--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Rajkumar Buyya received "Outstanding Achievement Award" from the 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WorldComp 2010) held in Las Vegas, USA. The award citation reads: "Presented to Professor Rajkumar Buyya In Recognition of His Leadership and Outstanding Research Contributions to the Field of Cloud Computing". Professor Buyya is working as Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft Pty Ltd., an Australian start-up company producing innovative solutions for Cloud computing. IT technologies developed under his leadership are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. As recipient of this Outstanding Achievement Award, Professor Buyya has presented a plenary keynote talk on "Cloud Computing: The Next Revolution in Information Technology" at the WorldComp 2010 Congress on July 12, 2010. Snap at: http://www.cloudbus.org/~raj/awards/worldcomp2010-award.jpg --------------------------------------------------------------------------