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Success factors for deploying cloud computing

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Trust between client organization and cloud provider is a strong predictor of successful cloud deployment.

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              Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 9
              September 2012
              104 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/2330667
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