Cloud computing is a new trend that leverages the wide reach of the Internet, rapidly falling hardware prices, and service computing to promise orders of magnitude in computing efficiencies and cost savings. Virtualization and scalability are touted to be the main features of future cloud infrastructures. There is already an increasing number of cloud vendors including, IBM, Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, Salesforce, etc, already selling different types of cloud infrastructure. Many of the product providers sell cloud infrastructures as services, such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). While many believe the cloud paradigm is the next “silver bullet” for computing, there are also skeptics who believe that this is just a rehash of other older but much more grounded technologies, such as utility computing, grid computing, and autonomic computing.
It is undeniable that cloud computing has a somewhat different reach than similar technologies because it encompasses all aspects of computing, including storage, infrastructures, platforms, middleware, applications, etc. The synergy it forms with service computing is also unique in that clouds are exposed and accessed as cloud services that would be treated in a homogeneous fashion.

This panel will discuss the different challenges facing the wide deployment of cloud infrastructures. In particular, the panel will discuss issues that include:

• Personal cloud vs. enterprise clouds
• Cloud Quality of service
• Cloud governance
• Cloud privacy/security
• Cloud management
• Cloud accounting and micro-billing
• Private-Public cloud Interoperability

Athman Bouguettaya is a Science Leader in Service Computing at CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra. He was previously a tenured faculty member in the Computer Science department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (commonly known as Virginia Tech) (USA). He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) in 1992. He is on the editorial boards of several journals including, the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, International Journal on Web Services Research, VLDB Journal, Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal, and the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. He was a guest editor of a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Internet technology Semantic Web services, a special issue the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing on Service Query Models, and a special issue of IEEE Internet Computing on Database Technology on the Web. He served as a Program chair of the 2009 Australasian Database Conference, 2008 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) and the IEEE RIDE Workshop on Web Services for E-Commerce and E-Government (RIDE-WS-ECEG'04). He served on numerous program committees of database and service-oriented computing conferences. His current research interests are in Service-Oriented Computing. He is the author of more than 130 publications. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and ACM.

C. Joseph Lee is Distinguished Member of Technical Staff of Emerging Smart Technology Institute (ESTI), which belongs to Institute for Information Industry (III).
Dr. C. Joseph Lee was National Technology Officer of Microsoft (China) Co., Ltd.
Dr. Lee received his BSEE degree from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan(1971), his MSEE degree from State University of New York(1972), and his PHD degree from Iowa State University(1977). Dr Lee joined Microsoft in 11-2004.He has near 30 years of professional experience, all in the ICT domain. During the early stage of his career, he has worked for Owens-Corning Fiberglas(1978-1981), and Exxon(later on became Exxon Mobil, 1981-1984). Later on he joined AT&T(later on became Lucent Technologies) Bell Labs where he spent 18 years. His last position at Lucent was Managing Director of Optical Fiber Systems, Asia Pacific/China Region. Later on he became GM of New Focus Inc.’s Shenzhen factory(2001-2002), and Director of Hong Kong’s Applied Science and Technology Research Institute(ASTRI)2002-2004, leading its effort on fiber optical communication.
Dr. Lee is an expert on optical communications, communication network management systems, and optical device packaging and assembly.

Julien Masanès is Director of the European Archive, a non-profit foundation for web preservation and digital cultural access. Before this he directed the Web Archiving Project at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France since 2000. He also actively participated in the creation of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), which he has coordinated during the first two years. He contributes in various national and international initiatives and provides advices for the European Commission as an expert in the domain of digital preservation and web archiving. He has also launched and presently chairs the International Web Archiving Workshop (IWAW) series, the main international rendezvous in this field.