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Heads in the Clouds: Measuring the Implications of Universities Migrating to Public Clouds

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09462v4
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 09:38:38 GMT
Title: Heads in the Clouds: Measuring the Implications of Universities Migrating to Public Clouds
Authors: Tobias Fiebig, Seda G\"urses, Carlos H. Ga\~n\'an, Erna Kotkamp, Fernando Kuipers, Martina Lindorfer, Menghua Prisse, Taritha Sari
Abstract summary: We study the migration of universities to public clouds among universities in the U.S. and Europe. We find that cloud adoption differs between countries, with one cluster showing a limited move to clouds. We then analyze and interpret our results, finding that the implications reach beyond individuals' privacy towards questions of academic independence and integrity.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: With the emergence of remote education and work in universities due to COVID-19, the `zoomification' of higher education, i.e., the migration of universities to the clouds, reached the public discourse. Ongoing discussions reason about how this shift will take control over students' data away from universities, and may ultimately harm the privacy of researchers and students alike. However, there has been no comprehensive measurement of universities' use of public clouds and reliance on Software-as-a-Service offerings to assess how far this migration has already progressed. We perform a longitudinal study of the migration to public clouds among universities in the U.S. and Europe, as well as institutions listed in the Times Higher Education (THE) Top100 between January 2015 and October. We find that cloud adoption differs between countries, with one cluster (Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland) showing a limited move to clouds, while the other (U.S., U.K, the Netherlands, THE Top100) frequently outsources universities' core functions and services -- starting long before the COVID-19 pandemic. We attribute this clustering to several socio-economic factors in the respective countries, including the general culture of higher education and the administrative paradigm taken towards running universities. We then analyze and interpret our results, finding that the implications reach beyond individuals' privacy towards questions of academic independence and integrity.

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