[buug-l] Adminstammtisch 06.01. - Heads in the Clouds: Measuring the Implications of Universities Migrating to Public Clouds (Tobias Fiebig)

[Jens Link]

jenslink at quux.de writes:

Moin,

zur Erinnerung...

Jens

> Hallo!
>
> Ersteinmal ein frohes neues Jahr. Auch 2022 machen wir weiter mit
> Flarp, den Anfang macht Tobias Fiebig mit Heads in the Clouds: Measuring
> the Implications of Universities Migrating to Public Clouds
>
>
> Start ist wie immer pünktlich um 19:00:
> https://vc5.cms.hu-berlin.de/b/mic-crd-f3x-vxs
>
> Es wird auch wieder einen Aufzeichnung des Vortrags geben.  Gerne dürft
> ihr auch Freunde / Bekannte / Kollegen einladen.
>
> Abstract:
>
> The digitalization of research and education is one of the central
> topics for the German education system. In that discussion, the current
> strategy is often considered as inert, delayed by privacy concerns,
> while a migration to large centralized cloud platforms (MS Teams, Zoom)
> is celebrated as an adequate tool to build a digital university.
>
> In this talk we will inspect the digitalization of universities and
> their migrations to public clouds through the empirical lens of
> large-scale network measurements. Our measurements allow us to paint an
> accurate picture of the digitalization at German universities and the
> growing dependance on public clouds. On an international scale, we find
> a polarized situation, with university systems which made the step to
> depend on large-scale cloud providers years ago, while universities in
> other countries were able to mostly preserve their academic
> independence.
>
> An interdisciplinary contextualization of our results reveals that
> Germany currently sits at a crossroad. We, as researchers and educators,
> have to ask ourselves which future of research and education we want. Do
> we—despite its apparent dangers—follow the international trend of cloud
> migrations, or do we instead decide to lead, and build a digital
> university of the future that preserves the independence of research and
> education?
>
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>
> Viele Grüße
>
> Jens und Michael
>
>
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