Aug 10 2011

IlliniCloud: Inside Illinois' Shared Computing Model

  • Illinois had 860+ school districts with the same kind of needs, but the smaller districts couldn't keep up with bigger districts.
  • The IllinCloud is a public cloud co-op that provides computing resources to school districts across the state.
  • In the past, school districts had to buy a lot of infrastructure that they didn't need. Now, districts only pay for what they use.
  • Schools are seeing the difference with the IlliniCloud because they have access to things they didn't have access to before, like streaming video.