Cloud computing delivers the ability to provision resources on demand to your users. Cloud computing is enabling a major transformation in which you can turn your datacenter into an IT-as-a-Service platform. This means you can deliver applications to your end users faster than ever, without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing also helps your organization compete in new markets and communicate with customers in new ways. You can drive down the costs of doing business and increase your ability to adapt to changing market conditions. Because cloud computing changes the way your organization consumes IT, you can change the role of IT in your organization and the way your team thinks about and delivers business success. Whether in your datacenter, with a service provider, or from Microsoft’s datacenters, Microsoft provides the choice, flexibility, and control to adopt cloud computing in whichever way best meets your unique business needs; whether that be through a private cloud, a public cloud, or a combination of the two.

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2. CONTENTSCONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 DEFINITION
 HISTORY
 COMPONENTS
 HOW CLOUD COMPUTING WORKS?
 ROLE OF CLOUD COMPUTING
 APPLICATIONS
 ADVANTAGES
 DISADVANTAGES
 REFERENCES

3. INTRODUCTION

4. DEFINITIONDEFINITION
Cloud Computing
can be defined as
“cloud” of web
servers as the data
and applications exist
on the cloud.

5. HISTORYHISTORY
The concept dates back to1960.
The cloud came under commercial use in
early 1990’s.
The concept started to appear by the turn
of the 21’st century.
Increased activity was seen in 2007 with
Google,IBM etc..
It was a hot topic in IT’s world by mid
2008.

6. ComponentsComponents
Application
Client
Infrastructure
Platform
Service
Storage

8. ROLE OF CLOUDROLE OF CLOUD
COMPUTINGCOMPUTING
PROVIDER
USER

9. APPLICATIONSAPPLICATIONS•Peer to Peer.
•Web Applications.
•Software As A Service.
•Software Plus Services.
•Web 2.0

10. ADVANTAGESADVANTAGES
Device and location independence.
Multi Tenancy.
Peak Load capacity increases.
Utilization and Efficiency improves.
Capabilities like remote access, cost
saving, easy of availability and real time
collaboration.

11. DISADVANTAGESDISADVANTAGES
Customization is nearly impossible.
Scalability problem with sequential
processing.
Data Privacy issues due to common
resources.