An eye to the future

Universities are constantly reassessing their computing needs, writes Beverley Head.

Curtin University is beta testing a computing solution that will eventually allow the university to decide which of its 180 computing applications it will migrate to a cloud-based service. Instead of the university running all of its applications in-house, many will be run and managed in external data centres - in this case those operated by Optus. Access is provided over the internet, and the university charged according to how many units of computer power are used. Curtin chief information officer, Peter Nikoletatos, says that while it may take some time to take student data applications or...