This session at the Cloud Futures 2012 includes the following presentations:

• Vision Paper: Towards an Understanding of the Limits of Map-Reduce Computation-Semih Salihogluz, Stanford University
• Twister4Azure: Parallel Data Analytics on Azure-Judy Qiu, Indiana University
• CumuloNimbo: Parallel-Distributed Transactional Processing-Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid