Amazon Glacier: Why to use it, When to use it, and What it will cost you.

It is a problem with which we are all familiar: Digital content needs to be stored safely somewhere, but with limited staff time, storage hardware, and financing, a good solution can be elusive. Enter cloud computing - in particular, Amazon's recently announced Glacier offering. Glacier provides an offsite, durable, and flexible storage solution, all for the low price of $0.01 per gigabyte. At first glance, this might appear to be a perfect fit for your storage needs, and it may be, but using Glacier also poses some dangers which need to be understood before you start the data transfer. This talk will cover what Glacier is, the benefits and drawbacks of the Glacier offering, and then provide recommendations for when and why Glacier would be a good or bad choice as a data storage solution.