Irish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce (IC4)
Launches Weekly Cloud On-Boarding Clinics
offering companies a personalised, one-on-one session with Cloud Technical Expert
IC4 is pleased to announce a new ‘cloud on-boarding’ service to help companies leverage the benefits of using cloud computing in their businesses. This service will be offered free for an initial period of three months, starting from February. It will take the form of ‘one-on-one’ sessions with a Cloud Technical Expert who is available to both advise companies on how best to use cloud computing in their business as well as to provide direct ‘hands on’ help in on-boarding applications to the cloud.
The ‘Cloud’ is the new ‘Internet’! A recent survey by j2 Global found that almost 88 percent of small businesses say they plan to, or wish they could, retire one or more legacy business technologies in 2014. And nearly 60 percent of survey respondents expect to save money by using cloud services in 2014.
IC4’s cloud on-boarding service will consist of the following phases:
- Understanding the existing software setup
- Architecting an equivalent cloud-based solution
- Defining a process to move to the cloud
- Implementing the defined process to move to the cloud
Each company interested in this service will be offered two, one-hour, consultations with the Cloud Technical Expert. The cloud on-boarding service will be offered one day per week at one of DCU, UCC and AIT, per the following schedule:
- DCU: first Thursday and third Thursday each month
- UCC: Second Thursday each month
- AIT: Fourth Thursday each month.
Anyone interested in pre-booking a one-hour slot at this or any future sessions can do so by clicking on the ‘Cloud On-Boarding Clinic’ advert on the home page of the IC4 website (www.ic4.ie) or by going direct to the Events page at www.ic4.ie/events/month/and selecting the Thursday you would like to attend.
About IC4
The Irish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce (IC4) is a multi-institutional research centre located at Dublin City University (DCU) and includes researchers from University College Cork (UCC) and Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT). IC4 is one of a number of Technology Centres, funded by Enterprise Ireland and the IDA, whose mandate is to carry out applied research in areas that are chosen by its industrial members and that are strategically important for the future growth in the Irish economy.
