Factors Affecting the Organizational Adoption of Secure Community Cloud in KSA

Table 1

Summary of main factors present in adopting community cloud computing.

Factors	References
Cost	[9–34]
Availability	[9, 22]
Compliance	[9]
Interoperability	[9, 27]
Performance	[10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 34–37]
QoS	[10, 14–16, 31, 34, 38–42]
Visibility	[38]
Security	[11, 20, 21, 23, 34–37, 39, 42–45]
Accuracy	[25, 38]
Attack detection	[38]
Complexity	[38]
Ease of use	[11, 12, 20, 22, 23, 26, 39]
Sustainability	[12, 13]
Shared resource	[12]
Transparency, resource access, efficiency, and reliability	[13]
Feasibility	[44, 46]
Socio-economic, coordination management and provisioning, and communication	[44]
Elasticity	[18]
Usefulness	[39]
Risk analysis	[39]
Privacy	[20, 41, 42]
Integration	[47]
Flexibility	[47]
Usefulness and incompatibility	[20]
Trust	[20, 21, 24, 42]
Usage and engagement	[22]
Adaptively	[20, 25]
Environment factors	[48]
Compatibility, wide network access, self-service, elasticity, and integration	[26]
Integration	[27]
Social and economic factors	[42]
Adequate resource	[26, 37]
Vender lock-in, security weaknesses, and lack of control	[29]
Energy consumption and queuing delay	[30]
Knowledge diffusion (KD), talent acquisition (TA), intelligence creation (IC), cloud-based virtual community, professional network (PN), collaboration platform (CP), and remote data storage (RS)	[49]
Suitability	[31]
Resource allocation	[31]
Scalability	[31]