Software Application Approach to Cloud Computing: Current Trends and Future Directions

Abstract

“Cloud” computing – arelatively recent term, builds on decades of research in virtualization,distributed computing, utility computing, and more recently networking, web andsoftware services. It implies a service oriented architecture, reducedinformation technology overhead for the end-user, great flexibility, reducedtotal cost of ownership, on-demand services and many other things. This paperdiscusses the concept of “cloud” computing, some of the issues it tries toaddress, related research topics, and a “cloud” implementation available today.