Why cloud is the future of education technology
January 23, 2014
Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: James Laird.
Cloud computing is everywhere. In its various forms, it’s being adopted across the full technology spectrum, from consumers using it at an alternative to traditional storage to enterprises employing it as an end-to-end infrastructure solution. After visiting Bett 2014, it’s also obvious that education stands to benefit from cloud deployment.
In many ways, the needs of schools aren’t that different from those of the modern SME: simplified resource management and the efficient, reliable provisioning of key services. Indeed, the increasing importance of cutting-edge tech in education is reflected by the number of blue chip firms looking to enter the space – major vendors like Acer, Google, HP, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Misco, Sony and Toshiba were all out in force at Bett…
Whilst checking out the latest edtech developments at the London ExCeL Centre, we got a chance to catch up with one of HP’s cloud representatives, who gave us a deeper insight into why adopting a sky-high system made sense within an education environment.
"It’s the flexibility of not necessarily needing someone on site who is an expert in the system, because it’s heavily virtualised and automated. It comes down to whether this piece of hardware has got a fault or not. If there’s a fault, everything will transition to a different blade – just have that serviced as you would anything else and the resources carry on being consumed…
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