Cloud Computing - Recent Trends in Information Technology

Abstract

Nowadays many new mechanization’s are emanating in a world. As current century is 20th century usually referred as computer world there are many developments takes place in computer science. Computer is used world wide for variety of purposes like from learning basic education up to storing all data on it. In today’s world people are becoming techno savvy they are using technologies for each and every day to day activities. Even government of India has also taken an initiative for online business transactions. They try towards how maximum people in the country will do financial transactions online by providing cash backs on online transactions. Government tries to make all business transactions transparent by linking Aadhar card of an individual with his/her bank account. As we know that while handling various transactions government has to store all data about all population of country also it needs very huge database storage. Such requirement for huge storage can be easily satisfied by Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing permits user for storing data on distant devices rather than storing data on hard drive or local devices. It makes use of distributed operating environment. This paper describes basics about Cloud Computing, its working, benefits about using the cloud and conclusion.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Elasticity, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Virtualization.

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