scholarly journals Creation and storage of records in the cloud by Zimbabwe Open University

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Godfrey Tsvuura ◽  
Kudzai D Mbawuya ◽  
Patrick Ngulube
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Open University ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

This study investigated the challenges and prospects of creating and storing records in the cloud by Zimbabwe Open University in Zimbabwe. Like other universities in Zimbabwe, the university adopted Education 5.0 advocated by the government in 2019. Consequently, the university came up with innovation hubs and industrial parks that became centres for records creation. Keeping all records in the computer without appropriate backups and servers has consequences such as losing vital records. Organisations around the world use cloud computing increasingly to address records storage and disposal. Adoption of cloud computing services carries with it cost implications, and legal and ownership challenges as the virtualised environments are hosted and managed by third parties. The objective of this study was to examine the management, operational, legal and technical issues surrounding the storage of records in the cloud, and the implications for their trustworthiness and authenticity. The study adopted a qualitative research design and drew data from interviews with key participants. Qualitative data were organised into broad themes and the content reported in narrative form. The study found that Zimbabwe Open University is not using cloud computing services effectively and is in the trial phase of cloud computing. It further found that there was a lack of collaboration between the information and communication technology and the records management units as the university decided to move to the cloud on a full-scale basis. The study recommends that the university should first address the management, operational, legal and technical issues surrounding the storage of records in the cloud before implementing the complete use of the cloud. The study deepens the understanding of cloud computing in the management of records at the university, and other state universities in Zimbabwe can use this study to deal with the management of records in the cloud.

scholarly journals Creation and storage of records in the cloud by Zimbabwe Open University

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Godfrey Tsvuura ◽  
Kudzai D Mbawuya ◽  
Patrick Ngulube
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Open University ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

This study investigated the challenges and prospects of creating and storing records in the cloud by Zimbabwe Open University in Zimbabwe. Like other universities in Zimbabwe, the university adopted Education 5.0 advocated by the government in 2019. Consequently, the university came up with innovation hubs and industrial parks that became centres for records creation. Keeping all records in the computer without appropriate backups and servers has consequences such as losing vital records. Organisations around the world use cloud computing increasingly to address records storage and disposal. Adoption of cloud computing services carries with it cost implications, and legal and ownership challenges as the virtualised environments are hosted and managed by third parties. The objective of this study was to examine the management, operational, legal and technical issues surrounding the storage of records in the cloud, and the implications for their trustworthiness and authenticity. The study adopted a qualitative research design and drew data from interviews with key participants. Qualitative data were organised into broad themes and the content reported in narrative form. The study found that Zimbabwe Open University is not using cloud computing services effectively and is in the trial phase of cloud computing. It further found that there was a lack of collaboration between the information and communication technology and the records management units as the university decided to move to the cloud on a full-scale basis. The study recommends that the university should first address the management, operational, legal and technical issues surrounding the storage of records in the cloud before implementing the complete use of the cloud. The study deepens the understanding of cloud computing in the management of records at the university, and other state universities in Zimbabwe can use this study to deal with the management of records in the cloud.

scholarly journals IoT Based Smart Garage Vehicle Washing Water Nestor

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 3521-3525
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Proper Treatment ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
The Government

Water is critical part of the human life. In most of the developing nation, water pollution is one of the bigger mess. These issues can be handled strictly by the Government organization, by implementing tougher action rules to the industries, were the water are released without any proper treatment. Where each industries (or) smart cities, should take up self-initiative responsibility for proper treatment of the polluted out flow water. In our research paper, we are not focusing on the wider area of the water pollution; our focus is limited within the smart cities vehicle washing garages. In very smart cities, were a regular multiple vehicles washing is done in the garage, our research paper will focus on the out flow of the populated water from these vehicle washing garages. Our design and implantation process is simpler and straightforward approach. Were we will monitor of the water quality; and how much level of the water is populated, and it requires at what level of the treatment. These process can be easily automated using the multiple IOT (internet of things) based sensors, the data can be streamed into the Big Data lake (or) it can be directly pushed into the cloud computing services for generating the real time graphs and analyses report instantly. These data collected in the Big Data lake (or) cloud computing services, can be used for detail analyses for research purpose. We will incorporate the block chain concept to keep track of the smart garage location address and the detail information of the number of garage in the smart cities details in the form of the blocks.

An Entrepreneurial Approach to Cloud Computing Design and Application

2018 ◽  
pp. 190-203
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ratten
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Innovative System ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Design And Application

The design and application of cloud computing services is inherently entrepreneurial as it is constantly evolving as a result of technological innovation. This chapter focuses on providing an entrepreneurial approach to understanding change in the cloud computing context by highlighting the importance of innovative system usage. The chapter discusses how cloud computing services are creating a ecosystem of mobile commerce applications that is changing the way consumers, businesses and the government collects, disseminates and stores information. These changes have given way to entrepreneurial service innovations in the cloud domain that are a result of consumer demand for more current and relevant technological innovations. This chapter addresses the role of entrepreneurship in technological innovations by focusing on marketing and learning applications that are unique to cloud computing services. The future research suggestions from this chapter stress the importance nature of being entrepreneurial to encourage technological innovation in the cloud computing context.

Security and Privacy Issues in Cloud-Based E-Government

2016 ◽  
pp. 292-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heru Susanto ◽  
Mohammad Nabil Almunawar
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Information Security Management System ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality ◽  
Privacy Issues

Cloud computing services have grown rapidly over the years. Government agencies are also interested in cloud-based provision for their E-government processes. Despite the advantages of cloud-related technologies, there are many security issues as well that fall into several categories of breaches with serious impacts. All these breaches have serious legal and reputational implications. Therefore, governments need to ensure that inherent security threats can be neutralized to ensure that data or information stored in the cloud are well protected. It is imperative for cloud-based e-government (CB-eGov) to use an information security management system (ISMS) to effectively manage CB-eGov. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss how cloud computing can be incorporated in an e-government implementation to improve its efficiency without compromising information security. As such, the government needs to take special care in ensuring security, privacy, and confidentiality of information stored in the cloud.

Security and Privacy Issues in Cloud-Based E-Government

2019 ◽  
pp. 1869-1897
Author(s):  
Heru Susanto ◽  
Mohammad Nabil Almunawar
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Information Security Management System ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Privacy And Confidentiality ◽  
Privacy Issues

Cloud computing services have grown rapidly over the years. Government agencies are also interested in cloud-based provision for their E-government processes. Despite the advantages of cloud-related technologies, there are many security issues as well that fall into several categories of breaches with serious impacts. All these breaches have serious legal and reputational implications. Therefore, governments need to ensure that inherent security threats can be neutralized to ensure that data or information stored in the cloud are well protected. It is imperative for cloud-based e-government (CB-eGov) to use an information security management system (ISMS) to effectively manage CB-eGov. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss how cloud computing can be incorporated in an e-government implementation to improve its efficiency without compromising information security. As such, the government needs to take special care in ensuring security, privacy, and confidentiality of information stored in the cloud.

An Entrepreneurial Approach to Cloud Computing Design and Application

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ratten
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Innovative System ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
Design And Application

The design and application of cloud computing services is inherently entrepreneurial as it is constantly evolving as a result of technological innovation. This chapter focuses on providing an entrepreneurial approach to understanding change in the cloud computing context by highlighting the importance of innovative system usage. The chapter discusses how cloud computing services are creating a ecosystem of mobile commerce applications that is changing the way consumers, businesses and the government collects, disseminates and stores information. These changes have given way to entrepreneurial service innovations in the cloud domain that are a result of consumer demand for more current and relevant technological innovations. This chapter addresses the role of entrepreneurship in technological innovations by focusing on marketing and learning applications that are unique to cloud computing services. The future research suggestions from this chapter stress the importance nature of being entrepreneurial to encourage technological innovation in the cloud computing context.

scholarly journals Private Cloud Computing Services for an Interactive Multi-Campus University

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Abdel Rahman Alzoubaidi
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Distributed Databases ◽  
It Services ◽  
Private Cloud ◽  
Capital Costs ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Database As A Service ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
The University

<span>Cloud Computing is an environment where computing resources, such as processing power, storage, network, application, and other IT services, are provided to users as computing utility. This paper presents the university distributed databases consolidation and relocation to the cloud for the provision of Database as a Service (DBaaS), through their deployment into high availability, interactive, secure private cloud setup utilizing Al-Balqa Applied University (BAU) Private Cloud (BPC). This solution involves several transitions, and represents the main key step in BAU journey to the cloud to allow the university to achieve greater efficiency in terms of database services, and to improve performance, availability, interactivity, and security. The resulted service also reduces operating, management and capital costs.</span>

Cloud Computing in Library

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Angelė Pečeliūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
International Experience ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Library Services ◽  
General Activity ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Computing Services

The article analyses the possibility of how Cloud Computing can be used by libraries to organise activities online. In order to achieve a uniform understanding of the essence of technology SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS, the article discusses the Cloud Computing services, which can be used for the relocation of libraries to the Internet. The improvement of the general activity of libraries in the digital age, the analysis of the international experience in the libraries are examples. Also the article discusses the results of a survey of the Lithuanian scientific community that confirms that 90% of the scientific community is in the interest of getting full access to e-publications online. It is concluded that the decrease in funding for libraries, Cloud Computing can be an economically beneficial step, expanding the library services and improving their quality.

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