The usage and adoption of cloud computing by small and medium businesses

Gupta, Prashant; Seetharaman, A.; Raj, John Rudolph

doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2013.07.001

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“…A third of our respondents are still using long-term external hosting providers. Despite cloud computing being sometimes branded as primarily interesting to startup companies [9], there is no significant difference between the data of small companies and large enterprises in our study. Interestingly, even though recent study results indicate that elasticity and automated scaling are primary drivers in cloud adoption [5], most services (70%) are currently actually not scaled automatically.…”

Section: Service Hosting and Deploymentcontrasting

confidence: 63%

All the services large and micro: Revisiting industrial practices in services computing

Schermann¹,

Cito²,

Leitner³

2015

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Services computing is both, an academic field of study looking back at close to 15 years of fundamental research, as well as a vibrant area of industrial software engineering.Industrial practice in this area is notorious for its ever-changing nature, with the state of the art changing almost on a yearly basis based on the ebb and flow of various hypes and trends. In this paper, we provide a look "across the wall" into industrial services computing. We conducted an empirical study based on the service ecosystem of 42 companies, and report, among other aspects, how service-to-service communication is Abstract. Services computing is both, an academic field of study looking back at close to 15 years of fundamental research, as well as a vibrant area of industrial software engineering. Industrial practice in this area is notorious for its ever-changing nature, with the state of the art changing almost on a yearly basis based on the ebb and flow of various hypes and trends. In this paper, we provide a look "across the wall" into industrial services computing. We conducted an empirical study based on the service ecosystem of 42 companies, and report, among other aspects, how service-to-service communication is implemented, how service discovery works in practice, what Quality-of-Service metrics practitioners are most interested in, and how services are deployed and hosted. We argue that not all assumptions that are typical in academic papers in the field are justified based on industrial practice, and conclude the paper with recommendations for future research that is more aligned with the services industry.

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All the services large and micro: Revisiting industrial practices in services computing

Schermann¹,

Cito²,

Leitner³

2015

Preprint

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“…Although not specifically addressing a vertical, it is interesting to consider the work of Gupta, Seetharaman, and Raj [23]. These authors investigated the appropriateness of cloud technology for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).…”

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Business and Industry Specific Cloud: Challenges and opportunities

James

Chung

2015

Future Generation Computer Systems

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This guest editorial highlights the current move by many cloud providers to business and industry -specific cloud. We summarise the latest happenings and provide examples of business and industry -specific needs by considering some case study reports and related research. We introduce four new special section papers, which further elaborate on issues and solutions relevant to business and industry -specific cloud. Finally we summarise the challenges and opportunities ahead for researchers and developers.

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“…At the same time, it can also save the cost of purchasing, using, maintaining hardware and software. Therefore, cloud service providers has been concerned by more and more SMEs [5].…”

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Research on Evaluation of Cloud Service Providers for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Smart City

Zhou¹,

Hu²,

He³

2015

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Engineering Management, Engineering Education and Information Technology

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Abstract-the evaluation index system of selecting cloud service providers is proposed according to the informational requirements of Small and Medium enterprises in the smart city and the characteristics of cloud services. The corresponding index system is suggested from three aspects which include the strength of cloud service providers, cloud service security and performance of cloud service system. The weights of indexes are calculated using the AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) method, and numerical example is also given to verify the effect.

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The usage and adoption of cloud computing by small and medium businesses

Cited by 516 publications

References 36 publications

All the services large and micro: Revisiting industrial practices in services computing

All the services large and micro: Revisiting industrial practices in services computing

Business and Industry Specific Cloud: Challenges and opportunities

Research on Evaluation of Cloud Service Providers for Small and Medium Enterprises in the Smart City

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