Conceptualization of a Context Aware Cloud Adaptation (CACA) Framework

Organisations have shown a significant interest in the adoption of cloud computing environment for managing the needs of their complex adaptive business and system environments. While many organisations are interested in adopting a cloud computing environment suitable to their local circumstances, there is little guidance available on how to do so. This paper proposes the development and application of a context-aware cloud adoption (CACA) framework by using an iterative constructive development process. This framework, whilst still under development, may be useful in assisting organisations to develop self awareness of cloud issues, while at the same time being able to assess, select, adopt and improve an appropriate cloud computing environment for their business by obtaining, modeling, processing and managing contextual information for their economic and competitive advantage. This paper presents a position i.e. argues for a certain view of cloud computing, and conceptualizes this position via a framework based on an initial empirical study, which looked at complex event processing, context-awareness and self-adaptation approaches for the cloud adoption and improvement. This paper presents our ongoing research in this emerging area of cloud computing and investigates how businesses can best deal with the challenge of context-aware cloud adoption and improvement.