Archiving & Long-Term Digital Preservation

Interview with Andrew Ysasi

Andrew Ysasi has over 20 years of professional experience in records management, including sales, IT, and management roles, leading to ten years of executive management at Kent Records Management, which was acquired earlier this year by Vital Records Control (VRC). ...

Preservica Taps Former OpenText Exec for Board Seat

  Preservica, a market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, welcomes enterprise information management veteran John Shackleton to its board to spearhead the company’s next phase of global expansion. Shackleton will play a hands-on role in guiding the Preservica board ...

Digital Preservation in State and Local Government: An American Success Story

  Most people do not think about the implications of, or requirements for, long-term preservation of digital content.  Aided in part by easy-to-use cloud-based storage applications such as Box, Dropbox, and iCloud, most of us take digital preservation for ...

Preservica Announces Support for MS Azure Cloud

Boston, MA and Oxford, UK: Preservica, a leader in active digital preservation software, has announced its Enterprise Private Cloud offering on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The combined solution enables Microsoft enterprise and government customers to protect and future-proof critical ...

LibNova Invited to Archiver Project Kickoff Event at CERN

Madrid and Miami – Libnova, a provider of digital preservation solutions, has been invited to take part in the kickoff event at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. The Open Market Consultation will take place over the ...

Why Archive Digital Records

Electronic archiving is a long-standing practice, particularly in heavily regulated industries like financial services and healthcare in which regulators have required industry participants retain business records for long periods. However, long-term data retention is a requirement across a wide range ...
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Backups, Archiving, Preservation—Oh My!

Comparing routine backups, content archiving, and long-term digital preservation Digital information, which relies on complex computing platforms and networks, is created, received, and used daily to deliver services to citizens, consumers and customers, businesses, and to government agencies. Organizations face ...
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Crisis at the National Archives

By Thomas Lipscomb  | June 10, 2018 In the middle of directing the difficult task of transferring the historically important records of the Obama administration into the National Archives, the archivist in charge, David Ferriero, ran into a serious problem: A ...
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Archiving – Its Challenges and Value

Generally, there are two reasons organizations undertake archiving. First, organizations must save and make available information that is evidence of a business function. Such information is crucial to ensuring the organization adheres to a regulatory environment. Second, organizations should save ...

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