A Socio-Technical Analysis of Challenges in Managing Multi-Clouds

Today’s cloud market consists of numerous providers competing and offering new services and features on an almost daily basis. From an organization\u27s perspective, it can therefore be beneficial to consider multiple providers in their cloud strategy to exploit possibilities for differentiation and specialization, ensure service availability, or realize cost savings. However, the resulting multi-cloud environment becomes highly complex and difficult to manage, which leads organizations to hold back from an implementation. Specifically, there is no common ground on what challenges organizations need to address when managing a multi-cloud environment. In this study, we derive a taxonomy of multi-cloud management challenges deductively through a structured literature review and inductively through an analysis of common multi-cloud broker and expert knowledge. Our taxonomy provides organizations with a holistic overview of challenges in managing multi-clouds and is intended to help initiate new interdisciplinary research in the scientific community

Towards a Holistic Cloud Computing Taxonomy: Theoretical & Practical Findings

Although the concepts of cloud computing are well known and used in almost every domain and by companies of all sizes, new ideas and technologies in this area are emerging almost daily. As a result, cloud users often struggle to obtain an up-to-date overview of the most important dimensions of cloud computing and the services that are offered by various cloud providers. Therefore, this paper develops a cloud computing taxonomy that is theoretically grounded by performing a structured literature review and empirically validated by conducting workshops with participants from industry and science. By describing the most important dimensions and characteristics of cloud computing in detail and by applying the taxonomy using three large cloud providers, we aim to give the reader a holistic overview of the cloud and demonstrate the relevance of cloud computing for digital innovation