1. First USENIX workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud’09)

2. Welcome to HotCloud 09 Sambit SahuPrashant Shenoy IBM Research Univ of Massachusetts at Amherst

3. RESEARCH HotCloud 09 Workshop  Workshop Theme –Identify new/emerging "hot" trends in Cloud Computing –Provide a forum for academics as well as practitioners in the field to share their experience, leverage each other's perspectives –Broad topic coverage

4. RESEARCH Review Process  Workshop statistics –41 submissions – Short two week review cycle – Accepted 13 full papers and 8 short presentation papers  A strong program with following broad themes –Cloud Platforms and Architectures –Elastic Clouds and Resource Management –Storage Cloud and Appliances –Map Reduce and Cloud Applications –Panel on “Future Challenges in Cloud Computing” –Amin Vahdat (moderator), Garth Gibson, Stefan Savage, Ben Sigelman, Rich Wolski

5. RESEARCH Program Committee  Mix of academics and practitioners Emmanuel Cecchet, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Aster Data Systems Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Jeff Chase, Duke University Brian Cooper, Yahoo! Research Chitra Dorai, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Ian Foster, University of Chicago Albert Greenberg, Microsoft Research James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services David Irwin, University of Massachusetts Amherst Terence Kelly, HP Labs Orran Krieger, VMware Ignacio M. Llorente, Complutense University of Madrid K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs—Research Rajeev Rastogi, Yahoo! Research, India Anees Shaikh, IBM Research Anand Sivasubramanian, TCS, India Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Pennsylvania State University Dongyan Xu, Purdue University

6. RESEARCH Thank you!  Wonderful people at Usenix for all their support!  Authors for considering this workshop for their work  And all of you for participating (> 75 registrations!)  Enjoy!

7. RESEARCH Workshop logistics  Breakfast, coffee breaks: Sunset room  Lunch ( noon – 1:30) – Tiki pavilion & poolside