First USENIX workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing

(HotCloud’09)

Welcome to HotCloud 09

Sambit Sahu Prashant ShenoyIBM Research Univ of Massachusetts at Amherst

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HotCloud 09 Workshop

Workshop Theme

– Identify new/emerging "hot" trends in Cloud Computing

– Provide a forum for academics as well as practitioners in the field to share their experience, leverage each other's perspectives

– Broad topic coverage

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Review Process

Workshop statistics– 41 submissions

– Short two week review cycle

– Accepted 13 full papers and 8 short presentation papers

A strong program with following broad themes– Cloud Platforms and Architectures

– Elastic Clouds and Resource Management

– Storage Cloud and Appliances

– Map Reduce and Cloud Applications

– Panel on “Future Challenges in Cloud Computing”

– Amin Vahdat (moderator), Garth Gibson, Stefan Savage, Ben Sigelman, Rich Wolski

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Program Committee

Mix of academics and practitioners Emmanuel Cecchet, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Aster Data SystemsAbhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesJeff Chase, Duke UniversityBrian Cooper, Yahoo! ResearchChitra Dorai, IBM T.J. Watson Research CenterIan Foster, University of ChicagoAlbert Greenberg, Microsoft ResearchJames Hamilton, Amazon Web ServicesDavid Irwin, University of Massachusetts AmherstTerence Kelly, HP LabsOrran Krieger, VMwareIgnacio M. Llorente, Complutense University of MadridK. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs—ResearchRajeev Rastogi, Yahoo! Research, IndiaAnees Shaikh, IBM ResearchAnand Sivasubramanian, TCS, IndiaBhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State UniversityDongyan Xu, Purdue University

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Thank you!

Wonderful people at Usenix for all their support!

Authors for considering this workshop for their work

And all of you for participating (> 75 registrations!)

Enjoy!

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Workshop logistics

Breakfast, coffee breaks: Sunset room

Lunch ( noon – 1:30) – Tiki pavilion & poolside