Trust Challenges in a High Performance Cloud Computing Project

The conversation about cloud computing has primarily cantered on the experiences and difficulties faced by small and medium-sized businesses.Still, this paper explores a massive cloud pilot program in the petrochemical industry, which is probably one of the most important examples of how sensitive data can be handled by cloud computing.Its goal was to examine the challenges and usefulness of starting and evaluating cloud projects.Using action research, the study carefully investigated the details of a multi-million dollar cloud pilot project that ran for more than a year.The results shed light on a number of newly emerging issues that affect project initiation, execution, technical security issues, and the assessment of a significant modification to data security protocols that affects many stakeholders within a large international corporation.The idea of the "political cloud," which represents the clash of internal politics, security perceptions, and organizational dynamics like the seismic tensions between tectonic plates, was one of the most prominent emerging themes.By outlining some of the complexities surrounding the data security and trust issues in cloud computing, this paper hopes to make a contribution by providing insights into data trust and safeguarding in large-scale enterprises, especially those that operate internationally.