Posts by Qwertilot 3 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Oct 2016
They already have (likely more than) a triple deployment, and the pain of moving away from that probably isn't worth it.
Prof/groups traditionally have almost total freedom in how they spend their grant money of course. There's plenty of places where that leads to duplication/waste.
The goal here is simply to make sure they at least get University level bulk buyer rates when they do by cloud stuff. Worth doing.
Its actually a bit harder than 'just' the ~£3 Billion too, because all of that European funding was in big(gish) projects with lots of people collaborating across Europe.
Very different from the sort of stuff we can really hope to fund using just UK funds.
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