Cloud Computing Challenges and Related Security Issues
Traian Andrei · 2009
The field of cloud computing is still in its infancy as far as implementation and usage, partly because it is heavily promoted by technology advancement and is so high resource dependent that researches in academic institutions have not had many opportunities to analyze and experiment with it. However, cloud computing arises from the IT technicians desire to add another layer of separation in processing information. At the moment, a general understanding of cloud computing refers to the following concepts: grid computing, utility computing, software as a service, storage in the cloud and virtualization. These refer to a client using a provider's service remotely, also known as in the cloud. Even if there is an existent debate on whether those concepts should be separated and dealt with individually, the general consensus is that all those terms could be summarized by the cloud computing umbrella. Given its recent development and scarcity of academic published work, many discussions on the topic of cloud security have surfaced from engineers in companies that provide the aforementioned services. Nevertheless, academia is developing in a significant presence, being able to address numerous issues.