The Effect of Cloud Computing on Organizational Agility

Introduction

Cloud computing is the one demand provision of information technology

resources over the Internet at cost per use prices. Instead of buying, owning,
and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access and utilize
technology services such as computing power, storage, and databases, based
on your needs, from a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services
(AWS). The three types of cloud computing include Infrastructure as a
Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Each type of cloud
computing offers different levels of control, flexibility, and management, so
you can select the combination of services that best suits your needs.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): IaaS encompasses the building blocks of IT
in the cloud. They usually provide access to the benefits of networking,
computers (whether in virtual environments or through dedicated hardware),
and data storage spaces. IaaS services give you the highest level of flexibility
and management control over all of your IT resources. It is very similar to the
IT resources that many IT workers and developers are familiar with. Platform
as a Service (PaaS): PaaS removes the need for managing core infrastructure
(typically hardware and operating systems) and allows you to focus on
deploying and managing your applications. This helps you achieve greater
efficiency, as you don't need to worry about resource procurement, capacity
planning, software maintenance, debugging, or any of the other non-enterprise
heavy burdens associated with running your application. Software as a Service
(SaaS): SaaS provides you with a complete product that is operated and
managed by the service provider. More often than not, when people say SaaS
they mean end-user applications (such as web-based email). With SaaS
provisioning, you don't have to think about how to maintain service provision
or how to manage the underlying infrastructure. All you need to think about is
how you use that particular program. Furthermore, there are three kinds of
application models of cloud computing, public cloud, private cloud, and
community cloud, the cloud computing that is considered in this study
primarily focuses on public cloud services, such as Google, etc as it generally
more accessible and has greater re-search value also it focuses on the
advantages factors of cloud computing because most of the disadvantages such
as data loss are found more in the private cloud and the community cloud.
 Cloud computing is one of the most recent innovations in information technology
 cloud computing includes special features such as elasticity, scalability, shared
resources, pay per use and a shared environment which enable more economical
and flexible IT solutions.
 Although there have been some studies concerning the promotion effect of cloud
computing on firm agility unfortunately they usually either provide only partially
qualitative description and reasoning, or neglect elucidating the effect mechanism of
cloud computing with relevant data support. Specifically, existing studies cannot
determine “how does cloud computing affect organizational agility?
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