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.
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
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
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
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
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