There is something for everyone, and events cover a wide-range of topics such as web development, networking, tourism, music, animation and design. Speakers include representatives from the University of Hull, Yorkshire Coast College, people from the Scarborough business community and perhaps most excitingly of all Vaughn Oliver.

Save9 will be lending their full support and our very own Steve Bromham will be giving a talk on Cloud Computing and I will be helping to arrange BarCamp Scarborough. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Acceleration in the adoption of technologies such as cloud computing and virtualisation within the enterprise will result in a fifth of businesses owning no IT assets whatsoever by 2012, according to the research findings.

The market analyst argues that while the requirement for enterprise hardware, from desktop computers to staffed data centres, will remain consistent at its current level, responsibility for this equipment will increasingly shift to third parties. These will include both external data centre and service providers, and enterprise employees themselves, of whom more and more will take advantage of their own laptops or smartphones for work purposes.

Because of this, Gartner forecasts, enterprise IT budgets will be scaled back or allocated elsewhere for more strategic projects. Subsequently, vendors will also be forced to reconsider their own strategies in order to meet these changes in the business IT landscape.