At MICAS 2015 (Cluster-IaaS meeting), an open forum for discussions about the state-of-the-art, the recent achievements and the future in breaking the barriers of Cloud adoption on large scale, barriers that are related to vendor lock-in, lack of common interfaces and standards and so on, SWITCH partners disseminated and outlined time critical applications in Cloud, the SWITCH approach, use cases, current status and a summary of the project.

During the first session, Zhimming Zhao spoke about developing and operating time critical applications in Clouds: state of the art and the SWITCH approach.