Cloud Computing: A Prospective and Development Study

Abstract

The term “Cloud Computing” is a recent popular word in the IT world. Though this term is recently introduced but the idea of centralizing computation and storage in distributed data centers maintained by third party companies is not new. Cloud computing is aimed at providing IT as a service to the cloud users on-demand basis with greater flexibility, availability, reliability, and scalability with utility computing model. In this paper the Cloud computing paradigm from various aspects, such as definitions, development, distinct features, and enabling technologies being studied. This paper brings an introduction review on the Cloud computing and provides the state-of-the-art of Cloud computing technologies.