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Monday, August 18, 2008
The accidental tourist looks at clouds from both sides now
My husband, a newbie blogger, shares his views of cloud computing. I think some of the issues he raises will either gel with or grate on the views of some of the readers of this blog. Which camp are you in?
Funny - our organization has just gone through the exact same thing. However, unlike most professional orgs, we have a whole 'nother population - the students.
The decision - students and alumni get the cloud solution. Staff, faculty stay with the old, hoary in-house solution because it passes the compliance tests.
I think that you have to measure the sensitivity of the information to the gains achieved removing responsiblity for the servers.
Funnily enough, I had a similar post from DrBob on my blog.
It's interesting that the universities have 2 distinct populations, with different requirements. The student body would appear to be ideal candidates for cloud computing.
Funny - our organization has just gone through the exact same thing. However, unlike most professional orgs, we have a whole 'nother population - the students.
ReplyDeleteThe decision - students and alumni get the cloud solution. Staff, faculty stay with the old, hoary in-house solution because it passes the compliance tests.
I think that you have to measure the sensitivity of the information to the gains achieved removing responsiblity for the servers.
@wendy I will draw John's attention to your comment in case he wants to respond.
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ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, I had a similar post from DrBob on my blog.
It's interesting that the universities have 2 distinct populations, with different requirements. The student body would appear to be ideal candidates for cloud computing.