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Matt (e-learning technologist @ UCL) just let me discover this very simple and fast cloud application. EtherPad is sort of a online collaborative draft editing tool that lets you create public (cookies-and unique URL-based) or private (user-authentication) “pads”. The creator or any invited participant can invite other participant for simultaneously or asynchronously co-editing the pad. [...]

In-Cloud-“Outsourcing” of IT services that have long been available on premises, such as messaging, collaboration, or databases and web services is a delicate strategic decision and nearly every CIO is confronted with it. The old IT determinants – availability, performance, security, scalability, TCO, recovery and disaster recovery – need to be re-assessed quasi from scratch, [...]