CLOUD COMPUTING - EVERY USER IS A STAKE HOLDER

Abstract

An emerging IT development, deployment, and delivery model that enables real-time delivery of a broad range of IT products, services and solutions over the internet is known as ‘Cloud Computing’. The concept and service is rising fast, with its data centres growing at an unprecedented rate. Cloud computing comes into focus only when we think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any subscription-based or pay-per-use service that, in real time over the Internet, extends IT’s existing capabilities. The key benefits of cloud computing are: Flexibility, Scalability, Economics, Inherited Resiliency,. Highly Automated, Reduced Cost, Increased Storage. The move to cloud computing is a business decision in which the business case should consider the relevant factors, among others the security and privacy requirements. The cloud service users need to be vigilant in understanding the risks of data breaches in this new environment.