Cloud Adoption: Linking Business Needs with System Measures

Abstract

Cloud has become an inevitable utility for organizations to leverage their IT resources and processes. It has reached a level from in­novation to diffusion to adoption. Organizations are looking towards cloud adoption as a solution to decrease their IT over budgets and also to concentrate more on their core business activities. The cloud has changed the entire IT usage scenario. It has changed the IT usage from self-owned IT resource utilization to rented pay per use as a utility. Though cloud adoption brings with it lots of opportunities and benefits, there are issues which surface its adoption and the companies which take an informed decision after weighing all the issues surrounding the adoption are able to sustain in a better way than those companies which adopt cloud unin­formed. The study attempts to analyze the link between business needs and system measures from three perspectives: Technology, Business Needs and Economic Factors and proposes a theoretical framework based on IT adoption theories.