Dear OGF working groups and community groups, Please see the following request for papers for a special issue of IEEE Cloud Computing on the topic of "Reengineering Cloud Data Centers” . Josef Spillner of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and I are co-editing this issue. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Robust engineering of data center equipment for automated operations • Cloud software stacks, platforms and support infrastructures • Support for critical, failure-intolerant applications such as emergency management • Data center automation, analytics, and control • Internal security for multi-tenant operations • Secure remote control and communication infrastructures • Container and virtualization technologies • Distributed multi-data-center operations • Power systems and close control for energy-efficient operations • Management of workflows to achieve energy savings • Remote management and data center monitoring systems • Autonomic systems for error detection, correction, and failover • Engineering data center equipment for wider tolerance in environmental operating conditions • Extremely large, and extremely small data centers, edge computing topologies • Methods to improve and generalize control of data center equipment • Standards and protocols for data center operations • Hardware and software optimization • Regulation and international standards • Educating the workforce in data center design and operation principles Submission Deadline: 3 March 2018 Publication Date: November/December 2018 Link: http://publications.computer.org/cloud-computing/2017/12/09/reengineering-cl... Please distribute this announcement to your colleagues and others who might be interested in submitting articles to be reviewed for this issue. Thanks, Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Director, High Performance Computing Center Co-Director, NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing Adjunct Professor of Physics, Texas Tech University President, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 159, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill@ttu.edumailto:Alan.Sill@ttu.edu ph. 806-834-5940 fax 806-834-4358 : ====================================================================