Third, and perhaps most importantly, from an IS researcher's perspective, our aim is to bring forth the issues that are likely to be important to these stakeholders, and thereby suggest some of the research topics that we should start exploring and be in a position to advise the community in due course. In a bid to ensure that our prescription is not biased from just one perspective, this group of authors consists of members from the academia along with a senior executive from a software company that is currently developing applications for some of the largest players in the cloud computing arena. We also carried out in-depth interviews with various industry executives, in order to get both a cloud computing provider perspective as well as an enterprise user perspective.