Workshop on
Cloud Computing
18-20, Aug 2010
at IIT Madras, Chennai, India
http://www.csi-chennai.org/wcc/
Organised by
Computer Society of India
Div IV (Communication), Chennai Chapter and SIG-Distributed Systems
and
IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter
Supported by
Platinum Sponsors: Yahoo, Google, HP, Amazon, IBM, HCL, TCS, Hitachi, Netmagic
Gold Sponsors: Novell, VMware, CSS Corp, Ramco, Cognizant, Trend Micro
Silver Sponsors: Zscaler, Zoho
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: In the past decade, the advent of Internet has opened up several exciting
new opportunities for business excellence, cost effectiveness and efficiency. Cloud Computing is the latest
in such innovations that has brought computing power within reach of every organization. Cloud
computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model for IT services over the Internet.
This model follows that of typical utilities like electricity and water which we have got used to in the past
century. Cloud computing offers the computing processing power, storage, network bandwidth, software
usage, software development, testing, security, identity etc., as services over the Internet. This model offers
unprecedented scalability wherein the user can add resources on demand and give them up when not
needed, instead of the classical model of over-investing in infrastructure and managing at a huge cost;
tremendous cost-effectiveness by providing a “pay per use” model and ensures professional management of
the infrastructure. It is fair to say that this model is bound to change the façade of IT usage across the world
in the immediate near future.
Analysts estimate that by 2012, in India, 30% of the organizations (both corporate & SMEs) will move
their applications on the cloud. Also, CIOs will be under tremendous pressure to optimize their expenses
which will make them to look at cloud as the natural choice in the years to come. Further, according to a
recent study by Zinnov Management Consulting, the global cloud computing ma