25-08-2016 12:00 via cio.com

New York Public Library reads up on the cloud

Four years ago, the New York Public Library began to move its web properties to the cloud.
Today, the library system has all of its approximately 80 web sites in the cloud. The library has shrunk the number of on-premise servers by 40% and is running those web properties 95% more cheaply than if it had bought the hardware and software to do it all by itself.
The library took a risk on the cloud, and on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and it paid off.
"We've grown but we've grown in the cloud," said
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