With so many companies making the switch to cloud-based services for their data usage, it should come as no surprise that many colleges and universities have followed suit. They deal with just as much information—if not more—than your average company, but how are they making the most of this technology? We put together this blog post to answer that very question by covering the numerous ways higher education utilizes the cloud in their current systems.
It might come as a shock to you that some colleges still use paper filing systems for all their important documents. Compare that to cloud storage, and you’ll see a night and day difference in how each school runs its general operations. Even if a university uses a localized digital filing system, it can’t compare to the speeds and reliability of a cloud-based system. When constantly dealing with forms for enrollment, housing, and financial aid, the cloud becomes necessary to keep up with increasing workloads.
With online classes becoming more of a normalized option for students, colleges and universities can expand their reach to those who can’t afford to move or live on campus. While online teaching is possible without the cloud, due to the increase in people opting to stay at home since the pandemic, internet traffic has increased significantly. Cloud services not only help with speeds, but with class sizes too. Thanks to cloud integration, massive open online courses (MOOCs) are bigger than ever.
One of the most critical ways higher education utilizes the cloud is to improve the connections between students and professors. Whether on campus or across the country, steady and readily available forms of communication are required for everyone involved in coursework. The cloud makes conference calls, messaging, and document sharing easier than ever. Plus, accessibility wherever there’s an internet connection makes access to the features much more straightforward.
If schools take the time to teach professors how to make the most of their cloud services, they can find ways to improve the quality of the classes they teach. Whether a student needs to access documents to study for an upcoming midterm exam, or a group needs access to data for a research project, the storage capabilities of the cloud make all of this more manageable.
If we’ve convinced you about what the cloud can do for your school and want to learn more about how you could implement these services yourself, you should check out our list of Azure infrastructure solutions. We can help you get in a good spot for your college’s cloud usage.
Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are two of the most popular cloud platforms.…
Cloud management is difficult to do manually, especially if you work with multiple cloud…
Azure’s scalable infrastructure is often cited as one of the primary reasons why it's the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDzCN0d8SeA Watch our "Unlocking the Power of AI in your Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)"…
FinOps is a strategic approach to managing cloud costs. It combines financial management best practices…
Using Kubernetes with Azure combines the power of Kubernetes container orchestration and the cloud capabilities…