Information Age has radically revitalised its events programme for 2009. This year, we will be running six major conferences. Alongside our successful events from previous years, such as The Future of the Data Centre and Enterprise Security, will be a whole new set of conference themes.

The first of these will be the Information Age Spring Forum. This will take place on Tuesday 28 April 2009 at the Hilton, Park Lane, London, and will encompass the following streams:

• Business Applications & Infrastructure 2009

• The Future of the Data Centre 2009

• Hosting, Outsourcing and Managed Services 2009

The event provides Information Age readers with the opportunity to meet and debate the topics with their peers, leading analysts and the Information Age editorial team.

The event is free to attend* and will attract in excess of 375 delegates from the UK's largest IT consumers.

The Spring Forum 2009 provides Information Age readers with the opportunity to meet and debate topics with their peers, leading analysts and the Information Age editorial team.

Keynote speakers will include: Paul Cheesbrough, CIO, Telegraph Media Group; Christine Ashton, Information Management Group Strategy Director, Transport for London (TfL); and Martin Frick, CIO, Avis Europe.

Business Applications & Infrastructure 2009

This conference will bring together some of the big names and early adopters from the world of SaaS, Cloud, SOA, BPM and related technologies for managing and securing these new environments.

The environment and structure of modern applications is undergoing a revolution. Driven by pressure to cut costs and to increase flexibility, organisations are investing in new models for the delivery of package applications, viewing the Internet as a platform for applications delivery. That has fuelled investment in:

• Software as a service/software plus services

• Managed/hosted application services

• Cloud computing

• Agile development

• Applications integration

• App exchanges

• Mash-ups.

At the same time, organisations are striving to provide more flexibile means of delivering bespoke applications, ensuring they map onto business processes. In many cases, that has involved the adoption of service-oriented architecture and business process automation, with the benefits of these investments now coming to the fore.

Accompany such initiatives has also been a requirement for applications governance, with service management technologies rising to the challenge.

Information Age’s Applications Infrastructure 2009 conference will bring together some of the big names in SaaS, Cloud, SOA, BPM and related technologies for managing and securing these new environments.

The Future of the Data Centre 2009

This segment will gather a distinguished group of practitioners and industry experts with direct experience in the strategies and technologies that deliver highly effective data centre capabilities.

The consolidation of IT has transformed the modern data centre into the engine of business. As a result, the skilled management of this strategic resource has become a key capability within the IT organisation, spanning several disciplines:

• Server and storage provisioning

• Power management

• Cooling control

• Systems and network management

• Remote systems management.

And such infrastructure and management overhead does not come cheap.

The Future of the Data Centre 2009 conference will gather a distinguished group of practitioners and industry experts with direct experience in the strategies and technologies that deliver highly effective data centre capabilities. As well as sessions delving into the core issues of the physical data centre infrastructure, the conference will look at the use of co-location and hosting services, virtualisation, business service management and green IT technologies, with a view to managing costs more effectively in the face of tough economic times.

Hosting, Outsourcing & Managed Services 2009

This is the primary event for users, analysts and suppliers of IT services. On the agenda will be new models of delivery, key areas of demand, and how customers and vendors are reacting to the tighter economic constraints.

In the face of economic recession and a scarcity of capital for investment, 2009 promises to be a boom year for IT hosting, outsourcing and managed services. Indeed, the maturing model for the delivery of IT services has already proved its worth over the past decade as organisations have turned to service providers to deliver services for:

• Application development and integration

• Managed application services

• Legacy application maintenance

• Remote infrastructure management

• Business process outsourcing.

But now customers are expecting even more value from their service partners, looking to them as sources of innovation that feed business-enhancing ideas and proposals to business units and the organisation as a whole.

Information Age’s Hosting, Outsourcing & Managed Services 2009 conference brings together users, analysts and suppliers of IT services, looking at the new models of delivery, key areas of demand and how customers and vendors are reacting to the tighter economic constraints.

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