Adoption Of Cloud Technology Research Articles

A Cloud-Based Architecture for Interactive E-Training

Cloud-based technologies play a significant role in the technology-enhanced learning domain. The adoption of cloud technologies in the educational environment has a positive impact on the learning process by offering new tools and services to improve and support the learning life cycle, including interactivity. In specific fields, such as clinical skills training, that involve computer-intensive training scenarios, there is an increased demand to deliver training services to a larger number of learners, therefore the need for cloud services. However, to date there has been a lack of a formalized framework relating to the use of cloud computing for on-demand interactive e-training resources. This paper is to formalize a theoretical framework for an interactive e-training system particularly for clinical skills training, taking into consideration e-training system requirements and with a focus on applying cloud technologies to ensure the dynamic scalability of services and computing power while maintaining QoS and security

Cloud computing review: concepts, technology, challenges and security

Cloud computing delivers IT-related capabilities as a service through internet to multiple customers and these services are charged based on consumption. Many cloud computing providers such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM and Amazon are moving towards adoption of cloud technology leading to a considerable escalation in the usage of various cloud services. Amazon is the pioneer in this field because of its more number of architectural features compared to others. To meet the needs of cloud service providers and customers various open source tools and commercial tools are being developed. Though many more developments have been taken place in the cloud computing area, many challenges such as security, interoperability, resource scheduling, virtualisation etc. are yet to be fine tuned. This paper reviews cloud computing paradigm in terms of its historical evolution, concepts, technology, tools and various challenges. Systematic literature review (SLR) of 77 selected papers, published from 2000 to 2015 is done to properly understand the nuances of the cloud computing paradigm. Since security is the major challenge in cloud computing, it is discussed separately in detail. This review paper helps researchers who would like to begin their research career in cloud computing area.

La actitud de los recursos humanos de las organizaciones ante la complejidad de las aplicaciones SaaS

The aim of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of adoption of cloud technology and its contribution in improving competitiveness of an organization from the perspective of human resources. This research studies the adoption of this technology depending on the size of organization and of the employment category of respondent. The results show the influence of technological complexity, the support of senior management, communication, training and attitude towards the system in intended end use of cloud, especially depending on the size of the organization that adopts the cloud and of the employment category of respondent belonging to the organization.

Customers perspectives on adoption of cloud computing in banking sector

The advent of cloud computing has transformed the role of the Internet in many businesses and organizations. Currently, banks are increasingly adopting cloud technologies to fulfil their varied purposes and to create a flexible and agile banking environment that can quickly respond to new business needs. However, past studies tend to focus more on the adoption issues of cloud computing from the organizational perspective with little attention paid on the users' view of these cloud-based services. Therefore, this paper attempts to investigate the factors influencing cloud computing adoption in the banking sector from the customers' perspective and to propose an adoption model for this purpose. The model is mainly developed based on the TAM-diffusion theory model (TAM-DTM) with the introduction of three new constructs namely trust, cost, and security and privacy. Questionnaires were randomly distributed to 162 bank customers in Malaysia. Survey data were analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) method while SmartPLS was used to test the hypotheses and to validate the proposed model. The results suggest that trust, cost, and security and privacy can be successfully integrated within the TAM-TDM. The security and privacy constructs exhibited strong positive influence on perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and trust. The study concludes that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, cost, attitudes toward cloud and trust significantly influence users' behavioral intention to adopt cloud computing. Thus, the finding of this study will enable banks to focus more on customer perspectives on cloud-based applications and identify their attitude towards their adoption.

La actitud de los recursos humanos de las organizaciones ante la complejidad de las aplicaciones SaaS

The aim of this research is to contribute to a better understanding of adoption of cloud technology and its contribution in improving competitiveness of an organization from the perspective of human resources. This research studies the adoption of this technology depending on the size of organization and of the employment category of respondent. The results show the influence of technological complexity, the support of senior management, communication, training and attitude towards the system in intended end use of cloud, especially depending on the size of the organization that adopts the cloud and of the employment category of respondent belonging to the organization.

The Adoption of Cloud Computing in the Field of Genomics Research: The Influence of Ethical and Legal Issues.

This study aims to understand the influence of the ethical and legal issues on cloud computing adoption in the field of genomics research. To do so, we adapted Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) theory to enable understanding of how key stakeholders manage the various ethical and legal issues they encounter when adopting cloud computing. Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with genomics researchers, patient advocates and cloud service providers. Thematic analysis generated five major themes: 1) Getting comfortable with cloud computing; 2) Weighing the advantages and the risks of cloud computing; 3) Reconciling cloud computing with data privacy; 4) Maintaining trust and 5) Anticipating the cloud by creating the conditions for cloud adoption. Our analysis highlights the tendency among genomics researchers to gradually adopt cloud technology. Efforts made by cloud service providers to promote cloud computing adoption are confronted by researchers’ perpetual cost and security concerns, along with a lack of familiarity with the technology. Further underlying those fears are researchers’ legal responsibility with respect to the data that is stored on the cloud. Alternative consent mechanisms aimed at increasing patients’ control over the use of their data also provide a means to circumvent various institutional and jurisdictional hurdles that restrict access by creating siloed databases. However, the risk of creating new, cloud-based silos may run counter to the goal in genomics research to increase data sharing on a global scale.

A Review on Multiple Survey Report of Cloud Adoption and its Major Barriers in the Perspective of Bangladesh

Cloud computing is called globalization for computer and internet. Either directly or indirectly we are using cloud technology almost every day. Today cloud computing is getting popular in every developed country, but it’s not over all officially adopted in most of the 3rd world developing country like Bangladesh. This paper will show some categorize survey of continuous progress, advantages, disadvantages, dependencies, maturity of cloud computing from 2012 to till now. Also we will show recent ranking of cloud adoption in different country. Also our main target will review major barriers to adopt cloud. Finally we will propose some initial steps to adopt cloud technology in our country by studying previous trade-off factors of survey report.

Cloud Computing - Key Pillar for Digital India

Kirtankumar R. Rathod Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Indus University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, INDIA ABSTRACT Companies are doing marketing or branding of their products and services using digital media. Life is becoming so smooth and transparent by the sharing of information through the digital mediums. Whether it is a small or a big company, everybody is running for the competition, because they want to lock their customers. In this paper current market scenario is included with respect to cloud computing solution. Data access at present has limitations. Government data which is publicly accessible should have some policy. Cloud Computing is likely to be one of the key pillars on which various e-Governance services would ride. Digital India is a program to prepare India for a knowledge future. Digital India should have policy wherein the Government will be providing information and services to internal and external stakeholders. Cloud computing has become the most stimulating development and delivery alternative in the new millennium. A lot of departments are showing interest to adopt Cloud technology, but awareness on Cloud security needs to be increased. The adoption of Cloud is helping organizations innovate, do things faster, become more agile and enhance their revenue stream. In this paper, the information regarding cloud services and models are provided. Also, the main focus is on what government can do with the help of it for Digital India mission?

A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis on Access Control Schemes in Cloud Environment

Abstract Cloud computing has emerged as the most dominant computational paradigm in recent times. There are tremendous benefits for enterprises adopting cloud technologies. It provides resources and services on demand, pay-as-you go basis. This includes infrastructure, platform and software services. But there are still a number of security threats and challenges associated with utilizing cloud computing. A proper access control is the fundamental security requirement in any cloud environment, to avoid unauthorized access to the cloud systems. As cloud computing supports multi-tenancy and has a various categories of users with different sets of security requirements, traditional access control models and policies cannot be used. This paper discusses on various access control models used for cloud environment and presents a detailed requirement analysis for developing an access control, specifically for the cloud. A comprehensive study on various security problems associated with outsourced data on the cloud and their existing solutions are also described, with the future research directions.

Monitoring the delivery of virtualized resources to the LHC experiments

The adoption of cloud technologies by the LHC experiments places the fabric management burden of monitoring virtualized resources upon the VO. In addition to monitoring the status of the virtual machines and triaging the results, it must be understood if the resources actually provided match with any agreements relating to the supply. Monitoring the instantiated virtual machines is therefore a fundamental activity and hence this paper describes how the Ganglia monitoring system can be used for the cloud computing resources of the LHC experiments. Expanding upon this, it is then shown how the integral of the time-series monitoring data obtained can be re-purposed to provide a consumer-side accounting record, which can then be compared with the concrete agreements that exist between the supplier of the resources and the consumer. From this alone, it is not clear though how the performance of the resources differ both within and between providers. Hence, the case is made for a benchmarking metric to normalize the data along with some results from a preliminary investigation on obtaining such a metric.

Technological Innovation of Small and Medium Enterprises in Kosovo: Challenges and Barriers

The ability to innovate, is the main challenge in the fast changing global markets, to maintain a stable economic development in the long term. The ICT can carry strategic incentives to adjust the economic structure and to modify the economic model of a country. This process can build a resource-saving and a environmentally friendly society. The technological innovation can improve the international competitiveness of the economy and the overall employment rate of young generations. The rapid development of SMEs has become a major force to support economic growth of Kosovo. However, small and medium enterprises in transitional economies are not always trusting technological innovation. Several businesses due to multiple internal and external environmental factors, show a low level of confidence over technological innovation. In fact, from an internal point of view, the management can be afraid of security issues, like leak of strategic information, or moreover company secrets. The typical example can be the reluctance to adopt cloud technology platforms to improve the management tasks and operations. Meanwhile the external threat can be an overturn of the management style that threatens positions and hierarchy within the organization. This paper aims to analyze some key factors that prevent the spread of technological enhancement in small and medium enterprises in Kosovo. Some typical case studies will be analyzed and further policy recommendations will be suggested. Keywords: SME, ICT, confidence, success, transition economy.

Migrating to the cloud

Purpose – Cloud computing is a relatively new phenomena. It has rarely been examined in the context of the small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The purpose of this paper is to examine the drivers and barriers to cloud computing adoption by SMEs in Ireland. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopted an exploratory approach. A quantitative approach was adopted in the data collection phase. An online self-completion questionnaire was distributed by e-mail to 1,500 SMEs in Ireland. A response rate of 6 per cent was achieved generating 95 usable responses. Findings – Findings from this study indicate that Irish SMEs are adopting cloud technology. The key driver identified is the resultant cost benefits for the firm. However, concern over continuous availability of the service is identified by the SME as a key challenge and is hindering widespread adoption of cloud technology. Research limitations/implications – This study whilst exploratory in nature, has laid the foundation for further research in the area of cloud computing adoption. This research should enable further studies to replicate this process with the possibility of extending the study to include other countries, on a larger scale and with a particular focus on the knowledge intensive business services sector. This study would benefit from adding a qualitative perspective to the research topic to add depth and enhance the “richness” of the data collected during the process. Practical implications – This study concludes that policy makers and cloud providers need to provide assurances to SMEs over issues of continuous availability of the cloud service through increased and on-going investment in a high-speed, broadband infrastructure and through ensuring issues pertaining to standardization and compliance are resolved. Originality/value – This exploratory research has illuminated this area through examining the drivers and barriers to cloud adoption by SMEs. In the Irish context, the benefits of engaging in such activity can reap many benefits. Of particular importance to a peripheral economy such as Ireland is the value of adopting cloud computing which is central to offering competitive advantage and controlling costs.

AVOCLOUDY: a simulator of volunteer clouds

SummaryThe increasing demand of computational and storage resources is shifting users toward the adoption of cloud technologies. Cloud computing is based on the vision of computing as utility, where users no more need to buy machines but simply access remote resources made available on‐demand by cloud providers. The relationship between users and providers is defined by a service‐level agreement, where the non‐fulfillment of its terms is regulated by the associated penalty fees. Therefore, it is important that the providers adopt proper monitoring and managing strategies. Despite their reduced application, intelligent agents constitute a feasible technology to add autonomic features to cloud operations. Furthermore, the volunteer computing paradigm—one of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) trends of the last decade—can be pulled alongside traditional cloud approaches, with the purpose to ‘green’ them. Indeed, the combination of data center and volunteer resources, managed by agents, allows one to obtain a more robust and scalable cloud computing platform. The increased challenges in designing such a complex system can benefit from a simulation‐based approach, to test autonomic management solutions before their deployment in the production environment. However, currently available simulators of cloud platforms are not suitable to model and analyze such heterogeneous, large‐scale, and highly dynamic systems. We propose the AVOCLOUDY simulator to fill this gap. This paper presents the internal architecture of the simulator, provides implementation details, summarizes several notable applications, and provides experimental results that measure the simulator performance and its accuracy. The latter experiments are based on real‐world worldwide distributed computations on top of the PlanetLab platform. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Lifestyle-technology fit: Theorizing the role of self-identity in IS research

Sociology and modernist theories have long emphasized the central role of lifestyle in processes of self-identity and attitude formation. Furthermore, lifestyle has been used to great effect in marketing and health research to predict attitudes, cognitions, and behaviors, but has largely been ignored in the IS field. In this study, we demonstrate the potential usefulness of incorporating lifestyle into IS research by using lifestyle cluster segmentation in the context of technology adoption. Based on a U.S. national random sample of 402 non-cloud service users, we propose, analyze, and validate a multi-faceted model of cloud technology adoption that integrates technology attributes—the dominant predictors in IS adoption and acceptance models—with a range of demographic, domestic, leisurely and professional variables for providing a holistic theoretical understanding of and practical insights into the technology adoption process.

Analysis of cloud adoption determinants by using BOCR analysis and DEMATEL

This study was conducted to identify factors influencing the adoption of cloud technologies from the perspective of the benefits, opportunities, costs and risks (BOCR). Analyses were performed using DEMATEL which allows seeing the cloud adoption factors on a micro scale. The data was collected by conducting discussions with IT decision makers in the two companies engaged in the mining service sector, namely PTDH and UT, which represented the medium-and large-scale enterprises respectively. By involving both companies, we aimed to explore the impact of organisational characteristics to the cloud technology adoption. The results showed that the adoption of the cloud technology is strongly influenced by organisational characteristics. Internal characteristics of organisations that most influenced the adoption of the cloud technology are the availability of resources, followed by the organisational structure, availability of experts, and support of management in the organisation.

Trust: A Requirement for Cloud Technology Adoption

Cloud computing is a recent model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such as networks, servers, storage, applications, and services; that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Studies have shown that cloud computing has the potential to benefit establishments, industries, national and international economies. Despite the enormous benefits cloud computing technology has the potentials of offering, several issues are making intended users to pause in adopting the usage of the technology. Users need to be assured of the safety and reliability of the technology while using it. This is needed to build confidence around the technology and reduce the level of anxiety. This research attempts to investigate the effect of trust in the adoption of the technology by formulating a trust model based on Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory model and Bayesian network. A simulation experiment was carried out to determine the significance of trust in the adoption of cloud technology.

클라우드 컴퓨팅 환경을 위한 기존 시스템의 이전 방안 연구

Abstract Cloud computing technology will provide application that needs many resources and various services to customers without any restriction of time and place. So, many of companies are now adopting cloud computing technology to this business and this trend is now increasing. However, cloud technology adoption rate is low because of security, compatibility, loss of control, security, data protection, performance and uptime, to the risk of vendor lock-in Cloud computing services, and compatibility with existing systems and anxiety. Now, many people are interest on the migration of existing systems but there are many study on this issue. So, more of study on this issue should be needed. This paper will show you the method that how to adopt cloud computing to their business and also show you evolution of cloud computing for existing system. Key Words : cloud computing, software engineering, migration, system re-engineering, IT Modernization Received 1 August 2014, Revised 15 September 2014 Accepted 20 October 2014Corresponding Author: Hae-Sool Yang(Graduate School of Venture, hoseo University) Email: hsyang@hoseo.eduⒸ The Society of Digital Policy & Management. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is ISSN: 1738-1916 properly cited.

Impact Study of Cloud Computing on Business Development

The entire world focuses on the consumer marketing allegations of the hastily evolving convergence of dynamically scalable multi-client computational power, use of storage services and databases made obtainable through a network or the Internet. On the whole development is also known as “Cloud Computing. Public services linked with Cloud Computing grew from $9 billion to $40 billion over the last five years. This convergence is aggravated by the increased usage of e-Commerce, social media and smart phones and mobile commerce. This empirical impact study emphasizes the consequences of adopting Cloud Technology in business organizations (micro, Small Medium Businesses (SMBs) and Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)) and how it affects business development, from various research literature.

Key Factors Impacting Cloud Computing Adoption

Findings from multiple cloud provider case studies identify 9 key factors and 15 subfactors affecting the adoption of cloud technology. These range from technological issues to broader organizational and environmental issues.

Cloud Standardization: Consistent Business Processes and Information

Cloud computing represents one of the latest emerging trends in distributed computing that enables the existence of hardware infrastructure and software applications as services. The present paper offers a general approach to the cloud computing standardization as a mean of improving the speed of adoption for the cloud technologies. Moreover, this study tries to show out how organizations may achieve more consistent business processes while operating with cloud computing technologies.Keywords: Business processes, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, Standardization1 IntroductionIn the current economic climate the gov- ernments all over the world try to maximize return on investments on multiple levels. Due to their versatility, cloud technologies may be an important factor in reducing costs and at the same time increasing the value offered by information and communication technolo- gies.In order to embrace such cloud computing technology implementations, organizations have to consider all the influencing factors.2 Current EU Status-Some Proceedings for using Governance and Enterprise Ar- chitecture FrameworksAt European level there are intense activities to standardize concepts and cloud technolo- gies. In the communication sent by the Euro- pean Commission - Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in [1], are ar- ticulated the first European definitions and strategies in this area. According to the Eu- ropean Commission, Cloud Computing is understood as the ability to store, process and access data located on remote systems. In this model, users can assign virtually unlim- ited computing resources for which they do not need to make major capital investments. Using a business model based on the cloud, even the smallest business can expand to larger markets while governments can make their services more attractive and effective. Cloud computing is still in its infancy, which allows EC and Europe to innovate and devel- op the concept.EC aims to prepare all the industry sectors for adoption of business models based on Cloud systems. These systems can reduce costs, and when combined with digital best practices can increase productivity and stimulate organizations to increase the num- ber of jobs. Thus by 2020 it is estimated that about 45 billion will be spent on Cloud tech- nologies and these will influence GDP by up to 957 billion and create 3.8 million jobs. Studies carried out by the EC in 2011 shows that if 80% of organizations would adopt Cloud technologies they could reduce operat- ing costs by 20%, would increase the home working by up to 46%, increase productivity by up to 41%, standardization by up to 35%, new opportunities and new markets penetra- tion by up to 33%.The unprecedented growth in data flows and data processing technologies over the Inter- net has a significant impact on the environ- ment through energy consumption, water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Cloud technologies could have a major effect in reducing these problems by using re- sources more efficiently. For example in the U.S. it is estimated that major operators would save $ 12.3 billion annually if they would adopt Cloud technologies.Private sector adoption of Cloud technologies in Europe is over 64% but organizations are still cautious about implementations. The general trend is to use hybrid cloud deploy- ment models and testing of non-critical ser- vices. This reduces risk but also reduce the potential economic impact of cloud technol- ogies. The main factors contributing to these limitations are legal constraints, security and data protection in the cloud. Therefore most implementations European Cloud deploy- ments are limited to private.Adoption in the public sector is not very dif- ferent from the private and concerns are simi- lar. The principal aspects in the public sector are reducing costs and increasing service quality delivered by the Cloud platforms. …