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Cloud Computing - A Bird’s Eye View

S.Kalaiselvi1, S.V.Revathi2
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Assistant Professor, Dr. SNS. Rajalakshmi College of Arts and Science, Chinavedampatti (Post), Thudiyalur - Saravanampatti Road,
Coimbatore, 641049, India
[email protected]
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Assistant Professor
Dr. SNS. Rajalakshmi College of Arts and Science, Chinavedampatti (Post), Thudiyalur - Saravanampatti Road,
Coimbatore, 641049, India
[email protected]

Abstract: Cloud computing is an internet computing model where data is stored on servers that are on the Internet and temporarily
cached on the clients' computing devices such as: desktop computers, laptops, hand-held mobile devices, etc. In a cloud computing
architecture, all the applications are not stored in a company’s hard disk, rather it resides in a third party computer. Cloud computing
involves the supply of on-demand IT computing functions and utilities that are delivered from third party platforms as a service. On-
demand services and components include: software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and storage-as-a-service. Cloud computing is
scaling investment value with growing population and provides security for the stored information.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud Community, investment, expert, security.

1. Introduction b. Private Cloud: A private cloud is beneficial for those

organizations that do not want to share their confidential
Around 1999, internet as the mechanism to provide data with any third party. Data stored in a private cloud
Application as Service got developed in the recent years and is secured in the firewall settings, which enable only the
gaining importance in the networking. In 2005, the term authorized parties to access data and do not invite any
cloud computing became popular and the sub classification third party.
of IaaS, PaaS & SaaS got formalized. The phrase “Cloud” c. As a matter of fact this type of cloud is secured than the
originates from the ‘cloud symbol’ used by flow charts and public one because whatever data is stored on cloud is
diagrams to symbolize the Internet. While storing photos in stored in in-house IT premise of an organization.
online instead of home computer, we use webmail or a d. Hybrid Cloud: A hybrid cloud is a mix of both and
social networking site, using a “cloud computing” service. gives users or business entities the advantage of both the
cloud environments. Suppose, a business enterprise
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over wants to share its services and products with its clients
the Internet. Cloud services allow individuals and across the globe, but at the same time wants to hide the
businesses to use software and hardware that are managed confidential information from them, Hybrid cloud
by third parties at remote locations. Examples of cloud architecture would suit best for such types of businesses.
services include online file storage, social networking sites, e. Community: A community cloud is a is a multi-tenant
webmail, and online business applications. The cloud cloud service model that is shared among several or
computing model allows access to information and organizations and that is governed, managed and secured
computer resources from anywhere that a network commonly by all the participating organizations or a
connection is available. Cloud computing provides a shared third party managed service provider. Community
pool of resources, including data storage space, networks, clouds are a hybrid form of private clouds built and
computer processing power, and specialized corporate and operated specifically for a targeted group. These
user applications. communities have similar cloud requirements and their
ultimate goal is to work together to achieve their
2. Cloud Architecture business objectives. The goal of community clouds is to
have participating organizations realize the benefits of a
In a cloud computing architecture, all the applications are public cloud with the added level of privacy, security,
not stored in a company’s hard disk, rather it resides in a and policy compliance usually associated with a private
third party computer and when a company needs to use cloud. Community clouds can be either on-premise or
application software, and they access it via Internet. There off-premise.
three types:

a. Public Cloud: In this type of cloud form, data stored is

in cloud server, which is located at a distant place
elsewhere. It enables users to share and access data from
anywhere and at any point of time. This means public
cloud promotes shared environment. Although, a bit
risky in terms of data security as business operations are
done through Internet, but offers highly scalable
environment.
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Applicaation developerrs can developp and run theirr software

solutionns on a clouud platform without the cost and
complexxity of buying and mannaging the underlying u
hardwarre and softwarre layers. Som me PaaS offerrs, storage
resourcees automatically to match appplication dem mand such
that clou
ud user do not have to allocatte resources maanually.

3.3 Softtware as a serrvice (SaaS)

In the SaaS model, cloud providders install annd operate

applicattion software inn the cloud annd cloud users access the
softwaree from cloud cclients. Cloud users
u do not manage
m the
Souurce: JOSh Amees 2012, appcoore cloud innfrastructure annd platform whhere the applicaation runs.
This elimminates the need to install annd run the appllication on
the clo oud user's oown computeers, which simplifies
3. Cloud Co
omputing Services maintennance and suppport. Cloud appplications aree different
from otther applicationns in their scaalability—whicch can be
Clloud computinng is a geneeral term for anything thaat achievedd by cloning taasks onto multtiple virtual machines
m at
inv
volves deliveriing hosted servvices over the Internet. Thesse run-timee to meet channging work deemand. It is coommon to
serrvices are broadly
b dividded into thrree categoriess: refer to special typess of cloud bassed applicationn software
Inffrastructure-as-a-Service (IIaaS), Platforrm-as-a-Servicce with a similar namiing convention: desktop ass service,
(PaaS) and Sofftware-as-a-Serrvice (SaaS). The followinng businesss process as a service, test ennvironment as a service,
ble implies thhat the comppanies that arre using clouud
tab commun nication as a seervice.
co
omputing servicces.

Th
here are three basic
b services of
o cloud compuuting

Cloud Computing Equation: Cloud = Caatalyst +

Culturre + Economiics
3.4 Caatalyst: Virtuaalization

It is the separation of software from

m hardware. Hiistorically,
deployin ng a given application reequired a serrver with
dedicateed storage. Todday, that physiical connectionn between
softwaree and hardwaree can be decouupled or virtualiized.

Culturee: IT landscapee, when the nettwork becomess as fast as

the proccessor, the com
mputer hollowss out and spreaads across
3.1
1 Infrastructture as a serviice (IaaS) the netw
work
Econom mics: Demand for low cost, flexibility, sscalability,
Most basic clooud-service model,m provideers IaaS offeer reallocaation.
omputers - ph
co hysical or virrtual machines - and otheer
ressources. IaaS clouds
c often offfer additional resources succh
as images in a virtual-machine
v e image-library y, raw and filee-
4. Usses of Cloud
d Computin
ng
baased storage, firrewalls, load balancers,
b IP adddresses, virtuaal
loccal area netwoorks (VLANs),, and softwaree bundles. IaaS S- a. Clouud Follows Paay
clo
oud providers supply thesee resources onn-demand from m Thiss means users will
w have to pay y only for the amount
a of
serviice used by them. Moneyy spent on improving i
theeir large pools..
businness through cloud doesn’t prove to be expensive.
2 Platform as a service (PaaaS)
3.2 b. Clouud Technoloogy believes in Optimizzation of
Exissting Resourcees
In PaaS modell, cloud provviders deliverr a computinng Supp pose companyy is facing hardh time in managing
plaatform typicallly including opperating system
m, programminng harddware and sooftware stuff. Servers aree running
extreemely low andd there is not ennough space leeft for any
lan
nguage executiion environmeent, database, anda web serverr.

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new data to be stored. To overcome such a situation, departmental billing can now be easily delivered as a
cloud services are introduced so that existing servers get contractual service.
rest from the over loaded traffic and work environment f. Multi Tenacity: is the 6th characteristics of cloud
of the company becomes more synchronized. computing advocated by the Cloud Security Alliance. It
c. Disaster Recovery Plan Help to Restore Data Quickly refers to the need for policy-driven enforcement,
on Cloud segmentation, isolation, governance, service levels, and
For every cloud to be a successful one, pre-configured chargeback/billing models for different consumer
disaster recovery plan is must. cloud disaster recovery constituencies. Consumers might utilize a public cloud
plan works automatically at the time a server or data provider’s service offerings or actually be from the same
crashes and help in restoring at the earliest. organization, such as different business units rather than
Incorporating such applications makes cloud an efficient distinct organizational entities, but would still share
platform for managing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS infrastructure.
competitively.
d. Organizations Experience Device Independence Technology transformations started with mainframe
Cloud can reduce worry of keeping a track of hardware computers than moved on to minicomputers, PCs and the
and software devices, we probably want to make your web. The next wave of transformation in IT industry is
existing physical world into a virtual one. By managing cloud computing. Companies such as Facebook have grown
cloud services have to bother about the IT premises. over the last 5 years. The growth, revenue and the market
valuation was only possible by using all three corner stone’s
of cloud computing i.e., technology innovation, delivery
5. Opportunities and Characteristics
model innovation and business model innovation.
a. On demand self services: computer services such as
email, applications, network or server service can be
6. Cloud Computing Trends
provided without requiring human interaction with each
service provider. Cloud service providers providing on a. Cloud computing is scaling investment value
demand self services include Amazon Web Services Cloud computing streamlines how software, business
(AWS), Microsoft, Google, IBM and Salesforce.com. processes, and services are accessed. More than ever
New York Times and NASDAQ are examples of before, this is helping businesses scale operations and
companies using AWS (NIST). Gartner describes this optimize their investments. This is not only through
characteristic as service based lower costs, efficient business models, or greater agility
b. Broad network access: Cloud Capabilities are available in operations. It has a lot to do with how businesses use
over the network and accessed through standard it to optimize their investments. In the same breadth,
mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or businesses are scaling into more innovation with their IT
thick client platforms such as mobile phones, laptops capacity. This will certainly help them make more
and PDAs. investments and draw corporate income.
c. Resource pooling: The provider’s computing resources b. The emergence hybrid cloud computing
are pooled together to serve multiple consumers using Hybrid cloud computing combines local and cloud
multiple-tenant model, with different physical and computing. Businesses are using cloud computing (both
virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned private and public) to supplement their internal
according to consumer demand. The resources include infrastructure and applications. Experts predict that these
among others storage, processing, memory, network services will optimize business process performance.
bandwidth, virtual machines and email services. The The adoption of cloud services is a new development in
pooling together of the resource builds economies of business functions. Under these circumstances, scaling
scale (Gartner). down on the strengths of both worlds will become a
d. Rapid elasticity: Cloud services can be rapidly and common feature, if it’s not already happening as it is.
elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to c. Growing popularity for cloud-centric design
quickly scale out and rapidly released to quickly scale in. More than ever before, organizational design is
To the consumer, the capabilities available for incorporating cloud computing migration elements. This
provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be simply means the need for optimal cloud experiences is
purchased in any quantity at any time. on top of the list of the companies that are adopting this
e. Measured service: Cloud computing resource usage can technology. This is a trend that is expected to grow more
be measured, controlled, and reported providing as cloud computing expands into different industries.
transparency for both the provider and consumer of the d. Cloud services optimized for mobile
utilized service. Cloud computing services use a The future is firmly mobile, one way or another. The
metering capability which enables to control and exceptional rise in the number of mobile devices—
optimize resource use. This implies that just like air tablet computers, iPhones, and smartphones—comes
time, electricity or municipality water IT services are into play here. Many of these devices are used to scale
charged per usage metrics – pay per use. The more you business processes, communications, and other
utilize the higher the bill. Just as utility companies sell functions. To make cloud computing useful to business
power to subscribers, and telephone companies sell owners and employees, the cloud is taking a ‘mobile’
voice and data services, IT services such as network approach. More cloud computing platforms and APIs
security management, data center hosting or even will become accessible on mobile.

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e. Security
Cloud computing security is one of the most documented
cloud computing issues. People are worried about the
security of the data they store in the cloud. Because of
this, you should expect to see more secure security
applications and techniques coming up. The number of
new encryption, security protocols, and so much more
will grow in the future.

7. Conclusion
Cloud computing is a technology infrastructure that can
revolutionize education, business, and industry and also it
offers benefits to various organizations and individuals. The
hardware and software environment implements services
based on the environment as a cloud-computing
environment. .They also provides privacy and security
concerns. It provides a challenge to the new and changing
needs of technological needs.

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