A Proposal for the Adoption and Use of Cloud Computing in Secondary Education in South Africa

Today the world revolves around the internet. Cloud computing is changing our lives in many ways. We are, as never before, seeing cloud technology impact our world on many levels. From remote locations to the global center stage, an event can reach the four corners of the planet by going viral. It has never been as easy to look out for long forgotten friends and classmates with the increasing numbers of social networks and websites proposing ways to connect and relate through online communities. Education sectors and health sectors are the mostly benefited as it has made

In the past a few years, the rapid advances in technology had brought us more challenges in adopting emerging technologies and pedagogies in our teaching and learning environment. As our school is committed to developing, implementing, and maintaining quality education programs, it becomes imperative to utilize updated technology to address the changing demand of students. However, the cost and time to develop the information, software, and resources is too high for us. Facing the high cost of providing computing infrastructure and software by traditional independent software vendors, I have examined the possibility of deploying a private cloud computing system in our school to help cut down our technology expense, and the implementation

Technology changes in 2010 made way for new opportunities and competition for eLoanDocs. Technology vendors like Amazon began to offer cloud computing. Cloud computing is a non-platform dependency network of virtualization, service-oriented architecture, grid computing, and utility computing that allows manipulating, configuring, and accessing applications online (Cain et al., p. 765). There is no evidence of trail to the host server.

Internetworks, or the Internet, allow for the remote supplying of IT resources to the people and are directly helpful in network access in far and wide. Cloud consumers can access the cloud using only private and dedicated network links in LANs, although most clouds are Internet-enabled. The Cloud platforms generally grows in parallel with improvement in Internet connectivity and service quality, which leads to its potentiality.

Cloud computing is a new technology that comes with both benefits and drawbacks and like any new tech it can be used to great success when paired with steps to mitigate the security issues it raises. Cloud computing has become somewhat of an ambiguous term often having different meaning for different people. An article in InfoWorld (2013) stated, ”Cloud computing comes into focus only when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. Cloud computing encompasses any

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Within the past 10 years our societies technological advantages have been somewhat space age like, even alien like characteristics. Technologies, which ten years ago only existed in our dreams but yet, have become reality. Things like, the revolutionary iPhone and its almost seamless touch-screen tech; as well as the new advancements in our cultures most prized possession, The Internet. In this subject-based paper, I will take a closer look into a fairly new emerging technology, which is simply referred to as…Cloud Technology. The synopsis will cover, what and how cloud technology works, its

Cloud computing is storing and surveying data and programs over the internet rather than the computer's hard drive. Moreover, the cloud is a personification for the internet. It is linked to flowcharts and presentations that epitomize a huge, server-farm infrastructure of the internet as a puffy, white cumulus cloud, acquiring connections and dispensing information as it floats.

The concept that I chose to talk about for my information competency paper is the process of Cloud Computing. Obviously, the cloud in this instance isn’t some big puffy thing in the sky. In this case, the cloud is just used as a metaphor for the internet. Cloud computing can be put into a very simple context. Cloud computing can be defined as accessing saved data and different programs over the Internet, instead of getting it from your computer's personal hard drive. The “cloud” is essentially just a metaphor for the Internet. The cloud secures connections and puts out information whenever you want. One of the biggest problems with

Cloud computing can be understood as a multifaceted infrastructure of hardware, software, storage and processing available to be used as a service. With the use of cloud computing, without even knowing how it works, one can access a large number of the most sophisticated supercomputers of the world and their respective processing powers without being overwhelmed with space or information. Cloud computing allows access to computer networks located at various places in the world and thus offers the speed of

Cloud computing is an emerging model where users can gain access to their applications from anywhere through their connected devices. A simplified user interface makes the infrastructure supporting the applications transparent to users. The applications reside in massively-scalable data centers where compute resources can be dynamically provisioned and shared to achieve significant economies of scale. A strong service management platform results in near-zero incremental management costs when more IT resources are added to the cloud. The proliferation of smart mobile devices, high speed wireless connectivity, and rich browser-based Web 2.0 interfaces has made the network-based cloud computing model not only practical but

Though the actual history of cloud computing is not that old (the first business and consumer cloud computing services websites – salesforce.com and Google, were launched in 1999), the story of cloud computing is intertwined directly with the creation of the Internet and business, the answer to the unsolved question of how internet utilization can help improve business technology was and is cloud computation. Business technology history is both extensive and interesting, almost as extensive as business itself, but the invention of computers are most responsible for the influence on business technology. Cloud computing, like all other innovation was nurtured in the right environment to take off, as multi-tenant architectures, highly

Additionally, a major component of this paper will include a breakdown of the views of relevant psychological theories and how the advanced technology reflects those psychological theories. Furthermore, the emergent feature of the advanced technology, will be investigated cloud computing, in regards to how it is a recognizable issue in view of the fact that the concept has been considerably deliberated in recent years. However its capabilities have not been wholly understood until recent. As a result there is great consequence in learning more about the existence and integration of cloud computing to appropriately support the characteristics and functionalities of it as an emerging technology in to education.

Cloud computing is a topic of which much is assumed. The average person recognizes the term “cloud computing” as having to do with their storage from their iPad or iPhone on the online storage area which syncs their Apple devices to their computer. This common cloud is called the iCloud. That is where common knowledge ends about this topic. However, upon further exploration, a deeper understanding is gained with greater explanation, and it is realized that cloud computing is something that is used all of the time on many levels of everyday technology. While the terminology remains cryptic to the mind of most people, the concepts behind the practical uses of cloud computing become quite clear. It is relatable and understandable. Upon this revelation, the iCloud is recognized as the tip of the preverbal iceberg when speaking about cloud computing. It is important to discuss and further understand the many types of cloud computing as well as the various applications to life through technology. This affects how information is stored online, computers are protected, information is secured, emails are processed, and many other factors that are taken for granted in the world of technology. Cloud computing is a general term used to describe how information is stored, utilized, and accessed over the internet. There is no cloud, but the word cloud gives the connotation of an abstract place which is known to exist but is too vast to touch or contain (Griffith,

Cloud Computing is the use of common software, functionality or business applications from a remote server that is accessed via the Internet. Basically, the Internet is the "cloud" of applications and services that are available for access by subscribers utilizing a modem from their computer. With Cloud Computing, one simply logs into desired computer applications - such as sales force or office automation programs, web services, data storage services, spam filtering, or even blog sites. Generally, access to such programs is by monthly or annual paid subscription. Through Cloud Computing, businesses may prevent financial waste, better track