{"title":"Modeling the Ranking of Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Services: The Government Organization Perspective in India","authors":"Kshitij Kushagra, Sanjay Dhingra","doi":"10.4018/IJEGR.2018040105","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thecloudmarkethasbecomeincreasinglydenseasvendorsofallsizecompeteforcustomerswho havegravitatedtotechnologyasawaytoruntheiroperations.Todaytraditionalplayers,aswellas newvendors,areshowinggreateragilityinthecloudbusinessofIndia.Atpresent,therearelimited industrystandardsfor thecloud-relatedbusinesses toassess theirservices.End-usergovernment departmentsarepuzzledastowhichCSPisbestsuitedfortheirrequirements.Anevaluationofcloud serviceprovidersshouldnotonlybedrivenbycost,butimportanceshouldalsobegiventowards serviceproviderabilityandcommitmenttodelivertheservices.Theabsenceofacommonframework toassesstheevaluationcriteriaofCSPs,combinedwiththefactthatnotwoCSPsarethesame, complicatesthematterofCSPselection.Thisarticleproposesaframeworkforrankingofevaluation criteriaforCSPs.TheframeworkleveragesthecapabilityanalysisofCSPs,measurablemetricsand rankstheevaluationcriteriaforassessingthebestCSPsuitableforend-usergovernmentorganizations. KEywORdS Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Service Level Agreement (SLA)","PeriodicalId":170341,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Electron. Gov. Res.","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Electron. Gov. Res.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEGR.2018040105","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Thecloudmarkethasbecomeincreasinglydenseasvendorsofallsizecompeteforcustomerswho havegravitatedtotechnologyasawaytoruntheiroperations.Todaytraditionalplayers,aswellas newvendors,areshowinggreateragilityinthecloudbusinessofIndia.Atpresent,therearelimited industrystandardsfor thecloud-relatedbusinesses toassess theirservices.End-usergovernment departmentsarepuzzledastowhichCSPisbestsuitedfortheirrequirements.Anevaluationofcloud serviceprovidersshouldnotonlybedrivenbycost,butimportanceshouldalsobegiventowards serviceproviderabilityandcommitmenttodelivertheservices.Theabsenceofacommonframework toassesstheevaluationcriteriaofCSPs,combinedwiththefactthatnotwoCSPsarethesame, complicatesthematterofCSPselection.Thisarticleproposesaframeworkforrankingofevaluation criteriaforCSPs.TheframeworkleveragesthecapabilityanalysisofCSPs,measurablemetricsand rankstheevaluationcriteriaforassessingthebestCSPsuitableforend-usergovernmentorganizations. KEywORdS Cloud Service Provider (CSP), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Service Level Agreement (SLA)