Services for implementation of cloud technologies for education

Education today is very dependent on information technologies (IT). A usage of the technologies by higher schools is gradually increasing. One of the newest technologies is “cloud computing” that plays a significant role on education. The cloud computing technology offers the way to expand the accessibility of resources. The students and teachers have the opportunity quickly access various applications, servers, storages and other resources through the web. The access is provided through virtual classrooms, when students attend classes in their own homes on their computers, while the teachers are hundreds of kilometers away (Sourya, 2011). Cloud computing is the significant alternative for today’s education environment. Advantages for educational sector of the newest technology are presented in the (Kim, 2009, Sourya, 2011, Al-Zoube, 2009; Tuncay, 2010; Schools, 2010; Miseviciene et al., 2011, Christauskas & Miseviciene,, 2012). In this paper, we analyzed the cloud computing technologies presenting overview of cloud computing models and possibilities of virtual infrastructure desktops and their benefits. We studied reduction of costs and savings of virtual desktops. Virtual desktops in Kaunas University of Technology we presented at the end