Bryan Beecher leads the technology team at the world’s largest archive of social science research data. His team has been using “the cloud” for the past three years as a core part of the enterprise: disaster recovery planning, application hosting, archival storage for research data, and delivery of confidential data via virtual desktop computers.
During this talk Bryan presents a high-level overview of what people mean when they talk about “the cloud” and the advantages (and disadvantages) of using the cloud.
Bryan is currently the director of ICPSR’s Computer and Network Services at the University of Michigan. ICPSR, or Inter-university Consortium of Political and Social Research, is the world’s largest archive of digital social science data.