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On May 25, 2010, The University of Arizona announced it would use Microsoft Online Services to provide 18,000 faculty and staff members with the online collaboration tool BPOS.[9] Selecting BPOS is similar to the announcement by three universities in the UK who recently chose Microsoft’s cloud platform. Chris Randle, IT director at UCL summed it up “Microsoft could tell the university exactly where its data would be held and said that it would keep the content of all emails private.” These statements offer a stark contrast from the discussions being had at the: University of California-Davis , UMass and Yale University, regarding deep privacy and security concerns related to the use of other solutions, namely Google Apps