Classification and Challenges of Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing trend is rapidly increasing that has a technology link with Grid Computing, Utility Computing, Distributed Computing. Cloud service providers such as Amazon IBM, Google’s Application, Microsoft Azure etc., provide the users to developing applications in cloud environment and to access them from anywhere. Cloud sever provider’s access data via remote server in cloud computing. Providing security is a major concern as the data is transmitted to the remote server over a channel (internet). Security challenges need to be addressed first in an organization. In this paper, we highlight data related security challenges in cloud based environment and solutions to overcome.