Dependability issues in cloud computing: extended papers from the 1st international workshop on dependability issues in cloud computing -- DISCCO

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a popular paradigm for deploying, managing and delivering a variety of services using a shared infrastructure [1]. The services offered through clouds range from simple data storage to endto-end management of business processes. Many companies and even governments are adopting the cloud as a solution to reduce costs and improve the quality of service. The present issue of the Operating Systems Review is dedicated to the dependability – reliability, fault tolerance, availability, security – of cloud computing. The issue contains extended papers from the First International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Cloud Computing (DISCCO), held at Irvine, California, USA, on October 2012, in conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems. Three papers were selected among the seven presented based on the timeliness of their subject and the comments and scores of the reviewers.