Open AccessMigration of a Research Library's ICT-Based Services to a Cloud Platform
Author(s) -
Francis Jayakanth,
K. Byrappa,
Filbert Minj
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v41i1.13537
Subject(s) - cloud computing , downtime , information and communications technology , computer science , scalability , services computing , world wide web , service (business) , information technology , telecommunications , business , operating system , web service , marketing
Libraries have been at the forefront in adopting emerging technologies to manage the library’s operations and provide information services to the user community they serve. With the emergence of cloud computing (CC) technology, libraries are exploring and adopting CC service models to make their own services more efficient, reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-effective. In this article, the authors share their experience migrating some of the library’s locally hosted ICT-based services onto the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The migration of services to a cloud platform has helped the library significantly reduce the downtime of its services due to power or network or system outages.