Welcome to the

New World of

Cloud Computing

By ,Simreen Woolridge

What is cloud? Where is the cloud? Are we in the cloud

now?

What is cloud computing?Cloud Computing means storing and accessing data and programs over

the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive with an online connection, cloud computing can be done anywhere, anytime.

How are we using the cloud?

Essential characteristics

Cloud architecture-service models

E.g. Infrastructure service platform storage

Current LeadersKey Players in Cloud Computing Platforms

Company Cloud Computing Platform

Year of Launch

Key Offering

Amazon.com AWS (Amazon Web Services)

2006 Infrastructure as a service (Storage Computing), Datasets and Content Distribution

Microsoft Azure 2009 Application platform as a service (.Net, SQL data services )

Google Google App. Engine 2008 Web Application Platform as Service

IBM Salesforce.com

Blue Cloud Force.com 2008 Proprietary 4GL Web application as an demand platform

Cloud Storage ComparisonStorage Service Comparison on a Annual Basis

Service Provider Free First Payment tier Second Payment tier

Amazon 5GB 20GB ($10) 50GB ($25)

Apple iCloud 5GB 25GB ($40) 50GB ($100)

Box 5GB 25GB ($120) 50GB ($240)

Drop box 2GB 100GB ($100) 200GB ($200)

Google Drive 5GB 25GB ($30) 100GB ($60)

Microsoft SkyDrive 7GB 27GB ($10) 57GB ($25)

Mega 50GB 400GB ($120) 2TB ($240)

Google cloud platform

Deployment models

Advantages and disadvantages

Present status

The growth of cloud computing

Conclusion

It is clear that although the use of cloud computing , has rapidly increased , cloud computing security is still considered the major issue in the cloud computing environment. Customers do not want to lose their

private information as a result of malicious insiders in the cloud. In addition ,the loss of service availability

has caused many problems for a large number of customers recently.

Continued…

Cloud Computing is in a period of strong growth, but this technology is still has some issues of security and somewhat it is immature. Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA) research showed that the most common concern about implementing Cloud Computing technology was security.

The real value of cloud computing is that it makes your library related software and data available transparently and everywhere including in latest available smart phone devices.

We are all aware, country like India faced problems like digital divide and off course very low internet bandwidth. So, benefit of new technology can be reached to limited area of educational area.

But definitely, over a period of time Cloud Computing will become the most promising technology in next few years.

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