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- 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 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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