The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) plans to deploy the cloud service to more than 10,000 technical colleges and institutes across the country, eventually covering more than 7 million students and 500,000 faculty members, Microsoft said. The cloud service will be hosted by Microsoft at its data centers.
Live@edu is a free hosted communication and collaboration service that offers email, Microsoft Office Web Apps, instant messaging and storage. Students will get 10GB of storage space and email IDs customized to the institutions at which they study.
AICTE also plans to deploy Microsoft Office 365 for education when it becomes available later this year, providing access to email, shared calendars, instant messaging, video conferencing and document collaboration through applications such as the Exchange Online email and calendar, SharePoint Online, Lync Online and Office Professional.
AICTE sought the services also of IBM and Google, which has a competing Google Apps for Education service, but settled on Microsoft as the choice for the largest cloud deployment ever made.
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