[MCN-L] Cloud Computing (Cindy Mackey)

2014-06-23 Thread Glen Barnes
A few of my notes in answer to, and +1 to things raised in the responses: If the cloud server goes down, you have no ability to fix it. You just have to wait. Which is just the same as an onsite server. Amazon/etc. have teams of people dedicated to just keeping the servers running and to

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing (Cindy Mackey)

2014-06-23 Thread Ari Davidow
Try Confluence https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence from Atlassian for a wiki. It fits the bill of being an easy to use and being a wiki ;-) If I didn't mention the Atlassian toolset, from Confluence to Jira, and their many add-ons as a very robust alternative to Sharepoint, then I

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-23 Thread Doron Ben-Avraham
Davidow) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:22:31 +1200 From: Glen Barnes g...@mytoursapp.com To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Cloud Computing (Cindy Mackey) Message-ID: CAJ4dvGrJF9QiBhW6kQRz7D4vY

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-23 Thread Keir Winesmith
at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Doron Ben-Avraham Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 7:38 AM To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Cloud Computing We employ several cloud services as a backup systems and redundancy measures. We do not, and will not, employ cloud services as a primary

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-21 Thread ami...@looseknitcollective.com
in most museum staff. Adam -Original Message- From: Rich Cherry [mailto:rche...@museumsandtheweb.com] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 05:14 PM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Cloud Computing Adam,While I dont disagree that it behooves museums to understand

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-20 Thread Cindy Mackey
Our IT department is investigating whether it is beneficial/cost-effective to switch all of our computer use to the cloud. Have any of your institutions completely switched over or is it a mix of cloud computing and onsite servers/software? Cindy Mackey Associate Registrar Currier Museum of

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-20 Thread ami...@looseknitcollective.com
- From: Cindy Mackey [mailto:cmac...@currier.org] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 09:50 AM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: [MCN-L] Cloud Computing Our IT department is investigating whether it is beneficial/cost-effective to switch all of our computer use to the cloud. Have any

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-20 Thread Ari Davidow
At JWA when I was there we moved everything but a local file server to the cloud. Much saner. If I were still there, that final file server would head to the cloud, as well (and for all I know, it already has). For just about everything we did, from our email hosting (Exchange, in our case) to

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-20 Thread ami...@looseknitcollective.com
to embrace that technology will be an integral part of their success. If it isn't already. Adam -Original Message- From: Ari Davidow [mailto:aridavi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 10:37 AM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Cloud Computing Some

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-20 Thread Rich Cherry
at currier.org] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 09:50 AM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: [MCN-L] Cloud Computing Our IT department is investigating whether it is beneficial/cost-effective to switch all of our computer use to the cloud. Have any of your institutions

[MCN-L] Cloud Computing

2014-06-20 Thread Rich Cherry
to selectively lighten the burden of your in-house system/servers. Best, Adam Mikos -Original Message- From: Cindy Mackey [mailto:CMackey at currier.org] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 09:50 AM To: 'Museum Computer Network Listserv' Subject: [MCN-L] Cloud Computing Our IT department