Preferences and Distribution of Cloud Computing Approaches and Types by Industry Players
Duncan Onyango Waga · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2013
Cloud Computing (CC), a utility mode of distribution of automation resources is fast becoming popular with industry practitioners who adopt by subscribing with cloud vendors or providers on particular approaches or “flavor”. There are many iterations that companies look to in order to actually use the technology. However, clients of cloud computing services currently have no direct means of verification as to the best or most popular flavor of cloud to adopt. This has led to users adopting expensive and less popular flavors of CC. Four approaches of cloud are considered in this paper namely private, public, hybrid and community clouds in which are three types of services i.e. Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This study groups Enterprises as small size, midsize, and large while industries as service industry, government and manufacturing. Past studies are considered and findings analyzed to achieve the objective of this paper. An attempt is made to find out the distribution of the various cloud types in various enterprises with a view to finding the most popular and reasons for the popularity thereby guiding new entrants to the cloud market.