An Overview of Cloud Computing: Data Storage Protocols and Security Techniques

Abstract

Cloud computing has emerged as a new technology for hosting and delivering services over the internet. Cloud
computing removes the necessity for users to plan ahead for resource provisioning. So it is appealing for business owners.
Using cloud computing enterprises can start off with little resources as needed and later on increase the resources when
needed. Cloud computing has made a huge impact in IT industry. However cloud computing is at its developing stages only.
Still there are many issues to be considered. In this paper an overview of cloud computing is given. The concepts used in
cloud computing is also highlighted. This paper also gives an idea about the data storage security and protocols which are
used in cloud computing.