International Journal of Engineering and Management Research, Vol.-3, Issue-4, August 2013 ISSN No.

: 2250-0758 Pages: 9-12 www.ijemr.net

Cloud Computing: A New Era of IT Opportunity and Challenges

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Govind Singh1, Manmohan2, Garima Tiwari3 M.Tech (Computer Science & Engineering), 2M.Tech (Computer Science & Engineering) 3 M.Tech (Computer Science & Engineering)

ABSTRACT
Cloud Computing is a new technology that provides us all the services and resources for retrieving our data globally. Now a days IT industry is standing at the threshold of a new era in the technological field. Cloud computing is everything that could answer the problems of IT companies. Cloud computing has the ability to make IT resources more cost-effective and it gives businesses a great flexibility to expand. There are several fields including business, egovernance, utility computing, military, and healthcare where computer system play vital role. All the fields include the sharing of data among each others. So if we want a channel through which we will have easy way to communicate and share the data then cloud computing provides us a very seamless way to communicate. But as the time is growing cloud computing should also have to enhance its performance. Many big companies are not adopting this technology till now because of many challenges. The different types of challenges are: 1. Performance 2. Security and privacy 3. Bandwidth cost In this paper we have tried to summarize the uses, benefits and challenges of cloud computing and we also have tried to explain how the cloud computing can help in business in todays scenario.

hardware, system software, applications, networks, people, and other organizational assets. Now a days computing is becoming as import part of our life as the importance of water in human life. So we will also have to change our mind as per the technology is changing. The cloud is simply a service where all the data saves but when it combines with computing then it became very complex and fuzzy. Here different services- such as servers, storage and applications are delivered to an organization's computers and devices through the Internet.

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HOW CLOUD WORKS

KeywordsCloud computing, Utility computing, EGovernance, Internet.

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INTRODUCTION

Cloud computing is the use of computing resources both hardware as well as software that are delivered as a service over a network typically the Internet. As the name suggests clouds means that the network is of the cloud type as the clouds spreads in the sky as a network. In cloud computing we may access our data globally via the use of internet. Internet plays a vital role while sharing of data in between various networks. We run many applications via the use of a cloud and Cloud providers manage the infrastructure and platforms that run the applications. Day by day, big companies spend millions of dollars on their IT infrastructure that consist of

The main goal of cloud computing is to apply supercomputing or high-performance computing power to the organizations such as military, healthcare, utility computing and all to perform trillions of computations per second to provide a very large data storage. Suppose we have an organization. In that organization we will also have to provide all the facilities to all of the employees of that organization like right hardware and software they need to do their jobs. We will buy the computers for each and every employee of the organization but that is not enough we will also have to provide the software and tools required for the job. Whenever we have a new hire, we have to buy more software or make sure our current software license allows another user. That is a very long lasting process so the solution of the problem is cloud computing. In which we will have a centralize server which will provide all the services to the employees as well as to the customers.

are mainly four driving factors of SaaS by which SaaS provides new opportunities for software vendors that are: Increased speed of deployment Increased user adoption Reduced support requirements Lowered cost of implementation and upgrades Utility computing Utility computing is mainly a business model which provides services as per the demand. As the name suggest utility computing which generally means that any service which is mostly needed by any customer? Better economic is the main benefit of utility computing. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) IaaS is also a very vital service for the customers, using cloud computing. There is an infrastructure where all the software and hardware are available. Only the service providers have the responsibility to manage these infrastructures rather than the customers. Customers have not to invest huge amount of money in computing hardware such as servers or networking devices. This is the first model in which we rely on while using cloud services.

Figure 1.working principle of cloud computing The total workload of the local computers shifted to server computers by using cloud computing technology. Local computers no longer have to do all the heavy lifting of data and all when it comes to running applications. The network of computers that make up the cloud handles them. We have a very good example ofcloud computing that is the E-mail which most of us have used many times but we did not notice that where our data actually saved, that is in the cloud and we access our data whenever we want to access.

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SECURITY ISSUES AND CHALLAGES

Cloud computing comes into focus when you think about IT. If we are using this technique in our business applications then we will also have to make our business more secure. There are mainly three models of cloud computing IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service). These three models have different impact on different types of applications. Two main questions arise while using these models that are: How secure is the Data? How secure is the Code? Here is a rough breakdown of what cloud computing is all about: 1. Software as a Service (SaaS) 2. Utility computing 3. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) 4. Platform as a Service (PaaS) Software as a service (SaaS) Software as a service is a software distribution model in which all the applications are hosted by the service provider and made available globally over a network. From that cloud networks any customer may access their services. All the users or consumers need is to get the benefits of using the software or hardware of the computer like sending emails etc. Just to get this benefit why should a consumer buy a software /hardware? Software as a Service application is accessed as using web browsers over the internet. So web browser security plays a vital role while accessing our data. There

Figure 2.Visual model of cloud computing definition Platform as a Service (PaaS) PaaS provides computational resources through the platform such as Operating System. It is directly proportional to the Infrastructure as a service. In this model, the consumer creates the software using tools from the provider. The business needs Information Technology to rapidly develop, deploy, and maintain new applications to remain competitive and PaaS helps organizations in the same. The factor that makes PaaS unique is that it lets developers build and deploy web applications on a hosted infrastructure. If our platform will be better than it will be beneficial for us to use the SaaS in our system. So we may briefly say that all the three models rely on each other. So if we want to make our system to be feasible than service providers will have to manage all the modes of cloud computing very efficiently.

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ADVANTAGES OF CLOUD BASED SOLUTION

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Cloud computing based IT solution for organizations offers many advantages over the network some advantages are as follows: 1. Cloud computing reduces cost of our hardware, software (all those downloaded programs), networking management and overall IT expenses. You do not need a high-powered and high-priced computer to run cloud computing web-based applications. Since applications run in the cloud, not on the desktop PC, your desktop PC does not need the processing power or hard disk space demanded by traditional desktop software. 2. Using cloud based applications we always get the better performance of our PC. Computers in a cloud computing system boot and run faster because they have fewer programs and processes loaded into memory. With few programs in our computer's memory, we will see better performance from our PC. 3. The software cost by using this computing is very low because the customer will not have to buy any type of software. All the softwares are available in the web store only the customer has to utilize those softwares as per the need. In other words the service providers will provide us all the software applications to the customers for efficient use. 4. One of the most important advantage of cloud computing is scalability. It means that we may scale our business as per the demand of the market. We will not have to go through the expensive programs or hardware for the business. 5. For the IT industry, cloud computing provides better IT solutions to utilize infrastructure. As we know that these infrastructures are very expensive and now these infrastructures can now be shares among any user using cloud computing. This will reduce the overall power consumptions. So it will be better for our environment also. 6. using of cloud computing also increase the data reliability. As when we are using desktop computing then all our data is saved in our hard disk in the PC. When our hard disk is crashed then all our data will never be recovered using any type of tool but when it comes to cloud computing a computer crashing in cloud will not affect the storage of our data. So cloud computing is a data-safe computing platform. 7. We may access our data universally in the clouds. This is the main advantage of using cloud computing. We always not take our document with us instead, they stay in the cloud and we can access them whenever we have a computer with an internet connection with it. 8. In cloud based solutions the important data and services are totally managed by the big well established companies who usually are experts in network security. So cloud computing based solutions are often secure with this respect.

into a more effective and responsive business service. In many organizations cloud computing is in its early stage. Many researchers conclude that cloud computing will grow, but it will be a bumpy ride. Following are the obstacles and opportunities of cloud computing:

Figure 3: Top 10 Obstacles and opportunities for growth of cloud computing Global studies say that cloud services could invest trillion of money in new business avenue between end of 2009 and end of 2013. These cloud services will rapidly grow at over five times than the traditional offerings. Telecommunication companies should be able to use their datacenters to provide cloud services to customers and to take advantage of transaction of data in between many other companies. The market of the companies may be slow down only due to lack of sufficient knowledge of web services. If companies are unable to overcome their disadvantage of web service than the companies will have to focus on their core competitive and will have to provide services such as customer support and billing. On the other hand telecommunication companies can try to overcome their disadvantage by cooperating with IT companies. Although some researchers think that cloud computing is an unnecessary thing only for the data transfer in between networks but in becomes more efficient when we apply the concept of internet on cloud computing. So most IT companies are adopting this technology day by day to enhance the performance of the industry. Some heavy weight services will not be available in the clouds for free of cost. To grab those services we have to pay some amount. But most of the services are available free of cost in the cloud to whom anyone can access. For cloud application providers, the opportunities of big data fall into three categories that are:

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NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN CLOUD COMPUTING

Cloud computing provides an opportunity for business innovation and providing a platform to turn IT

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Enabling big data Analyzing big data Productizing big data

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CONCLUSSION

In an emerging discipline of cloud computing, security is the main issue that should have to be provided by big companies who are providing the service of clouds. So we may say that cloud computing brings both opportunities as well as challenges for us. In this paper we mainly focus on the services provided by cloud and new opportunities in the IT industries by using cloud computing. We have three models of cloud computing that are IaaS, PaaS and SaaS as shown in the diagram. All the three models are important because all have different impact on implementation of the services. We also points out some advantages of using cloud computing based solution in this paper. Cloud computing plays a vital role in our technological life because with the use of cloud computing we may saves our time as well as the cost. The only thing we will have to focus on is the security issue regarding data. The service providers will have to provide us confidentiality and integrity of data. So we may say that cloud computing is a leading technology worldwide. If security, authentication and authorization will be provided effectively then this will be one of the most promising technologies.

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