This paper intends to discover the value creation and challenges
confronted by cloud computing's practice. Since cloud computing may
become the next wave of IT innovation, many more organizations may
adopt this technology into their business processes. Therefore, a clear
examination to the value realization of cloud computing may contribute
to the IT field dramatically
computing practice, such as security and privacy breaches are originated
from its virtualized setting. The cloud computing operation is similar
to the practice of information technology (IT) outsourcing. The
complexity of outsourcing makes cloud computing's quality control a
challengeable job.