Cloud Computing has been in the middle of many organizational accomplishments. It no doubt heralds the future of the IT industry and is currently undergoing serious research & development. However, this piece of literature will primarily concentrate on the implementation of the infrastructure, the various stages and the different roles involved. As every implementation is undertaken in stages, so is cloud computing. We start with the first stage of initiation.

The Initiation stage includes the requirement analysis of the organization. Starting with resource allocation the process moves to appointment of a leader of operations who is apprised of the requirements and is made responsible to take both stock and control of situations during the establishment. The last process of this stage is the education and briefing to the existing IT department of the organization, if at all it exists. The thing that needs to be ensured is that the organization acting as the client of these services must own or apply for a sustained level of bandwidth, most likely on the higher level. Without satisfactory bandwidth in the Internet connection, cloud computing will not be of much help to any user.

Next comes the establishment phase. The first will be skill-set analysis and marking staff for the various jobs. Normally, the jobs can be defined as the Architect, the Administrator, the Analyst and the Developer. These heads will take care of the scope, capabilities, hyper-visor based hosts in the clusters of clouds, their management etc. All these levels retain various amounts of complexities which are time consuming at instances. This would include a proper contingency plan in place after due identifications of the various adverse possibilities.

The following step is the stage of expansion which is the system of engagements of different teams. This will consist of the gradual working plan of the team and their scope of participation. There has to be a continuous learning phase for the teams for this requires updates on a regular basis. For instance, if the Internet goes kaput, then the plan of action should be modeled on prior drills. Then the total know how of the software, its user interface, the background check and so on is very much important.

The last step of the pyramid has to the sustenance of the performance of the cloud hosting and the service team. There's a need to constantly eke out the possibilities and the service up gradation with the uses over a period of time. The set-up team will be responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act and may be held accountable for any untoward manual mishaps even after the superannuation of the contract. Therefore, the implementation of the cloud hosting set-up is a great deal of job for the industry. The service providers are well adept to the whole procedure and carry off projects with much ease. Normally, the industry norms have kept the service providers on their toes given the neck break competition. It is noteworthy that the cloud hosting providers have served their clients well owing to the competitive services offered at economical tariffs.