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Singapore tertiary institute launches cloud datacentre

By Xinghui Guo | 6 October 2011

Singapore Polytechnic, a tertiary institute of 15,000 students, is launching SPE3C3—a next generation educational cloud computing datacentre—tomorrow, 7 October 2011.

This centre will educate students in critical 21st century skills like the use of cloud computing.

The SPE3C3 initiative is the brainchild of Steven Chew Lai Keat, Senior Lecturer from Singapore Polytechnic’s School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, as they identified a critical need for the school to embrace the move to a digital curriculum—using all digital resources, technologies that were previously expensive or unavailable that is now becoming free to anyone with a web browser.

As students are using social content like blogs, videos and collaboration software for learning and development, the requirements for hardware and software have shifted from being on-premises to being in the cloud. All that is needed is an access device and a web browser, broadband in schools and wireless hotspots.

More information will follow tomorrow after the launch.

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