This document discusses cloud computing and network traffic. It covers several topics:
1. Web-scale problems that are data-intensive and require large data centers to solve. Examples include searching the web and scientific research data.
2. Large data centers have become necessary to handle web-scale problems by centralizing computing resources. Issues include redundancy, efficiency, and management.
3. Different cloud computing models have emerged like utility computing, platform as a service, and software as a service.
For all the network traffic generated, smart network access control, traffic management, and effective security techniques are needed, and there is ongoing research in these areas.