Design of an education cloud based on mainframe

Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has the potential to transform a large part of the IT industry. This paper presents a new cloud on mainframe education. “z Education Cloud” delivers three services, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Course as a Service. We described what it is capable of and discussed the key concept in the cloud. It is a new idea of mainframe education service with a fashion concept of cloud computing. As a result, we can deploy the z Education Cloud for national use. The proposal of z Education Cloud is a reformer in mainframe education changing the way to deliver education service.