International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications - CLOUDTECH 2015

June 2-4 2015, Marrakesh, Morocco

Dr. Sandy Carter is IBM General Manager, Ecosystem Development and Social Business Evangelist and Author. In this role, she is responsible for IBM�s worldwide relationship with independent software vendors (ISVs), which contribute to approximately one-third of IBM�s revenue. She also manages the key partnerships with the development, academic, and venture capital communities which comprise IBM�s industry-leading ecosystem of influencers, and is focused on critical areas of business ecosystems like big data, cloud, mobile, social, and analytics. It is estimated that these segments represent in excess of half a trillion dollars of opportunity by 2015. Prior to her current position, Sandy was IBM Vice President, Social Business Evangelism and Sales, where she was responsible for setting the direction for IBM�s Social Business initiative, a $200B market opportunity. As a recognized leader in social business, Sandy is an award-winning author of 3 books, including best-selling �Get Bold�, which has been translated into 9 languages. She has received numerous awards for her leadership and expertise in branding and social business, and most recently was recognized as a Thought Leader on Social Media by Small Business Trends, and was named by Webbiquity one of Top Nifty 50 Women Writers on Twitter for 2013. She has also been named �Direct Marketer of the Year� by Target Marketing magazine; Top 10 in Social Media by Altimeter Group; and Top 50 Social Business Influencers by Biz Imagined Group (UK). Under her leadership, IBM has won awards from VAR Business, CRN Channel Champions, Xchange Excellence, and Forrester ISV Partner Program. She is a founding member of the WITI (Women in Technology International) Global Executive Network (GEN) program for senior executive women and is a member of the WITI Executive Advisory Council, the American Management Association (AMA), and the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Inner Circle, and on the Global Advisory Board of the World Brand Congress.

Cloud Computing makes resources such as data available anywhere at anytime, by enabling IT-related capabilities to be provided as services, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. Many mature technologies are used as components in Cloud Computing, but still there are many unresolved and open problems. Security in the cloud domain is considered as one of the top challenges. Cloud and IT service providers should be responsible for the data of their customers and users. However, accountability frameworks for distributed IT services is needed but still absent; hence it is difficult for users to understand, influence and determine how their service providers honor their obligations.It is important to support users in deciding and tracking how cloud service providers use their data. By combining methods of risk analysis, policy enforcement, monitoring and compliance auditing with tailored IT mechanisms for security, assurance and redress.In any cloud service model, multiple stakeholders are involved. One service provider can be the consumer of another service. The complex stakeholder relationships require precise monitoring and accounting. Monitoring can be performedin multiple layers with different granularities. In the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model, a customer has a set of virtual machine instances that are reachable by each other. Instances can be located in different geographical regions. A variety of technologies are capable of providing instances� connectivity, including network virtualization. From the network monitoring perspective, distinguishing customers� activities in a multi-tenant network is crucial. There are recent studies to improve architecture of the networkingservices for cloud platform using Software Defined Networking (SDN).

Prof. Chunming Rong is head of the Center for IP-based Service Innovation (CIPSI) at the University of Stavanger (UiS) in Norway, where his work focuses on data-intensive (big-data) analytics, cloud computing, security and privacy. He is an IEEE senior member and is honored as member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) since 2011. He is also an advisor for SINTEF ICT and has extensive contact network and projects in both the industry and academic. He was visiting chair professor at Tsinghua University (2011 � 2014) and served also as an adjunct professor at the University of Oslo (2005-2009). He is co-founder and chairman of the Cloud Computing Association (CloudCom.org) and its associated IEEE conference and workshop series. He is chair of IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community (STC) for Cloud Computing since April 2014, and is the co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Cloud Computing (ISSN: 2192-113X) by Springer and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). He received award as Editor's Choice in Discrete Mathematics for 1999, ConocoPhillips Communication Award for 2007, and Sparebank-1 SR-bank Innovation Award for 2011. He coauthored a book titled "Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks" published by John Wiley & Sons in 2009. Prof. Rong has extensive experience in managing large-scale R&D projects funded by both industry and funding agencies, such as the Norwegian Research Council and the European Framework Programs.

Prof. Tarek El-Ghazawi is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington University, where he leads the university-wide Strategic Academic Program in High-Performance Computing. He is the founding director of The GW Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies (IMPACT) and a founding Co-Director of the NSF Industry/University Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC). El-Ghazawi�s research interests include high-performance computing, computer architectures, reconfigurable, embedded computing and computer vision. He is one of the principal co-authors of the UPC parallel programming language and the first author of the UPC book from John Wiley and Sons. He has received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1988. El-Ghazawi has published close to 250 refereed research publications in this area.
El-Ghazawi has also taught at George Mason University, Florida Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University. In addition, he served as a high-performance computing consultant at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA Ames Research Center.
Dr. El-Ghazawi has served in many editorial roles including an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers. He has chaired and co-chaired many international conferences and symposia including the 2009 Conference on Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Programming Models and Languages (PGAS2009), The 10th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom-10), 2010, the 9th ACS/IEEE Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA2011), and the 24th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP2013).
Dr. El-Ghazawi�s research has been frequently supported by Federal agencies and industry including DARPA/DoD, NSF, DoE/LBNL, NASA, IBM, HP, Intel, AMD, SGI, Microsoft, and Mellanox. He serves or has served on many advisory boards including the Science Advisory Panel of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, DSP Logic and Mena Venture. El-Ghazawi received many national and international awards and recognitions. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was selected to a Research Faculty Fellow for the IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Toronto. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi national honor society and an elected member of the IFIP WG10.3. El-Ghazawi was also a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovations and a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt research award from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany.

By taking a holistic approach to cloud resource management, the aim is to transform today�s static and energy consuming cloud data centers into self-managed, dynamic, and dependable infrastructures, constantly delivering expected quality of service with acceptable operation costs and carbon footprint for large-scale services with varying capacity demands. The presentation will provide the birds-eye�s view of the challenge as well as several glimpses of selected completed and ongoing research efforts. These efforts address fundamental and inter-twined self-management challenges assuming that there during execution are stochastic variations in capacity need and resource availability, as well as changes in system response and operation costs. Sample challenges include how much capacity to allocate at any time for an elastic application, where to allocate that capacity, if to admit an elastic service with unknown lifetime and future capacity demands, how to optimize the various management tools� concerted actions, etc, while taking into account the need for differentiated quality of service and the scalability requirements of the management tools themselves. For further reading about cloud resource management research at Ume� University, Sweden, please visit www.cloudresearch.org.

Prof. Erik Elmroth is Professor in Computing Science at Ume� University nd CEO for Elastisys AB. He has ten years of experience from being Head and Deputy Head of the Department of Computing Science. He is leading the Ume� University research on distributed systems, focusing on virtual computing infrastructures (Grid and Cloud computing, see http://www.cloudresearch.org), including the group's participation in large-scale national and international collaborations such as eSSENCE (a long-term Swedish strategic eScience collaboration), the EU FP7 projects RESERVOIR, OPTIMIS, VISION Cloud, CACTOS, ORBIT and ACROSS as well as the local industry-focused IT research within the UMIT research laboratory. A particular high-light is being the principal investigator for Cloud Control, which is a framework project funded by the Swedish Research Council, taking a control theoretic approach for cloud datacenter management systems. The research is focused on methods, algorithms, architectures and software design principles for large scale distributed environments. Recently, he has initiated the Cloud Control Workshop Series (www.cloudresearch.org/workshops) and founded the company Elastisys AB (www.elastisys.com).
The current research extends on Elmroth's broad background in scientific and high-performance computing and extensive experience from organizing supercomputing infrastructures. He received the Nordea Scientific Award 2011. Pre-historic highlights include being co-winner of the SIAM Linear Algebra Prize 2000, for the most outstanding linear algebra publication world-wide during the preceding 3-year period.
Erik is Chairman of the Board of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC). Previously he has served as Chairman of Swedish Research Council's (VR's) expert group on e-science infrastructures and as member of VR's Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI). He has also been appointed by the Nordic Council of Ministers for writing a Nordic eScience strategy and as a follow-up, a Nordic-Baltic eScience strategy as well as by SNIC for writing a national HPC strategy. He has held a three-year position as national HPC lecturer appointed by the Swedish Council for High Performance Computers (HPDR).
International experiences include a year at NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and one semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. .