USENIX HotCloud '10 Call for Papers Now Open

[Lionel Garth Jones]

Dear Colleague:

On behalf of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing
(HotCloud '10) program committee, we are inviting you to submit papers
that describe novel research directions, as well as practical
experiences, in the area of cloud computing.

Cloud computing has attracted a great deal of attention both from the
research community and from industry. The cloud computing paradigm has
evolved over the years from a basic IT infrastructure (data centers) to
platform as a service (PaaS), and then from software as a service (SaaS)
to complete service enablement on a hosted infrastructure (IaaS). At the
same time, virtualization has emerged as a key enabler for the cloud
computing paradigm. Several challenges arise in the design,
implementation, and deployment of virtualized clouds.

We believe that this emerging field will benefit from close interaction
between researchers and industry practitioners, so that the research can
inform current deployments and deployment challenges can inform new
research directions. To foster such an experience, HotCloud will provide
a forum for academics as well as practitioners in the field to share
their experience, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify
new/emerging "hot" trends in this area.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

* Platform as a service
* Software as a service
* Infrastructure as a service
* Elasticity and availability in a cloud
* Multi-tenancy
* Storage cloud
* Charging models and economics
* Power-efficient ("green") computing for clouds
* Virtual appliance management and composition
* Monitoring, troubleshooting, and failure recovery
* Cloud management and configuration
* Programming models
* Security and privacy in clouds
* New applications for clouds
* Mobile clouds
* Cloud usage scenarios

Submissions are due Tuesday, March 23, 2010.

For more details on the submission process, please see the complete
Call for Papers at:
http://www.usenix.org/hotcloud10/cfpa

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Erich Nahum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University
HotCloud '10 Program Co-Chairs
hotcloud10chairs at usenix.org

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Call for Papers
2nd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '10)
June 22, 2010
Boston, MA, USA
http://www.usenix.org/hotcloud10/cfpa
Submissions Deadline: March 23, 2010
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