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Technical and Legal Issues in Cloud Computing

Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you will be able to

  • Assess technical and legal issues in Cloud

  • Explore research opportunities in Cloud computing

As we saw before, Cloud computing is Internet based computing. It is located somewhere in the network. It is elastic, cost effective, on demand service, just like electricity on pay-as-per basis. In spite of all these benefits, it raises many technical, legal issues and challenges to Cloud users and Cloud service providers. Cloud computing research addresses the challenges of meeting the requirements of next generation private, public and hybrid Cloud computing architectures.

Likewise, the challenges of permitting applications and ...

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