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 Adoption in the South African Public Sector

“…The solution concerning data protection, privacy, sovereignty, and data residency is perceived to be an enabler for cloud computing adoption. [20,21] Compatibility How cloud computing is perceived by the government should be consistent with the present values, work styles, experience, and requirements of public service. [19] IT infrastructure This involves the readiness of the technical infrastructure of the organisation for cloud computing adoption.…”

“…The energy consumption for the cloud is less compared to the traditional data centres. [16,18,21,24] Cloud computing policy, regulation, and the strategy Regulation, policy, and guidelines concerning cloud adoption or implementation are deemed critical. [18] The literature highlights several key enablers of cloud computing that support the referenced table.…”

“…[ 21,24] Complexity The degree to which cloud computing is perceived as challenging to understand and use may affect cloud adoption. [26,27] Compatibility Compatibility issues may influence cloud computing adoption.…”

“…Budgetary constraints, coupled with an unreliable power supply, have also been acknowledged as substantial impediments preventing the public sector from embracing cloud computing [25,31]. The dual nature of security, being both an enabler and a barrier, has been a recurrent theme in cloud computing adoption literature [21,24]. Compatibility issues arising from legacy systems have the potential to cause significant delays in the adoption and expeditious implementation of cloud computing solutions [23,26].…”

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.…”