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VSUES is rising in information clouds.

15 мая 2012 Жизнь вуза

VSUES started works aimed at creation of a local cloud infrastructure of the university as information and technical basis of “Electronic campus” within the Program of development. This project intends to develop productive educational, scientific and innovative activity of the university. VSUES proves once again that it is one of the most advanced universities of the country in regard to IT.

Cloud infrastructure is an innovative approach in organizing IT-resources. This concept changes the approach of providing capacities, tools, services, software. In the traditional arrangement the resources are allocated for solution of specific tasks and their structure is translucent for the consumer. In cloud infrastructure, on the contrary, the final consumer has no idea about physical medium of the received resources. Such abstract approach is named “cloud”. It makes the use of the resources more efficient, minimizes time of decompressing systems and their maintenance expenses.

The first stage of the project provides that the cloud infrastructure of the university will have 50 virtual servers and 100 zero clients in 2012. As for the future, it is planned to enlarge the number up to 125 virtual servers and 480 user stations. Zero stations (or clients) are devices without central processing unit, core memory and disk subsystem and that is why the maintenance of these devices is minimal.

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Cloud technologies make it possible to use remote computer centers. They automatically solve all the problems connected with computer capacity and volume of free space at hard disc drive. Such approach allows cost saving at purchase of computers, software products and also maintenance of these machines. The user will have only a monitor connected to a remote server on his desk.