Storage

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Storage

2013 Planning Guide: Data Center, Infrastructure, Operations, Private Cloud and Desktop Transformation

November 1, 2012

In 2013, organizations will continue transitioning data centers to improve efficiency and agility. This Gartner report provides guidance to help operations and data center leaders and C…

Managing the Big Data Explosion

September 5, 2012

Key Takeaways Education ranks among the top 10 fields in terms of data storage needed, with institutions dedicated to research in genomics and other physical sciences experienc…

Scientific Research: How Many Paradigms?

June 6, 2012

George O. Strawn is Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development. As Yogi Berra said, "Predictions are hard, es…

DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education

February 29, 2012

DuraCloud is an open-source solution for managing and persisting content in the cloud that’s offered as a service by DuraSpace , a nonprofit serving the higher education community. DuraClou…

Tech Boot Camp

May 31, 2012 | A session at the Southeast Regional Conference

Each day, our inboxes and water-cooler conversations are abuzz with the "next big thing." But keeping tabs on emerging tools and their possible implications for campus can be difficult am…

7 Things You Should Know About Organizing Files in the Cloud

June 7, 2011

File storage and management has become a potentially limiting factor in the usefulness of new technologies, and cloud-based file services such as Dropbox, SugarSync, AeroFS, and Box.net attemp…

Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI) Prospectus

September 30, 2010

EDUCAUSE is launching a new program called the Advanced Core Technologies Initiative (ACTI). A primary goal of ACTI is to help higher education institutions, with varying capabilities and resour…

Cloud Support for Web Development

June 24, 2010

Key Takeaways Cloud services can help colleges and universities meet sudden surges or long-term increases in demand for processing, bandwidth, and storage from the campus community. The…

Calculating the Cloud: Determining the True Cost of Hosting Servers and Storage in the Cloud

March 10, 2010 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2010

In an effort to assess the value of hosting servers in the cloud, Dartmouth College Computing Services initiated a study to determine the true cost of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings. …

Cloud Storage: An Emerging Market

August 4, 2009

Driven by the need to reduce costs and to provide dependable data delivery and protection, the cloud storage pay-as-you-go service model offers information technology a new way to avoid building…