The following topics offer a lot of scope for research scholars in the cloud infrastructure domain:
Energy optimisation
Load balancing
Security and integrity
Privacy in multi-tenancy clouds
Virtualisation
Data recovery and backup
Data segregation and recovery
Scheduling for resource optimisation
Secure cloud architecture
Cloud cryptography
Cloud access control and key management
Integrity assurance for data outsourcing
Verifiable computation
Software and data segregation security
Secure management of virtualised resources
Trusted computing technology
Joint security and privacy-aware protocol design
Failure detection and prediction
Secure data management within and across data centres
Availability, recovery and auditing
Secure computation outsourcing
Secure mobile cloud
