Cloud Computing for Agricultural Information Management in India

1 Asst. Professor in Computer Science, Dr. PDKV, College of Agriculture, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. 2 Librarian, Dr. PDKV, College of Agriculture, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Use of Cloud computing technology in agricultural sector has greater opportunity in the overall development of India. An effective implementation of cloud computing is encouraging in agricultural sector. Cloud Computing is emerging today as a commercial infrastructure that eliminates the need for maintaining expensive computing hardware, software, IT staff, infrastructure, recourses and their maintenance. Through the use of virtualization, clouds promise to address with the same shared set of physical resources a large user base with different needs. Cloud storage enables users to remotely store their data and enjoy the on-demand high quality cloud applications without the burden of local hardware and software management. Though the benefits are clear, such a service is also relinquishing users’ physical possession of their outsourced data, which inevitably poses new security risks towards the correctness of the data in cloud. The proposed design allows users to edit the cloud storage with very lightweight communication and computation cost. The editing result not only ensures strong cloud storage correctness guarantee, but also simultaneously achieves fast data error localization, i.e., the identification of misbehaving server.