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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We currently run our Call Managers and Unity servers on VMs managed on our campus. Cisco CUCM is only supported on ESXi Hypervisor which limits our moves from VMWare to anything else. VMWare's pricing is expected
to increase. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We run on tight budgets without flexibility and need to plan for any financial changes a few years in advance especially for such a great change. We know cloud services are an option but we have other in house
systems tied to that change which do not make the transition easy or quick. Any input would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Lisa Notarianni<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">University of Scranton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Infrastructure Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">800 Linden St.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Scranton PA 18510<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">570.941.4325<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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