk to the following topics:

1. The ‘TOSCA’ Standard – TOSCA’s goal is to advance an interoperability standard that will make it easier to deploy cloud applications without vendor lock-in, while maintaining application requirements for security, governance, and compliance. (IBM)
2. “How Open is Openstack” (Dell)
3. “Open Cloud Standards” (Intel)
4. “Interoperability on a cloud Mobile Application Platform. (Feedhenry)
5. “Disaster Recovery between different cloud platforms” (IC4)

Edelman Breakfast Seminars

In conjunction with Edelman, IC4 will host a series of Breakfast Seminars, which will be held on the last Thursday of every month.

Venue: The Hibernian Club, St Stephen’s Green, from 8am to 9am

Register at: http://www.ic4.ie/events/

October 30 ^th : “ Social media and big data: how can it inform business strategy?”

Speaker: Dr. Theo Lynn (IC4)

  November 27 ^th : “How Big Data, the Cloud and Viewer-Aware Displays are disrupting the DOOH advertising market.”

Speaker: Barry Guiney / Donnacha O’Callaghan (4Impacts and Munster Rugby)

January 29 ^th : Cloud Computing – changing the game in the Energy Industry

Speaker: to be announced

February 26 ^th : “Opening your mind to Open Data”

Speaker: Dominic Byrne, Open Data Ireland

March 26 ^th : “Shelf Analytics -Using data analytics to identify purchasing trends in the retail/consumer goods industry”.

Speaker : Liam English (Bluemetrix)

IC4 Cloud Clinics

December 4 ^th , DCU Business School

Register at: http://www.ic4.ie/event/cloud-on-boarding-clinic-dcu-6/

IC4 is pleased to announce the continuation of its ‘cloud on-boarding’ clinics to help companies leverage the benefits of using cloud computing in their businesses. This cloud clinic takes the form of ‘one-on-one’ sessions with a Cloud Expert who is available to both advise companies on a cloud strategy for their business as well as to provide direct ‘hands on’ help in on-boarding applications to the cloud.