Abstract:
The Ninth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (CLOUD COMPUTING 2018), held between February 18 - 22, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain, continued a series of events targeted to prospect the applications supported by the new paradigm and validate the techniques and the mechanisms. A complementary target was to identify the open issues and the challenges to fix them, especially on security, privacy, and inter- and intra-clouds protocols. Cloud computing is a normal evolution of distributed computing combined with Service- oriented architecture, leveraging most of the GRID features and Virtualization merits. The technology foundations for cloud computing led to a new approach of reusing what was achieved in GRID computing with support from virtualization. The conference had the following tracks: Cloud computing Computing in virtualization-based environments Platforms, infrastructures and applications Challenging features Similar to the previous edition, this event attracted excellent contributions and active participation from all over the world. We were very pleased to receive top quality contributions.