Databases in the cloud: a work in progress
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on SIG-information technology education
Cloud computing - The business perspective
Decision Support Systems
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This paper updates an earlier paper on the use of cloud computing in database curriculum. That paper described a curricular initiative in cloud computing initially intended to keep our information technology (IT) curriculum at the forefront of technology and to give students the flexibility to work at any location, not just our labs. Currently, our IT degrees offer extensive database concentrations at both the undergraduate (BS-IT) and graduate (MS-IT) levels. This paper reports on the results of two years of operation using a cloud provider for lab exercises in our Database Architecture and Implementation course. It discusses the benefits gained and concludes with an overview of a new cloud deployment strategy that improves disaster planning for our curricular infrastructure and provides an extension to another campus. We discuss how the Cloud Vendor Selection Model, proposed in our previous paper, shows the ways in which the different layers of cloud services interact with each other. Plus we show how the different categories of cloud users in this model can be supported by different educational tools to meet course objectives. Finally, we discuss the various issues and challenges that we have experienced when implementing cloud solutions in an educational environment.