SVM 2013 - 7th International DMTF Academic Alliance Workshop on Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud

The DMTF Academic Alliance announces the creation of the seventh workshop dedicated to academic research on standards and new technologies for systems and virtualization management. This event comes in addition to the technical and developers' events organized for several years by the DMTF.
The primary theme of SVM 2013 will be "Systems and Virtualization Management: Standards and the Cloud". With the advent and increasing popularity of Cloud Computing, systems management and virtualization management technology has taken on increasing importance. The goal of SVM 2013 is to illuminate related standards and research issues, covering areas such as: what are the implications of standards for virtualization in Cloud Computing, what advances in information models and protocols aid in managing Clouds, what new problems will we incur when managing Cloud offerings and services, and how management itself might benefit from virtualization and the Cloud. Submissions on topics related to managing Clouds, virtualization of distributed resources/services and work in management standardization are thus particularly encouraged.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Cloud
Management of Compute Clouds
Management of Storage Clouds
Software Defined Networking
Use of Virtualization for Management
Key management issues
Infrastructure for management
Managing IaaS infrastructure
Use and extension of management standards
System management techniques
Network, Server, and Desktop management
Information models for management
Instrumentation and metrics for management
Diagnostics and Fault management
Management Behavior and State modeling
Web services and SOA
Managing SaaS infrastructure
Web services based management
Development and use of management protocols
Use of SOA in management of distributed systems
New management paradigms
Management automation
Policy-based management
Experience implementing and deploying management technology