Madhavi Latha is a 3rd year B. Tech student at GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam. Her paper explores the basics of cloud computing, including its key advantages of ease-of-use and cost-effectiveness. Cloud computing delivers hosted services like compute power and storage over the internet through virtualized and abstracted hardware and software. It provides on-demand, scalable resources through programmatic interfaces that are billed variably based on usage. Clouds can be private, for a limited number of users on a private network, or public, selling services to anyone on the internet.

1. Name: DASARI MADHAVI LATHA
Year: 3rd
B. Tech
College: GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam.

2. CLOUD COMPUTING
Abstract:
Cloud Computing is a versatile technology that can support a broad-spectrum of
applications. The two key advantages of this model are ease-of-use and cost-effectiveness.
Though there remain questions on aspects such as security and vendor lock-in, this model offers
many benefits. Cloud computing – a relatively recent term, builds on decades of research in
virtualization, distributed computing, utility computing, and more recently networking, web and
software services. Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted
services over the Internet.
Cloud Computing is a virtualized compute power and storage delivered via platform-
agnostic infrastructures of abstracted hardware and software accessed over the Internet. These
shared on-demand IT resources which are created and disposed efficiently. These are
dynamically scalable through a variety of programmatic interfaces and are billed variably based
on measurable usage. This paper explores some of the basics of cloud computing with the aim of
introducing aspects such as Characteristics and Usage of the model. This paper aims to provide a
means of understanding the model and exploring options available for complementing your
technology and infrastructure needs. A cloud can be private or public. A public cloud sells
services to anyone on the Internet. A private cloud is a proprietary network or a data center that
supplies hosted services to a limited number of people.