"Toward Cloud Computing Applications in Academic Institutions Sector"

نوع المستند : بحوث

المؤلفون

1 Misr University for Science& Technology

2 جامعة حلوان

المستخلص

This study aims to identify the reality of the use of cloud computing applications in the universities in Egypt and identify the quality of cloud computing services provided, identify the advantages of using computing applications cloud for academic institutions, and to identify the obstacles and difficulties facing the application cloud computing in academic institutions in Egypt. Study adopted descriptive and analytical approach to identify the studied community and its properties, through a questionnaire sent to a specialist information to know the reality the use of cloud computing applications. after analyzing data into a number of outcomes including: the importance of adopting and employing cloud computing techniques  in the academic institutions, most of the participants in the study stated that reduced hardware infrastructure, software, IT support cost of the reasons that push them to implement cloud computing in data centers form, the leading cloud computing services provided in universities , Microsoft Office 365, Google Apps and Windows Azure, the most important benefits of using cloud computing in the information services by the participants in the study is the easy access to the data and, Disaster recovery capabilities and Business continuity and Scalability on demand / flexibility of IT resources, the most prominent obstacles to the use of cloud computing in universities,  data concerned problems, security issues, speed issues, Dissatisfaction with vendor offerings/pricing and Performance issues.

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