The document discusses cloud computing and provides examples of how museums can utilize cloud services. It describes common cloud applications and utilities, discusses pros and cons of the cloud, and provides specific examples of how the International Museum of Art used Amazon Web Services (AWS) to save costs on data storage and transition their website and video servers to the cloud.

1. Cloud Computing Primer: Steps for using the Cloud in Your Museum Ari Davidow – jwa.org Charles Moad – imamuseum.org Robert Stein - imamuseum.org

2. wikipedia on cloud computing via wordle.net

3. CLOUD COMPUTING CLOUD APPLICATIONS UTILITY COMPUTING

4. Cloud Applications ... eliminate the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computer, thus alleviating the burden of software maintenance, ongoing operation, and support.

5. Cloud Applications

6. Utility Computing … a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided as a service to external customers using Internet technologies.

7. Utility Computing

8. Buzz Worthy Search Trends for “cloud computing” Via Google Search Trends

9. Source “Cloud Computing Gains in Currency”, Pew Research, May 2008 http://pewresearch.org/pubs/948/cloud-computing-gains-in-currency 69% of Americans use cloud computing services

10. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for 2009 image courtesy of gartner.com

11. 21% of companies are piloting SaaS applications up from 18% last year – Forrester, Feb 2009

12. In Forrester’s List of the Top 15 Technology Trends

14. Gartner’s #1 Strategic Technology Area for 2010

15. State of Cloud Computing Cloud computing isn't going to be vapor much longer… It's complicated, poses security risks, and computing technology companies are latching onto the buzzword in droves, but the phenomenon should be taken seriously… -Gartner - October 20,2009 http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10378782-264.html “

16. Concerns about SaaS

19. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Overview Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Simple Storage Service (S3) SimpleDB Simple Queue Service (SQS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) Elastic MapReduce CloudFront Content Delivery Network Relational Database Service (RDS) Virtual Private Cloud

21. Jungle Disk

22. Jungle Disk - $20 / www.jungledisk.com

25. Converse Example

30. AWS Tools

31. Elasticfox & S3Fox

32. EC2 Console

33. Moving Drupal to the Cloud: Step by step

34. Introducing the EC2 Console

35. Creating a Key Pair

36. Creating a Security Group

37. Selecting a Starter AMI

38. Launching an AMI

39. Connecting to Your EC2 Instance

40. Creating an EBS Volume

41. Configuring Apache and MySQL

42. Setting up Drupal

43. Bundling an AMI

44. ami-764bab1f

45. Fedora for DAM

46. Fedora as a testbed on AWS Project Goals: External vendor to create least-possible Fedora instance to enable preservation work

56. Rightscale – basic services free www.rightscale.com

59. AWS Infrastructure Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Simple Storage Service (S3) SimpleDB Simple Queue Service (SQS) Elastic Block Store (EBS) Elastic MapReduce CloudFront Content Delivery Network Relational Database Service (RDS) Virtual Private Cloud

61. Scalabble

62. Video Processing

63. Total Monthly AWS

64. Monthly Bill for ArtBabble.org Web Server

65. Monthly Bill for Wowza Video Server(s)

66. AWS Bill - CloudFront

67. AWS Bill – EC2

68. AWS Bill – S3

69. AWS Bill - Wowza

72. QUESTIONS?