A Novel and Flexible Cloud Architecture for Data-Centric Applications

Software as a service or (SaaS) is a new software development and deployment paradigm over the cloud. It offers Information Technology services dynamically as "on-demand" basis over the internet. The related application data are stored in the large data centers managed by the Cloud Service Providers. Therefore the user need not to bother about the data storage or data management techniques and they can be able to access their applications from anywhere on the globe via a standard web browser. Many enterprises are facing a major research challenge due to the unavailability of generic cloud architecture for designing, developing and deploying of cloud services. In this paper flexible cloud architecture has been proposed, specifically for data centric applications which are suitable for heterogeneous types of applications. This paper also has aimed to establish the future research agendas related to design and management of data centric applications over the cloud infrastructure.