A Study of Cloud Computing in the University Enterprise

The demand for computing resources in the university is on the increase on daily basis and the traditional method of acquiring computing resources may no longer meet up with the present demand. This is as a result of high level of researches being carried out by the universities. The 21st century universities are now seen as the centre and base of education, research and development for the society. The university community now has to deal with a large number of people including staff, students and researchers working together on voluminous large amount of data. This actually requires very high computing resources that can only be gotten easily through cloud computing. In this paper, we have taken a close look at exploring the benefits of cloud computing and study the adoption and usage of cloud services in the University Enterprise. We establish a theoretical background to cloud computing and its associated services including rigorous analysis of the latest research on Cloud Computing as an alternative to IT provision, management and security and discuss the benefits of cloud computing in the university enterprise. We also assess the trend of adoption and usage of cloud services in the university enterprise.