NETWORK MANAGEMENT

Impact of Cloud Computing in Network Management

Impact of Cloud Computing in Network Management

Introduction

Cloud Computing is the culture of outsourcing some part of company's technology to a common 3rd party setting [1]. The terminology is new, but the concept is not fresh. In the past, matching contributions were known as Application server provider. Internet is commonly known as the cloud & the terminology Cloud Computing take place from this correlation.

This paper aims at discussing the concept of Cloud Computing, which is a dynamic and active provisioning of Information Technology potentials like software, hardware and services from 3rd parties on a network.

Network Management

Network management is the strategic activity meant to influence the interaction of the nodes (actors) [4]. The purposes of the interactions may include achieving the goals of the individual actors (and their 'home' organizations) while simultaneously achieving network level results. From the perspective of this “managerial list”, accepting a minimal set of guidelines and rules, offering coordinative tools, and functioning within an outlined governance system can enhance the opportunities of success. This helpful, management-oriented view of collaborative networks is the principal theme in the discussions of network efficiency and effectiveness [2].

Cloud Computing

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 [3]. 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 [3]. 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.

The Impact of Cloud Computing in Network Management

The goal achievement perspective of network management may have reduced credence with network processes because objectives are autonomous with no central, authoritative coordinating actor. Network results must be considered by the 'ex-post satisfying' standard on the basis of the subjective judgment of network actors. It is both the 'significance and meaning of relationships and practices' that constitute the most desired effectiveness assessments [4].

Thus, network management also includes activities that enhance the intrinsic value of the process. The process of facilitated network interaction itself has some intrinsic value to the people who participate in networks. The interactions and negotiations, which constitute collaborative processes, can socialize the actors to a new language that might be drawn on more successfully in future network involvement [5].

The immense pro of cloud computing in network management is suppleness and elasticity, the ability to put in aptitude or functions almost at a flash ...