Cloud Computing Adoption, Cost-benefit Relationship and Strategies for Selecting Providers: A Systematic Review

Antonio Carlos Marcelino de Paula, Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro

2016

Abstract

Context: Cloud computing has been one of the most promising computing paradigms in industry to provide a customizable and resourceful platform to deploy software. There are a number of competing providers and available services that allows organizations to access computing services without owning the corresponding infrastructure. Goal: Identify the main characteristics of opportunities to migrate to the cloud, the respective challenges and difficulties as well as factors that affect the cost-benefit relationship of such adoption. Method: This paper presents a systematic literature review to compare reported strategies of organizations to migrate and adopt cloud computing and their perception of the cost-benefit of this adoption. Results: The overall data collected from these studies depicts that a significant part of the companies perceived inclination towards for the innovation adoption process influenced by technological, organizational and environmental contexts. Conclusion: Due to the variety of strategies, approaches and tools reported in the primary studies, it is expected that the results in this systematic literature review would help in establishing knowledge on how the companies should adopt and migrate to the cloud, how the cost-benefit relationship can be evaluated as well as providers can be selected. These findings can be a useful reference to develop guidelines for an effective use of cloud computing.

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de Paula A. and Carneiro G. (2016). Cloud Computing Adoption, Cost-benefit Relationship and Strategies for Selecting Providers: A Systematic Review . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-189-2, pages 27-39. DOI: 10.5220/0005872700270039


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@conference{enase16,
author={Antonio Carlos Marcelino de Paula and Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro},
title={Cloud Computing Adoption, Cost-benefit Relationship and Strategies for Selecting Providers: A Systematic Review},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2016},
pages={27-39},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005872700270039},
isbn={978-989-758-189-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Software Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Cloud Computing Adoption, Cost-benefit Relationship and Strategies for Selecting Providers: A Systematic Review
SN - 978-989-758-189-2
AU - de Paula A.
AU - Carneiro G.
PY - 2016
SP - 27
EP - 39
DO - 10.5220/0005872700270039