This meeting will offer an opportunity for members to take part in an open discussion on all aspects of virtualisation and software licensing.

This meeting will be re-arranged in 2012

Agenda:

Presentations:

• Matt Johnson, Head of Research at Eduserv, will update the group on progress of the UMF (University Modernisation Fund) Cloud Pilot Project, a cloud service being built especially for education.
  
• A presentation by Arkivum Limited on the topic of data storage/archiving

Followed by  Q & A before lunch at around 12:30.

Then an open discussion covering the following broad topics;

• Server virtualisation 
• Application/Desktop virtualisation 
• Licensing 
• Status of Chest Agreement negotiations 
• Cloud computing 
• Open source software

Signing up:

Please contact Jenny Carroll if you or one of your colleagues would like to come to the meeting - include contact details and any special dietary requirements in your email.

If you would like to suggest other topics for presentations or the discussion then please include these in your email.