Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to show the need for literacy education from a variety of services available in the cloud computing as a specialist information field of activity. Teaching at university in the field of cloud computing related to the management of information could provide tangible benefits in the form of useful learning outcomes. This allows students and future information professionals to begin enjoying the benefits of cloud computing SaaS model at work, thereby freeing up of buying expensive licenses and installing on your PC commercial software.

Paper brings wider issues of cloud computing. The aim of the presentation is to show the ability to use a variety of services and applications available in the cloud as a workshop. These include: office and communication, tools, graphics editors, presentation software, dropbox, applications allowing the managed time and many others. The term “cloud computing” is related to the concept of virtualization. Moreover, paper also addresses the issue of data security in the cloud.

Keywords: Cloud computing, SaaS, Network environment, Cloud services

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License

Copyright (c) 2013 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.

How to Cite

Piotrowski, D. M. (2013). Cloud Computing as Network Environment in Students Work. Information World, 14(1), 191-198. https://doi.org/10.15612/BD.2013.142