We've been using a few different "cloudy" technologies at ICPSR. I wrote up
a short blog post in November that might be the sort of thing you'd find
useful:
http://techaticpsr.blogspot.com/2010/11/cloud-and-archival-storage.html
Our storage needs are relatively small compared to the guys below (< 10TB),
so what we've chosen to do so far might not be a good fit for an
organization that has lots and lots of content (say, > 100TB).
-- bryan
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Michael J. Giarlo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I apologize for not saying this on the last teleconference -- my (obv.
> broken) phone was stuck on mute so I could only listen -- but I would also
> be interested in hearing about how other folks on NDSA Infrastructure are
> dealing with archival storage.
>
> It will be useful to hear about particular cloud/grid solutions such as
> Duracloud, LOCKSS, and iRODS, and just as useful to hear about how folks not
> using one of these solutions are accommodating their archival needs at the
> storage layer and why they chose *not* to go the cloud/grid direction.
>
> I have folks like, e.g., HathiTrust and CDL in mind.
>
> -Mike
>
