Overview of Cloud Computing

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1.0 Introduction
Cloud computing nowadays are used widely not only in business area but also in schools especially in higher education. Cloud computing is used to store and to keep save user data in the ‘cloud’. Instead of transferring data using hard disk or any other methods, using cloud computing service can help store data to the cloud straight away. Cloud is a model for sending on-demand services, infrastructure, and application software using the network. For instance, Dropbox is one of the cloud computing services where it provides free storage to allow users to save photos, videos, or any documents that users wish to store and at the same time by using cloud computing, users are allow to share them easily. Cloud computing have many useful characteristics despite the usefulness of cloud computing, it also have drawbacks such as the security issues.
1.1 Characteristics
There are several main characteristics of cloud computing which include resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured service. In order for resource pooling to work, the user will need to provide resources and gather them, therefore it can serve various consumers using multi-tenant model publicly. Resources might include processing, different kind of storage, memory and email service. Rapid elasticity is a cloud network or services which can be broadened and contract. It is never a troublesome job to add in or exclude new computers in the cloud. Nevertheless, as the amount of users increases, it means that the provider or the server will have to increase their strength. Whereas measured service is computing resource that can be control by both consumer and provider of the utilized service. The charges are based on per usage metrics which mean you pay for t...

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