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...

The paradigm of cloud computing has started a new era of service computing. While there are many research efforts on developing enabling technologies for cloud computing, few focuses on how to strategically set price and capacity and what key components are leading to success in this emerging...

Along with the development of cloud computing technology, website owners begin to consider migrating their website from private in-house server to public cloud servers. In this paper, we use a principal-agent model to analyze the underlying economic trade-offs of such migration and then extend...