The Archives and Records Association (ARA) UK and Ireland 201C Cloud Computing Report and Toolkit Reports

摘要

Cloud computing is defined as "the ability to access a pool of computing resources which are owned and maintained by a third party via the internet" (p. 6, Project Report) (Convery, 2010a). The most common form of cloud computing uses online infrastructure to access services such as e-mail, shared project management spaces and document storage environments but applications, hardware and even complete operating systems are also now being deployed through the cloud. This does wonders for information accessibility and IT cost management, but the practicalities of record control, storage, security, management and preservation in this distributed space are yet to be fully resolved.