Thesis: Next Generation Cloud Computing - Trends & Research Directions

This thesis explores the evolving landscape of cloud computing, focusing on next-generation trends and research directions. It highlights the shift from traditional, centralized cloud architectures to decentralized, multi-provider infrastructures. The research delves into emerging computing architectures like multi-cloud, miniaturized scale clouds (cloudlets), ad hoc clouds, and heterogeneous clouds. It also examines the rise of serverless computing, fog computing, and mobile edge computing. Key research directions discussed include ensuring secure environments and enhancing application expressivity. The thesis concludes that cloud computing is moving towards decentralized computing and leveraging network edge resources, particularly for online and mobile applications. References to various articles and online resources are provided to support the analysis.

NEXT GENERATION CLOUD COMPUTING
NEW TRENDS AND RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
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ABSTRACT
 In recent times, most of the applications which are being
developed to make use of the cloud computing resources
and services.
 This is far much different from the traditional ways where the
resources and data were being used by a single provider of
the cloud.
 In this paper, the next generation cloud computing, its trend
and research directions will be discussed and a conclusion
drawn.

INTRODUCTION
As seen in the past few decades, there was a very huge change in cloud
computing architectures and the overall services and resources which are
being offered by the cloud technology.
The changes have been more and rapid due to the fact that cloud
computing emerged to be the most researched technology since its
discovery.
 It had proved to change the operations of the world and the businesses
hence the reason for its rapid change.
Cloud computing came to be realized that it is a utility by all researchers
and academia (Anon, n.d.).
The long perceived dream of creating a real-time sharing platform has
been achieved due to the full implementation of cloud computing
technology.

Cont’d
Cloud computing came to be realized that it is a
utility by all researchers and academia.
The long perceived dream of creating a real-time
sharing platform has been achieved due to the full
implementation of cloud computing technology.
This technology has been undergoing changes
each and every time hence creating the
foundation and the basis of this particular paper
(Anon, n.d.).

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Keywords are defined as follows;
Big data as a service: This is a term which is utilized in referring to services which give an
analysis of very complex and large sets of data by the use of the cloud-based services.
PaaS as one of the models continues to grow: The adoption of Platform as a service is what
many companies are trying to work on in the years to come.
Graphics as a service: More advanced and massive hardware infrastructure is needed for the
purpose of running application with high-end graphics.

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The core purposes of the research are to;
Provide a deep analysis of the next generation
cloud computing in terms of its services delivery
and improvement on the current cloud computing
technology.
Find the trend and the research directions of the
cloud computing
Find the services and the resources which the next
generation of cloud computing will be offering.

OBJECTIVE
 The main objective of is up to is to
ensure a thorough insight on this concept
of cloud computing is arrived at, its
trending services and resources and the
current research directions.

LITERATURE REVIEW
According to research done by Alshuwaier, Alshwaier and Areshey
(2012), where they deepened their research on the next generation
cloud computing on data centres, the article explains that
associations have confronted a daunting struggle against
multifaceted nature.
In reference to Alshuwaier, Alshwaier and Areshey (2012), There
are innate cutoff points to what most of the cloud computing
centres can do to a limited arrangement of assets, anyway cloud-
based they might be.
Alshuwaier, Alshwaier and Areshey (2012) article confirms that
present cloud computing centres are never again only a gathering
of physical resources.

Cont’d
 According to an article from Imran et al., (2015), the article describe the future of cloud
computing and its components.
 The article states that the next generation of cloud computing will surely make a delivery to
the business very fast as it will be able to automate almost everything.
 Server less Computing Conventional computing on the cloud requires an application to be
hosted on a Virtual Machine that in turn offer a service to the user.
 If a web server is hosted on a cloud virtual Machine, for example then the service owner
pays.

CHANGING INFRASTRUCTURE
Traditionally there has been a centralized way of
handling with few providers and users as well.
This has been there for some time and it has served its
purpose as needed, however, there have been so many
challenges that have attended the same course.
Technology cannot wait to solve these challenges one by
one, therefore there are proposals of new infrastructures
that provide a multi-cloud notion to have things hosted
together and having the user access the resources
without struggling (Anon, n.d.).

Cont’d
The following are some of the infrastructures that
are proposed and have emerged with time to meet
the demand on the ground.
I. Multi-cloud
II. Miniaturized scale cloud and Cloudlet
III.Ad hoc cloud
IV.Heterogeneous Cloud

EMERGING COMPUTING ARCHITECTURES
Data in the clouds has been increasingly growing with
time and also a result of the same there will be many
connections of innumerable components
It will task the designers and the programmers a great
deal to realize their objectives and cope with the
emerging technologies.
There is a rapid development of cloud computing which is
unstoppable in the near future and therefore, there must
be the development of some critical models that will be
able to support all the assignments that may be hosted in
the similar cloud (Anon, n.d.).