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• mark.d.dahl commented  ·  March 20, 2009 12:59 p.m.  ·  Delete

  If the Amazon S3 model in prevails, storage may become a low cost utility, with little financial benefit in banding together even several hundred colleges to purchase. In fact, I think we may see a decentralization of storage provision, to the point where departments and individual faculty members buy it with their own credit cards.

• Ganesan Ravishanker commented  ·  March 19, 2009 3:14 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Good idea, a lot of questions: Who will manage it? Who will ensure the security and availability? Instead, should we negotiate better pricing with the more established entities offering storage in the cloud like Amazon's S3?

• rhkrdgzin commented  ·  February 9, 2009 5:12 p.m.  ·  Delete

  I'm all for helping to develop a group approach to housing data, parallel to the kinds of group storage libraries are developing. I see little value in everyone's building their own storage for most things.