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Appropriate Use of “Cloud Computing”Services by the Michigan State University Community 22 April 2008 WORKING DRAFT Author: David Gift, Vice Provost, Libraries, Computing and Technology (With advice and editorial review by the Network Communication, 1 and Instructional Computing and Technology, advisory CAFEs ) Purpose “Cloud computing” services represent a growing variety of useful services available on the World Wide Web and the most innovative and rapidly developing portion of the technology market space. “Cloud computing” promises to provide a large number and variety of services that will be very useful to faculty, staff and students at MSU. The business models and terms of use of these services often involve a variety of real risks to users and the content they deploy in these services. This document is intended to provide guidance to help individuals make informed, well- considered choices about appropriate use of “Cloud computing” services. It includes explanation of current concepts of cloud computing, current examples, and factors all faculty, staff and students should review. Background “Cloud computing” is a general term used to include a variety of computing and information services and applications run by users across the Internet (in the “Internet cloud”) on the service provider’s systems, instead of run “locally” on personal computers or campus-based servers. These Internet-based services are sometimes called “software as a service” (SaaS), or “platform as a service” (PaaS), or “hosted” applications, storage or computing. The most common model used for marketing and the user relationship with these services is a “business to individual” (B2I) model, where