Museums and Cloud Computing Ready for Primetime, or Just Vaporware? Charles Moad, Robert Stein, Ed Bachta Indianapolis Museum of Art Image by akakumo

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud Computing implies a move towards thinking of computing services in the same way we think about purchasing utilities like electricity, gas or phone.

Cloud Computing implies a move towards thinking of computing services in the same way we think about purchasing utilities like electricity, gas or phone.

Existing Platforms

Advantages Scalability Pay-as-you-go Energy efficiency Hardware admin Uptime

Scalability

Pay-as-you-go

Energy efficiency

Hardware admin

Uptime

Disadvantages Security Data transfer costs vs. in-house Possible portability issues (AppEngine) Integration with existing archival backup systems

Security

Data transfer costs vs. in-house

Possible portability issues (AppEngine)

Integration with existing archival backup systems

Power Usage Effectiveness http://www.greenm3.com/2008/10/yes-pue-is-the.html

AWS Infrastructure Amazon Web Service (AWS) Platform as a Service (PAAS)

AWS Tools ElasticFox and S3Fox

AWS Tools AWS Management Console

AWS Tools AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

AWS Tools iPhone AWS Manager

What is

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Art21

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum

The New York Public Library

The Numbers (so far) 40,000 video views 18,500 note clicks 1:3 of the notes expanded 600 tweets since launch 8,500 views of “Behind the Babble” 17,750 views of most popular YouTube video posted Feb. 1 st , 2008 3,500 registered users 50% signed up using OpenID (but didn’t realize it)

40,000 video views

18,500 note clicks

1:3 of the notes expanded

600 tweets since launch

8,500 views of “Behind the Babble”

17,750 views of most popular YouTube video posted Feb. 1 st , 2008

3,500 registered users

50% signed up using OpenID (but didn’t realize it)

The Numbers (so far) for geeks 40 hours of video processed 250 videos & instances 590 instance hours At a cost of $0.50 per video April 1 st – 15 th 35,000 visitors From >100 countries Over 115GB of data transferred out At a transfer cost of $22 Over 0.32TB of video streamed At a transfer cost of $63 5.5 Mbps average transfer on embedded videos IMA just upgraded to 5Mb pipe Fall ‘08

40 hours of video processed

250 videos & instances

590 instance hours

At a cost of $0.50 per video

April 1 st – 15 th

35,000 visitors

From >100 countries

Over 115GB of data transferred out

At a transfer cost of $22

Over 0.32TB of video streamed

At a transfer cost of $63

5.5 Mbps average transfer on embedded videos

IMA just upgraded to 5Mb pipe Fall ‘08

EC2 Instance Performance

ArtBabble Costs

ArtBabble Costs

ArtBabble Costs

ArtBabble Costs

Costs Compared

Costs / Time

What’s new?

Google App Engine adds Java and cron jobs. Errata

Amazon adds reserved instance pricing. 33% savings with 1-year commitment. 50% savings with 3-year commitment. Errata

Questions?