[MCN-L] Advice About Cloud Storage

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Stocking 2013
We use Azure for one project with a few thousand images. We took a close look at the charges for additions to the store as well as traffic charges - hosting the data is just one part of the cost. It worked for us, and has been reliable, but you need to do your sums. Michael ===

[MCN-L] Advice About Cloud Storage

2013-04-17 Thread Jeremy Ottevanger
We use Rackspace. They have a new part to their cloud offer, which I've not yet tried but which sounds helpful if you have large storage needs because it lets you buy what you need without scaling up the server as a whole. Cloud Blocks, I think it's called. Ah yes, here it is: http://www.racksp

[MCN-L] Advice About Cloud Storage

2013-04-17 Thread Robin White Owen
Hello List, We are planning to use a cloud service to store large numbers of hi-res digital images for an online education platform. If any of you already use cloud services I'd be very grateful for recommendations or advice about what to look out for. Thank you, as always. Robin Robin White

[MCN-L] Advice About Cloud Storage

2013-04-17 Thread Nate Solas
We're using S3 for our collections images with a security policy to reserve the full-size versions. It wasn't a very researched decision except that we were already using AWS and like it. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who did more research and went another direction...? Nate On Wed, Apr 17