Today we all are trying to adopt a new normal life due to the coronavirus pandemic. This pandemic has led the entire world to go into lockdown and quarantine, shutting all the day-to-today activities.
There is no such sector called the most affected sectors due to pandemic because it equally affected each and every one. But then, it is evident that students, as a whole, were one among the most affected crowd. Since educational institutions are closed students were forced to adopt a new method of learning called online classes and online exams from home through the respective college or university or educational websites.
In China, many students were caused to returned home due to lockdown across many countries. They were advised to take online classes. But, due to security restrictions like the Great Firewall, students were refrained from using the respective tutorial websites. It further reduces the speed in loading the overseas-based websites.
When the virus spread accelerated, Alibaba’s cloud management team met the institution managements and introduced a network that could establish a bridge between university websites and Chinese students, said the University Associations.
The new network is introduced by Alibaba Cloud. It the largest cloud service provider in China by market share. Alibaba’s cloud-based solutions extend a hand for helping in businesses, websites or applications. Alibaba Cloud was launched in the year of September 2009.
The cloud is related to Alibaba’s e-commerce business and are actively promoting the services and plans to spend over &28 million in the three years on next-generation data centers.
Matthew Ball, Analyst at Canalys said that it is a good initiative that helps to gain more spending among these organizations that will intensify the course content both online and offline.
Breaking the Great Firewall through Virtual Private Networks (VPN) is illegal in china. Therefore, Alibaba cloud provides a VPN option through cloud services. Universities purchase these services and places and operate them. Thus provided VPN services are managed by universities themselves.
The service allows the students of china to access the information from overseas websites and are streamed without latency.
The company said that the schools can manage the services by themselves because they can protect students from malicious attacks.
Among 47 affiliated universities of CAUDIT, 30 universities are using Alibaba’s cloud services. Also, four institutions of Universities in Britain are now trialing the service, said Joint Information Systems Committee.
