On the Road Towards Cloud Computing Services

This thesis is a descriptive study of the prerequisites of companies considering implementing cloud computing technology. A description of the technical possibilities is presented and the topic of cloud computing implementation is approached from a user perspective. Firstly, it elaborates on security, compliance, legal and other issues of public cloud use. Secondly, it attempts to describe the main roadblocks slowing the adoption of cloud computing services. This research concludes that in order to overcome these issues, a company is required to implement a data classification system. For this reason, this topic is one of the central themes of the thesis, whereas finally a system that should automate the whole process of data classification is outlined.