CLOUD COMPUTING ADOPTION

Challenges of Cloud Computing Adoption in Malaysia IT Organizations

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Dissertation background5

Dissertation aims / objective6

Intellectual challenge8

Research programme11

Resources15

Bibliography17

Challenges of Cloud Computing Adoption in Malaysia IT Organizations

Introduction

Cloud providers typically centre on one type of cloud functionality provisioning: Infrastructure, Platform or Software / Application, though there is potentially no restriction to offer multiple types at the same time, which can often be observed in PaaS (Platform as a Service) providers which offer specific applications too, such as Google App Engine in combination with Google Docs. Due this combinatorial capability, these types are also often referred to as “components Though the concept of “clouds” is not new, it is undisputable that they have proven a major commercial success over recent years and will play a large part in the ICT domain over the next 10 years or more, as future systems will exploit the capabilities of managed services and resource provisioning further. Clouds are of particular commercial interest not only with the growing tendency to outsource IT so as to reduce management overhead and to extend existing, limited IT infrastructures, but even more importantly, they reduce the entrance barrier for new service providers to offer their respective capabilities to a wide market with a minimum of entry costs and infrastructure requirements - in fact, the special capabilities of cloud infrastructures allow providers to experiment with novel service types whilst reducing the risk of wasting resources. Cloud systems are not to be misunderstood as just another form of resource provisioning infrastructure and in fact, as this report shows, multiple opportunities arise from the principles for cloud infrastructures that will enable further types of applications, reduced development and provisioning time of different services. Due to the strong commercial nature of cloud systems, both technological and non-technological aspects are involved in cloud provisioning. Since both areas still have major gaps, the recommendations are not restricted to purely technological issues, but also cover non-technological aspects related in particular to the economical and legalistic side of cloud systems. Europe is in a strong position to address both these areas: technologically due to its excellent background in many of the key research and development aspects related to cloud systems, such as GRIDs and Service Oriented Architectures, and non-technologically due to Europe's position as a united body. Europe also has a strong market position with many of major contributors from different field originate from Europe

There are various reasons for business organizations to move towards IT solutions that include cloud computing. First of all, organizations are only required to pay when they use certain resources. Secondly, organizations are not required to pay maintenance costs for managing various resources across the enterprise. Finally, cloud computing models provide business agility. (Wang 2009: 14) Since the entire IT infrastructure can scale up or down to meet desired demands, organizations can easily meet the needs of rapidly changing markets to ensure that they are always on the leading edge for their consumers. Cloud computing is the advanced picture of various technologies such as ...