Cloud Computing and IT Professionals

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Cloud computing is a very attractive topic for IT professionals to talk about because it provides very lucrative features. Cloud paradigm provides rapid on-demand provisioning of resources like CPU, storage, bandwidth etc. to users, with a little bit of management efforts. Recent cloud platforms, as exemplified by Amazon EC2 and S3, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Rackspace , etc., organize a shared pool of servers from multiple data centers, and serve their users using virtualization technologies. Some categories of application like computation intensive applications can be executed in the cloud very efficiently because of the elastic and on-demand resource providing nature of the cloud. Several applications whose intensity of data is very high like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. and Big data analytics applications such as Real time traffic monitoring, Human Genome Project [4], are depending upon the cloud platforms for processing and interpreting their large scale of data(in peta and zeta bytes). The cloud platforms provide several computing frameworks like Hadoop[6],[7] and...

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