The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing in Emerging Markets (CCEM) continues the highly successful CCEM conference series, since its launch in 2012. Cloud computing has emerged as a dominant and transformational paradigm in IT over the last few years, already sowing effects in a multitude of industries such as government, finance, telecommunications, education, retail, energy & utilities and transportation. Research in this field has become very active and spans a number of areas including virtualization, networking, storage, security, management of cloud services, cloud architectures, massive multi-tenancy and design of cloud applications and services. Cloud computing continues to be the way of the future. This transformation has great implications for emerging markets which have the potential to leap frog mature-markets in their adoption of Hybrid cloud computing, while presenting unique challenges to security and user interfaces to cloud computing.