EWDCC 2012 - 1st European Workshop on Dependable Cloud Computing (EWDCC)

With the increasing variety of cloud offerings, ranging from very basic infrastructure services, such as storage and virtual machines, to more complex platform services (e.g., providing database-like functionality), to end-user directed solutions such as web-based office tools, there is an ongoing trend to outsource all kinds of applications to the cloud.

However, recent studies on cloud offerings and hardware in general show that clouds are less reliable than traditional data centers, and hardware faults are more common than previously assumed. Moreover, the very fact that cloud services need to be accessed remotely, through the Internet, make their perceived availability directly dependent from the availability of the communication between clients and providers. In combination, this basically inhibits the outsourcing of critical applications (e.g., financial or medical services) to the cloud.

Besides that, recent failure events on big cloud providers such as Amazon raised an alert about the dangers of running critical applications on such third party infrastructures.

The 1st EWDCC workshop aims to provide a platform for discussion and dissemination of early-stage recent research efforts that explicitly aim at supporting dependability in the context of cloud computing. We expect the workshop to foster discussion between researchers from both industry and academia.

TOPICS

The workshop welcomes submissions on all aspects of dependability in cloud computing, data center architectures, scalable systems and virtualization technology. Some of the topics of interest are:

? Virtualization-based mechanism for tolerating faults and intrusions
? Dependability issues in virtualization technology
? Scalability issues in dependable systems
? Security and privacy in the Cloud
? Data center dependability issues
? Disaster recovery for cloud-based and Internet-scale systems
? Cloud dependability metrics, models, studies and benchmarks
? Large scale problem diagnosis and recovery
? Intrusion detection and tolerance in cloud environment
? Service-oriented architectures dependability
? Dependability issues in "cloud programming models" such as MapReduce
? Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Quality of Service in the cloud

More information about the workshop can be obtained by emailing to ewdcc12-AT-di.fc.ul.pt.