A Survey of Cloud Computing Approaches, Business Opportunities, Risk Analysis and Solving Approaches

Mohamed H. Farrag Canadian International College, Cairo, Egypt Email: [email protected] Mona M. Nasr Faculty of Computers and Information, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. Email: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT--------------------------------------------------------------In recent years, cloud computing become mainstream technology in IT industry offering new trends to software, platform and infrastructure as a service over internet on a global scale by centralizing storage, memory and bandwidth. This new technology raises some new opportunities in producing different business operations which influence some new business benefits also some different risks issues are involved using cloud computing. This paper attempts to identify cloud computing approaches, highlights its business opportunities and help cloud computing user to analysis the cloud computing risks and to produce different solving approaches. This paper is targeted towards business and IT leaders considering a move to the cloud for some or all of their business applications.