Cloud hosting now dominates academic library software—but formal governance has not caught up
Data is based on a survey of 33 academic institutions, the report measures cloud penetration, providers, performance, outages, business-continuity confidence, staffing effects, vendor lock-in, RAG adoption, and governance priorities.
The study provides benchmarks for library directors, CIOs, systems managers, cloud and security teams, procurement staff, vendors, and consultants managing SaaS risk and migration strategy. Some of the study's main findings are