Cloud-Based College Utility System. Integrating Education and the all powerful Cloud

      Аннотация: Welcome to the brave new world of educational opportunities made possible by cloud computing, defined as a set of technologies that provide services that can be delivered over the Internet in real time. Computers used to work alone, inside a home or business. But thanks to the Internet, we can now use the power of computers at a completely different location - what we call "in the cloud". This is Cloud Computing in Plain English. Cloud computing is a significant alternative in today’s education environment. Students and administrative personnel have the opportunity to quickly and economically access various resources through the web pages on-demand. This automatically reduces the cost of organizational expenses. From the benefits' perspective, Cloud enables university staff to do away with the responsibility of maintenance of records. Cloud provides instant global platforms, elimination of Hardware/Software licenses, reduced cost, simplified scalability. Adopting cloud infrastructure eliminates redundancy, disaster recovery risks and its high costs.

Ключевые слова: university, Cloud Computing, Education