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Abstract
Cloud computing is no longer just hype. It's quickly evolving and gradually realizing its business value, as the articles in this special issue show. It's now attracting more and more researchers and practitioners, who are creating innovations around its core enabling technologies and architectural building blocks. © 2006 IEEE.