Libraries and the Cloud

Libraries and the Cloud Ellyssa Kroski Bookmarks

What About Cloud Computing? What is it? Why does it Matter? Types of Cloud Services Benefits Drawbacks How are Libraries Using it?

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Photos

Photo Editing

= Internet

Videos

Presentations

File Storage

Office Applications

Mobile Devices

Game Systems

“Many of us now spend more time using new Web services than we do running traditional software apps from our hard drive.” Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch

An IT Revolution

“A shift from a product to a service.” Simon Wardley, OSCON 2009

Why Does IT Matter?

“Annual global market for cloud computing will surge to $160 billion by 2011.” Merrill Lynch “By 2013, the cloud computing market will reach $150.1 billion.” Gartner

“$8 out of $10 of technology budgets in corporations goes to maintaining systems rather than innovating.” Daryl Plummer, Managing VP, Gartner

Why Now? Broadband Social Networks Internet-Enabled Devices User Expectations Economies of Scale

SaaS PaaS IaaS

SaaS Software as a Service Cloud Applications Applications delivered over the Internet as a Service Subscription Services One Size Fits All

“Nearly every traditional business application now has an equivalent offered over the Internet." Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch

Libraries and SaaS

YouTube

Google Apps

Libguides

WordPress

IM Services

Facebook

Flickr

Twitter

Pageflakes

Microsoft Sharepoint

LibraryThing

WorldCat

Biblios

Enterprise Koha

PennTags

PaaS Platform as a Service Cloud Development Platforms Development environments provided over the Internet as a service Pay-as-you-go or subscription pricing model Apps are developed for that one platform

Libraries and PaaS

Catalog & Database FB Apps

OCLC Web Services

Yahoo Pipes

Google App Engine

IaaS Infrastructure as a Service aka HaaS or Hardware as a Service Storage services and computing power delivered over the Internet as a service Metered pricing Not "dedicated"

Amazon Web Services EC2

Amazon Web Services S3

Sun Cloud

Libraries and IaaS

“The days of each library operating its own local servers have largely passed. This approach rarely represents the best use of library space and personnel.".” Marshall Breeding Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University

Library of Congress

LibLime

University of Arizona Libraries

My Kansas Library

Kent State University Libraries

DCPL – ILS

Boston Public Library

British Library

Benefits

Cost Scalability Usability Reliability Benefits Security Portability Collaboration Green

“The company saved roughly $500,000 in planned disk drive expenditures in 2006 and cut its disk storage array costs in half.” SmugMug (using Amazon Web Services) “In the first 12 months since launch, Zoopla estimates it has saved at least £200,000 in the areas of data- centre costs, server cap-ex, server upgrade/maintenance costs, sys admin salaries, network equipment, etc" Zoopla (using Amazon Web Services)

“The University of Westminster estimates it has avoided a spend of £1million in moving to the cloud, cutting expenditure on new hardware and software upgrades.” University of Westminster (using Google Apps)

Cost Scalability Usability Reliability Benefits Security Portability Collaboration Green

Drawbacks

Privacy Security Reliability Obsolete Drawbacks Data Ownership Lock-In Control

Major Outages July 20, 2008 Amazon Web Services S3 - up to 8 hours Aug 15, 2008 Google Gmail, Apps - 24 hours Oct 16, 2008 Google Gmail - 30 hours Mar 13, 2009 Microsoft Azure - 22 hours Dec 9, 2009 Amazon Web Services EC2 45 mins - 5 hours (limited to 1 zone on East Coast) Jan 30, 2009 Ma.gnolia complete data loss

“I don't see a major difference between hardware obsolescence and service obsolescence.” Michael Klein Digital Initiatives Librarian Boston Public Library

Customers should push for standard data formats so they can move from cloud to cloud.

“Cloud computing is a "“tradeoff between cost and control” Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch “The biggest cultural component is that organizations have to become more willing to use platforms, technology, and services that they don't directly control " Carl Frappaolo Co-founder, Information Architected, Inc.

Libraries and the Cloud Not All-or-Nothing Start Small Cloud Storage Cloud Applications Use Major Providers: Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, Facebook

Resources Carr, Nicholas G. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2008. Kroski, Ellyssa. "Library Cloud Atlas: A Guide to Cloud Computing and Storage", Library Journal 9/10/2009. http://tinyurl.com/yc479ko Katz, Richard N. The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing. [Boulder, CO]: EDUCAUSE, 2008. Buck, Stephanie. "Libraries in the Cloud: Making a Case for Google and Amazon." Computers in Libraries 9/2009. Arnold, Erik. "Leveraging Clouds to Make You More Efficient: How SaaS-Y Are You? " Online. 32. 3 6/2008. ReadWrite Cloud: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud

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