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Cloud computing, in recent years, has become the focus of intense educational debates and arguments. Basically, cloud computing is one of the top products of the latest internet technology. As such, just like much of the products of the era, this technological breakthrough carries with it so much potential. In fact, cloud computing has been used even by the education sector in order to make the delivery of their services more effective and efficient.

However, there have been some questions about the overall effect of the technology to the educational system. While it is true that cloud computing has been largely beneficial to the business sector, there have been some doubts regarding its effectiveness in the education area. After all, education (particularly higher education) is entirely different from business.

In this article, we are going to talk about some arguments of some important educational and IT experts regarding their view on the total impact of cloud computing on education. One technical authority, Bruce Schneier (2009), mentioned in one of his books that cloud computing is not really a new technology. According to him, this is simply the modified version of a 50-decade model software which has been made totally worthless with the arrival of the personal computers. He added that almost everything that outsources in the internet is cloud computing.

According to Scheiener, the most important advantage of the cloud computing in the field of education is the fact that educational institutions can save a great deal of monetary resources with it. After all, they have a technology that would only need to be paid when it is to be used, and, most importantly, they have at the tip of their fingers a software that need no manual updating; as such, they spend less money for it.
However, there are some limitations that are worth mentioning when it comes to the use of cloud computing in the higher education sector (Miller, 2009).

>Cloud computing needs a constant and fast internet connection. Basically, this is a very modern technological advance. And, like all of the other advances, it cannot really work independently without the internet. In other words, the absence of the internet would totally hamper important transactions and processes.

>The second debatable issue regarding cloud computing is the fact that data stored here are not completely secured. Because of the fact that data is stored online, it would mean that these data would be susceptible to theft and hacking. The bottom-line here is that cloud computing can, at the very least, expose your system and database to harmful elements. >>Read more

Source: Cloud Tweaks

Most organizations define cloud as any application operating outside their own data centre.To define cloud is to accept a task that will likely never end, and the standards boffins have been working hard to continually refine their work.

He encourages everyone to review their latest draft of the Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations. This new publication builds on the basic definitions offered by NIST in the past,and  it dives deep into the opportunities and issues surrounding SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. There is good material here, and with community input it can become even better.

NIST CLOUD COMPUTING

Sources : Blog by K .Scott Morrison

Sizing The Cloud - Part 1

Forrester published this report about sizing methodology for emerging markets to the cloud computing market for the first time.

This methodology allows us not only to apply our growth assumptions to the current numbers for cloud markets, but also to take into account when those markets will hit saturation and see commoditization, affecting the price of a cloud service over time. The result is the attempt to size the cloud computing market for the next 10 years.

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Sources  :  Blog by Stefan Ried

Cloud Computing Market  Will Top  241 Billion Dollar  in 2020 - Part 2

Independent research firm Forrester expects the global cloud computing market to reach $241 billion in 2020 compared to $40.7 in 2010, according to a  report called “Sizing the Cloud”. The report aims to provide insights into the future market size of cloud computing segment while trying to predict market growth dynamics in a new IT environment driven by rapidly growing number of cloud computing services and applications.

Forrester’s report provides market forecast on 12 different market segments for the next decade, forecasting shifts in the usage patterns of cloud infrastructure, business applications for the cloud and cloud platforms that are becoming increasingly widespread.

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Sources:  Blog by Kiril.