A Survey On Cloud Networking

Abstract Cloud computing is one of the evolving technology in today's era. It has changed the whole view that distributed computing, grid computing and parallel computing used to present. In the past few years cloud computing has grown widely and becomes the part of the IT industry, because it offers reliability, scalability, flexibility and cost effectiveness for computer processes. And also it offers reduced capital expenditure, complexity and maintenance, operational risks to those who ask for the service. It provides economical computing resources for business applications to small, medium and large organizations. It offers the resources and services through internet, where these services are delivered form data centres located throughout the world. Cloud networking is a new approach which adds networking functionalities to the cloud computing. It extends the approach of cloud computing by providing extra flexibility in the aspect of location, movement and interconnection in between virtual resources. This paper surveys the concept of cloud networking, cloud network management and its security architecture