The research and development community involved in distributed computing is searching for viable solutions that will increase the adoption of the cloud. This is the case of the collaborative work done by multi-national teams in the context of the FP7 programme of the European Commission. Students, researchers and developers working in the field of distributed computing will find in this book a snapshot of the on-going activities in research and development of cloud computing undertaken at the European level. These activities are organized by the latest hot topics of cloud computing research, which include services, management, automation and adoption.
Summarizing, this book will help the reader understand and identify the research and development winds that are pushing the clouds to Europe.
José Luis Vázquez-Poletti is Assistant Professor of Computer Architecture and Automation at the Department of Complutense, University of Madrid, Spain, and Cloud Computing Researcher at the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group. He is author of more than forty papers on distributed computing. Since 2005, he has been participating in grid and cloud computing EU funded projects.