ABSTRACT

After decades of engineering development, Internet connectivity has become a commodity product in many countries. The rapid adoption of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogging, online media sharing, social networking, and web-based collaboration has moved enormous quantities of data onto Internet servers. Along with this migration to web services has come a push for companies to adopt utility computing. Much like traditional infrastructure utilities, such as gas and electricity, utility or “cloud” computing seeks to abstract the supply of computing services from concerns of everyday users.