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Enterprise Cloud Computing (ECC):

ADOPTION OF CLOUD COMPUTING BY SME’S IN EMERGING MARKETS (NIGERIA)

Mac Flourish-UsikpoID: 115142171

IT in AEC 2015/201616/09/2015

CE 6014 - Computer Mediated Communication – Project Proposal

Personal Profile

� Name: Mac Flourish-Usikpo� Country of Birth: Nigeria� Education:

� BSc. Valuation Surveying Dublin Institute of technology

� MEng Sc. IT in AEC University College Cork (On-going)

� Interest/Achievement:� Writing (Author of “Keep the

Faith and Walk the Line” & “Voice of Triumph”)

� Sports (Departmental Football Captian, Athletics and Tennis)

Enterprise Cloud Computing (ECC)Benefits from ECC for SMEs:

� Lower IT-related cost: eliminating costs of establishing and maintenance of IT infrastructure

� Speed: self-service access to an available pool of shared and scalable computing resources

� Better IT support: new applications can be approved and deployed quickly

� Agility� Competitive advantage

By Thomas Dubois, Western Europe Marketing Director, Small & Mid-size Business, Microsoft

Enterprise Cloud Computing (ECC)Challenges to ECC for SMEs� Trust/Security: data privacy and

trust issues� Vendor lock-in� Lack of standards: related to

data privacy and SLA as any new computing technology

� Lack of control: in terms of SMEs don’t have skills to control their data in the cloud

� Integration: with in-house systems

� Scepticism: SMEs might be reluctant to adopt cloud services because they don’t have the financial resources and skills needed for secure cloud

Enterprise’s IT manager

ECC Adoption Model for SMEs

Enterprise Cloud Computing (ECC)

Information Required� Perform a literature review of cloud

computing and cloud application interoperability to assess the current status of interoperability research and inform the choice of frameworks for the experimentation part of this research

� Design and develop a reference application software

� Adapt the reference application to use the chosen frameworks

� Assess the maturity of the frameworks by reviewing the success of the experimentation and the effort involved

� Summarise the research, draw conclusions and recommend areas of future research

Research Objective/QuestionObjection:� To identify the trust issues that affect SMEs’

choice to adopt cloud services as well as the major concerns of data security risks.

Question:� What are the cloud-specific security risks and

priority associated with cloud computing?

� What are the data protections and privacy concerns for the SMEs data in the cloud?

� How data security affects SMEs choice to adopt cloud services?

� What are the data security policies offered in the cloud? How effective they are? And are they enough to persuade SMEs to move to the cloud?

Information Methodology & AnalysisMethodology:� Qualitative: � Literature review � Case study � Design research � Quantitative: Measuring security-

cost related issues (if a representative sample is available)

Analysis:� Compare with Questionnaire

results� Link between Interviews and Lit

Review� Compare Results from Interviews

Conclusion and Recommendation� ECC is having a transformative

impact and changing the way SMEs operate, internally and with partners and customers

� ECC is helping SMEs reach strategic goals for growth and innovation

� Substantial investment over the next few years will further solidify cloud’s central role

� success involves much more than smart IT planning, there also must be some serious thinking about the rest of the business

� ECC have to develop cloud strategic for SMEs

References:� Boguslavsky, M., (2011) “How to move to the cloud in an emerging market”

[Online] Available at: http://memeburn.com/2011/07/how-to-move-to-the-cloud-in-an-energingmarket/ [Accessed 06 2013].

� Brimbela, F., (2013) “Adoption of Cloud Computing by SMEs in Emerging Market (Brazil)” Dissertation submitted to Dublin Business School – August 2013.

� “Cloud computing: Marketing hype or sound business strategy?” white paper, Verizon, September 2010.

� Garrison, G., Kim, S., and Wakefield, R., (2012) “Success factors for deploying cloud computing” Commun. ACM 55, 9 (September 2012), 62-68. DOI=10.1145/2330667.2330685 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2330667.2330685

� Rittinghouse, J. W., and Ransome, J. F., (2009) “Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security”, CRC Press, 2009, p. 340.

� Warde, J., (2015) “Maturity of Cloud Application Interoperability Frameworks for SMEs” Dissertation paper Dublin Institute of Technology: http://arrow.dit.ie/scschcomdis

� Yang, H., and Tate, M., (2012) "A Descriptive Literature Review and Classification of Cloud Computing Research,“ Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 31, Article 2. Available at: http://aisel.aisnet.org/cais/vol31/iss1/2

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