Presented by Mike Richwalsky at the J.Boye Conference presented in Philadelphia, May 2010.

1. Integrating the cloud into your web operations Mike Richwalsky, John Carroll University Photo by Marco Fulle

2. Hello, my name is… Director of Marketing Services, John Carroll University Technology Fellow, NITLE Blog: HighEdWebTech.com FB/TWIT: mrichwalsky

3. Go Pens.

4. What is the cloud? Use of external infrastructure to solve internal technology issues and needs Use resources only as you need them Scale up and down quickly and easily Pay only for what you use.

5. Why look to the cloud?

7. Old and busted.

8. New hotness.

9. It can cost less to take advantage of external infrastructure than building your own from scratch, especially for short-term projects.

11. It’s not all or nothing.

12. How to Integrate the cloud Since our time is limited, let’s look at 3 ways you can start using the cloud today in your web development, marketing and communications efforts.

13. Content Delivery Speed and reliability Geo-targeting Bandwidth + access are cheap Asset hosting+CMS

14. Which elements are cloud served?

15. Which elements are cloud served? Images CSS jQuery javascripts

17. Case Study: Allegheny College

18. Case Study, Allegheny College Need to provide high quality video experience for fundraising effort Outsourced video hosting to Amazon S3 Site handled initial load+long tail Total Cost: $9

19. CMS User Assets On-campus: finite storage Cloud: limitless storage Security for uploaded content Served quickly and efficiently CMS Plugins: WordPress Joomla Drupal Module

21. Rapid Development Software evaluation Testing Build out

23. Case Study, Pace University ePortfolio Platform Testing + Buildout Started Amazon EC2 server to develop on before launching production environment on campus Total cost: ~$60

24. Backup to the cloud Yes, your IT team do backups More is always better Cloud storage + bandwidth is inexpensive

25. Backup WordPress Blog/CMS

26. Backup WordPress Blog/CMS

27. Backup your web server to S3 Command-line scripts and tools written in a variety of languages PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and more Control to just backup web content and/or MySQL databases Zipped up, these are small and cheap to move and store

28. Command line backups

30. Security Your data and services are only as secure as you make them. If data and processes on your campus are not secure, your cloud data and processes will not be secure.

31. Not everything is cloud worthy Sensitive student data Bandwidth intensive apps Anything else you feel should not be there?

32. Quick Cloud Project Checklist What is the duration of your project? What type of service do you need Remember the cloud is better at some things than others Amount of data you need to move in and out You often pay for both upload and download