We are talking about cloud computing to vision its potential to change IT as much as the PC and Windows did in the 80s and 90s. Cloud computing is a natural evolution of the widespread adoption of virtualization, service-oriented architecture, autonomic, and utility computing. In this panel discussion, we will invite experts from companies and enterprises to share and discuss their strategies to build and deploy cloud infrastructures, techniques to provide cloud services to enterprises, plans to meet expanding requests from end users, and understanding of the current and future cloud computing market trends The panel discussion will provide a good opportunity to learn the current status of cloud computing in the industry sectors which can provide possible future research direction for the academy.
In the panel discussion, we will talk about the following questions (but not limited to):
What are the essential characteristics of Cloud Computing?
What are the deployment models and services models adopted in the industry?
What are the challenging issues today? What can be expected in the future?
How to move an existing web service to the cloud?
What are security and privacy issues in the cloud?
What is the new change to the business model and market?
