cloud computing: vývoj a současný stav

This article introduces the area of cloud computing with emphasis on businesses and organizations. It includes research of published papers on topic of cloud computing based on metaanalysis and SLR. Summary of relevant advantages both from the user and provider perspective was assembled as well as a list of barriers to even broader adoption of the cloud computing technology. Three databases (EBSCO, ProQuest and Web of Science) were used as a source of data for the literature review phase. An analysis of the number of articles dealing with the cloud computing top has been carried out to date. The annual number of publications is compared to the size of the cloud computing market. Frequency analysis at a keyword level was performed in the 25,000-records dataset gathered from the WoS database. This analysis was conducted over the entire monitored period, and only for 2017, to capture the latest trends. There were identified the most frequently used key words in publications about cloud computing: virtualization, security, big data, mobile cloud computing and internet of things. For each of these keywords, a brief summary is given based on the literature search, with an emphasis on the outlook for the future and market position.