What is cloud computing?

Literature Review:
Cloud computing is a new term,
which is defined now after dozens of
years of the research in different
concepts of computing such as
software and web services, utilized
and distributed computing which
includes virtualization and networking
concepts. In cloud computing we get a
number of advantages which are
impossible to get in the old
technologies such as by using cloud
computing the end-users information
overhead is much reduced now, its
ownership cost is much lower than
old technologies, it is more flexible
than other technologies, it use a
service oriented architecture which
means it provides on demand services
and includes many other things.
(Mladen A. Vouk)
Cloud computing introduced as a
latest computing parameter which
provides several services and features
better than other technologies. Cloud
computing is consider as a hot topic in
these days because it provides more
reliability, such software services
which are configurable, it guaranteed

The Quality of Service (QoS) for

computing environment for the end
users, it also provide the dynamic
information technology architecture
which is very flexible. (KUNZE,
2008; TAO, 2008)
Cloud computing emerged as a new
computing platform which has a key
feature of sharing resources that
includes processes of the businesses,
software, applications and more
important infrastructures. The core
feature which enable cloud computing
to share the resources is virtualization.
The most important feature the cloud
computing has, is the service oriented
architecture (SOA) however most of
the cloud computing platforms have
not adopted this architecture formally
but when these platforms fully
adopted this architecture then the
cloud computing will have more
flexibility and reusability. (Zhang;
Zhou)
Cloud computing is introduced as a
new word in the Information
Technology community and now
everyone
believe
that
cloud
computing will reshape our IT world
as a revolution. Cloud computing is a
model of easy access and on-demand
resource sharing which can be

configure. These resources may

include computing services, our
networks, servers, storage and
applications. And we can provide
these resources very easily and with
minimum amount of efforts of
management and interaction between
service provider and the end user
(Dillon; ChenWu; Chang)
Cloud computing is a new buzz word
but it is related with the old
technology known as Grid computing,
this is not the only computing
technology to which the cloud
computing is related there are several
other technologies like cluster
computing, utility computing and
distributed systems as we talk about
all of these computing technologies.
Cloud computing is very large scale
computing parameter which is
distributed means it differs from the
traditional ones and have a key
feature of economies of scale in
which on demand services (which are
different levels) provide to the
customers over the internet along with
storage, computing power, platforms
which are dynamically scalable.
(Foster; Zhao; Raicu; Lu)
There have been considerable
advances in the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) for
last some decades we started to think

that the computer will be our fifth

utility including water, electricity, gas
and telephones. So computing will be
provided to everybody like other
utilities no matter where all these
services are hosted or who is
responsible of providing them. To
deliver this utility several computing
parameters are responsible including
cluster computing, grid computing
and a very latest concept called cloud
computing. This word Cloud is like
a infrastructure which provide on
demand access of applications to
businesses and customers all over the
world. (R. Buyya)
Cloud computing is a computing
utility which has a potential to
transform
our
Information
Technology industry, it has made our
software more attractive and fully
changed the design of our hardware.
Developers who have new ideas dont
need large capital in hardware to
deploy their services over the internet.
(Armbrust; Fox; Griffith; Joseph)
Our computing world is becoming
very large and complex and cloud
computing emerged as a model which
can process very large volumetric
data. The cloud computing can handle
massive data as we demand. The
cloud computing is next evolutionary
step of distributed computing. It use

the resources to handle large scale

computational
Lumb)

problems.

(Rimal;