Descriptive Literature Review and Classification of Community Cloud Computing Research

Abstract

Cloud computing has been devoted to the development of recent advanced technology, aiding in improving a government’s functioning and the services it offers to its people and organizations. It has achieved widespread popularity due to the rising number of benefits, including scalability, versatility, reliability, safety, confidentiality, pay-per-use, and dynamicity for the distribution of IT services. This paper explores a descriptive literature review and aims to classify the scattered communities involved in cloud computing research in information technology. This involves 51 referred published articles between 2010 and 2020 relating to the inception of community cloud computing by various organizations. Based on a systematic structured of reviewed literature and grounded theory approach, articles are categorized with respect to the eleven key influencing variables: cost, security, performance, QoS, trust, accuracy, ease of use, usefulness, architecture, framework, and model. Following that, those variables are comprehended into final one in order to envisage the community cloud computing adoption factors and concepts. This will consent for a strong examination of the community cloud computing phenomenon. The study is a novel attempt to demonstrate the differences in key factors for cloud computing in varying community settings and their causal relationships among the considered variables. The findings from the long-term systematic review contribute by assisting a collection of determinants for the penetration of community clouds services and potential adopters. It could serve as a basis for future directions and the development of theories in the exploring the community cloud computing in the field of information systems. This study contributes to identify various existing research gaps by providing holistic insights and future exploratory approaches that are anticipated to result in a robust unified structure for the adoption of community cloud computing services in the higher education institution (HEIs).