2013 IEEE Latin America Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications [Global Communications Newsletter]

The 2013 IEEE Latin America Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications (Latin- Cloud 2013) is the second edition of a conference that aims at becoming the premier forum for discussions of recent advances in cloud computing and communications, virtualization, utility computing, grid computing, service-oriented architectures, and software- defined networks for the datacenter in this region of the world. The Cloud Computing and Communications paradigm has defined unprecedented business models, promoting on-demand computing resource allocation, elastic scaling, and elimination of up-front costs. Capitalizing on paradigms such as virtualization, utility computing, grid computing, and service oriented architectures, cloud computing and communications has already changed the way we compute and communicate. To cope with technology challenges for the support of diverse services and applications, the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), Latin America Region, with the support of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, supported the 2013 IEEE Latin America Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications (LatinCloud 2013). The conference has the goal of establishing a scientific forum for the discussion of the rather relevant topic of cloud computing and its critically associated aspects of communications in the Latin American context.