Cloud Computing as a service on demand architecture has become a topic of interest in the last few years. The outsourcing of duties and infrastructure to external parties enables new services to be established quickly, scaled on demand, and with low financial risk. Cloud storage enables organizations to manage their data with low operational expenses. Nevertheless, several issues such as securi...

As cloud adoption grows, the importance of preparing for forensic investigations in cloud environments also grows. A recent survey of digital forensic professionals identified that missing terms and conditions regarding forensic activities in service level agreements between cloud providers and cloud consumers is a significant challenge for cloud forensics. This paper addresses the challenge by...

Cloud computing enables IT related services in a more dynamic and scalable way than before – more costeffective than before due to the economy of scale and of sharing resources. Usually, cloud providers describe their promised behaviour – regarding functional and non-functional aspects of the service provision – by way of Service Level Agreements (SLAs). For different providers offering similar...

Cloud computing delivers services over the internet based on pay as you use financial model. Cloud providers publish service advertisements in different format (text, files, table and images) on the Internet. On the other hand, cloud consumers spend a lot of time and effort to find the appropriate cloud service using public search engines. Nowadays, cloud service discovery process considers as ...

Cloud computing has been considered as one of the crucial and emerging networking technology, which has been changed the architecture of computing in last few years. Despite the security concerns of protecting data or providing continuous service over cloud, many organisations are considering different types cloud services as potential solution for their business. We are researching on cloud co...

Growth of cloud computing as a concept continues to pose challenges on how to deliver agile, yet secure, IT services to enterprises. While the hype surrounding cloud computing may have peaked, the concept of “cloudwashing” (adding the term “cloud” to an existing service for marketing reasons) continues to cause confusion and inflated expectations with enterprise buyers. This fear, uncertainty a...

Cloud computing represents a significant economic opportunity for Europe. However, this growth is threatened by adoption barriers largely related to trust. This position paper examines trust and confidence issues in cloud computing and advances a case for addressing them through the implementation of a novel trustmark scheme for cloud service providers. The proposed trustmark would be both acti...

The issue of management and allocation of resources in cloud computing environments, according to the breadth of scale and modern technology implementation, is a complicated issue. Issues such as: the heterogeneity of resources, resource dependencies to each other, the dynamics of the environment, virtualization, workload diversity as well as a wide range of management objectives of cloud servi...

Cloud computing is a paradigm that has the potential to transform and revolutionalize the next generation IT industry by making software available to end-users as a service. A cloud, also commonly known as a cloud network, typically comprises of hardware (network of servers) and a collection of softwares that is made available to end-users in a pay-asyou-go manner. Multiple public cloud provide...

Cloud computing is a paradigm that has the potential to transform and revolutionalize the next generation IT industry by making software available to end-users as a service. A cloud, also commonly known as a cloud network, typically comprises of hardware (network of servers) and a collection of softwares that is made available to end-users in a pay-as-you-go manner. Multiple public cloud provid...