Data provenance trusted model in cloud computing

Transparency and confident towards cloud provider are some of the prominent issues in cloud today. In order to solve these problems, cloud service providers should have a high level of assurance and accountability in order to maintain trust between them and the users. This trust can be achieved through data provenance. Data provenance provides historical data from its original resources and can facilitate trust between cloud providers and users. This paper discusses the overview of data provenance in cloud computing and significant approach in provenance logging system. This is then followed by discussion of provenance challenges in cloud environment. Finally, this paper propose a novel data provenance trusted model to provide secured access to data provenance via a secured communication channel. This model also propose a consolidation log storage for virtual and physical layer in cloud environment.