The 3rd International Workshop on Cloud Computing

CASCON 2009, Nov 2, 2009.

Chairs: Marin Litoiu, York University

              Gabriel Iszlai, IBM

Description:

Cloud computing is emerging as a new computational model in which software is hosted, run and administered in large web data centers, and provided as a service over the web. In general, is well accepted that the cloud will provide three types of services, organized in layers. The first layer of the cloud will provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in which raw computing services such as CPU, storage and network bandwidth are requested, reserved and used over the web using a pay per usage model. These services can be consumed by an end user in need of resources or by an upper layer of the cloud, Platform as a Service (PaaS). PaaS offers a higher level of services, including web servers, data servers, etc. In general it offers a platform for deploying classes of applications such as web and transactional applications. The third layer of the cloud is Software as a Service (SaaS) that provides end user applications and services. E-commerce applications, CRM, ERP or generic and reusable services are example of SaaS. 

This workshop brought together experts from industry and academia to report about the state of the art, trends and current projects in cloud computing. The talks and roundtables focused on several complementary areas of research that enable cloud computing: 
(a) Quality of Services (Performance, Security, Privacy);
(b) Platform as a Service;
(c) Business models for the cloud.

Agenda:

9:00am-12:00pm. Public Clouds- The State of the Art 

·         Overview ( Marin Litoiu, Professor, York University )

·         Infrastructure as a Service (Wai-Ming Wong,Principal Product Architect , Platform Computing Corp.)

·         Platform as a Service (Andrew Trossman, STSM, IBM)

·         Licensing (Mark Perry, Professor, University of Western Ontario)

·         Optimization (Murray Woodside, Professor, Carleton University)

·         Roundtable: Moderator: Gabriel Iszlai, STSM, IBM (45 min)

1:00-4:00pm Quality of Services in Clouds 

 

·         Green Clouds (Brian Down,CTO, Sun Microsystems)

·         Performance (Jerry Rolia, Principal Scientist, HP)

·         Security ( Mircea Mihaescu, Director, Innovations for Security and Compliance, IBM)

·         Privacy ( Fred Carter Senior Policy & Technology Advisor, 
Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario)

·         Roundtable: Moderator: Marin Litoiu, York University (45 min)