EDUCAUSE: Community Cloud vs. the Outsourced Cloud
Don Welch
President and CEO, Merit Network
John Moore
Director of Advanced Services Development, MCNC
Summary
Many institutions in the education community are considering moving some aspect of their business to “the cloud.” Moving to the cloud could mean outsourcing your e-mail to Google or migrating your existing server infrastructure to a virtualization platform such as VMWare. What are some of the alternatives in between? Can our community apply some of the lessons learned in developing advanced networks for education to so-called community clouds?
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