[LINK] Qld govt moving to the cloud

[Jan Whitaker]

At 01:36 PM 31/05/2013, Jim Birch wrote:
>I'm not sure that the "cloud" would, of itself, make things cheaper since
>the Queensland government is already big enough to reap most of the
>economies of scale.  However, you do get the advantage of being able to
>offer up a big visible contract that might generate some real competition.

Here's a cloud article in the Age that speaks to some of the 
pros/cons, including connectivity concerns, local data stores, and the NBN.

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/cloud/what-happens-if-the-network-goes-down-20130531-2ng83.html



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