Cloud Computing: A Business and Economical Perspective

Contributing Factors of Cloud Computing Adoption: A Technology-Organisation-Environment Framework Approach

“…By doing so, businesses often feel insecure as they have to entrust their confidential data to the provider's protection against the emerging cyberthreats. In particular, privacy of employees' data, consistency and integrity of retrieved data (especially when multiple providers are involved in the process) are the top reasons that make organisations feel reluctant to migrate to the cloud (Sengupta, Kaulgud, and Sharma 2011;Motta, Sfondrini, and Sacco 2012).…”

“…As a consequence, any errors or delays that affect reliability and availability can jeopardise the whole process as well. However, the provider may fail to scale up their infrastructure or maintain high uptime and bandwidth to meet customer's demand in terms of usage, thus affects the stability of the cloud services at some point in time Regulatory, governance and compliance policies can make businesses feel reluctant to adopt cloud computing due to the lack of regulations governing data ownership and privacy as well as data audit (access) and reporting rights (Kim et al 2009;Marston et al 2011;Motta, Sfondrini, and Sacco 2012). In addition, cloud adopters are also concerned about whether they would receive support and protection from the government in case a breach occurred.…”

Service level agreement (SLA) in Public Cloud environments: A Survey on the current enterprises adoption

“…As highlighted by the last Gartner hype-cycle [4], CC is currently in the "trough of disillusionment" phase and it is a consolidated approach to optimizing costs and performances in the IT department [5]- [7]. Several companies are moving business services in Public Cloud environments to reduce the time to market and simplify the structure of IT operations, and now deliver only the core and critical services within their private IT infrastructure [6], [8], [9].…”

Contributing Factors of Information Security Investments in South East Asia SMBs

“…cloud computing. Indeed, a large amount of literature about cloud adoption's barriers share common view on the central issues of data's confidentiality, availability and integrity of firms when they have to entrust their data to the 3 rd parties (Motta, Sfondrini, & Sacco, 2012;Sengupta, Kaulgud, & Sharma, 2011). While it appears that cloud vendors take much responsibility in securing their clients' data, adopters also have to provide adequate training and policy to ensure InfoSec behaviour among their employees.…”