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Cloud Computing Security Issues and Challenges
Kuyoro 'Shade O., Ibikunle Frank, Awodele Oludele
Pages - 247 - 255     |    Revised - 01-11-2011     |    Published - 15-12-2011
Volume - 3   Issue - 5    |    Publication Date - November / December 2011  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Cloud Computing, Scalability, Infrastructure, IT
ABSTRACT
Cloud computing is a set of IT services that are provided to a customer over a network on a leased basis and with the ability to scale up or down their service requirements. Usually cloud computing services are delivered by a third party provider who owns the infrastructure. It advantages to mention but a few include scalability, resilience, flexibility, efficiency and outsourcing non-core activities. Cloud computing offers an innovative business model for organizations to adopt IT services without upfront investment. Despite the potential gains achieved from the cloud computing, the organizations are slow in accepting it due to security issues and challenges associated with it. Security is one of the major issues which hamper the growth of cloud. The idea of handing over important data to another company is worrisome; such that the consumers need to be vigilant in understanding the risks of data breaches in this new environment. This paper introduces a detailed analysis of the cloud computing security issues and challenges focusing on the cloud computing types and the service delivery types.
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Miss Kuyoro 'Shade O.
Babcock University - Nigeria
afolashadeng@gmail.com
Dr. Ibikunle Frank
Covenant University - Nigeria
Dr. Awodele Oludele
Babcock University - Nigeria


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