Presented at the IT-faggruppen interest group of the The Danish Librarian (Workers) Union: http://blog.it-faggruppen.dk in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 15, 2010.

1. Libraries
and the
Cloud
Ellyssa Kroski
Bookmarks

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

3. Bookmarks

4. Photos

5. Photo Editing

6. = Internet

7. Videos

8. Wikis

9. Presentations

10. File Storage

11. Office Applications

13. Mobile Devices

14. Game Systems

15. “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

16. An
IT
Revolution

17. An
IT
Revolution

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

19. Why Does IT Matter?

20. 69%

21. “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

22. “$8 out of $10 of technology budgets in
corporations goes to maintaining systems
rather than innovating.”
Daryl Plummer,
Managing VP, Gartner

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

24. SaaS
PaaS
IaaS

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

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

28. Libraries
and
SaaS

29. YouTube

30. Google Apps

31. Libguides

32. WordPress

33. Wikis

34. IM Services

35. Facebook

36. Flickr

37. Twitter

38. Pageflakes

39. Microsoft Sharepoint

40. LibraryThing

41. WorldCat

42. Biblios

43. Enterprise Koha

44. PennTags

45. 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

46. PaaS

47. Libraries
and
PaaS

48. Catalog & Database FB Apps

49. OCLC Web Services

50. Yahoo Pipes

51. Google App Engine

52. 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"

53. Amazon Web Services EC2

54. Amazon Web Services S3

55. Sun Cloud

56. Libraries
and
IaaS

57. “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

58. Library of Congress

59. LibLime

60. University of Arizona Libraries

61. My Kansas Library

62. Kent State University Libraries

63. DCPL

64. DCPL – ILS

65. Boston Public Library

66. British Library

67. Benefits

68. Cost Scalability Usability
Reliability Benefits Security
Portability Collaboration Green

69. “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)

70. “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)

71. Cost Scalability Usability
Reliability Benefits Security
Portability Collaboration Green

72. Cost Scalability Usability
Reliability Benefits Security
Portability Collaboration Green

73. Cost Scalability Usability
Reliability Benefits Security
Portability Collaboration Green

74. Cost Scalability Usability
Reliability Benefits Security
Portability Collaboration Green

75. Cost Scalability Usability
Reliability Benefits Security
Portability Collaboration Green

76. Cost Scalability Usability
Reliability Benefits Security
Portability Collaboration Green

77. Cost Scalability Usability
Reliability Benefits Security
Portability Collaboration Green

78. Drawbacks

79. Privacy Security Reliability
Obsolete Drawbacks Data
Ownership
Lock-In Control

80. Privacy Security Reliability
Obsolete Drawbacks Data
Ownership
Lock-In Control

81. Privacy Security Reliability
Obsolete Drawbacks Data
Ownership
Lock-In Control

82. 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

83. Privacy Security Reliability
Obsolete Drawbacks Data
Ownership
Lock-In Control

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

85. Privacy Security Reliability
Obsolete Drawbacks Data
Ownership
Lock-In Control

86. Privacy Security Reliability
Obsolete Drawbacks Data
Ownership
Lock-In Control

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

88. Privacy Security Reliability
Obsolete Drawbacks Data
Ownership
Lock-In Control

89. “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.

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

91. 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

92. Libraries
and the
Cloud
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