This document contains abstracts from two papers that were presented at the International Conference on Systems, Science, Control, Communication, Engineering and Technology in 2017. The first paper proposes an algorithm for hiding digital text in a color image using an FPGA that applies a hash function with a 32-bit secret key to encrypt the text before embedding it. The second paper discusses using virtualization in cloud computing to improve the elasticity of resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and clients. It provides an overview of open source virtualization techniques and challenges in cloud computing.