Invitation to a Journey in the ERA of Cloud Computing / Dana Petcu -- Part I: Cloud Services -- 1. Open Computing Infrastructures for Elastic Services: Contrail Cloud Federation / Piyush Harsh, Yvon Jégou, Roberto G. Cascella and Christine Morin -- 2. Towards Autonomic Transactional Replication for Cloud Environments / Maria Couceiro, Paolo Romano and Luís Rodrigues -- 3. Data-intensive Storage Services on Clouds: Limitations, Challenges and Enablers / Elliot K. Kolodner, Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, Dalit Naor, Per Brand, Michel Dao, Albert Eckert, Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Danny Harnik, Michael C. Jaeger, Dimosthenis P. Kyriazis, Mirko Lorenz, Alberto Messina, Aidan Shribman, Sivan Tal, Athanasios S. Voulodimos and Yaron Wolfsthal -- 4. Migrating Legacy Applications to the Service Cloud Paradigm: The REMICS Project / Parastoo Mohagheghi, Franck Barbier, Arne J. Berre, Brice Morin, Andrey Sadovykh, Thor Sæther, Alexis Henry, Antonin Abhervé, Tom Ritter, Christian Hein and Michał Śmiałek -- Part II: Cloud Management -- 5. Towards Holistic Cloud Management / Johan Tordsson, Karim Djemame, Daniel Espling, Gregory Katsaros, Wolfgang Ziegler, Oliver Wäldrich, Kleopatra Konstanteli, Ali Sajjad, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Georgina Gallizo and Srijith Nair -- 6. TClouds: Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructures / Alysson Bessani, Imad M. Abbadi, Sven Bugiel, Emanuele Cesena, Mina Deng, Michael Gröne, Ninja Marnau, Stefan Nürnberger, Marcelo Pasin and Norbert Schirmer -- Part III: Cloud Automation -- 7. Agent Based Services for Negotiation, Monitoring and Reconfiguration of Cloud Resources / Salvatore Venticinque -- 8. Design for Self-adaptation in Service-oriented Systems in the Cloud / Antonio Bucchiarone, Cinzia Cappiello, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Sergei Gorlatch, Dominique Meiländer and Andreas Metzger -- 9. Service Level Management and Service Delivery Management: Challenges in Federated e-Infrastructures / Matti Heikkurinen and Owen Appleton -- Part IV: Cloud Adoption -- 10. StratusLab Cloud Distribution / Charles Loomis, Mohammed Airaj, Marc-Elian Bégin, Evangelos Floros, Stuart Kenny and David O'Callaghan -- 11. Business Application Governance and SLA Management in PaaS Context / Francesco D'Andria, Ilknur Chulani and Philipp Strube -- 12. Reducing Time to Market with the Platform as a Service Cloud of the Future / José Luis Vázquez-Poletti, Eduardo Oliveros, Rafael Moreno-Vozmediano, Ignacio M. Llorente, Sebastian Ortega, Miguel Jimenez, Javier Soriano and Andreas Menychtas.