International Workshop on Collaborative Cloud

Many emerging services, such as tele-work, e-government and business solutions, are using cloud computing in various forms to their advantage. Some businesses are providing services by outsourcing parts of their business processes, which are now hosted as cloud-based software services. Others are adopting cloud-based IT infrastructure to be able to host their outsourced services. This trend will be both economically and technically feasible only when the application services outsourced from various enterprises work seamlessly when deployed across multiple cloud platforms. As a result of such a convergence between cloud computing technology and service outsourcing business model, a plethora of small and medium enterprises will be able to sustain and grow their businesses. However, as the field of research is new, there is a new set of challenges when it comes to the design and implementation at both service and deployment levels.

CollabCloud 2012 brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share their experiences on using 'single cloud' versus 'multiple clouds' and discuss the benefits of collaboration across clouds. This event will define protocols and standards that need to be set in place for collaboration across clouds, so that delivering services via multiple clouds becomes a new business trend.