The purpose of this paper is to provide guidelines for the implication of unethical IT behaviour on businesses and methods to prevent or to manage the possibilities of such conduct. As most businesses are moving towards the 'Cloud', this issue becomes of utmost sensitivity to most businesses and...

Purpose – Start-up companies in particular can benefit from cloud computing services, since frequently they do not operate an internal IT infrastructure. The purpose of this paper is to present a total cost of ownership (TCO) approach for cloud computing services. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose: This paper aims to present the conception of cloud computing, its definitions, main service and implementation models. The authors objective is to compare the traditional way of managing and implementing IS/IT in enterprises with the idea of cloud computing. Intent of this work is to...

Cloud computing has been a hot topic in the research community since 2007. In cloud computing the online services are conducted to be pay as you use. Services need not to be in a long term contract with service providers. Service level agreements (SLAs) are agreements signed between a service...

When economic times get tough, businesses worldwide are compelled to review their organizational expenses and priorities and to strategically consider how best to save. Traditionally, Information Technology (IT) department is one area that would be affected negatively in the review. To better...

Cloud computing has enabled users to access various resources and applications as a service and in return pay the provider only for the time for which they are used. Service Level Agreements (SLA) are formed between the user and provider to ensure that the required services and applications are...