Cloud Computing
Praveen Reddy, Polam
Wilmington University
SEC-6040

1. Introduction Cloud computing is the term that describes about the computer related services through the internet. As technology developments are increased significantly, many individuals and businesses are interested to use software and hardware services that are managed by third parties at remote locations (Mirzaei, 2008). The term “ cloud “ can be truly understandable how the cloud can be a value to an organization by providing various services like online data storage, social networking, online business applications and webmail’s etc. because, the cloud computing allows access to information and computer related resources from any location that has network connection (Mirzaei, 2008).
2. Components of Cloud Computing:
2.1 Cloud Client: Clients play a key role in providing access for users to client devices which consists of computer software and hardware that depends on cloud computing for application delivery. And also there are several applications which are designed specifically for delivery of cloud services and it is essentially useless without the application. For example which can include devices like computers, mobile phones and applications like operating systems, browsers etc (Nichols, 2011). The cloud client has three different types, they are * Mobile clients. * Thick clients (Nichols, 2011). * Thin clients (Most popular) (Nichols, 2011).
2.2 Distributed Servers: The distributed servers are place geographically in different places which are far to each other. But these distributed server’s acts as a working next to each other in a group. The central server acts a administrator system which monitors the traffic, client demands to ensure whether everything is in normal position. This server uses a special type which is called middleware. The middleware