Cloud
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On campuses across the country, both IT budgets and resources are shrinking.
One of the scarcest resources may be bandwidth-everyone wants more of it, but it’s expensive. This makes it a challenge to deliver content to multiple audiences, especially web 2.0 content like video. If it’s slow, you risk alienating the constituents who ultimately provide revenue for your institution-including students, alumni and prospective students and their parents.
We web developers are expected to deliver more with less, especially in this burgeoning age of web video. If the video that cost your institution thousands of dollars to produce downloads at dial-up speeds, you’ll see your visitors leave in drastic numbers.What’s an overworked web pro to do?
Look to the cloud.
On-demand services like cloud computing, storage, and content delivery have become near commodities in their pricing and scalability, and implementing them may be easier than you think. It’s a win for you, it’s a win for your institution, and it can take a significant load off of your already stressed IT resources.We’ve been using the ‘cloud’ at Allegheny College for nearly a year. This presentation will showcase our implementation of this exciting technology, focusing especially on Amazon’s Web Services offerings.
