Examining the Antecedents of Cloud Service Profitability

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Herzfeldt ◽  
Sebastian Floerecke ◽  
Christoph Ertl ◽  
Helmut Krcmar
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Service Dominant Logic ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Delivery Model ◽  
Dominant Logic ◽  
Mediated Effects ◽  
Cloud Service Providers

In a fast growing but highly competitive market, some cloud service providers are significantly more profitable than others. In particular, numerous providers struggle to scale their cloud service delivery up from a one-time, project-based co-creation model to a platform delivery model, building on reusable resources. This study builds on the service (-dominant) logic and the resource-based view to develop a model of cloud service profitability. It is proposed that profitability results from the ability to manage costs of customer-specific value co-creation and efforts to build reusable resources, which facilitate future customer engagements. The results of a survey with 99 cloud providers show that value co-creation costs indeed mediate the effects of facilitation capability and complexity on cloud service profitability. However, facilitation capability has both direct and mediated effects on profitability. The results provide insights on which factors influence cloud service profitability and which resources should be established before offering a cloud service to future customers.

SECURITY IN CLOUD COMPUTING IN INDIAN GOVERNMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Vishnu Choudhari ◽  
Dr. Ashish B Sasankar
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Security ◽  
End Users ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
End User ◽  
Cloud Service Providers

Abstract –Today Security issue is the topmost problem in the cloud computing environment. It leads to serious discomfort to the Governance and end-users. Numerous security solutions and policies are available however practically ineffective in use. Most of the security solutions are centered towards cloud technology and cloud service providers only and no consideration has been given to the Network, accessing, and device securities at the end-user level. The discomfort at the end-user level was left untreated. The security of the various public, private networks, variety of devices used by end-users, accessibility, and capacity of end-users is left untreated. This leads towards the strong need for the possible modification of the security architecture for data security at all levels and secured service delivery. This leads towards the strong need for the possible adaption of modified security measures and provisions, which shall provide secured hosting and service delivery at all levels and reduce the security gap between the cloud service providers and end-users. This paper investigates the study and analyze the security architecture in the Cloud environment of Govt. of India and suggest the modifications in the security architecture as per the changing scenario and to fulfill the future needs for the secured service delivery from central up to the end-user level. Keywords: Cloud Security, Security in GI Cloud, Cloud Security measures, Security Assessment in GI Cloud, Proposed Security for GI cloud

The Role of Individualization and Project Learning for Cloud Service Profitability

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-82
Author(s):  
Alexander Herzfeldt ◽  
Thomas Wolfenstetter ◽  
Christoph Ertl ◽  
Helmut Krcmar
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Project Learning ◽  
Delivery Costs ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
The Impact

This article describes how cloud computing has been one of the most important IT topics in recent years. In increasingly greater numbers, service providers have entered this dynamic market turning it into one of the most competitive markets in modern IT industry. As the market matures, many providers are struggling with profitability issues. Studies on cloud services have primarily approached the topic from a technical or customer's perspective, neglecting the provider's perspective. In this article, the authors address business aspects of cloud services from the provider's perspective. Based on an empirical study of 78 cloud service providers, they analyse the impact of service individualization and project learning on service delivery cost and profitability. The results indicate that while project learning merely helps to reduce service delivery costs, service individualization positively affects profitability.

scholarly journals Service Delivery improvement for the Cloud Service Providers and Customers

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 20-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sourav Banerjee ◽  
Mainak Adhikary ◽  
Dipunsu Mandal ◽  
Utpal Biswas
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Service Providers

scholarly journals Addressing Semantics Standards for Cloud Portability and Interoperability in Multi Cloud Environment

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Chithambaramani Ramalingam ◽  
Prakash Mohan
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Cloud Service Providers ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Programming Interfaces ◽  
Multi Cloud

The increasing demand for cloud computing has shifted business toward a huge demand for cloud services, which offer platform, software, and infrastructure for the day-to-day use of cloud consumers. Numerous new cloud service providers have been introduced to the market with unique features that assist service developers collaborate and migrate services among multiple cloud service providers to address the varying requirements of cloud consumers. Many interfaces and proprietary application programming interfaces (API) are available for migration and collaboration services among cloud providers, but lack standardization efforts. The target of the research work was to summarize the issues involved in semantic cloud portability and interoperability in the multi-cloud environment and define the standardization effort imminently needed for migrating and collaborating services in the multi-cloud environment.

scholarly journals Optimal Selection Techniques for Cloud Service Providers

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 203591-203618
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Tricomi ◽  
Giovanni Merlino ◽  
Alfonso Panarello ◽  
Antonio Puliafito
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Optimal Selection ◽  
Cloud Service Providers
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