ABSTRACT
The reviews of cloud computing above help to understand the state of the research, define the research deficiencies and determine the potential areas of future research on cloud computing. Moreover, the reviews are of great reference significance for the scholars of IS to conduct cloud computing research. But it is difficult to objectively and comprehensively reveal the history, focus and tendency of the research on cloud computing due to the following limitations: the scholar’s knowledge background and research perspective, and they retrieve the literatures only in the Web Of Science (WOS) for convenience. Unlike the existing review of cloud computing research, we retrieved papers from 18 IS prestigious journals and 2 top IS conferences (ICIS and AMCIS), using social
1 INTRODUCTION
Under the uncertain environment of global market competition, enterprises must continuously improve the agility of strategy and technique; at the same time make the business and information technology operation less complex to obtain and maintain competitive advantage (Petter, et al., 2012; Zissis and Lekkas, 2012). Cloud computing is a kind of information technology service mode which can meet the needs of many users’ at the same time over the internet (Armbrust, et al., 2010; Plummer, et al., 2008; shanlin, et al., 2012). Cloud computing is characterized by dynamic resources configuration, on-demand self-service, broad network access, measurable service and virtual resources (Mell and Grance, 2011b). It provides technology support to the two goals of enterprises’ stated above at the same time. Cloud computing has become one of the most rapidly growing emerging information technologies at present. According to the prediction of Gartner, the revenue of global cloud computing services market will exceed $150 billion in 2013 and $180 billion in 2015. Cloud computing will account for most of the new information technology investment in 2016.
