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 insurance, to provide a 100 per cent integrity guarantee. We’re talking bit-level integrity of file data over the long-term, and archiving over decades, many decades. Perpetua is a suite of services offering search, discovery and automation, layered onto Arkivum’s service. It uses open-source tools such as Archivematica to provide preservation functionality.

You can get a 26-page eBook about digital preservation ideas from Arkivum here - registration required. ®