Sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society:

IEEE's Cloud Forum for Practitioners:
The Cloud in 2013
 

July 7-8, 2011
Washington Marriott Hotel
Washington DC

The 2nd Annual IEEE Cloud Forum for Practitioners (ICFP'11) will be held in  Washington, DC as part of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011). ICFP aims to serve as a prime international forum to bring researchers, practitioners, vendors, and others together to exchange the latest practical advances and thought-leadership in cloud computing. In particular, ICFP'11 will showcase speakers bringing discussions and opinions related to the numerous reliability and security issues facing the large scale migration to cloud computing and its adoption.

While the first ICFP venue in Monterey, CA (http://www.ieeereliability.com/ICFP2010)
in 2010 sought to provide insights to the question concerning when, how, and whether an organization should consider moving their IT resources into clouds, ICFP'11 starts from the premise that computing as a commodity market is no longer questionable. Even today we are beginning to see the emergence of computing being delivered using spot-market pricing.  Hence cloud computing is quickly becoming woven into every service that is data-related.