CHALLENGING THE CLOUD

Abstract

Cloud computing has fulfilled the long-liven dream of proffering utility as a service. It has significantly contributed in transformations of Information Technology (IT) service provisioning and shaping the manner in which services are consumed and utilised. With the origin of cloud, the innovators and developers are no longer bothered of making any capital investments in hardware in order to deploy their services or gain expertise in operating them. Exclusively, the elasticity and potential offered by cloud is unprecedented in the history of IT. Conversely, the achievements through cloud computing though are beneficial but they rivet a large number of hard tasks owing to continuous tormenting by challenges. This paper comprehensively examines the challenges associated with the cloud computing. It presents a review of cloud paradigm and discusses the transition from different computing paradigms towards cloud. Conclusively, it highlights the challenges associated with cloud computing.