HPI FSOC Lab Cloud Symposium http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/forschung/future_soc_lab/hpi_cloud_symposium.html took place in Sep 2013 in Hasso Platner Institut campus in Potsdam. This is an event which provided an insight into a number of critical research areas on the topic of Cloud Computing and Cloud operations. The HANA Cloud Platform talk emphasized on the importance of extending existing on-premise business systems with additional scenarios and expanding the access to the data stored in them. It showcased as well the Web Shop example open sourced at https://sap.github.io