Cloud Growth and Challenges

Abstract: The purpose of this thesis is to probe more into how users are influenced to use cloud computing amidst the various cloud challenges and risks. Cloud computing is a new and advanced way of handling services, applications, resources, infrastructures and as any other Information Technologies, is composed of challenges and as well as possibilities. But like other technologies that die along with its challenges, cloud computing usage is increasing by each year. Thus the risks, challenges and the factors that influence users were the motivation for our research. But our interest on this matter also showed the limited amount of resources available about the issue. Though it was difficult for us to do enough literature analysis, it was also another motivation for us to contribute our knowledge and findings to the limited resources available. We designed a literature model based on our literature reviews, and compared it to our empirical framework that we designed from our interview analysis.