CLOUD COMPUTING IN SME.

Running head: CLOUD COMPUTING IN SME
Cloud computing innovation adoption among small and medium enterprises in
Australia
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Concept of Cloud Computing..........................................................................................................3
Models of Cloud Computing...........................................................................................................5
Cloud computing innovation in SMEs............................................................................................6
Advantages of Cloud Computing....................................................................................................8
Disadvantage of Cloud Computing...............................................................................................11
Gap in Literature............................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Competition in the market has been increasing between various organizations in recent
world. There has been huge enhancement in the technological background of various companies.
Various big companies are using advance technologies to capture market. However, among them
small and medium enterprises are lacking behind in the race. SMEs are looking for increase their
business operations in the market. They have been looking for multitasking technology at low
cost. In this scenario, Cloud Computing has been the best opportunity for SMEs in the market.
Cloud computing has been helping these SMEs in various ways (Ross and Blumenstein 2015).
This research discusses about the impact of cloud computing in SMEs. Various theirs and
models related to cloud computing have been discussed in the research. The role of cloud
computing in the SMEs have been discussed in the research. The benefits offered by Cloud
computing in SMEs have been reflected in the research. There have been some issues faced by
the implementation of cloud computing in the SMEs have been discussed in the research. This
research provides some recommendations related to cloud computing for mitigating these risks
and challenges in the SMEs.
Concept of Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is one of the recent Internet-related technologies in the market.
Various organizations have been adopting tis technologies to enhance their businesses in the
market. The Cloud computing has been providing various services based on the internet to
companies. As per Assante et al. (2016), cloud computing can be termed with internet as it
provides all services online. Cloud Computing has helped in changing the business scenario in

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the market. There have been various characteristics of cloud computing. Some of the
characteristics are mentioned below:
On-demand self-service: Cloud computing has been helping in providing self-service
portals to users and companies. This help in accessing various products and services over the
cloud database online using the internet.
Rapid Elasticity: The issues in IT resources have been related to elasticity and in-demand
services Cloud computing has been helping in providing elasticity to users (Khan and Al-Yasiri
2016). The resources have been provisioned to users for unlimited access and available in time
when needed.
Resource pooling: The cloud service providers used to merge different IT resources
including memory, storage, and network bandwidth and processing pooled computing resources
for multiple customers.
Figure 1: Basic cloud computing model
(Source: Doherty, Carcary and Conway 2015)