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Singapore tertiary institute to save US$196K with cloud
Singapore Polytechnic (SP) on 7 October launched an educational cloud computing datacentre called SPE3C3 and is expecting to save US$196,000 every two years, said Steven Chew Lai Keat, Senior Lecturer from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
“Including the recurrent cost of replacing hardware like servers, we can easily save a quarter million Singapore dollars in two years,” said Chew.
This cloud datacentre consists of 19 physical servers and has two uses for the school:
Now in it’s first phase, SPE3C3 will provide access to the cloud centre from anywhere in the school through copper and fibre links to the lab, and with any device by connecting to the school’s intranet.
The second phase, targeted to start in February 2012, will let students access the cloud from anywhere with an internet/3G connection. SP is already talking to their cloud partners, Cisco, Citrix and Netapp, about the second phase, Chew shared.
“Beyond that we’re looking at other kinds of projects and implementations like outreach programmes with NGOs and other schools,” said Chew.
Apart from the engineering school, SP’s computer centre—the central office for the school’s IT—also has cloud plans. Tan Hang Cheong, Principal, said to FutureGov Asia Pacific that moving the computer centre to cloud is “something we’ve planned”.
Other technologies Tan is looking at include the use of tablets in schools and Tan shared that SP is currently working on pilots at the moment and that “when everything can be offered through tablets, it will be something SP will look at”.
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