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The following topics are dealt with: network telemetry anonymization; cloud based security analysis; PriDynSim; dynamic priority based I-O scheduling; Hadoop framework; microblogging behavior; Twitter; Facebook; load balancing; cloud computing; hybrid scheduling algorithm; HDFS interface; MapReduce interface; heterogeneous data-flows; energy efficient data center; data mining; multivariant text classification; user security requirement architectural framework; USRAF; high availability cluster failover mechanism; artificial neural networks; open data; IoT devices; advanced key management capabilities; Python based cloud simulator; port scan detection; encrypted data; Ceph; distributed file system benchmarks; Openstack cloud; cloud supervised device health management; quality of services; cloud adoptability; trust adoptability; cloud service optimization method; multicloud brokering; public-private clouds; HPC applications; cloud-based decentralized storage; Internet of Things data; SMAC; scalable access control; and in-memory database optimization.