Abstract

Cloud computing is basically an Internetbased network made up of large numbers of servers - mostly based on open standards, modular and inexpensive. Clouds contain vast amounts of information and provide a variety of services to large numbers of people. The benefits of cloud computing are Reduced ata !eakage, ecrease evidence ac"uisition time, they eliminate or reduce service downtime, they #orensic readiness, they ecrease evidence transfer time The main factor to be discussed is security of cloud computing, which is a risk factor involved in ma$or computing fields.

Introduction to Cloud Computing

In the Cloud Computing, the word Cloud refers to the Internet so the phrase cloud Computing means A type of internet Based Computing. Where Different services such as ervers, storage, and applications are delivered to an !rgani"ation#s computers and devices connected to the internet.

History
The underlying concept dates back to %&'( when John McCarthy opined that )computation may someday be organi*ed as a public utility) and the term The Cloud was already in commercial use around the turn of the +%st century. Cloud computing solutions had started to appear on the market, though most of the focus at this time was on ,oftware as a service. +((- saw increased activity, including .oggle, I/0 and a number of universities embarking on a large scale cloud computing research pro$ect, around the time the term started gaining popularity in the mainstream press. It was a hot topic by mid-+((1 and numerous cloud computing events had been scheduled.

2niversities and research labs, and large companies to tackle enormously complex calculations for such tasks as simulating nuclear explosions, predicting climate change, designing airplanes, and analy*ing which proteins in the body are likely to bind with potential new drugs. Cloud computing aims to apply that kind of power measured in the tens of trillions of computations per second3to problems like analy*ing risk in financial portfolios, delivering personali*ed medical information, even powering immersive computer games, in a way that users can tap through the 4eb. It does that by networking large groups of servers that often use low-cost consumer 5C technology, with speciali*ed connections to spread dataprocessing chores across them. /y contrast, the newest and most powerful desktop 5Cs process only about 6 billion computations a second. !et7s say you7re an executive at a large corporation. 8our particular responsibilities include making sure that all of your employees have the right hardware and software they need to do their $obs. /uying computers for everyone isn7t enough -- you also have to purchase software or software licenses to give employees the tools they re"uire. 4henever you have a new hire, you have to buy more software or make sure your current software license allows another user. It7s so stressful that you find it difficult to go.

Types of Clod Computing

Infrastructure$as$a$ ervice.%Iaa & 'latform$as$a$ ervice.%'aa & oftware$as$a$service.% aa & Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Infrastructure-as-a-,ervice 9Iaa,: like ;ma*on 4eb ,ervices provides virtual servers with uni"ue I5 addresses and blocks of storage on demand. Customers benefit from an ;5I from which they can control

Cloud Architecture
,upercomputers today are used mainly by the military, government intelligence agencies,

their servers. /ecause customers can pay for exactly the amount of service they use. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): 5latform-as-a-,ervice95aa,: is a set of software and development tools hosted on the provider7s servers. evelopers can create applications using the provider7s ;5Is. .oogle ;pps is one of the most famous 5latform-as-a-,ervice providers. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): ,oftware-as-a-,ervice 9,aa,: is the broadest market. In this case the provider allows the customer only to use its applications. The software interacts with the user through a user interface. These applications can be anything from web based email, to applications like Twitter or !ast.fm.

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Types of Visibility
'u(lic Cloud )'u(lic cloud or e*ternal cloud descri(es cloud computing in the traditional mainstream sense, where(y resources are dynamically provisioned on a fine$grained 'rivate Cloud$A hy(rid cloud environment consisting of multiple internal and+or e*ternal providers, -will (e typical for most enterprises-. A hy(rid cloud can descri(e configuration com(ining a local device such as a 'lug computer with cloud services

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Conclusion
In my view, there are some strong technical security arguments in favor of Cloud Computing $ assuming we can find ways to manage the ris7s. With this new