E-government: A Special Case of ICT-enabled Business Process Change
HICSS '03 Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'03) - Track 5 - Volume 5
HPCC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
Using clouds to address grid limitations
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing
A break in the clouds: towards a cloud definition
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
IT Professional
Towards Energy Efficient Change Management in a Cloud Computing Environment
AIMS '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security: Scalability of Networks and Services
SCC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
Cloud Computing in Local Government: From the Perspective of Four London Borough Councils
International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing
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Cloud computing is hailed as the next-revolution of computing services. Although there is no precise definition, cloud computing refers to a scalable network infrastructure where consumers receive IT services such as software and data storage through the Internet like a utility on a subscription basis. With an increasing number of data centres hosted by large companies such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud computing offers potential benefits including cost savings, simpler IT, and reduced energy consumption. Central government and local authorities, like commercial organisations, are considering cloud-based services. However, concerns are raised over issues such as security, access, data protection, and ownership. This paper develops a framework for analysing the likely impact of cloud computing on local government and suggests an agenda for research in this emerging area.