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Advances in technology offer new opportunities in enhancing teaching and learning. Many advances in learning technologies are taking place throughout the world. The new technologies enable individuals to personalise the environment in which they work or learn, utilising a range of tools to meet their interests and needs. Cloud Computing increases the flexibility and access of educational users to a wide range of educational resources. This includes access to infrastructure, software, hardware, and platform at any time in any place provided there is internet access. The users of cloud computing in higher educational institutions include students, lecturers, administrative staff, faculty staff, developers, programmers and researchers. Due to the prevailing financial crisis and the growing needs, higher education (HE) institutes are facing challenges in providing necessary IT support for educational, research and development activities. Cloud Computing (CC) environment can rescue HE institutes from the above mentioned challenges The HE institute must exploit the opportunities afforded by CC while minimizing the associated security risks to allow access to advanced IT infrastructure, data centers, and applications and protect sensitive information. In this paper, CC architecture for HE institute containing the various deployment models, Service Models and user domain is proposed. For smoothing the migration from traditional system to CC based system a five phase strategy is presented. We finally provide the recommendations for a successful and efficient migration from traditional to cloud based system.