Cloud based solutions have permeated in the healthcare domain due to a broad range of benefits offered by the cloud computing. Besides the financial advantages to the healthcare organizations, cloud computing also offers large-scale and on-demand storage and processing services to various entities of the cloud based health ecosystem. However, outsourcing the sensitive health information to the ...

Cloud computing is considered to be a new service provider technology for users and businesses. However, the cloud environment is facing a number of challenges. Resource allocation in a way that is optimum for users and cloud providers is difficult because of lack of data sharing between them. On the other hand, job scheduling is a basic issue and at the same time a big challenge in reaching hi...

cloud computing refers to services that run in a distributed network and are accessible through common internet protocols. it merges a lot of physical resources and offers them to users as services according to service level agreement. therefore, resource management alongside with task scheduling has direct influence on cloud networks’ performance and efficiency. presenting a proper scheduling ...

In 2008 Gartner Group listed "Cloud-Computing (CC)" in its Hype-Cycle (Gartner, 2008). Since these days, enterprises in different industries discuss the utilization of cloud-computing for their own benefit. The banking industry traditionally is heavily dependent on information technology. Therefore, it can be assumed that cloudcomputing could be of particular interesting for banks. This paper i...

This paper explores the factors impacting cloud computing adoption in the South African financial services sector. Through a literature review the merits and relevance of the Technology Organization Environment (TOE) model is shown. Using the three contexts of the TOE model eight variables influencing the intention to adopt cloud computing is examined. An online survey of IT and business manage...

For high performance computing, cloud services offer highly scaleable infrastructures on demand. Without requiring a great deal of maintenance and financial resources, which a datacenter would need, it is possible to obtain a huge set of computing instances from, e.g., the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (Amazon EC2). The downsides of cloud computing are that the set of computing instances is ar...

With advanced information technology, compare to the past operation, the significant difference is the companies no longer need to set up their own costly the large server, instead an external professional supplier "cloud computing" technology would be increasingly adopted nowadays. The main purpose of this study is to examine the financial performance whether would be improved after enterprise...

Cloud computing has become new trend, which many enterprises wants to incorporates in their working. Since it relies on sharing of computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. Cloud computing offers reduced capital expenditure, operational risks, complexity and maintenance, and increased scalability while providing services at different abstra...

Cloud computing is a result of the continuing progress made in the areas of hardware, technologies related to the Internet, distributed computing and automated management. The Increasing demand has led to an increase in services resulting in the establishment of large-scale computing and data centers, in addition to high operating costs and huge amounts of electrical power consumption. Insuffic...

Cloud computing is a recent computing paradigm that represents a fundamental change of information commu- nication technology (ICT) services and Cloud services continue to grow rapidly with increasing functionality and more users. As a result of this growth, it is a critical issue to select a suitable Cloud service which meets all the business strategies and the objectives of firms. This paper ...