ICSE Cloud 09: First international workshop on software engineering challenges for Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing has emerged as a new paradigm for deploying, managing and offering services through a shared infrastructure. The projected benefits of cloud computing are very compelling both from a cloud consumer as well as a cloud services provider perspective: ease of deployment of services; low capital expenses and constant operational expenses leading to variable pricing schemes and reduced opportunity costs; leveraging the economies of scale for both services providers and users of the cloud. However, the actual realization of these perceived benefits are far from being well-achieved and pose a broad range of interesting questions.