The 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech 2017) will be held from October 24th to October 26th, 2016, in Rabat. After the success of the previous editions (CloudTech’15) and (CloudTech’16), we are very glad to announce the CloudTech’17 in its Third version. The CloudTech’17 will be organized by National College of IT (ENSIAS, Mohamed V University) in partnership with the Moroccan Association of Cloud Computing and the University of Mons (Belguim) during October 24-26, 2017 in Rabat-Morocco. Cloud computing has recently gained great attention from both academia and IT industry as a new infrastructure requiring smaller investments in hardware platform, staff training, or licensing new software tools.

Cloud computing can be seen as any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, extends the Internet existing capabilities. CloudTech 2017 is expected to attract more than 200 of industry professionals, scientists, and academics from all over the world. CloudTech’17 will address topics related to cloud technologies; architecture and applications including distributed computing and data centers, cloud infrastructure and its security, end-user services, Big data and its applications.

The conference will provide a high-level, international forum for scientists, researchers, professionals and students who will have the opportunity to present state-of-the-art research results, address new challenges, and discuss trends in Cloud Technology and Big data.