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International Journal of Cloud Computing and Services Science (IJ-CLOSER)

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Cloud Computing : Research Issues and Implications

M.Rajendra Prasad*, R. Lakshman Naik**, V.Bapuji** * Department of Computer Science, Alluri Institute of Management Sciences, Warangal, AP, India.

** Department of Informatics, Kakatiya University, Warangal, AP, India.

Article Info ABSTRACT

Article history:

Received Dec 15 th

, 2012

Accepted Dec 30 th

, 2012

Cloud computing is a rapidly developing and excellent promising technology. It has aroused the concern of the computer society of whole

world. Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared

information, resources, and software, are provided to terminals and portable

devices on-demand, like the energy grid. Cloud computing is the product of

the combination of grid computing, distributed computing, parallel

computing, and ubiquitous computing. It aims to build and forecast

sophisticated service environment with powerful computing capabilities

through an array of relatively low-cost computing entity, and using the

advanced deployment models like SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS

(Platform as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service),HaaS (Hardware as

a Service) to distribute the powerful computing capacity to end-users. This

paper will explore the background and service models and also presents the

existing research issues and implications in cloud computing such as

security, reliability, privacy, and so on.

Keyword:

Cloud computing

Service model

Deployment model

Issues

Implications

Copyright © 2013 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science.

All rights reserved.

Corresponding Author:

M.Rajendra Prasad,

Department of Computer Science,

Alluri Institute of Management Sciences,

Hunter Road, Warangal, Andra Pradesh, 506001, INDIA.

Email: mrpaims@yahoo.com

1. INTRODUCTION Cloud computing is not a new concept; it is originated from the earlier large-scale distributed computing technology. However, it will be a subversion technology and cloud computing will be the rapid

revolution in the Computer Science and Information Technology field. Which represent the development

trend in the IT industry from hardware to software, software to services, and distributed service to centralized

service. Cloud computing is also a new mode of business computing is virtualization. It will be widely used

in the near future. The core concept of cloud computing is reducing the processing burden on the users.

Eventually users use a wide variety of devices, including PCs, Laptops, Smart Phones, and PDAs to access

different kinds of utility programs, storage, and application development platforms over the Internet. All

these services offered by cloud computing providers. An advantage of the cloud computing technology

includes cost savings, high availability, and easy scalability. However, still there exist many problems in

cloud computing today, the current researchers or practitioners pointing that data security and privacy risks

have become the primary concern for people to transfer or migrate to cloud computing [1].The figure.1

shows six phases of computing paradigms[2] from terminals/mainframes, to PCs, Networking Computing,

Internet Computing to Grid and Cloud Computing.

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Figure.1 Six Computing Paradigms – from Mainframe Computing to Internet Computing, to Grid

Computing and Cloud Computing (Adapted from Voas and Zhang (2009))

2. CLOUD COMPUTING 2.1. Evolution

Figure.2 Cloud Computing Evolution in IT [3].

2.2.Defination

“Cloud” is a virtualized pool of computing reusable resources. It can:

o Control or customizing a variety of different workloads. o Batch update of back-end and front-end operations with GUI applications. o Rapidly deployment and increase workload by physical or virtual machines. o Support for redundancy, self-healing and highly scalable API. o Real-time monitoring resource usage [4].

Cloud computing is categorically into three major segments: "Applications”, "Platforms," and

"Infrastructure". Each segment serves a different purpose and offers different products for businesses and

individuals around the world. The server administrator monitoring traffic and client demands to ensure

everything runs accurately. It follows a set of rules called protocols and using software is called middleware.

2.3. Service Model

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 Software as a Service (SaaS) : In this model software deployment over the internet is deployed

to run behind a firewall in LAN or personal computer or laptop.

This is a “pay-as-you go” model. The capability provided to the

end-users is to use the provider’s applications running on a

cloud infrastructure. The applications are accessible from

various client devices through a thin client interface such as a

web browser (e.g., web enabled e-mail). The end-users does not

manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure including

network, servers, operating systems, storage, or even individual

application capabilities, with the possible exception of limited

user specific application configuration settings. Present SaaS is

offered by companies such as Google, Salesforce, Microsoft,

Zoho, etc.

 Platform as a Service (PaaS) : It is the delivery of computing platform and solution stack as a

service. Trust of use the middleman’s equipment to develop

their own program and deliver it to users through Internet and

servers. The capability provided to the end users to deploy the

cloud infrastructure, user created or acquired applications using

programming languages and tools supported by the provider.

The end user does not manage or control the underlying cloud

infrastructure including network, servers, operating systems, or

storage. PaaS providers offer a predefined combination of OS

and application servers, such as WAMP platform [5] (Windows,

Apache, MySql and PHP), LAMP platform (Linux, Apache,

MySql and PHP), and XAMP (X-cross platform) limited to

J2EE, and Ruby etc. Google App Engine, Salesforce.com, etc

are some of the popular PaaS examples.

 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): The platform virtualization or infrastructure as a service. The

capability provided to the end users is to provision processing,

storage, networks, and other fundamental computing resources

where the end user is able to deploy and run arbitrary software.

This can include operating system and applications. The user

does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure

but it has control over operating systems, storage, deployed

applications, and possibly limited control of select networking

components. Rather than purchasing servers, software, data

center space or network equipments, clients etc., this resource is

fully outsourced and controlled by outsourcing organizations.

Some of the common examples are Amazon, GoGrid, 3tera, etc.

 Hardware as a Service (HaaS): According to Nicholas Carr [6], “the idea of buying IT hardware or even an entire data center as a pay-as-you-go subscription

service that scales up or down to meet your needs. But as a

result of rapid advances in hardware virtualization, IT

automation, and usage metering and pricing, I think the concept

of hardware-as-a-service, let’s call it HaaS, and may at last be

ready for prime time.” This model is advantageous to the

enterprise users, since they do not need to invest in building and

managing data centers. In the future days HaaS has to be

available on pre and post paid payment basis.

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2.4. Deployment Model

 Public Cloud (or External Cloud) : In this model, computing resources are dynamically provisioned over the Internet via Web applications or Web services from

trusted third party provider. Public clouds are run by third

parties, and applications from different customers are likely to

be mixed together on the cloud’s servers, storage systems, and

networks. Although the public cloud has compelling advantages,

there existing the hidden risk of security, regulatory policy

compliance and quality of service (QoS) requirements.

 Private Cloud (or Internal Cloud) : In the private cloud deployment, computing resources are used and controlled by a private enterprise. It is generally deployed in

the enterprises data center and managed by internal personnel or

service provider. The main advantage of this model is that the

security, compliance, and QoS are under the control of the

enterprises [7].

 Hybrid Cloud (or Mixed Cloud) : The Hybrid Cloud environment intersects and combines multiple public and private cloud models. It enables the enterprise

applications to running state-steady workload in the private

cloud, and requesting the public cloud for intensive computing

resources when peak workload occurs. Hybrid clouds introduce

the complexity of determining how to distribute applications

across both a public and private cloud.

 Community Cloud(or Group Cloud): In this Community deployment model several organizations jointly construct and share cloud infrastructure as well as

policies, requirements, values, and concerns. The cloud

community forms into a degree of economic scalability and

democratic equilibrium. The cloud infrastructure could be

hosted by a third-party vendor or within one of the organization

in the community. This is emerging cloud used by many social

networking website like facebook, orkut, etc.

3. CLOUD COMPUTING FEATURES Cloud computing brings an array of new features and advantages compared to any other computing

paradigms. There are briefly described in this section.

o Scalability and On-Demand Services - Cloud computing provides resources and services for users on demand. The resources are scalable over several data centers.

o Quality of Service (QoS) - Cloud computing can guarantee QoS for users in terms of hardware or CPU performance, bandwidth, and memory capacity.

o User-Centric Interface - Cloud interfaces are location independent and they can be accessed by well established interfaces such as Web services and Web browsers.

o Autonomous System - Cloud computing systems are autonomous systems managed transparently to users. However, software and data inside clouds can be automatically reconfigured and

consolidated to a simple platform depending on user’s needs.

o Pricing - Cloud computing does not require up front investment. No capital expenditure is required. Users may pay and use or pay for services and capacity as they need them.

4. CLOUD COMPUTING ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS

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The new paradigm of cloud computing provides sophisticated benefits and advantages over the

previous computing paradigms and many organizations are customizing, migrating and adopting it. In the last

few years, cloud computing has grown from being a promising logic; business is virtualization concept to one

of the fastest growing segments of the IT industry. Now, recession-hit companies are increasingly realizing

that simply by tapping into the cloud and gain fast access to best-of-breed business applications or drastically

boost their infrastructure resources, all at negligible cost. However, there are still a number of issues,

challenges and implications are identified, which are currently addressed by researchers, academicians and

BI (business intelligence) practitioners.

1. Security Clouds provide companies are still concerned about security when using cloud computing. Users are

also worried about the vulnerability to attacks, when information and critical IT resources are

outside the firewall. Where is the data more secure, on local hard drive or on high security servers in

the cloud? However, in the cloud, the data will be distributed over the network through individual

computers regardless of where the repository of data is ultimately stored. Industrious hackers can

invade virtually at any server, and there are the statistics show that one-third of breaches result from

stolen or lost laptops and other devices and from employees’ accidentally exposing data on the

Internet, with nearly 16 percent due to insider stealing [8].

2. Reliability

Clouds computing still always offer round the clock reliability. There were few cases where cloud

computing services suffered few hours’ outages. In the present and future days to expect more cloud

computing providers, richer services, established standards and best practices. Servers in the cloud

have the same problems as your own resident servers. The cloud servers also experience downtimes

and slowdowns, what the difference is that users have a higher dependent on cloud service provider

(CSP) in the taxonomy of cloud computing. Once you choose a particular provider, you may be

locked-in, thus bring a potential business secure risk.

3. Privacy Different from the traditional computing model, cloud computing utilizes the virtual computing

technology, users personal data may be scattered in various virtual data center rather than stay in the

same hard drive physical location, even across the national borders, at this time, data privacy

protection will face the controversy of different legal systems. On the other hand, users may leak

hidden information when they accessing cloud computing services. Attackers can analyze the

critical task depend on the computing task submitted by the users [9].

4. Open Standard Open standards are critical to the growth of cloud computing. Most cloud provider’s interpretation

with APIs which are typically well-documented but also unique to their implementation and thus not

interoperable. Some vendors have adopted others' APIs [10] and there are a number of open

standards under development, including the OGF's Open Cloud Computing Interface. The Open

Cloud Consortium (OCC) [11] is working to develop consensus on early cloud computing standards

and practices.

5. Performance The major issue in performance can be for some intensive transaction-oriented and other data

intensive applications, in which cloud computing may lack adequate performance. Also, users who

are at a long distance from cloud providers may experience high latency and delay.

6. Bandwidth Cost Cloud computing offered companies, can save money on hardware and software; however they

could incur higher network bandwidth charges. Bandwidth cost may be low for smaller Internet-

based applications, which are not data intensive, but could significantly, grow for data-intensive

applications.

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7. Long-term Feasibility Users may be sure that the cloud data or information put into the cloud storage will never become

invalid even particular cloud computing service provider go broke or get acquired and swallowed up

by a larger company. “The cloud potential providers how to would get the data back, and it would

be in any format that it is import into a replacement application"-Gartner [12].

8. Legal Issues In the same way that the electricity one uses may have been generated in another country where

costs are lower, the computer processing power or storage one buys via a Cloud service may be

based in another country, or indeed may be divided between multiple countries. But as well as the

cost and efficiency advantages brought in this arrangement, this also raises vexing legal issues in the

case of Cloud Computing arising out of exporting customers data abroad; also, the Cloud Services

Provider has to contend with the Legal Systems under different Jurisdictions with not so much of

visibility as to where the Data resides and how it is routed to the End User while passing through

different Legal Jurisdictions. Again, vexing Legal Issues relating to ownership of data and liability

for its loss or misuse have to be dealt with by the Cloud Service Providers. The legal issues differ

from those arising from conventional outsourcing or hosting [15].

5. CONCLUSION

In this paper, to analyze and discussed an emerging technology: Cloud Computing. The evolving is

one of the core platform for Computer Science (academics) and Information Technology (industry) in the

professional world. It describes cloud background, evolution, definition, service models, deployment models

and some existing issues. There is no doubt that the cloud computing is the emerging development trend in

the future. Cloud computing brings us the approximately infinite computing capability, good scalability, on-

demand service and so on, also challenges at security, reliability, and privacy, legal issues and so on.

Because of this, it has been attracted by everyone including the attackers. The paper is expected to be a right

path or URL for those who works or does research in cloud computing. We acknowledge the cloud

computing era, to solving and prevent the existing issues and implications for maximum necessity is

required.

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BIOGRAPHY OF AUTHORS:

M.Rajendra Prasad is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer

Science at Alluri Institute of Management Sciences, Warangal.He received his professional degrees

BCA (2003), MCA (2006) and M.Tech (2009) from Kakatiya University, Andhra Pradesh. His

research area is Cloud Computing and other area of interest includes Middleware Technologies, Web

and Open Source Technologies. He has 6 years of teaching experience at Postgraduate Level. He

published 2 papers. He is a Member of ACM, ISTE, CSTA, IACSIT, and Associate Member of CSI.

R. Lakshman Naik received his B.Tech. (Electronics and Communication Engineering) from Sree

Sarathi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

(JNTUH), Krishna, Andhra Pradesh, India and M.Tech.(Computer Science and Engineering) from

Balaji Institute of Technology and Sciences, JNTUH,Warangal, A.P, India. He served as a Systems

Engineer in Wipro Technologies. He is a Member of IAENG, IAEME, AIRCC and various

professional organizations. His research area is Cloud Computing. He has published more than 10

papers in area of Computer Networks, Data Mining and Neural Networks.

V. Bapuji is currently pursuing Ph.D. in Computer Science at Kakatiya University Warangal (A.P),

India. He has 12 years of teaching experience in Postgraduate level. His research interest includes

Cloud Computing, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Security, Soft Computing, and Design efficient accurate

reliable low cost IDS. His work focuses on the security and fault tolerance of routing protocols, with

an emphasis on solutions to support Mobile Ad hoc Networking. He has published more than 12

papers. He is a Member of ISTE, IAENG, and IAEME.

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