Volume 1 - Issue 1
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Cloud Computing
- Malek Ben Salem
Columbia University New York, USA
malek@cs.columbia.edu
- Bu-Sung Lee
School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
ebslee@ntu.edu.sg
- Francis
School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Jie Zhang
School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
zhang@ntu.edu.sg
Keywords: Cloud Computing, Amazon, Flexiscale, GoGrid
Abstract
Cloud computing has been gaining more acceptance thanks to the benefits it offers to customers including
increased scalability, higher reliability, cost reduction, and higher accessibility. For example, customers
such as small sized companies are able to offload the important tasks of data storage and computation
because of these services offered by cloud computing providers (e.g. Amazon, Flexiscale, GoGrid, etc.).
However, cloud computing still faces many challenges in its three different segments: “applications”,
“platforms”, and “infrastructure”, not the least of which are security-related challenges. Security (more
specifically, the integrity and confidentiality of data and computation) has been agreed to be the most
important issue preventing from the popular adoption of cloud computing by companies.