The Cloud Computing Association is organizing the 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing –CloudCom in Athens.
The three-day conference, which starts on November 29 running until December 1, seeks to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing and related technologies.
For the non cognoscenti, the "Cloud" is a natural evolution of distributed computing and of the widespread adaption of virtualization and Service Oriented Architecture. Topics will include -the list is not exhaustive- data grid & and semantic web, autonomic computing and virtualization technologies.
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