A review on cloud computing adoption: an exploratory analysis

Abstract

The world has been witnessed with many technological revolutions. One of them is the computing technologies. There have been many revolutions such as mainframe computers, super computers, web technologies, Internet, grid computing, utility computing, etc. Cloud computing is another evolutions in the field of computing and it has been evolved from the earlier computing technologies by the integration of some of them and removing the obstacles encountered in them as a new technology. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, are some of the organizations who provide this technology to organizations and personal users. Cloud computing has attracted many people, researchers, and professionals towards it Many people have done researches on it and many articles and conference papers on varying aspects of cloud computing has been published. The purpose of this is paper is to review those research articles and conference papers to compile the concepts and various aspects of it in order to enlighten the concept more understandable to all varieties of people since it has been a new concept and many people are not aware of it by using exploratory analysis as methodology. The paper focuses on the different definitions of cloud computing, characteristics, underlying technologies, different cloud services, cloud deployment model, advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing, cloud computing implementation issues, adoption status of cloud computing, and future research areas.