Despite Cloud Computing's growth in popularity, many IT professionals are still unsure of all the available benefits this platform offers.

ITAG (IT Association of Galway) is organizing a FREE day-long technical conference ‘CloudBusting’ on Friday September 14th which will be hosted on the GMIT campus, and supported by HP and GMIT. The conference aims to tackle this question by examining the technologies and services offered in the cloud.

This day will give attendees insight on essential cloud topics including available delivery models, market trends and benefits that can be achieved by implementing a Cloud solution.

It will be a "cross-over " community event covering aspects of the Cloud with 5 tracks and over 20 sessions covering Social Media, Web, Music and DevOps and Start-ups. It is hoped to attract developers, architects, entrepreneurs, system administrators, IT professionals, marketers, web designers and devops folks

Learn about Cloud offerings from private, hybrid, to public cloud and understand the differences between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Wherever you are on your journey to the cloud there should be something of interest for you across the day which features five distinct tracks (start-ups, web, social media, devops, music) and over twenty sessions that attendees can pick and choose content to fit their unique needs. The plan is that attendees will go away with the understanding of what is necessary for the different ways to architect, develop and deploy applications and IT solutions in the cloud but also that they leave with some food for thought working on the web in general.

The keynote speaker is Dave Allen foundational member of post punk band Gang Of Four. Dave is Director, Interactive Strategy at North, Inc and an Adjunct Lecturer, Digital Brand Strategy at the University of Oregon and has some interesting ideas, experiences on music and technology and on the web in general with what he refers to as "thinking about Webism".

There will also be a chance to listen to a wide range of speakers and meet with some of the new exciting Irish start-up companies working in the cloud as they share their stories.

All details for the event are available on the Facebook page for the event CLICK HERE including speakers and a link to the event brite page for registration.