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Clouds at the crossroads
research perspectives
Despite its promise, most cloud computing innovations have been almost exclusively driven by a few industry leaders, such as Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and IBM. The involvement of a wider research community, both in academia and industrial labs, has so far been patchy without a clear agenda. In our opinion, the limited participation stems from the prevalent view that clouds are mostly an engineering and business-oriented phenomenon based on stitching together existing technologies and tools.
Clouds at the crossroads
research perspectives
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ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2010
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/socc2010
Workshop to discuss challenges in the cloud computing paradigm, including the design, implementation, and deployment of virtualized clouds; Boston, Mass., 22 June 2010
http://www.usenix.org/events/hotcloud10