A Brief Survey of Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing is among the most promising technologies of the recent days with the potential to reach 204 billion by the end of 2016 Almost all major tech companies provide cloud services of one sort or another like computing clusters and cloud storage Cloud services can be provisioned as Software as a Service SaaS Platform as a Service PaaS or Infrastructure as a Service IaaS and they can be deployed as private community public or hybrid clouds Cloud computing provides several advantages like ease-of-deployment no maintenance and up-front costs and rapid and efficient scalability But it does pose several challenges with regards to security of data and privacy issues and many security sensitive companies tend to shy away from cloud services due to this very reason