Cloud computing is becoming a popular approach to solve many serious problematic issues since its introduction in 2000. Cloud computing includes data storage in addition to software and hardware sharing via using network infrastructure, computers, and other resources. However, the educational centers are still considered conventional and limited in terms of their existing hardware infrastructure. A case study of cloud computing deployment in the University of Diyala-ICC (Internet and Computer Center)-will be used to illustrate the situation. This study aims to develop a basic cloud-based design for improving the efficiency of ICC laboratories, as an educational center in the University of Diyala to make it a study and research center of cloud computing for computer science students in the university. The proposed design is built via using “Software as a Service” (SaaS) model. Cloud computing in ICC laboratories is designed using Private Cloud Computing. The proposed design provided flexibility to ICC and allows to improve the capabilities of computer network and helps in managing their resources easily.

With the rapid increase in global intellectual production, academic libraries have been challenged to make this product available to beneficiaries at the perfect time and place. On the other hand, the rapid development in the field of information technology, especially cloud computing and open source software applications, offers many capabilities that can be harnessed in the work of academic libraries to meet the needs of beneficiaries. This paper aims to developing information services in the academic libraries in University of Diyala (UOD) through using cloud computing applications and open source software (Koha) to facilitate the search and retrieval of information by librarians and beneficiaries. A unified research platform has been created for all academic libraries at UOD using Koha integrated system and building a database of bibliographic records, which have been installed on the Google cloud platform. The unified search platform helps librarians and users retrieve information and search resources more efficiently from anywhere, at anytime by calling sources of information with multiple retrieval points (author, source, ISBN, abstract, keywords) as well as the ability to search for sources of information in all UOD libraries simultaneously, which contributes to reducing the time of the beneficiary in obtaining sources of information.

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