Seventh International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Seventh International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society Society Cloud Computing-The Magical New ICT-Paradigm for Academic xLearning ? (eLearning, mLearning, uLearning) Israel Dac Israel Dac David Bregman David Bregman The College of Management The College of Management The College of Management The College of Management Academic Studies Academic Studies Academic Studies Academic Studies Israel Israel Israel Israel [email protected][email protected]
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Seventh International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Seventh International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society Society
Cloud Computing-The Magical
New ICT-Paradigm for Academic
xLearning ?
(eLearning, mLearning, uLearning)
Israel Dac Israel Dac David BregmanDavid BregmanThe College of Management The College of Management The College of ManagementThe College of ManagementAcademic Studies Academic Studies Academic StudiesAcademic StudiesIsraelIsrael [email protected][email protected]
Cloud Computing At A GlanceCloud Computing At A Glance
The term - Cloud Computing – relatively new
The concept is not – Hotmail Web Hosting (Katzan 2010)
Lots of definitions (Golden 2009, Dothang 2010), the simplest one:
Cloud Computing – is getting computer services / resources
from the Internet.
Computer services means using all kinds of computer
resources on the web instead of using local resources.
Other Definitions of Cloud Other Definitions of Cloud ComputingComputing(Truitt 2009)(Truitt 2009)
SaaS - Software-as-a-Service
SaaS - Security-as-a-Service
PaaS - Platform-as-a-Service
IaaS - Infrastructure-as-a-Service
XaaS – Everything-as-a-Service
MotivationMotivation• Merrill Lynch: 2012, the annual global market for cloud
computing is expected surge to $160 billion by 2012.
• CA Technologies Chairman and CEO, William E. McCracken said in CA World 2010 (May 2010): "In recent months, many ask me whether I think that cloud computing is the IT future. I always reply that I don't think, I'm sure".
• Marc Andreessen, founder of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape, “cloud computing is the story of the lifetime.”
• Google CEO Eric Schmidt notes, "The cloud is a smart, complex, powerful computing system in the sky that people can just plug into."