Introduction to the C4E Workshop

Cloud computing technologies enable the provisioning of computing infrastructure/resources, platforms, and software applications over the Internet. Using clouds can help improve scalability and flexibility of computing infrastructure and reduce its total cost of ownership as they can be bought on demand. However, a variety of challenges arise in complex and dynamic cloud-based systems that are becoming frequent in enterprises and governments. The goal of the IEEE CEC 2011 workshop Clouds for Enterprises (C4E) 2011 is to contribute to the multi-perspective exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of research results and the identification and analysis of open cloud research and adoption/exploitation issues. The workshop program consists of an invited keynote, 3 full and 5 short anonymously peer-reviewed research papers, and a discussion session.