Shafat Khan

Cloud Computing: Issues and risks of Embracing the Cloud in a Business Environment

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Shafat Khan ^1,*

1. IT Faculty, COMPILER – Institute of Computer Science, Srinagar J&K India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2019.04.05

Received: 1 Feb. 2019 / Revised: 22 Mar. 2019 / Accepted: 25 Apr. 2019 / Published: 8 Jul. 2019

Index Terms

Cloud computing, Data center, Risks, Challenges, Security, Business

Abstract

Over the latest couple of years, cloud computing has created from being a promising business thought to one of the rapidly creating portions of the IT business. Despite the boom of cloud and the numerous favorable circumstances, for example, financial advantage, rapid elastic resource pool, and on-demand benefit, endeavor clients are yet hesitant to send their business in the cloud and the paradigm likewise makes difficulties for the two clients and suppliers. An absence of fitting answers for such difficulties may cause dangers, which may exceed the normal advantages of utilizing the paradigm. To address the difficulties and related dangers, an orderly hazard the board practice is vital that guides clients dissect the two advantages and dangers identified with cloud-based frameworks. The point of this paper is to provide better comprehension to configuration difficulties of cloud computing and distinguish essential research heading in such manner as this is an expanding area.

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Shafat Khan,"Cloud Computing: Issues and risks of Embracing the Cloud in a Business Environment", International Journal of Education and Management Engineering(IJEME), Vol.9, No.4, pp. 44-56, 2019. DOI: 10.5815/ijeme.2019.04.05

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