Taking account of trust when adopting cloud computing architecture

Recently, with the rapid growth of distributed computing, high performance computing and cloud services, trust issue is a primary concern and become a hot topic. Furthermore, the lack of trust comes from a lack of transparency, loss of control over data and unclear security assurances, which impedes its large-scale adoption. To fill these gaps, the authors have dissected the challenges related to cloud computing trust and the virtual environment, components of trust and approaches able to establish an acceptable level of trust in the minds of users.