SOCIO-ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ANALYSIS

Irit Hadar, Ethan Hadar, Debra J. Danielson

2011

Abstract

Detecting potential cloud computing services is part of business direction and strategic planning of enterprise IT management companies. However, this relative new territory examination requires careful analysis that incorporates both external and internal organization perspectives. The socio-engineering methodology for cloud computing analysis (SEC) employed in this paper is aimed at discovering the potential cloud services that are of interest to the company as a whole. The investigation results were inserted into the company strategic technological evaluation process. The methodology was based on both qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques, incorporating interviews, surveys, questioners and an iterative review process. The results formed the company’s cloud taxonomy, as well as highlighted 4 main players and 18 potential domains of services.

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Hadar I., Hadar E. and Danielson D. (2011). SOCIO-ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ANALYSIS . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8425-52-2, pages 260-267. DOI: 10.5220/0003358202600267


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@conference{closer11,
author={Irit Hadar and Ethan Hadar and Debra J. Danielson},
title={SOCIO-ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ANALYSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2011},
pages={260-267},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003358202600267},
isbn={978-989-8425-52-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - SOCIO-ENGINEERING METHODOLOGY FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ANALYSIS
SN - 978-989-8425-52-2
AU - Hadar I.
AU - Hadar E.
AU - Danielson D.
PY - 2011
SP - 260
EP - 267
DO - 10.5220/0003358202600267