Due to rapid growth of computing resources over the past years, cloud computing has been treated as a prominent research field and this technology appeared as a new solution in the IT field. Many businesses including small, medium and enterprise are migrating to this technology for so many reasons such as computing resources, reduced total cost of ownership, on demand services, increased revenue and many more. Cloud Computing offers number of advantages of cloud migration that motivated the business enterprises to adopt this change. There are so many challenges for the companies adopting cloud computing like interoperability, portability, organizational aspects and the most important challenge is the security and privacy of the information. There are different solutions or suggestions that a company should follow to overcome various challenges and issues.

Cloud computing, positive impact, challenges, Solutions

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