On 09/08/13 08:07, Manos PETRIDIS wrote:
What I asked was if there are koha implementations on the major clouds out there (Amazon, Microsoft etc.), ready-made for their customer to use.
I'm sure I remember an Amazon image being demonstrated at the kohacon10 hackfest but I just failed to find details online.
Therefore, the library is a customer of the cloud provider, and seeks only consultation from Koha support providers. Quite a different business scenario, as neither the Koha consultant nor the customer need to have their own infrastructure in order to have a large/scalable Koha installation.
A very different business scenario, where both parties are trusting the cloud provider very heavily and probably paying them a fair whack. If you actually need that scalability, I suspect it's better value for money to pay a Koha support provider to create a customised image for one of the private clouds which comes with rather - errrm, how to phrase this? - closer, less scripted support from its provider. The co-op is open to consulting for such libraries, but I fear problems could take longer to track down, as Amazon isn't as well documented or tested as the more common platforms. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/