A quick overview of cloud computing for librarians. The first part of a joint presentation with Edward Corrado

1. Cloud Computing and the Academic Library A Quick Overview ELUNA 2010 Fort Worth, TX May 12, 2010 Frank Cervone, Vice Chancellor for Information Services and Chief Information Officer Purdue University Calumet

2. What is cloud computing? Abstracted IT resources and services On-demand At scale

3. Brief history

4. Advantages

5. Concerns

6. Clouds in general http://blogs.southworks.net/mwoloski/2008/08/19/cloud-computing-taxonomy-map/

7. Cloud (or cloudlike) services in libraries