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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJTNS</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>International Journal of Technical and Natural Sciences</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">IJTNS</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="print">2671-3500</issn>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2671-3519</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Balkan University Press</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.69648/NQDI9754</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">372</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Demiri</surname>
            <given-names>Valdeta</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="aff1">
          <institution>International Balkan University, Skopje</institution>
        </aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-06-30">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>77</fpage>
      <lpage>95</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">
          <license-p>CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://ijtns.ibupress.com/articles/cloud-computing-implementation-management-and-security" />
      <abstract>
        <p>Cloud computing, a cutting-edge advancement in information and communication technology, offers significant advantages. Includes the flexibility of computing capabilities, unlimited processing power, and economic benefits for individuals and enterprises, as services are paid according to their use. Cloud services, while offering numerous benefits from information technology, must primarily be secure to be reliable.</p>
        <p>Encryption methods can protect data; this approach highlights the limitations of cloud services, rendering them unreliable and inefficient in their offerings. All this makes data owners, especially enterprises, have doubts when their data storage is not under their control, which often occurs in the cloud.</p>
        <p>This research paper aims to address challenges and dilemmas of cloud computing, providing information on its organisation, models, and standard services. It particularly focuses on the security aspects of</p>
        <p>storing enterprise data and the approach to service provider reliability. The topic brings in key points for implementation, management, and security that enterprises should consider when selecting a cloud technology provider. Through field studies, this research paper demonstrates how the provider of these services fulfils these key points.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Cloud Computing</kwd>
        <kwd>Scalability</kwd>
        <kwd>Multi-Tenancy</kwd>
        <kwd>Privacy</kwd>
        <kwd>SaaS</kwd>
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