The readiness of Cloud Computing: A case study in Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Shah Alam

Nowadays, the demands for computing resources were increased. The companies would found that, by using outside computing resources was more economical than build a new computing capacity internally. Cloud computing is a new technology that provides flexible and massive online computing power. Mostly, cloud computing allows a company to expand their network and server infrastructure. Some of cloud computing services will add more network and server capacity to company web sites as demand for services of the Web site increase. The readiness to adopt new technology requires a deep understanding of the technology and the factors adoption that drive the organization to make decision to adopt new technology. This study aims to investigate the readiness towards Cloud Computing in Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah (PSA). Conceptual Model for Cloud Computing Adoption is a model used to identify the factors that drive an organization to get ready implementing Cloud Computing services, while the level of readiness to adopt Cloud Computing will be investigated by using Cloud Computing Maturity Model, which consists of maturity assessment and adoption assessment. Responses from IT experts at PSA were analyzed and the rating scores from the assessments will indicate the level of readiness towards cloud computing in PSA.