wcloud 2011
Workshop on Issues in Virtualization/Cloud Systems
Date: February 26th 2011, Saturday
Venue: Victor Menezes Convention Center, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~puru/events/wcloud2011
Virtualization technology enabled cloud computing has been making rapid strides in provisioning, usage and management of large-scale systems. As popularity and applications of these techniques increase, there is increasing interest in the area, both from the academic research community and the industry. Virtualization has enabled private, public and hybrid clouds and opened problems in the following areas (and not limited to): physical to virtual consolidation, provisioning and placement techniques, flexible resource provisioning, monitoring and management of cloud systems, SLA-motivated and energy-aware migration techniques, multiplexing between types of clouds, cloud/virtualization software substrate optimization, storage virtualization, backup and replication etc. Some these issues are relevant to non-virtualization based cloud systems as well.
As part of this workshop (wcloud) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, we aim to bring together the different research communities (involving student/faculty/industry) to discuss/present a set of interesting directions. A couple of keynote (directions and main problems) talks and a set of student-talks will provide a mixture of the overall problem area and work on specific instances of problems. The idea is to expose student and faculty community to both broad and specific aspects of the research directions. The event will also provide a platform for interactions and discussions between people involved in cloud computing research.