Cloud computing and security challenges

Cloud Computing recently emerged as a promising solution to information technology (IT) management. IT managers look to cloud computing as a means to maintain a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure that enables business agility. In this paper Cloud Computing services including data storage service, cloud computing operating system and software as a service will be introduced, Cloud Computing security challenges will be discussed and Cisco Secure Cloud Data Center Framework will be presented.

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