MITS5002 Software Engineering: Cloud Computing Issues and Research

This report examines the evolving landscape of cloud computing, highlighting its increasing significance due to reliable and cost-effective services. It delves into the three primary cloud computing services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). The report identifies key challenges, including security issues like denial of service and data breaches, data-related problems such as data lock-in and transfer bottlenecks, and performance issues like virtual machine migration and server consolidation. The conclusion emphasizes the need for ongoing research to address these challenges, particularly in data security and performance, to ensure the continued success and widespread adoption of cloud computing. The report references various academic papers that support its findings, offering a comprehensive overview of the current state and future directions of cloud computing.

ISSUES OF CLOUD
COMPUTING AND RESEARCH
OPPORTUNITIES
Student Name

INTRODUCTION
• Over the years, the attention to cloud computing has
increased substantially because of the reliable and cheap
services.
• With rapid development of processing, internet sensation,
storage technologies and computing services have become
more powerful, cheaper and more globally available than
ever.
• The resources such as storage and CPU are offered as
general utilities to the users connected to the internet

CLOUD COMPUTING
SERVICES
• There exist three cloud computing services. They include
• Infrastructure as a service
• Platform as a service and
• Software as a service

SECURITY ISSUES
• Service availability- denial of service
• Data security

DATA ISSUES
• Data Lock-In
• Bottlenecks of data Transfer
• Traffic analysis and management

PERFORMANCE ISSUES
• Migration of virtual machine (VMs)
• Server consolidation
• Performance Unpredictability

CONCLUSION
• Cloud computing evolved as a major technology to offer services over the internet in an
efficient and easy way.
• The main reason for cloud computing massive interest from firms across the globe and its
possible success is due to the extensive category of services offered by the cloud.
• The cloud computing is effectuating the utility computing. The new technology does not
offer all the requirements requirement by cloud computing. There are several problems
that need to be solved by the researchers for cloud computing to operate well.
• Some of the issues such as data and security problems should be addressed for the
customers to utilize the services offered by the cloud without fear.
• Besides, concerns such as performance issues should be solved in order to boost services.

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