Cloud Computing As An Emerging Paradigm

Abstract

The emergence of cloud computing provides many opportunities for academia, the information technology (IT) industry and the global economy as an information technology revolution. Compared to other distributed computing paradigms such as Grid computing and High Performance Computing (HPC), cloud computing provides broader inter operability over the world-wide web networks. As IT industry leaders such as Google, IBM and Amazon are striving to promote this innovative computing paradigm, it is reasonable to expect that cloud computing will bring profound changes to every aspect of the IT industry and to various sectors of the economy. Cloud computing is the most talked about IT service these days. Each and every person is talking about this new concept 'cloud computing.' Cloud computing is a concept that is used in IT outsourcing. Outsourcing is also a new concept which uses cloud computing.

It is an emerging paradigm, which promises to make the utility computing model comprehensively implemented by using virtualization technologies. An increasing number of enterprises have started providing and using Cloud enabled infrastructures and services. However, the advancement of cloud computing poses several new challenges to existing methods and approaches to develop and evolve software intensive systems. This paper reports holistically explains what Cloud computing is all about.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Technology, Internet, Information Technology, Optimization, Software as a Service.

Table of Contents

Introduction5

Aims and Objectives5

Materials and Methods6

Literature Review6

Result7

Discussion and Analysis8

History of Cloud Computing9

Working10

Cloud Types10

The Enterprise Impact of Cloud Computing11

Pricing Transparency11

Departmental Decisions11

Data breaches12

Characteristics of Cloud Computing14

Disadvantage of Cloud Computing15

Privacy and data security15

Performance stabilities16

Inflexibility to switch16

Network speed16

Data lock-in17

Conclusion17

Cloud Computing As An Emerging Paradigm

Introduction

Cloud computing is Web-based processing, in which distributed assets, programs, and information are supplied to computers and other devices (such as smart phones) on demand through the Internet. Cloud computing is a natural development of the prevailing adoption of virtualization, Service-oriented structures and utility computing. Details are abstracted from buyers, who no longer have required for know-how in, or command over, the expertise infrastructure in the cloud that carries them. The period cloud is utilized as a metaphor for the Internet, founded on the cloud drawing utilized to comprise the phone network in the past, and subsequent to depict the Internet in computer mesh design drawings as an abstraction of the inherent infrastructure it represents. Typical cloud computing providers consign widespread enterprise submissions online that are accessed from another Web service or programs like a Web browser, while the programs and facts and numbers are retained on servers.

Aims and Objectives

To determine how IT management strategies is adjusted to remain competitive.

To determine how computing utilities impacts the ability of incumbent companies to compete.

To determine how cloud computing can create a competitive advantage in certain circumstances.

To determine the advent of Cloud computing.

To determine how Cloud Computing plays a vital role in the transformation of Information Technology and business.

Materials and Methods

The research starts with the orientation on the area of cloud computing, what is cloud computing about and which security issues are in dire need of investigation. By consulting websites of current cloud service offerings, ...