Impact of Personality Traits (BFI-2-XS) on using Cloud Storage Antonin Pavlicek 1 a and Frantisek Sudzina 2 b 1 Department of System Analysis, University of Economics in Prague, 4 W. Churchill sq., Prague, Czech Republic 2 Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, København, Denmark Keywords: Personality Traits, BFI-2-XS, Cloud Storage. Abstract: Cloud storage is a trending issue shifting away from computing as a product that is purchased, to computing as a service that is delivered to consumers over the internet from large-scale data centres - or "clouds". The research focused on impact of Big Five Inventory personality traits on use of cloud storage services. The research was conducted in the Czech Republic. The respondents were 478 university students. Gender, age, and type of student's job were used as control variables. With regards to the results, openness to experience and gender influence the acceptance rate of cloud storage services. 1 INTRODUCTION Peter Meel and Tim Grace from The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) define cloud computing as “Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” (Mell and Grace, 2011) Cloud computing services are traditionally divided as follows: (a) Software as a Service (SaaS) – clients use provided applications running on provider’s infrastructure; (b) Platform as a Service (PaaS) – clients deploy and manage their own application on provider’s infrastructure (hardware and software); (c) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – clients use provider’s hardware infrastructure for their computing needs but maintain control over all software, storage, and networks; and (d) Storage as a Service – (StaaS)—clients use provider’s infrastructure to store files such as documents, photos, archives. (Katzan, 2011) Probably the first article investigating a link between personality traits and (a behavioural a https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1230-5982 b https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1867-9237 intention to) use of cloud services was Aharony (2015). From the Big Five Inventory, the study included only openness to experience, and it was significantly correlated with a behavioural intention to use cloud computing by information professionals. Trust was found to significantly influence behavioural intention to use cloud storage (Santoso et al, 2018) (trust is a facet of agreeableness). But it is necessary to stress that in this article, trust was defined as "an individual's willingness to provide their personal information at risk while in a state of uncertainty", the concept taken from Miline and Culnan (2004). Alam et al (2018) considered several traits, none of them from the Big Five Inventory. Some of the investigated traits significantly influenced cloud computing adoption among Malay-owned SMEs in Malaysia. It may be expected that it is more tech-savvy users who use cloud storage. Previous research (Santoso et al, 2018, Pavlicek et al 2017, Olexova et al 2017, Sudzina, 2015) identified that men, less neurotic, and more open to experience people perceive themselves as more tech-savvy. Alohali et al. (2018), who focused on use of technology from a security perspective, found out the consciousness was significantly correlated to 19 of 28 investigated behaviours, openness to experience was significantly correlated to 12, agreeableness was significantly 596 Pavlicek, A. and Sudzina, F. Impact of Personality Traits (BFI-2-XS) on using Cloud Storage. DOI: 10.5220/0007732205960599 In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2019), pages 596-599 ISBN: 978-989-758-372-8 Copyright c  2019 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved