International Journal of Scientific Research Engineering & Technology (IJSRET), ISSN 2278 0882

Volume 4, Issue 9, September 2015

Starring role of Data Mining in Cloud Computing Paradigm

C.Edward Jaya Singh
Assistant Professor, Nesamony Memorial Christian College, Marthandam, Tamilnadu, 629161, India
Dr.E.Baburaj
Professor, Narayanaguru Siddhartha College of Engg. & Technology, Padanthalumoodu, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract
The ideal support of Information and communication
technology leads to the enlargement of Big Data
processing mechanisms like Data Mining. It is an
exercise of extracting concealed as well as valuable
information from raw Data. Today, with the rapid
growth of the Information Technology the size of the
data has been increased from KB level PB level. The
objective of data mining process is also additional and
more problematical, so the data mining algorithms are
needed to be more competent. Cloud computing
paradigm can provide the infrastructure to gigantic and
multifaceted data of data mining, as well as innovative
challenging issues for data mining. The cloud computing
researches are materialized. This Script deals with the
study of how data mining key features are used in cloud
computing and also converse about the basic concept of
cloud computing services and the role of data mining
algorithms for the effectiveness and sketches out how
data mining is recycled in cloud computing paradigm.

1. Introduction
With the rapid growth of processing and storage
technologies and the accomplishment of the Internet,
computing resources have become cost effective, more
authoritative and more collectively available than ever
before. This technological propensity has enabled the
awareness of a new and innovative computing model
called Cloud Computing. NIST definition of cloud
computing: Cloud computing is a model for enabling
convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool
of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks,
servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be
rapidly provisioned and released with minimal
management effort or service provider interaction.
Today, the cloud computing plays a vital role and
undertaking broad changes in the way IT services are
designed, delivered, consumed, and managed. The boom
in cloud computing over the past few years has led to a
situation that is common to many innovations and new
technologies: Cloud computing was coined for what
happens when applications and facilities are moved into

the cloud World. Popularity of cloud computing is

increasing day by day in distributed computing
environment. There is a growing trend of using cloud
environments for storage and data processing needs. To
use the full potential of cloud computing, data is
transferred, processed, retrieved and stored by external
cloud providers. Data owners are very skeptical to place
their data outside their own control sphere. Their main
concerns are the confidentiality, integrity, security and
methods of mining the data from the cloud.

2. Data Mining Services

Data Mining refers to extracting or Mining knowledge
from huge volumes of scattered data. It is a dynamic
process where intelligent methods are applied in order to
extract Data Patterns. Many other terms carry a similar
or slightly different meaning to data mining, such as
knowledge mining from data, knowledge extraction,
data/pattern analysis, data archaeology, and data
dredging. The KDD as a process consists of an iterative
sequence of the following steps:
Data cleaning (to remove noise and inconsistent
data)
Data integration (where multiple data sources
may be combined)1
Data selection (where data relevant to the
analysis task are retrieved from the database)
Data transformation (where data are transformed
or consolidated into forms appropriate
for mining by performing summary or
aggregation operations, for instance)
Data mining (intelligent methods are applied in
order to extract data patterns)
Pattern evaluation (to identify the truly
interesting patterns representing knowledge)

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CLOUD
NAME
Clustering
Classification
Association
Regression
Attribute
Importance
Anomaly
Detection
Feature
Extraction

KEY FEATURES
Useful for exploring data and finding natural groupings. Members of a cluster are more
like each other than they are like members of a different cluster. Common examples
include finding new customer segments and life sciences discovery.
Most commonly used technique for predicting a specific outcome such as response / noresponse, high / medium / low value customer, likely to buy / not buy.
Find the rules associated with frequently co-occurring items, used for market basket
analysis. It can be used to determine the level of generalization and ensure that a pattern
covers a sufficient number of cases.
Technique for predicting a continuous numerical outcome such a customer lifetime value,
house value, process yield rates.
Ranks attributes according to strength of relationship with target attribute. Use cases
include finding factors most associated with customers who respond to an offer, factors
most associated with healthy patients.
Identifies unusual or suspicious cases based on deviation from the norm. Common
examples include health care fraud, expense report fraud, and tax compliance.
Produces new attributes as linear combination of existing attributes. Applicable for text
data, latent semantic analysis, data compression, data decomposition and projection, and
pattern recognition.
Table.1.Cloud Name and its Key Features

3. Few Aspects Regarding Data Mining

Data mining characterizes finding useful hidden patterns
or trends through bulky amounts of data. Data mining is
defined as a type of distributed, relational or object
oriented database analysis that attempts to discover
useful patterns or relationships in a group of data.Data
mining in Cloud Computing: Data mining techniques
and applications are very much required in the cloud
computing paradigm. The data mining role in Cloud
Computing allows the organizations are to centralize the
management of software and data storage, with
declaration of resourceful, reliable and more protected.

4. Primary Cloud Model

A layered model of cloud computing environment
can be divided into 4 layers such as Hardware or
Datacenter layer, Infrastructure layer, Platform layer and
Application layer.

There are different types of clouds, each with its own

benefits and drawbacks. Public clouds: A cloud in which
service providers offer their resources as services to the
general public. It offers several key benefits to service
providers, including no initial capital investment on
infrastructure and shifting of risks to infrastructure
providers. However, public clouds lack fine-grained
control over data, network and security settings, which
hampers their effectiveness in many business scenarios.
Private clouds: Private clouds are designed for exclusive
use by a single organization. A private cloud offers the
highest degree of control over performance, reliability
and security. Hybrid clouds: A hybrid cloud is a
combination of public and private cloud models that tries
to address the limitations of each approach. In a hybrid
cloud, part of the service infrastructure runs in private
clouds while the remaining part runs in public clouds.
Hybrid clouds offer more flexibility than both public and
private clouds. Virtual Private Cloud: An alternative
solution to addressing the limitations of both public and
private clouds is called Virtual Private Cloud. A VPC is
essentially a platform running on top of public clouds.
The main difference is that a VPC leverages virtual
private network (VPN) technology that allows service
providers to design their own topology and security
settings such as firewall rules. VPC provides seamless
transition from a proprietary service infrastructure to a
cloud-based infrastructure, owing to the virtualized
network layer.

Fig. 4.1 Layered Cloud computing architecture

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5. The Responsibility of Data Mining In Cloud

Data mining techniques and applications are very much
needed in the cloud computing paradigm. As cloud
computing is penetrating more and more in all ranges of
business and scientific computing, it becomes a great
area to be focused by data mining. Cloud computing
denotes the new trend in Internet services that rely on
clouds of servers to handle tasks. Data mining in cloud
computing is the process of extracting structured
information from unstructured or semi-structured web
data sources. The data mining in Cloud Computing
allows organizations to centralize the management of
software and data storage, with assurance of efficient,
reliable and secure services for their users. As Cloud
computing refers to software and hardware delivered as
services over the Internet, in Cloud computing data
mining software is also provided in this way.
The main effects of data mining tools being delivered by
the Cloud are the customer only pays for the data mining
tools that he needs that reduces his costs since he
doesnt have to pay for complex data mining suites that
he is not using exhaustive. The customer doesnt have to
maintain a hardware infrastructure, as he can apply data
mining through a browser this means that he has to pay
only the costs that are generated by using Cloud
computing. Using data mining through Cloud computing
reduces the barriers that keep small companies from
benefiting of the data mining instruments. These data
mining tasks include: Analyze Key Influencers, Detect
Categories, Fill From example, Forecast, Highlight
Exceptions, Scenario Analysis, Prediction Calculator,
and Shopping Basket Analysis.
The implementation of data mining techniques through
Cloud computing will allow the users to retrieve carrying
great weight in order to virtually integrated data
warehouse that reduces the costs of infrastructure and
storage.

6. Current Research Challenges In Cloud

Countless obtainable issues have not been entirely
addressed, while new challenges keep emerging from
various applications. This section describes some of the
challenging research issues in cloud computing for
researchers who are much interested in this field.
6.1 Automated service provisioning
One of the primary key features of cloud computing
is the capability of acquiring and releasing resources ondemand. The objective of a service provider in this case
is to allocate and de-allocate resources from the cloud to
satisfy its service level objectives while minimizing its
operational cost.

6.2 Virtual machine migration

Virtualization can provide significant benefits in
cloud computing by enabling virtual machine migration
to balance load across the data center. In addition, virtual
machine migration enables robust and highly responsive
provisioning in data centers. Now, detecting workload
hotspots and initiating a migration lacks the agility to
respond to rapid workload changes.
6.3 Server consolidation
Server consolidation is an effective innovative
approach to take full advantage of resource utilization
while minimizing energy consumption in a cloud
computing environment.
Existing virtual machine
migration technology residing on multiple servers onto a
single server at that time the remaining servers can be set
to an energy-saving state. The problem of optimally
consolidating servers in a data center is often formulated
as a variant of the vector bin-packing problem which is
an NP-hard optimization problem.
6.4. Energy management
Improving energy efficiency is another major issue
in cloud computing. Infrastructure providers are under
enormous pressure to reduce energy consumption.
Designing energy-efficient data centers has recently
received considerable attention. This problem can be
from several directions such as Energy efficient
hardware architecture, Energy-aware job scheduling and
server consolidation. In this admiration, the minority
researchers have recently started to investigate
coordinated solutions for performance and power
management in a active cloud environment.
6.5. Traffic management and analysis
Examination of data traffic is significant for todays
data centers in cloud environment. Network operators
also need to know how traffic flows through the network
in order to make many of the management and planning
decisions. Currently, there is not much work on
measurement and analysis of data center traffic.
6.6. Data security
Data security is another important research topic in
cloud computing. Since service providers typically do
not have access to the physical security system of data
centers, they must rely on the infrastructure provider to
achieve full data security. The hardware layer must be
trusted using hardware TPM. Secondly, the virtualization
platform must be trusted using secure virtual machine
monitors. VM migration should only be allowed if both
source and destination servers are trusted. Recent work
has been devoted to designing efficient protocols for
trust establishment and management.

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6.7. Storage technologies and data management

These file systems are different from traditional
distributed file systems in their storage structure, access
pattern and application programming interface. In
particular, they do not implement the standard POSIX
interface, and therefore introduce compatibility issues
with legacy file systems and applications. Several
research efforts have studied this problem but not yet
optimum.
6.8. Novel cloud architectures
Now, most of the commercial clouds are
implemented in large data centers and operated in a
centralized fashion. Although this design achieves
economy-of-scale and high manageability, it also comes
with its limitations such high energy expense and high
initial investment for constructing data centers. Recent
researchers suggests that small size data centers can be
more advantageous than big data centers in many cases:
a small data center does not consume so much power,
hence it does not require a powerful and yet expensive
cooling system; small data centers are cheaper to build
and better geographically distributed than large data
centers. The researchers think to build Nano-Data centers
with full pledged manner.
The Data mining technologies provided throughout
Cloud computing is an extremely essential trait for
todays businesses to make proactive, knowledge driven
decisions, as it helps them have future trends and
behaviors predicted. This chapter provides an overview
of the necessity and utility of data mining in cloud
computing. As the need for data mining tools is growing
every day, the aptitude of integrating them in cloud
computing becomes progressively stringent. The current
technologies are not matured enough to realize its full
potential. In future the researchers highly deliberate the
data mining technologies to implement in fog computing.

7. Conclusion
Popularity of cloud computing is increasing day by day
in distributed computing environment. There is a
growing trend of using cloud environments for storage
and data processing needs. To use the full potential of
cloud computing, data is transferred, processed, retrieved
and stored by external cloud providers. Data owners are
very skeptical to place their data outside their own
control sphere. Their main concerns are the
confidentiality, integrity, security and methods of mining
the data from the cloud.

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