Introduction

Cloud computing has evolved over the years and has changed the way people live and do business over the World Wide Web.

The catchword Cloud Computing may sound new to the arena of computing as well as information technology; although the concept behind it is not completely new. In a broad sense, it is a step (forward) to access the web-based services through Internet; or in general terms, cloud computing represents an advance in the field of computing technology where management of computing services is outsourced to greater extents and in multiple dimensions. To be specific, computing facilities are being made available as services offered by reputed vendors.


Computing technology has been evolved over the years. There have been steady developments in the field of computing hardware, software architecture, web technology and network communications over the last decade. The speed of internetworks has increased day by day and it has also become cheaper. All these developments contributed in settinging the stage for the initiation of the revolutionary concept of ‘cloud computing’.


Cloud computing has changed the way computation happens. It provides the means for smarter ways to do business and accordingly it makes life simpler. This chapter tries to highlight the shortcomings in the traditional computing approaches and it attempts to iterate how the stage was ready for the arrival of this new model of computing


Cloud computing has evolved over the years and has changed the way people live and do business over the World Wide Web.

 
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