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part of the ASPIRE program
Terena conducts a study on cloud services. It is part of the ASPIRE program. The study focuses on how NREN's (Terena member organizations) can benefit from cloud services.The study aims to:
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1. Survey
A questionnaire that will be distributed amongst all member organizations at CIO level. It will contain a number of questions regarding cloud services.
- The relevance of cloud services.
- The opportunities cloud services offer.
- The threats, challenges and issues surrounding the cloud (financial, technical, legal, privacy, security and regulatory aspects)
- The most viable distribution models (private, community, public cloud).
- The most viable services types (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
- Commodity services vs innovation services.
- The end-user pull and consumerization of IT: bring your own device, choose your own (cloud) services.
- Vendor management (working with commercial service providers).
- The role of the NREN (cloud broker - and/or cloud service provider, build or buy, produce or consume).
- The timeframe of moving to the cloud (the demand from Universities and end-users).
- The short-term plans regarding the cloud.
- The long-term plans regarding the cloud.
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2. Scenario's
The cloud services study members will provide each write a report on how their NREN makes cloud services available (or plans to do so). As
As each 'user story' follows the same structure, the different 'routes towards the cloud' can be easily compared and can be used as examples for other NREN's.
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