Illinois had 860+ school districts with the same kind of needs, but the smaller districts couldn't keep up with bigger districts.
The IllinCloud is a public cloud co-op that provides computing resources to school districts across the state.
In the past, school districts had to buy a lot of infrastructure that they didn't need. Now, districts only pay for what they use.
Schools are seeing the difference with the IlliniCloud because they have access to things they didn't have access to before, like streaming video.