Cloud computing in academic institutions

• Authors: Shamsul Anuar Mokhtar;Siti Haryani Shaikh Ali;Abdulkarem Al-Sharafi;Abdulaziz Aborujilah
• Venue: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
• Year: 2013

IT plays important role in education. Cloud Computing is a new technology in the world of IT which emerged recently and began to spread rapidly. Cloud computing is an Internet-based computing services on-demand. The main goal of this paper is to highlight the implications of cloud computing in academic institutions. This paper presents the cloud computing paradigm, historical view, concept, layers, types and the characteristics. During reviewing of many instances of using cloud computing in academic institutions, this paper emphasizes that the adoption of cloud computing in academic institutions is useful and sometimes necessary to overcome many of challenges and barriers. The presentation shows that the cloud computing technology enhances the performance in academic institutions as well as cloud computing plays significant role to reduction of costs. As the adoption of cloud computing in academic institutions is still low, this paper provides the factors that affect the adoption of cloud computing in the academic institutions. Successful transition to cloud computing in academic institutions depends on well definition for transition strategies. This paper provides suggestion for transition strategies into cloud computing in academic institutions.