CollabCloud 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Collaborative Cloud (CollabCloud 2012)

Many emerging services, such as tele-work, e-government, business solutions, are using Clouds for their advantage in various forms. Some businesses are providing services by outsourcing parts of their business processes, which are now hosted as Cloud-based software services. Others are adopting the Cloud based IT infrastructure to host the services. It is mostly the small and medium enterprises (SME) to benefit the economic incentives when using Cloud computing paradigm for their businesses. However, there are challenges associated with every new technology.
Interoperability, communication, and security are the three major critical issues that need to be addressed when services are deployed across multiple Clouds. Same is the case for the Cloud-based IT platforms that would manage large number of shared and disparate services. Various quality requirements, such as availability, security, economic cost, energy efficiency, and so forth determine the feasibility of collaborating across multiple Cloud services and platforms.
Collaboration across Cloud services and platforms is a new topic. CollabCloud brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share their experiences on using "single cloud" versus "multiple clouds" and discuss the benefits of collaboration across Clouds. This event will define protocols and standards that needs to be set in place for collaboration across clouds so that delivering services via multiple Clouds becomes a new business trend.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Enabling application services across multiple Clouds
Architectural Models for multi-Cloud deployment
Applications making use of collaboration across Clouds, including games and social networks
Scientific, Business, and social computing in multi-Cloud environment
Novel cloud programming models
Innovative collaborative cloud service models
Support for scalable and secure collaboration across Clouds
Security, privacy, and trust when collaborating across Clouds
Multi-Cloud/hybrid-Cloud support for mobile applications
Challenges for collaboration in Clouds