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Welcome to the inaugural ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing. This symposium is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). Both these communities share a common interest in the rapidly developing field of Cloud Computing, i.e., large scale distributed systems that can manage massive volumes of data and yet deliver reliable and efficient service. Although traditionally these two communities have had close interactions on various topics, to the best of our knowledge this is the first time that they are co-sponsoring a symposium with active participation and shared responsibilities from both the communities. This year, SOCC is being held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD, the flagship conference of the database community. Next year, SOCC will be held in conjunction with ACM SOSP, the premier conference for operating systems. The goal for such co-location is to facilitate more effective networking across the two communities. The conferences of both the systems and database communities have always encouraged participation of both academic researchers and industrial participants, and SOCC is no exception. In our Call for Papers, we sought not only full-length research papers, but also position papers and industrial papers. We had a strong response to our call and were pleasantly surprised to get 119 submissions. Each paper was reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Given the limited duration of the symposium we were able to accept only 23 papers (18 research papers, 4 position papers, and 1 industrial paper) for presentation at this symposium. Thus, the acceptance ratio was slightly below 20%. Our technical program also consists of three distinguished speakers from the industry to provide us with insights from their experience in the field, to ground and inspire our thinking on future directions.