CC 2013 - Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is rapidly emerging as the new computing paradigm of the coming decade. The idea of virtualizing not just hardware but software resources as well has attracted the attention of academicians as well as the industry. Cloud computing not only offers a viable solution to the problem of addressing scalability and availability concerns for large-scale applications but also displays the promise of sharing resources to reduce cost of ownership. The concept has evolved over the years starting from data centers to present day infrastructure virtualization.
Cloud computing as envisaged today covers all walks of computing. Designing and standardization of the cloud, virtualization of storage, virtualization of the computing infrastructure as a whole, integration of the applications into the virtual world, assembling and using cloud services, building enterprise applications on the cloud computing platform, development of security models for the cloud, self virtualization of devices, exchange of data /messaging in the cloud, high availability architectures for the cloud, providing QoS for web applications on the cloud, high performance computing using elastic resources and optimization and performance issues of web applications on the cloud are a few of the multitude of challenges and opportunities that the cloud computing world opens up.
The ACM SAC track on Cloud Computing aims to foster discussions and research in various aspects of cloud computing. The focus will be on both original research contributions, algorithms and practical design solutions.