Moving applications to an on-demand, software-as-a-service model in the albanian government cloud

Abstract

The distinction between the three service models in cloud computing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, especially between the last two, has diminished and will continue to do so with new cloud technology innovation happening every day. As the Albanian government has made progress on building the government Cloud, more challenges are faced, when it comes to the needs for more clouds services and resources by public institutions. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the impact of IaaS in the Government Cloud of Albania, and evaluate the advantages of moving services to the SaaS model in the overall IT applications of public organizations. We try to analyze the impact of moving to SaaS model in accordance with one of the most important usability attributes which is security, trying to set a stable equilibrium between the use and management of the resources available in the Cloud platform.