An Integrated Framework for Cloud Data Management in Educational Institutes

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has transformed the whole world to a global village. Acquiring and maintaining essential ICT infrastructure has become a great challenge especially in education sector. Being a human resource development sector, it needs to use expensive infrastructure more effectively not only for providing education but also for its transactional applications. With the evolution of Cloud Computing, scalable IT enabled services are delivered on-line to its users on pay-per-usage basis from anywhere through variety of devices. The present paper emphasizes upon the use of Cloud Computing and Cloud databases for the transactional applications of educational institutes. It highlights the issues involved in managing data in Cloud like conformity of ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) guarantees in transactional data. Then the paper proposes an Integrated Framework for managing transactional applications of educational institutes. The proposed framework provides efficient and effective technique to manage transactional data. It also brings uniformity in the way transactional applications and data are stored and accessed by various educational institutes in the Cloud.