SUMMARY
In the article the deep analysis of broad areas of research of the current stage of information society technologies in education is provided. From the standpoint of systems approach a causal chain that describes and details the common problem – the lack of organizational and functional structure of IT departments of educational and scientific institutions in view of the objective conditions of the current state of development of information technologies is considered. Due to urgency of application of the outsourcing mechanism for the operation and development of the ICT systems of educational organizational structures at the present stage of informatization of education, some theoretical and practical aspects of this concept and phenomenon are revealed. The functions of ICT departments that support and develop ICT systems based on adaptive information and communication networks, i.e. those based on cloud (corporate or public) ICT infrastructure, are described.