Private Cloud: Effective Strategy in Developed Countries Case Study: Sudanese Universities
Osman Abdelrahman · IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering · 2017
In order to achieve their business goals, educational organizations and institutions all over the World have become more dependent on information and communication technology (ICT).Internet services contributed to the improvement of the teaching-learning process, researches and other related activities.The cloud computing technology has effective applications, which offers students, staff, and administrative personnel access to educational resources at any time and from anywhere.Students have the opportunity to quickly and economically access various application platforms by sharing the resource based on cloud computing technology.In this paper, we investigated the benefits of adopting cloud computing services in higher education focusing on Sudanese universities, by sharing the hardware and software resources to minimize the cost.Private cloud computing proposed as a beneficial and practical solution.The benefits of adopting private cloud are highlighted.The solution took into account the unique features of Sudan and its related cultural context, flexibility, availability, security, quality of services and minimum operational cost.The solution highlights that the cloud computing technology is becoming an effective technology, for the reason that it is dynamic, scalable and useful in utilizing the limited resources.