SWOT Analysis of Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

Cloud computing is a technology which deals with the collection of a large number of computers connected together on communication networks, for example the Internet. Cloud computing, dynamically increases computing capacity or add capabilities with minimum intervention of humans and without much investment in new infrastructure. At this moment cloud computing is at infancy stage, with many groups of providers, delivering cloud-based services, from full-scale applications to storage services. In the present era, IT sector turned into cloud-based services independently, but cloud computing integrators and aggregators as of now up and coming. The virtual servers in cloud computing virtually exist and so they can be scaled on the fly without affecting the client, to some extent in spite of being physically objectified, cloud gets expanded or compressed. In this paper, an attempt is made to do a SWOT analysis of a cloud computing environment as many users are in dilemma whether to use it or not. What are the benefits and disadvantages in using the cloud? A critical and detail analysis is done by mapping its Strengths (S), Weakness (W), Opportunity (O), and Threat (T) in different ways.