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For the past six years Chris Taylor has been IT manager for the AT&T Williams Formula One team.

The Formula One environment is extremely hectic, but telepresence, provided by AT&T, is becoming an increasingly important communications and collaboration tool for the team.

ComputerWeekly.com's Cliff Saran speaks to Taylor about how telepresence allows the team to keep travel costs down, while keeping its UK engineers up-to-date with the race car's track performance and safety issues.

Mobile app development is the focus of the final part of Cliff Saran’s interview with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. Vogels says that on iPhone and Android devices, the apps are pretty innovative, yet they are being produced at break-neck speed. Developers are not building services themselves. They consume external services. Small lightweight apps running on your devices connect to cloud-based services, pulling together location awareness and context-based information. This approach to use cloud-based web services will become the building blocks of future enterprise applications.

This is the second part of Cliff Saran’s podcast interview with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels during his recent trip to London. Here Vogels discusses how cloud is a perfect storm, continuing the concept of service-based architectures, which started with service oriented architecture. Traditional software licensing is also changing thanks to the drive towards cloud computing.

Cliff Saran met up with Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon to find out about where cloud computing is heading. In the first of a three part podcast interview, Cliff catches up with Vogels during his recent trip to London, to ask him where the cloud is heading, how companies are using cloud computing to reduce their carbon footprint and even moving low-end mainframe apps in to the cloud, saving millions in maintenance.

Microsoft sees cloud computing as a way of enabling businesses to tap into the resources of the software company’s infrastructure which offers scalability and high availability on a global basis.

But many organisations are still sceptical about the security of the cloud computing model.

In this podcast interview, John Shewchuk, technical fellow at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about how cloud can enable better security and regulatory compliance.

Microsoft is working hard to improve the reputation of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser and is set to raise the security bar even higher in version 9 currently under development.

In this podcast interview, John Scarrow, general manager of Safety Services at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about the latest and coming security enhancements to IE and Windows Live Hotmail.

Microsoft is among the emerging suppliers of cloud computing services that are seeking to win the confidence of enterprises.

In this podcast interview, Steve Lipner, senior director of security engineering strategy at Microsoft, speaks to Computer Weekly about what it is doing to allay business concerns.

Lipner describes how Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), Global Foundation Services, certifications and transparency combine to provide the necessary assurances.

He also lists the things that organisations looking to benefit from cloud computing should look at to ensure their data is adequately protected.

In this podcast interview Alex Cullen, a research director at Forrester Research, speak to Computer Weekly’s Cliff Saran about how IT and the business can collaborate better if they both work on the basis of a Business Capability Map.

The theme of this year’s Forrester Forum (June 9-11, Lisbon) concerns making business technology real. Since IT is so intertwined with business, business and IT people need to consider both the business and technology implications of any business activity. It's a perennial problem, but Cullen believes there is a better way...