A Proposed Framework for Cloud Computing adoption

Abstract

This paper presents a review related to Cloud Computing focusing on Cloud business requirements. From the review we recommend a number of methods managing Cloud services and evaluating its service performance, including the use of a pair of the Hexagon Models. Three organizational challenges of Cloud adoption are identified: (i) Organizational Sustainability; (ii) Portability and (iii) Linkage. The Cloud Computing Adoption Framework (CCAF) is designed to deal with these challenges by helping organizations to achieve good Cloud designs, deployment and services. How these three challenges are addressed by the CCAF is demonstrated using case studies. Services implemented by CCAF are reviewed using the Hexagon Models for comparison. This paper provides recommendations to help organizations, researchers and practitioners to understand Cloud business context, to measure their risk and return analysis, to migrate their services to Cloud from all types and to connect and integrate different services as a single service. Future direction and security concerns have been addressed in our framework.

Cloud Computing Environment and Security Challenges: A Review

“…NIST is responsible for providing security in the cloud computing environment and developing standards and guidelines which shows a valuable contribution that offers a better understanding of cloud services and computing technologies [2], [12]. Cloud computing architecture summarize as the four deployment models: public cloud, private cloud, community cloud, and the hybrid cloud.…”