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Cloud Computing Environment in Big Data for Education

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Frontiers of Cyberlearning

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The term ‘cloud computing’ has rapidly spread in the framework of Big Data and Business Intelligence for better performance of the analysis result. This new word used in big data scenario to overcome those problems that cannot be effectively or efficiently solved using current standard computing resources. This chapter emphasizes the used of cloud computing in Big Data along with necessity of cloud computing in the education. Nowadays cloud computing paradigm has gained popularity over the others due to the number of benefits it offers. The main features of cloud computing to stress its elasticity in the use of computing resources and space in less management effort and flexible costs. In this article, an overview on the topic of Big Data, cloud computing usage of cloud computing education has addressed from the perspective of Cloud Computing and its programming frameworks. In particular, the chapter focuses on cloud data management and big data processing mechanisms, key issues of big data processing, including cloud computing platform, cloud architecture, cloud database and data storage scheme. Several architectures, problems, and technology of the cloud computing in Big data has been identified and a solution has been furnished henceforth. Finally, open issues and challenges, and deeply explore the research directions in the future of cloud computing in education environments.

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Singh, D. (2018). Cloud Computing Environment in Big Data for Education. In: Spector, J., et al. Frontiers of Cyberlearning. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0650-1_12

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