Open Stack

Dear All,

The conference programme for UCC 2014, being held in London from December 8-11 2014, is available at:

http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/conference-programme/

We have some very interesting keynote speakers this year. The notable names and their talks include the following:

1. Enabling Cloud Computing at Hyper-Scale: Kenji Takeda, Microsoft
2. Cloud Native Cost Optimization: Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures (prev. Netflix, eBay, Sun)
3. A Few Control Issues in Warehouse-scale Computing: John Wilkes, Google
4. Rack-Scale Computers and the Cloud: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft
5. Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware
6. Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College London
7. Actors in the Cloud: Supporting Security, Scalability and Availability , Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
8. Clinical Intelligence & Integration: Tackling Large Data Analytics in Real-Time, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop, Roche

Panel Discussion: How adaptive should our infrastructure (networks, data centres etc.) be to support next generation Clouds?

Alan Sill; Open Grid Forum (OGF)
Joe Baguley; VMWare
John Wilken; Google
Erik Elmroth; Umeå University (UMU)
Gul Agha; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

UCC 2014 Tutorials
1. Azure Machine Learning for Research, Kenji Takeda
2. Model-Driven Management of Multi-Cloud Applications, Danilo Ardagna
3. The Intercloud Architecture and Project, David R. Bernstein
4. Distributed Data Storage: From Dispersed Files to Stealth Databases, Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller,
5. Software Development in Cloud: An Experiential Study with CMS, Chandra Sekaran K,
6. Data Analysis with R, Shruti Kohli, Shruti Kohli
6. Microsoft Azure for Research, Kenji Takeda
7. Autonomic Clouds, Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana
8. Help Clinical Intelligence take the next step using state-of-the art in-memory analytics, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop
9. CRISTAL : Designing Traceable Cloud-based Systems, Richard McClatchey, Andrew Branson

UCC 2014 Workshops
1. International Symposium on Big Data Computing 2014 – BDC 2014
2. 6th Cloud Control Workshop – CloudControl6
3. Cloud Federation Management: Identity, Resources and Applications Workshop – CFM 2014
4. Workshops on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics – SCBDA 2014
5. ITaaU Network+ Symposium – ITaaU 2014
6. Clouds and eScience Applications Management Workshop – CloudAM 2014
7. Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud Workshop – CGCloud 2014
8. Re-computability in the Cloud Workshop – Re-computability 2014
9. Advances in CC Legislation, Accountability, Security and Privacy Workshop – CLASP 2014
10. Trust in Cloud Computing Workshop – IWTCC 2014
11. Green Cloud Computing Workshop – GCC 2014
12. Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications Workshop – SCCTSA 2014
13. Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability Workshop – CAIMS 2014
14. Cyber-physical Cloud Computing Workshop – CPCC 2014
15. Network Virtualization and SDN for Cloud Data Centres Workshop
16. Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop – BDIMA
17. Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security Workshop
18. Education in the Cloud Workshop – EC 2014
19. EGI Federated Cloud Workshop
20. Plugfest: Cloud Interoperability Event

UCC 2014 Registration

To register please visit: http://www.derby.ac.uk/enterprisecentre/events/ucc/book/

Best regards
Ashiq Anjum


Organising Chair UCC 2014 -- http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/

Dr. Ashiq Anjum
Reader in Distributed Computing
Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research centre
School of Computing and Mathematics
University of Derby
Room E510
Kedleston Road
Derby, UK
DE22 1GB
ashiq.anjum at cern.ch & a.anjum at derby.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1332 591881 & 44 (0) 772 4017071
http://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/ashiq-anjum/