New Horizons of Cloud Computing

Over the last years various approaches and solutions in relation to Cloud Computing have been suggested and discussed. Papers have addressed infrastructural concerns, security and configuration challenges as well as performance issues together with frameworks, application scenarios and business considerations. In addition to technical and managerial issues, domain specific challenges and opportunities of applying Cloud Computing to various sectors have been discussed. Furthermore, recently a move by many cloud providers to business and industry-specific cloud solutions can be observed [1]. Overall, the term “Cloud Computing” has become the summary to describe a new paradigm in computing, with many challenges and opportunities. According to Foster et al. [2], this has largely become popular due to the decrease in hardware cost, increase in computing power, exponentially growing data size, and the wide-spread adoption of service computing. As these trends continue and further advances in technology can be expected, we can assume a further increase in the adoption of Cloud Computing among many industries and applications..