Adoption and implementation of infrastructure as a service (IAAS) model within South African Universities
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infrastructure as service, cloud computng, thematic analysis, client server model, adoption modelAbstract
This article aims to investigate how university infrastructure management perceives the difficulties in implementing infrastructure as a service in South African universities. Understanding the benefits that infrastructure as a service can provide in comparison to the on-premises model now used by most South African Universities is a particular focus. The identified criteria were validated using theme analysis and interviews. Trust, security, and attitude were found to be three new, crucial issues for implementing infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The results of this article reveal that IaaS provides a competitive advantage in terms of scalability, pay-as-you-go flexibility, accessibility, and immediate service provision on demand. To better understand how the contextual aspects of emerge themes, and how they relate to the ideas required for the adoption of infrastructure as a service on the surrounding South African universities, this article presents a comprehensive infrastructure as a service adoption model (IaaSF).
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