Cloud Computing: The Fifth Generation of Computing

Cloud Computing is the emerging buzzword in Information Technology. It is growing day by day due to its rich features of services. It is a virtual pool of resources which are provided to the users through Internet. Cloud computing is a new flavor of computing where our trend of using Internet changes. It is the future of Internet. It is also called as fifth generation of computing after Mainframe, Personal Computer, Client-Server Computing, and the Web. Nowadays, various Internet services are available in distributed manner. To use these services in a feasible manner is a big question because sometimes many resources become idle, they are costly and increase the budget of organization. This is the great matter of concern, especially when the world is facing financial crisis. Cloud Computing can be the answer of these questions. In this paper, we have analyzed and highlighted the various aspects of Cloud Computing to find the actuality of the fifth generation computing in the form of cloud computing.