On Cloud deployment of digital preservation environments

Abstract

Although migrating library applications to Cloud environment is not an easy task, many libraries are interested in using Cloud infrastructure services broadly across their businesses, whether is about a Public, Private or Hybrid Cloud. One of the migration expectations is the scalability of digital preservation architectures in Cloud environments. In this paper we address the scalability and portability of storage and compute platforms, which combine storage of large datasets and their processing. Concretely, we propose a toolkit developed using Puppet configuration management system that facilitate the deployment of complex digital preservation platforms over heterogeneous Cloud environments and we present, as a use case, its integration with SCAPE platform.