Cost Effective Management of Intermediate Datasets in Cloud Environment

Cloud computing technology helps users to share resources. Cloud computing provides good computing power, reasonable cost of services, scalability, high performance, accessibility and availability. The cost of service is based on the pay as per usage scheme. Companies can scale up or scale down based on their business requirements. In some cases it is cost-effective to save the intermediate datasets that are produced when data is processed. Communities interested in a particular resource, may share the stoed information. When resources are shared, security concerns arise. There is also a need to store the data efficiently as storage cost depends on the amount of data stored. This paper deals with storing the intermediate datasets securely and cost-effectively.