Exploring the Power of Cloud Computing Over Grid Computing

Abstract-In today’s network world, the most advanced and recent technology is the Cloud computing. Clouds can be thought as the new generation of Grid Computing. Clouds generally consist of data centres that are owned by the same organization. The homogeneity within each data centre in the infrastructure is the main feature for the cloud computing compared to grid computing. This paper not only defines cloud but provides the different components of clouds. It also provides the different services provided by Clouds and how Cloud’s cost definition differs from that of Grid computing. It further defines the Grid computing with its main characteristics. Main focus of this paper is to compare the cloud computing with the earlier generation technology like Grid computing by high lighting the main differences as well the similarities between them. At the end, this paper also focuses the advantages of using Cloud Computing and its future prospects