The International DMTF Academic Alliance Workshop on Datacenter and Cloud Management (DCM 2015)

Barcelona, Spain
Nov 9, 2015

The DMTF announces the eighth workshop for academic research on the management of platforms, systems and datacenters, covering standards and new technologies. The Datacenter and Cloud Management 2015 workshop (DCM 2015) is hosted to showcase the DMTF's alliances with the academic community.

Important date

Paper Submission: July 19, 2015 (Extended - hard deadline)
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2015
Camera Ready Papers to Easy Chair: September 20, 2015
Camera Ready Papers for proceedings: September 20, 2015
Workshop: November 9, 2015

Publication

Submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the technical program committee members and the reviewers they invite. After the notification the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore proceedings.

Topic

Submittals are encouraged from on-going research, completed research, and implementation experiences in the following areas and covering use cases, solution architecture and interfaces:

Cloud

Management of Compute and Storage Clouds
Managing service catalogs and selecting service templates
Managing SaaS, IaaS and PaaS
Orchestrating the cloud
Open source management (e.g. OpenStack)

Datacenter

Software Defined Networking, Storage and Compute
Software Defined Datacenter
NFV – network function virtualization
System virtualization
Managing network services and fabric topologies
Managing the datacenter facility

System Management

Managing compute, storage and network platforms
Managing desktop platforms and mobile devices
Managing the Internet of Things (IoT)
Telemetry, control and autonomics for management
Fault management and diagnostics

Protocols and Models

Managing with RESTful protocols
Managing with web-service protocols
Information models
Download a .pdf version of our Call for Papers