The two-day International Symposium on ‘Cloud Computing and Data Analytics,’ organised by the Computer Science Division of National Institute of Engineering (NIE) in association with Computer Society of India (CSI) Bengaluru and Mysuru Chapters was inaugurated at its premises by Dr. Anirban Basu, President of CSI recently.

Addressing the gathering, Dr. Basu highlighted that Cloud Computing is an extremely important and emerging field because of it cost effectiveness, performance and high availability.

He said that the Indian Government was encouraging the application of Cloud Computing in day-to-day life and projecting the Cyber Physical Systems. He stressed that the ideas that come out of this gathering must become a reality.

Dr. B.G. Sangameshwara, Vice-Chancellor of JSS S&T University, who spoke as the guest of honour, said that typical problems faced by educational institutions include insufficient infrastructure, lack of teachers and small classrooms etc., which can be solved by application of Cloud Computing and it will play a prominent role in classrooms of tomorrow.

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya, Director of CLOUDS Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, who delivered the keynote address, said that Cloud Computing is the next revolution in IT and added that domestic market was growing at a faster pace and provides enormous opportunities to software professionals.

Stating that Cloud Computing should become the utility, he said that enormous amount of data is being generated and the world was totally data driven. It is advantageous to move from classical computing to Cloud Computing, he added.

The proceedings of the symposium and Computer Science Department newsletter were released on the occasion.