Most sectors of the economy like the universities, high-tech, financial services, and government institutions have data center. However, there are some issues which encompass current data center such as physical location, energy consumption, performance, flexibility. Big organizations like Google, IBM have migrated toward cloud computing, and using cloud data center as the most cost efficient alternative to the current data center. Cloud computing is a model that provides suitable and on-demand access to a unfortunately, it has some attendant problems like security issue, lack of proper policy and standardization. Therefore, in spite of the provision of all the benefits of cloud computing, such as cost reduction, flexibility, easy implementation and accessibility, some organisations are suspected to move toward cloud computing data center. Therefore, the main focus of this paper is to determine the critical success factors for the adoption of cloud computing data center. To achieve this, a structural literature review of existing work and semi structured interview with ten IT administration and IT staff were carried out. We also performed a content validity using a panel of experts including 12 experts with more than 5 years experience. Subsequently, a FAHP technique was used to evaluate experts' consensuses.

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With the current financial crisis and challenging growing needs, many universities are facing problems in providing necessary information technology (IT) support for administrative, educational, and research activities. Cloud Computing (CC) has been developed to meet these demands, and is accepted by numerous organizations as a good alternative to manage their IT provisions. However, it is rarely used at universities. This paper intends to find out the major reasons that have caused many universitiesare non usage of CC. A systematic review was conducted based on recently published works on CC to identify the staff positions as well as their required services. Secondly, a correspondence to these was initiated to find out the models/services/applications that are available in the marketplace. Furthermore, an explorative case study was used to find out the factors that have caused the negligence of CC applications at universities. A semi-structured interview was also conducted with administrators, IT staffers, technicians and clerks at four public and private universities in Malaysia. The collected data were analyzed using an open coding methodology. To support the finding of interview a survey is done and a questionnaire distributed. For analysing the result of questionnaire correlation and regression is done by using SPSS.