Also presented is the relationship between important stakeholders in the cloud ecosystem. This paper presents a critical analysis of the benefits and challenges posed by the adoption and usage of cloud computing. The cloud ecosystem describes the complex system of interdependent components that work together to enable cloud services provided to user. It therefore has the potential to open up ICT penetration in education, transaction, collaboration, information dissemination and in other areas of the life of a modern man. Cloud computing has pervasive access, its usage is simple and utilities are offered in pay-as-you-use. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has gone through different phases of development, and the world is witnessing the emergence of a new technology paradigm called cloud computing. Furthermore, the findings also show the profound effect of normative and coercive pressures in Norway that can impact negatively on adoption decisions and the absence of such pressures in Nigeria which seem to have a positive influence on adoption at present. On the other hand, in Nigeria, these issues are not seen as inhibiting cloud computing adoption. security, privacy and trust, cost, SLAs, government policies and regulations, and loss of control over data can all inhibit or pose as hindrances to cloud computing adoption. For instance, the key adoption issues used as bases for comparison in Norway viz. Findings from Norway in Europe and Nigeria in sub-Saharan Africa show that there are several challenges to cloud computing adoption in both places that are similar but impact on adoption decisions in different ways. An institutional theory perspective is used as framework for analysis. This paper analyses and compares the challenges facing the adoption of cloud computing from a geo-regional context Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. With its inherent pay-per usage model, flexibility, scalability and other features, cloud computing is also set to transform economic activities around the world. Research finding identifies employee misconception of job loss, cyber threat, privacy issue and data theft as strong delimitative factors.Ĭloud computing continues to dominate information and communication technology (ICT) strategies globally through the provision of remote access to computing resources via the internet. A proposed 3AI model was conceptualised for analysing the processes involved in adopting cloud services. Moreover, the paper reviews the literature on cloud adoption in organisations and from scholars to identify the motivating factors of cloud computing. The study focus on the perception of IT and non-IT employees towards cloud computing. Thus, the purview of the paper is to examine the factors responsible for the poor adoption of cloud computing in most African enterprises using Nigeria as a case study. However, research on cloud adoption indicates that fewer organisations in the African states are adopting cloud services. The desirous benefits of cloud computing such as high return on investment through efficient resource management, high application throughput and on-demand capabilities have resulted in the unprecedented global acceptance of the computing paradigm. Thus, adequate local cloud service offerings, skilled personnel, and the IT infrastructural backbone of the country have to be well established to increase the trust in local cloud computing, open up Nigeria to offshore markets while driving economic competitiveness and growth. Findings from the research showed the key challenges to include inadequate awareness of local cloud service vendors, poor innovation and local content, inadequate cloud infrastructure, local cloud vendor interoperability issue, national insecurity, shortages in skilled personnel, Service Level Agreement (SLA), security strategies, privacy, compliance terms, and requirements issues. Descriptive and inferential analysis was used in analyzing the collected data via IBM SPSS software. The surveyed data were obtained through an online form which was distributed via Linkedln. The research employed a non-probability purposive sampling approach. This paper assessed the challenges to local cloud computing services adoption among sixty-seven (67) businesses and organizations in Nigeria. However, there are key challenges that must be addressed by the local cloud service providers in the country in order not to lose out to the foreign cloud service providers. The shift to the cloud in today's COVID-19 driven world has created an opportunity for investments to improve local cloud computing services. Cloud momentum seems unstoppable in Nigeria, as businesses and organizations in the country see less and less advantage in the slog of maintaining their infrastructure.
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