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Santa Cruz, CA The west coast based Armada Group focuses on understanding and taking advantage of cloud computing, virtualization, SOA and web services to provide optimal, cost effective, scalable services for their customers. A recent whitepaper by Haresh Parekh and Vasa Dasan gives an overview of hybrid enterprise-open source cloud-based solutions that are making technical and business model innovations possible for industry and professional service providers.

You may read an overview or download the whitepaper here:

Ithaca, NY In introducing the Digital Preservation Pioneers feature the Library of Congress's Digital Preservation Program notes that the program itself has only been around since 2000 when stewards of our nations cultural and scientific heritage became aware that the scholarly enterprise was moving towards being all digital, all the time. Who would ensure that our collective scholarly record would be available for future generations?

Ithaca, NY In 2009, the Central Connecticut State University Library decided to use Amazon S3 for digital preservation storage despite some drawbacks. The library has developed a system, ERIS Digital Archive, to manage all digital preservation processes and to make the system as compliant with the OAIS model and "Trustworthy Digital Repositories" as possible.

Ithaca, NY Kelli B. Grant, from The Wall Street Journal, explains the impact of cloud computing from an end user perspective, highlighting the pros, cons, opportunities, and limitations of the emerging technology.

Read the full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB70001424052748704405704576064032782707862.html

Ithaca, NY In their technical report, researchers at UC Berkeley's Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory discuss the history of cloud computing, define the term and related terminology, make observations surrounding the economics of cloud computing, provide a thorough cost comparison of what a transition to th

Ithaca, NY Collection digitization is a key aspect of preserving the traditionally analog, paper-based scholarly record as societies move towards learning how to preserve and make accessible an increasingly all-digital, all-the-time cultural heritage. The Google Books Project and other partnership efforts are part of a strategy that many academic libraries have adopted to ensure that analog materials are accessible far into the future.

From Thornton Staples, Director of Research and Scientific Data Management, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution

Washington, DC This is an update about the next Fedora Users Meeting for the Washington DC region. I apologize for double posting, but many people have not yet found our google-groups mailing list. That mailing list can joined at http://groups.google.com/group/dc-fedora-users.

From Theodor Wyeld, Screen & Media, Flinders University

Adelaide, South Australia A symposium on the 15th International Conference on Information Visualisation, will  be held in London July 12, 13 - 15 2011.

http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/ (Click on Symposia hypertext)

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From Katherine Skinner, Executive Director, Educopia Institute