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Drivers and barriers in the decision to adopt IaaS: a public sector case study

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Ibrahim Shafiu,

William Yu Chung Wang,

Harminder SinghAuthors Info & Claims

International Journal of Business Information Systems, Volume 21, Issue 2

Pages 249 - 267

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBIS.2016.074257

Published: 01 January 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Extant academic literature reveal the benefits of subscribing to cloud computing services but few of these address the use of cloud computing in the government sector. Moreover, within the literature, the subject of the decision making process in the migration to cloud computing by government agencies, does not seem to be investigated sufficiently. This paper, through a qualitative case study focusing on the decision to migrate to infrastructure as a service IaaS in a government organisation, reveals drivers and barriers that influence the decision to adopt cloud computing. The study shows that there are some common as well as some differing determinants to the decision to adopt cloud computing between a commercial organisation and a government organisation.

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Ukeje NGutierrez JPetrova K(2024)Information security and privacy challenges of cloud computing for government adoption: a systematic reviewInternational Journal of Information Security10.1007/s10207-023-00797-623:2(1459-1475)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10207-023-00797-6

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International Journal of Business Information Systems Volume 21, Issue 2

January 2016

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Ukeje NGutierrez JPetrova K(2024)Information security and privacy challenges of cloud computing for government adoption: a systematic reviewInternational Journal of Information Security10.1007/s10207-023-00797-623:2(1459-1475)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2024
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