Moving Kerberos to the Cloud?

[Bill Doster]

On Dec 7, 2011, at 16:56 , Nico Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Tom Yu <tlyu at mit.edu> wrote:
>> tareq.alrashid at case.edu writes:
>>> The higher ups asked: Feasibility of moving the University’s MIT Kerberos authentication critical service infrastructures to the Cloud?
>> 
>> It is very probably technically feasible, for some definitions of "Cloud".

The higher ups presumably asked because they believe that there are potentially some gains to be made by doing so.

Rather than leaving those gains unstated, it would probably be worthwhile to find out what … savings … they are looking/hoping for.

Any (computing) service requires several legs to "stand up": hardware (purchase, operation, maintenance), software (purchase, updates, "tailoring"), __SUPPORT__ (call-in and mail-in support centers, education, documentation, …)

Which of these legs are being envisioned as moving to <the Cloud>?

Unless you can move the support leg, I suspect the savings realized will actually be a pretty small percentage of total costs.