Disaster Recovery - April 2012

Andrew Stuart of Paradeon Technologies gave us an overview of Backup and Disaster Recovery options. Andrew shows the alternative to traditional tape backup that addresses many of the issues of existing backup solutions.

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Is Democracy Possible? (A Computer Science Perspective) - March 2012

Nir Oren, lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen.

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Legal Implications of Offshore Data Storage - March 2012

David Reid of Shepherd and Wedderburn's Media and Technology team gave us an overview of:

• Where can personal data be stored?
• Offshore processing and hosting and storing information.
• The rights of the individual.
• Responsibilities of Organisations.
• What happens if the database is hacked?
• Jurisdiction of the UK Information Commissioner.
• What sanctions are available?

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Opportunities for Digital Oilfield - October 2011

Lewis Yim gives us an insight into how IT enables the Oil and Gas Service industry. From well exploration right through to production, the dependency on IT is now heavier than ever before. The term “Digital Oilfield” can be portrayed in very different ways however the concept is the same. Lewis will discuss the challenges currently being faced by the highly complex and ever evolving Oil and Gas Industry and how IT enables higher performance and efficiencies in Oil and Gas as well as opening new frontiers that were unimaginable before.

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A Quantum of Computing - September 2011

Dave McMahon provides his own look into the far future with a brief resume of the world of Quantum Computing. Sounds too Sci-Fi? Too Fantastic? Maybe, but people are today seriously researching Quantum Computing and Quantum Computing Devices. Some companies claim to have already created them, others refute the claims, and the reasons why there is some controversy will be covered in this session. It'll be fun, mind-blowing and you get a glimpse of what could be in store for us in the coming years and why the future of Search may be in harnessing the power of the sub-atomic and why SSL's future prospects may not be so rosy ...

The Quantum Computing talk is now available online and can be accessed here "http://vimeo.com/31326680.

Other video presentations

Other video presentations are accessible from http://vimeo.com/rgucomputing/videos