Status of Cloud Service Adoption in Climate Risk Country

Abstract

Ghana has attained cloud readiness indices facilitating services adoption by local enterprises through brokerage firms. According to Gartner group by 2015, at least 20% of all cloud services will be consumed via internal or external cloud service brokerages, rather than directly with service providers. It means enterprises must identify local cloud brokerage firms to intermediate for cloud clients and service providers. We aimed at surveying cloud service awareness among enterprises in Ghana. We performed field study using statistical tool to analyze data collected among 45-participants spread across 20 local enterprises, using purposive sampling in the selection of strategic enterprise managers located in the second largest city, Kumasi, Ghana. We employed Delphi technique involving three Information Technology experts to validate responses in reducing margin of error in the analysis. We found that 67% respondents are unaware of local cloud service brokerage firms. Alternatively, 33% respondents mentioned at least one local cloud brokerage firm; although experts believed some did a chess guessing to have it correct. Our Delphi experts attributed this alarming percentile to lack of policy stakeholders involvement in ensuring cloud adoption readiness. We concluded on effective sensitization of cloud computing service adoption in optimizing data center proliferation by enterprises in Ghana. Adopting cloud computing over data center helps in reducing global warming contributed by heat emissions from computing servers.