Cloud Computing for Library Services

by Atul Kumar Pandey SEO Manager

Dozens of tekkers talked about working, saving, and especially archiving int the clouds. A really good exposure to new ways of thinking. The tools are a bit confounding until used, it seems. But the idea that this is becoming prevalent because it is not only effective, but also easy to do is very, very valuable information.

Related: Nuvolat Cloud Group

Most people need to be comfortable with free tools like Google Docs. Flickr. This is a first step. Also excellent Amazon EC2. Central Desktop, like SharePoint. Drupal. One speaker mentioned dropping hosting costs from $54,000/yr to the cloud which costs $4,800/yr for both web and digital archives. Performs very quickly. And it's quicker than adding servers. And it's secure (although I wonder about longevity).

The word "geek" was used no less that 29 times during these presentations. Prezi makes a nice-looking presentation and is free for a basic version.

Very interesting, considering our considerable archives.

Heather Moulaison at University of Ottowa LIS is writing about this. A chapter can be submitted to her. I wonder if any of my colleagues would be interested...

A Preservation Cloud Service

Leslie Johnston, LC. Architecture for preservation. Started organization as infrastructure for preservation architecture. They help organizations work with digital preservation.

Duracloud (part of Duraspace) helps orgs use public cloud services. Storage, software, and platform as service.

Create a set of services that allow to synch up a repository already have or to set up a new one. Vs. local storage, keep video files, etc. in the cloud.

Terrapod may be worth looking into.

Data Liberation Front exists to make sure we can move items in and out of the cloud, which is crucial.

This is the future of cloud computing world.

I am cloud computing right now.