Is this an article...
...or an advert?
175-year-old in storage deal
The UK’s Westminster University is using Arkivum Perpetua to safeguard global access to its 175-year-old collection of digital and digitised records. Arkivum offers archive as a service (AaaS) based on escrow-based guaranteed IBM LTO tape storage in its cloud. Three copies of the data are stored, backed up by indemnity …
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Saturday 9th July 2016 12:21 GMT james 68
Re: Is this an article...
Personally, I am curious about the existence of a "175-year-old collection of digital and digitised records".
Either they're calling it digital because it contains numbers (literally digits) or they had access to some damned advanced technology for the time.
Though it is also possible that the author is an utter pillock who meant to write "a digital collection created from 175 years of records". But rather than straight up calling him a berk I think I'll take him at his word, it's more fun that way.
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Saturday 9th July 2016 19:54 GMT ZenCoder
I found it newsworthy.
The company is offering something that I found interesting to learn about. Considering how much in IT is "use at your own risk" it's refreshing to learn that they are "backed up by indemnity insurance". Meaning that data loss will be backed up with financial penalties.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
