Part of LPSS I couldn't interest people in at all was called 'personal cloud'. This wasn't a private cloud per se (though we did ultimately support OwnCloud) as it was a way for a person to manage their own cloud data sources and resources. This, as we read here, is the wave of the future; companies and institutions developing 'private cloud' alternatives such as OpenStack are, according to the author, being played for suckers. A recent Oxford Economics and SAP study (14 page PDF) points to the new cloud wavet, and data from Forrester supports the trend to public cloud services. "David Linthicum is correct to declare that 'The public cloud is already the norm,' and further that 'The private cloud fantasy is over,' writes Matt Asay. What this means for ed tech is that student data won't be locked in institutional 'private clouds'; it will be free and managed by the students themselves in the public cloud.
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