标题：Cloud Adoption by Startups in India – Adoption, Preferred Cloud Models, Challenges and Business Transformation: A Survey Based Investigation and Recommendation
期刊名称：International Journal of Computer Science & Technology
印刷版ISSN：2229-4333
电子版ISSN：0976-8491
出版年度：2016
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：182-187
语种：English
出版社：Ayushmaan Technologies
摘要：There was a time when start-ups had to keep aside a large portionof their capital for their IT infrastructure. It’s no secret that the cloud has become a major component of a typical company’s IT Planning. Startups neither can afford the money nor time to build their own IT infrastructure as their primary focus should ideally be on their Core Domain – Product or a Service. Cloud computing is emerging as a powerful computing Standard with its aim of efficient utilization and Cost-Effective Solution. Cloud computing is viewed as a significant change in the way future businesses are going to be managed. The concept of cloud computing is based on the idea that computing resources will reside somewhere other than the Local computer room and that the users will connect to it using the IT resources as and when required. It promises increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability, at the same time offering decreased operational cost and support cost but the research on adoption of cloud computing is at its infancy stage. Many potential cloud users are reluctant to move to cloud computing due to Reliability of the service provider, Support Concerns, unawareness on adaptability, Security issues and so on. The scale of adaptability may range from fully featured applications, to Software development and Deployment environments and to computer Infrastructure such as Servers, Network, Storage and Processing.In this paper, we present a survey on Adoption of Cloud computing by start-up companies in India, highlighting the key Cloud concepts, suitable Cloud model for Start-ups, Challenges that Start-ups face in Adopting Cloud and the Business Transformation. A survey conducted with 150 Indian startups show that majority of the startups are interested in adopting the cloud technology. However startups showed concerns on security, interoperability, Support capability and quality of the cloud service providers. The findings are expected to assist startups in their adoption of cloud computing services.
关键词：Cloud Computing;SAAS;PAAS;IAAS;Startups;private cloud; public cloud;community cloud;hybrid cloud;Cost Benefit Analysis
