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• Missing Know how
• Security risks in particular associated with data transfer
• Grid technology is considered not to be appropriate for the company needs
• Costly and complex integration with the existing IT infrastructure
• Complexity of Grid Technology
• Doubts in the reliability of Grid Technology
• Missing offerings of Grid resources on the market
• Insufficient quality of the own network
• Insufficient quality of own IT resources
The major non-technical obstacles selected by the survey participants are
(Messerschmidt 2009):
• Lower security
• Unclarified legal aspects related to liability of involved players
• No trust in unknown transaction partners
• Low awareness for Grid Technology in general
• Legal constrains - some processes or data are per law prohibited to be performed
in other countries
• Difficulties to find the right partner
• Missing payment systems
• Legal constraints with respect to processes that cannot be performed outside the
company
• Internal and legal regulations do not allow some processes to run in parallel on
the same machine or to run in parallel with processes from other companies
• Service Level Agreements not established yet
• Costs involved with the introduction of Grid Technology are higher than poten-
tial gains
• Certain processes can, according to law, not be performed in other company
departments.
Overall, the survey results and also the results presented in this topic in form of case
studies, show that the adoption of Grid Computing in companies on a broader scale
just started and that there are still considerable obstacles that need to be overcome.
14.2.2 Status of and Obstacles for Cloud Computing Adoption in Practice
Cloud Computing is compared to Grid Computing a newer phenomenon. As is
typical for emerging and hyped technologies, it is mainly discussed in terms of
opportunities and challenges related to it. However, also first reports about experi-
ences in practice as well as empirical studies are starting to be published. A recent
survey conducted by Applied Research and F5 Networks (F5 Networks 2009)
provides promising empirical data. F5 Networks surveyed 250 companies during the
period of June and July 2009. The target respondents were personnel of Enterprise
IT departments of companies with at least 2500 employees that hold a position of
managing director in the following domains: network, information security, archi-
tecture and development.
