Summary of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS workshop on large-scale distributed systems and middleware (LADIS 2009)

The 3rd ACM/SIGOPS workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS’09) was held on October 10-11, 2009, in conjunction with the 22nd Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP) in Big Sky, Montana. The workshop was dedicated to hot topics in cloud computing. It lasted for one and a half days and featured keynote talks by industry leaders, peer-reviewed position papers from both academia and industry, and late-night break-out sessions fostering further discussion of important topics. LADIS’09 provided a forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge ideas, and touched upon topics as diverse as distributed computing infrastructure, programming models, data storage, and security and privacy. This report summarizes key themes and conclusions from the workshop.