Cloud Computing Framework for Solving Egyptian Higher Education

Educational institutions across the World rely heavily on IT in teaching-learning that accept the services provision and business needs. Whereas buying and preserving a huge number of devices used in educational process whether it is licensed software and/or original hardware require great investment and special skills to support them in the current financial crisis which affect the growing needs while the Higher Education System is facing many obstacles in supplying vital technology support for educational process and its performance measurements. This paper highlights the advantages of Cloud Computing which is the better mechanism for using ICT to enhance Egyptian Higher Education, such technology provides easy accessibility and scalability, storage and cost minimization. Accordingly, implementing the proposed framework of the Hybrid Cloud Computing for the Egyptian Virtual University will have a significant contribution for enhancing the educational process in the country.