Success factors for deploying cloud computing

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 62-68

  Garrison, Gary ^a   Kim, Sanghyun ^b   Wakefield, Robin L ^c  

^a BELMONT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT ORGANIZATIONS; CLOUD PROVIDERS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; IT SERVICES; SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE; STANDARD SERVICES; SUCCESS FACTORS;

MANAGERS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84865644090     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2330667.2330685     Document Type: Article

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