Sameh Elnikety chairs this session of Cloud Futures Workshop 2011.

• Expanding the Horizons of Cloud Computing Beyond the Data Center—Jon Weissman & Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota
• URSA: Scalable Load Balancing and Power Management in Cluster Storage Systems—Seung-won Hwang, Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)
• Achieving Energy Efficient Computing by Jointly Scheduling Services & Batch Jobs in Virtualized Environments—Tajana Simunic Rosing, University of California–San Diego