CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT: PROBLEMS IN IMPLEMENTATION

Traditional business applications have always been very complicated and expensive. However, with the emergence of cloud computing, various complex tasks like the amount and variety of hardware and software required to run and configure, test, secure and update etc. have become very easy. Cloud computing eliminates these problems to a large extent. It is a service oriented architecture that provides applications, infrastructure and platform as services. This technology is experiencing a rapid growth both in academia and industry. The applications of cloud computing are limitless. Its advantages like anywhere and anytime access to data, no set-up costs, automatic software upgrades, increased storage capabilities etc. make it so popular and demanding. However, in spite of all this, complete migration to the cloud is not possible. There are various issues which make this technology difficult to implement. In this paper, various implementation issues of cloud computing have been identified and studied in the light of different architectures and applications.