What is Cloud Computing Based Computer Lab: Its Challenges, Cost and Benefits?

This paper describes the challenges, cost and benefits of Cloud Computing Based Computer Lab that pronouncement maker’s face when assessing the feasibility of the adoption of CBCL in their organisations. Cloud computing is currently being exploited by technology start-ups due to its promoted properties of scalability, reliability and costeffectiveness. Higher educational institutes are also start to show an interest in cloud computing due to these promised benefits. This paper’s original contributions are to: 1. Highlight the challenges of cloud adoption in the educational institutes and show that decisions on migrating IT services to the cloud should not simply be driven by cost considerations but should also take a range of socio-technical factors into account. 2. Introduce to cloud based computer lab and explore its features and how it will be helpful for educational institutes. 3. In this paper we present vision, challenges, and architectural elements of CBCL for utility-oriented association of Cloud computing environments. It helps address the feasibility challenges of cloud adoption in the educational institutes. ISSN: 2348 9510 International Journal Of Core Engineering & Management (IJCEM) Volume 2, Issue 1, April 2015 188