This document discusses cloud computing, including its definition, key features, service layers, deployment models, and challenges. It defines cloud computing as dynamically scalable and virtualized resources provided over the internet. The main service layers are software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The document also discusses private, public, and hybrid cloud deployment models and features like scalability, quality of service, and pricing models. Finally, it outlines challenges around performance, security, control, bandwidth costs, and reliability.

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Cloud Computing
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Cloud Computing
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Abstract
“Cloud” is a collective term for many
developments and possibilities. It is not an
invention, but more of a “practical
innovation”, combining several earlier
inventions into something new and
compelling. Much like the iPod is comprised
of several existing concepts and technologies
(the Walkman, MP3 compression and a
portable hard disk), cloud computing merges
several already available technologies: high
bandwidth networks, virtualization, Web 2.0
interactivity, time sharing, and browser
interfaces. Cloud Computing is a popular
phrase that is shorthand for applications that
were developed to be rich Internet
applications that run on the Internet (or
“Cloud”). Cloud computing enables tasks to
be assigned to a combination of software and
services over a network. This network of
servers is the cloud. Cloud computing can
help businesses transform their existing
server infrastructures into dynamic
environments, expanding and reducing server
capacity depending on their requirements. A
cloud computing platform dynamically
provisions, configures, reconfigures, and
deprovisions servers as needed. Servers in the
cloud can be physical machines or virtual
machines. Advanced clouds typically include
other computing resources such as storage
area networks (SANs), network equipment,
firewall and other security devices.
1. Introduction
Cloud computing can be defined as a new
style of computing in which dynamically
scalable and often virtualized resources are
provided as a service over the Internet. Cloud
computing has become a significant
technology emerging trend, and many
experts, researchers and academicians expect
that cloud computing will reshape
information technology (IT) sector and the IT
marketplace in world. With the cloud
computing technology, users use a wide
variety of devices, including PCs, Laptops,
Smart Phones, and PDAs to access different
kinds of utility programs, storage, and
application development platforms over the
Internet, via services offered by cloud
computing providers. An advantage of the
cloud computing technology includes cost
savings, high availability, and easy
scalability. The below figure.1 adapted from
shows six phases of computing paradigms,
from dummy terminals /mainframes, to PCs,
Networking Computing, Internet Computing
to Grid and Cloud Computing.

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1.1 Service Layers of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing can be viewed as a
collection of services, which can be
represented as a layered cloud computing
architecture:
Figure-2
 Software as a Service (SaaS) - It is a
model of software deployment
whereby the provider licenses an
application to the customers for use as
a service on demand. The capability
provided to the End users is to use the
provider’s applications running on a
cloud infrastructure. The applications
are accessible from various client
devices through a thin client interface
such as a web browser (e.g., web
enabled e-mail). The end users do not
manage or control the underlying
cloud infrastructure including
network, servers, operating systems,
storage, or even individual
application capabilities, with the
possible exception of limited user
specific application configuration
settings. Today SaaS is offered by
companies such as Google,
Salesforce, Microsoft, Zoho, etc.
 Platform as a Service (PaaS) - It is
the delivery of computing platform
and solution stack as a service. The
capability provided to the end users is
to deploy onto the cloud
infrastructure user created or acquired
applications created using
programming languages and tools
supported by the provider. The end
user does not manage or control the
underlying cloud infrastructure
including network, servers, operating
systems, or storage. PaaS providers
offer a predefined combination of OS
and application servers, such as
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MySQL and PHP), LAMP platform
(Linux, Apache, MySql and
PHP), and XAMPP (X-cross
platform) limited to J2EE, and Ruby
etc. Google App Engine,
Salesforce.com, etc. are some of the
popular PaaS examples.
 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - It
is the delivery of computer
infrastructure (typically a platform
virtualization environment) as a
service. The capability provided to
the end users is to provision
processing, storage, networks, and
other fundamental computing
resources where the end user can
deploy and run arbitrary software,
which can include operating systems
and applications. The user does not
manage or control the underlying
cloud infrastructure, but it has control
over operating systems, storage,
deployed applications, and possibly
limited control of select networking
components. Some of the common
examples are Amazon, GoGrid, 3tera,
etc.
 Monitoring-as-a-Service (MaaS) – It
is the outsourced provisioning of
security, primarily on business
platforms that leverages the Internet
to conduct business. MaaS has
become increasingly popular over the
last decade. Since the advent of cloud
computing, its popularity has grown
even more. Security monitoring
involves protecting an enterprise or
government client from cyber threats.
A security team plays a crucial role in
securing and maintaining the
confidentiality, integrity, and
availability of IT assets. The major
functionality of MaaS is to monitor
the working of all the three layers
SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
1.2 Types of Cloud Computing
Deployment Models:
There are three types of cloud computing
deployment models are: (a) Private Cloud (b)
Public Cloud and (c) Hybrid Cloud as shown
in Fig. 3.
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a. Private Cloud (or Internal Cloud) – It
refers to cloud computing on private
networks. Private clouds are built for the
exclusive use of one client, providing full
control over data, security, and quality of
service. Private clouds can be built and
managed by a company’s own IT
organization or by a cloud provider.
b. Public Cloud (or External Cloud) – In
this model, computing resources are
dynamically provisioned over the Internet via
Web applications or Web services from an
off-site third-party provider. Public clouds
are run by third parties, and applications from
different customers are likely to be mixed
together on the cloud’s servers, storage
systems, and networks.
c. Hybrid Cloud (or Mixed Cloud) – This
environment intersects and combines
multiple public and private cloud models.
Hybrid clouds introduce the complexity of
determining how to distribute applications
across both a public and private cloud.
1.3 Cloud Computing Features
Cloud computing brings an array of new
features compared to any other computing
paradigms. There are briefly described in this
section.
• Scalability and On-Demand Services -
Cloud computing provides resources and
services for users on demand. The resources
are scalable over several data centers.
• Quality of Service (QoS) - Cloud
computing can guarantee QoS for users in
terms of hardware or CPU performance,
bandwidth, and memory capacity.
• User-Centric Interface - Cloud interfaces
are location independent and they can be
accessed by well-established interfaces such
as Web services and Web browsers.
• Autonomous System - Cloud computing
systems are autonomous systems managed
transparently to users. However, software
and data inside clouds can be automatically
reconfigured and consolidated to a simple
platform depending on user’s needs.
• Pricing - Cloud computing does not require
upfront investment. No capital expenditure is
required. Users may pay and use or pay for
services and capacity as they need them.
1.4 Cloud Computing Challenges
The new paradigm of cloud computing
provides an array of benefits and advantages
over the previous computing paradigms and
many organizations are migrating and
adopting it. However, there are still several
challenges, which are currently addressed by
researchers, academicians and practitioners
in the field.
a. Performance
The major issue in performance can
be for some intensive transaction-
oriented and other data intensive
applications, in which cloud
computing may lack adequate
performance. Also, users who are at a
long distance from cloud providers
may experience high latency and
delays.
b. Security and Privacy
Companies are still concerned about
security when using cloud computing.
Users are worried about the
vulnerability to attacks, when
information and critical IT resources
are outside the firewall.
c. Control
A quantity of IT wings or
departments are concerned because
cloud computing providers have a full
control of the platforms. Cloud
computing providers typically do not
design platforms for specific
companies and their business
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d. Bandwidth Costs
Cloud computing, companies can
save money on hardware and
software; however, they could incur
higher network bandwidth charges.
Bandwidth cost may be low for
smaller Internet-based applications,
which are not data intensive, but
could significantly grow for data-
intensive applications.
e. Reliability
Cloud computing still does not
always offer round the clock
reliability. There were cases where
cloud computing services suffered
few hours’ outages. In the present and
future days to expect more cloud
computing providers, richer services,
established standards and best
practices.
Conclusion
Cloud computing is recently new
technological development that has the
potential to have a great impact on the world.
It has many benefits that it provides to it users
and businesses. For example, some of the
benefits that it provides to businesses, is that
it reduces operating cost by spending less on
maintenance and software upgrades and
focus more on the businesses itself. But there
are other challenges the cloud computing
must overcome. People are very skeptical
about whether their data is secure and private.
There are no standards or regulations
worldwide provided data through cloud
computing. Europe has data protection laws
but the US, being one of the most
technological advance nation, does not have
any data protection laws. Users also worry
about who can disclose their data and have
ownership of their data. But once, there are
standards and regulation worldwide, cloud
computing will revolutionize the future.
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