Research Challenges for Enterprise Cloud Computing
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Ian Sommerville, Ilango Sriram

TL;DR
This paper reviews key research challenges in enterprise cloud computing, focusing on organizational, economic, security, legal, and privacy issues, emphasizing its impact on IT provisioning and adoption.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of the research challenges in enterprise cloud computing from organizational and societal perspectives.
Findings
Identifies organizational changes driven by cloud adoption
Highlights security, legal, and privacy concerns
Discusses economic implications of utility billing model
Abstract
Cloud computing represents a shift away from computing as a product that is purchased, to computing as a service that is delivered to consumers over the internet from large-scale data centers - or "clouds". This paper discusses some of the research challenges for cloud computing from an enterprise or organizational perspective, and puts them in context by reviewing the existing body of literature in cloud computing. Various research challenges relating to the following topics are discussed: the organizational changes brought about by cloud computing; the economic and organizational implications of its utility billing model; the security, legal and privacy issues that cloud computing raises. It is important to highlight these research challenges because cloud computing is not simply about a technological improvement of data centers but a fundamental change in how IT is provisioned and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsCloud Computing and Resource Management · Cloud Data Security Solutions · Caching and Content Delivery
