Has anyone made the switch over from site-based, traditional server technology to a cloud computing model? What have you heard/experienced with the web-based DonorPerfect?<div><br></div><div>My small Foundation (that supports a state museum) is looking into the possibility of Google hosting our e-mail and shared/off-site storage and backups as we switch over from using the state&#39;s computers to getting a new computer system of our own. The only snag I see is that we currently use Access for our donor database and we would have to pay extra to have Access hosted by another server rather than Google (since there is not currently a Google App for Access), but we are planning to upgrade to real donor software soon so maybe a web-based donor software package would make sense as well. We hadn&#39;t seriously been considering the web-based version of DonorPerfect. The consultant I met with today pushed the fact that Google would love to work with more nonprofits to reduce our infrastructure costs. Any suggestions or pros/cons that you have experienced with either cloud computing for nonprofits or with the web-based DonorPerfect?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Judith Andrews</div><div>Foundation Assistant, American Frontier Culture Foundation</div><div><a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/scripts/wa-home.exe?LOGON=A3%3D1102C%26L%3DMUSEUM-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D321682%26B%3D--000e0cd20d3ec4f07b049c7203b1%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D%26A3%3D1102C%26L%3DMUSEUM-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D321682%26B%3D--000e0cd20d3ec4f07b049c7203b1%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a> or <a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/scripts/wa-home.exe?LOGON=A3%3D1102C%26L%3DMUSEUM-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D321682%26B%3D--000e0cd20d3ec4f07b049c7203b1%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D%26A3%3D1102C%26L%3DMUSEUM-L%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D321682%26B%3D--000e0cd20d3ec4f07b049c7203b1%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a></div>
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