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Interesting, facts-based paper by Paul Thurrot, read here. This article is pretty in line with what I’m currently experiencing here at University College London, where 22000 students and most of the staff and faculty have been migrated to live@edu (live@ucl).

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, [...]