Above the Clouds: A Brief Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews cloud computing concepts, technical aspects, opportunities, and challenges, emphasizing its potential to support diverse applications and drive innovation, especially for small and developing world businesses.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of cloud computing, highlighting key opportunities, technical considerations, and unresolved issues in the field.

Findings

Cloud computing supports a wide range of applications including ERP, SCM, CRM, and medical applications.

Cloud technology offers low-cost, scalable solutions beneficial for small and developing world businesses.

The paper identifies key challenges and future issues in cloud computing adoption.

Abstract

Cloud Computing is a versatile technology that can support a broad-spectrum of applications. The low cost of cloud computing and its dynamic scaling renders it an innovation driver for small companies, particularly in the developing world. Cloud deployed enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management applications (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) applications, medical applications, business applications and mobile applications have potential to reach millions of users. In this paper, we explore the different concepts involved in cloud computing and we also examine clouds from technical aspects. We highlight some of the opportunities in cloud computing underlining the importance of clouds showing why that technology must succeed and we have provided additional cloud computing problems that businesses may need to address. Finally, we discuss some of the issues that this area should deal with.