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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Cloud Computing Policy
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Looking at Clouds from All Sides Now
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June 10, 2010
© 2010 Richard N. Katz, Elazar C. Harel, Anne K. Keehn, Michael King. Joanne Kossuth, Darren Wesemann, and Brad Wheeler. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attributi…
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Shaping the Higher Education Cloud
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May 21, 2010
As technologies like virtualization and cloud computing assume important places within the IT landscape, higher education leaders will need to consider which institutional services they wish to …
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Demystifying the Cloud: Implications for IT Funding in Higher Education
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February 23, 2010
This ECAR research bulletin extends the discussion that was begun in the 2009 ECAR research bulletin Demystifying Cloud Computing for Higher Education by looking more deeply at the economic …
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Outsourcing and Cloud Computing for Higher Education
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January 11, 2010
Within the last year a vast literature has emerged on outsourcing and cloud computing. This memo will not attempt to rewrite that which has already been written and can easily be obtained for mor…
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Alternative IT Sourcing Strategies: From the Campus to the Cloud
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August 20, 2009
Abstract This 2009 ECAR research study explores a multitude of strategies used by colleges and university information technology organizations to deliver the breadth of technologies and servic…
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Alternative IT Sourcing Strategies: From the Campus to the Cloud–Key Findings
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August 17, 2009
This document presents the key findings from the 2009 ECAR study, Alternative IT Sourcing Strategies: From the Campus to the Cloud , by Philip J. Goldstein. The study explores a multitude of s…
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7 Things You Should Know About Cloud Computing
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August 3, 2009
Cloud computing is the delivery of scalable IT resources over the Internet, as opposed to hosting and operating those resources locally, such as on a college or university network. Those resource…
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Strategic Outsourcing and Cloud Computing: Reality Is a Sober Adversary
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June 16, 2009
This research bulletin examines outsourcing and cloud computing through the lens of strategic decision making for higher education. Strategic decisions have long-term impact, create institutional…
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A Solution Looking for a Problem
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May 7, 2008
© 2008 Rebecca Gould and Elizabeth Unger. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License ( http://creat…
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Well, if They’re Already Using It ...
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October 25, 2007
College representatives at Educause conference ponder outsourcing e-mail to Google and how to embrace students’ Facebook habits. College repr…

















