New York Public Library reads up on the cloud
August 25, 2016
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Sharon Gaudin.
Four years ago, the New York Public Library began to move its web properties to the cloud. Today, the library system has all of its approximately 80 web sites in the cloud. The library has shrunk the number of on-premise servers by 40% and is running those web properties 95% more cheaply than if it had bought the hardware and software to do it all by itself.
The library took a risk on the cloud, and on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and it paid off. "We’ve grown but we’ve grown in the cloud," said Jay Haque, director of DevOps and Enterprise Computing at the library. "Today, we’re primarily focused on the digital identity of the NYPL. How our properties look…
How they merge and integrate. How our patrons use the site … Without the cloud, we wouldn’t have the time to focus on the customer experience." The NYPL is the largest public library system in the U.S. based on the size of its book collection and the amount of materials borrowed annually…
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