  Management of data in education sector particularly management of data for
big universities with several employees, departments and students is a very
challenging task. There are also problems such as lack of proper funds and
manpower for management of such data in universities. Education sector can
easily and effectively take advantage of cloud computing skills for management
of data. It can enhance the learning experience as a whole and can add entirely
new dimensions to the way in which education is imbibed. Several benefits of
Cloud computing such as monetary benefits, environmental benefits and remote
data access for management of data such as university database can be used in
education sector. Therefore, in this paper we have proposed an effective
framework for managing university data using a cloud based environment. We have
also proposed cloud data management simulator: a new simulation framework which
demonstrates the applicability of cloud in the current education sector. The
framework consists of a cloud developed for processing a universities database
which consists of staff and students. It has the following features (i) support
for modeling cloud computing infrastructure, which includes data centers
containing university database; (ii) a user friendly interface; (iii)
flexibility to switch between the different types of users; and (iv)
virtualized access to cloud data.
