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Business and Government Organizations’ Adoption of Cloud Computing

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Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2014 (IDEAL 2014)

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Cloud computing is very much accepted and acknowledged worldwide as a promising computing paradigm. On-demand provisioning based on a pay-per-use business model helps reduce costs through sharing computing and storage resources. Although cloud computing has become popular, some business and government organizations are still lagging behind in adopting cloud computing. This study reports the status of cloud utilization among business and government organizations, and the concerns of organizations regarding the adoption of cloud computing. The study shows that some government agencies are lagging behind in cloud computing use, while others are leading the way. Security is identified as the major reason for delay in adopting cloud computing. The outcomes of the data analysis process prove that some security measures such as encryption, access authentication, antivirus protection, firewall, and service availability are required by clients for adoption of cloud computing in the future.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden

    Bilal Charif & Ali Ismail Awad

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Al Azhar University, Qena, Egypt

    Ali Ismail Awad

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  1. University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Emilio Corchado  & Héctor Quintián  & 

  2. University of the Basque Country, Pasco Manuel de Lardizábal 1, 20018, San Sebastián, Spain

    José A. Lozano

  3. The University of Manchester, Sackville Street, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

    Hujun Yin

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Charif, B., Awad, A.I. (2014). Business and Government Organizations’ Adoption of Cloud Computing. In: Corchado, E., Lozano, J.A., Quintián, H., Yin, H. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2014. IDEAL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8669. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10840-7_59

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