Very interesting news!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Carol Minton Morris</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cmmorris@fedora-commons.org">cmmorris@fedora-commons.org</a>></span><br>
Date: 18 September 2012 17:21<br>Subject: [Dspace-general] NEWS RELEASE: DuraSpace and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Partner to Provide Cost-Effective Cloud Storage/Preservation Services<br>To: <a href="mailto:dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net">dspace-general@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><h5><font color="#000000">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</font></h5>
<p><font color="#000000">Sept. 18, 2012</font><br>
<font color="#000000">Contact: Carol Minton Morris, (<a href="mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org" target="_blank">cmmorris@duraspace.org</a>)</font>; Jan Zverina (<a href="mailto:jzverina@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">jzverina@sdsc.edu</a>)<br>
<font color="#000000">Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/OAPyH0" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/OAPyH0</a><br></font></p>
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<p><font color="#000000"><font size="4"><b>DuraSpace and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Partner to Provide Cost-Effective Cloud Storage and Preservation Services</b></font><i><br>
<font size="4">DuraCloud Gives Institutions the Option to Use Academic Cloud Storage</font></i></font></p><p><font color="#000000"><i>Winchester, MA</i></font> <font color="#000000"> The
DuraSpace organization and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
at the University of California, San Diego, announced today that
DuraCloud</font> <a href="http://duracloud.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://duracloud.org</a> <font color="#000000">and SDSC’s cloud storage services </font><a href="https://cloud.sdsc.edu/hp/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://cloud.sdsc.edu/hp/index.php</a> <font color="#000000">have been fully integrated to provide additional preservation services and storage for researchers, students, academics, and</font> <font color="#ff0000"><span style="color:rgb(51,0,51)">industry users.</span><br>
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<p><font color="#000000">Customers now have the option of choosing the
world's largest academic cloud storage system through DuraCloud.
Access to commercial cloud providers Amazon and Rackspace along with
SDSC Cloud Storage are</font> <font color="#ff0000"><span style="color:rgb(51,0,51)">available simultaneousl</span><font color="#000000">y </font></font><font color="#000000">through a single web based platform, DuraCloud.</font> <font color="#000000"><del></del></font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">DuraSpace CEO Michele Kimpton explains the
significance of the partnership: "SDSC is an important strategic
partner for us in that they are the first academic-based production
cloud offering and we envision together building an academic-based open
cloud infrastructure with a layer of services provided by DuraCloud.
We see this as the first step in this direction and are thrilled."</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">“SDSC is pleased to deploy its OpenStack-based
cloud storage service to support essential data preservation services
for academic institutions and other users,” said Ron Joyce, SDSC’s
associate director of IT services. “This new partnership is a win-win
for both of us. It provides SDSC with a new avenue of potential
opportunities in the academic community as we look to fill a critical
gap in academic data management services for institutions across the
country, and gives DuraCloud expanded resources with which to grow
their own customer base.”</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">DuraCloud and SDSC’s cloud storage combined services integration gives customers the following benefits:</font></p>
<ul><li>SDSC’s cloud storage is providing colleges and universities with
the ability to meet institutional storage and preservation requirements
in a cost-effective and sustainable manner.</li><li>Universities can access both commercial and academic cloud storage through a single provider and web application, DuraCloud.</li><li>Customers can have a single service agreement and contract with
DuraSpace and get access to all cloud providers, including Amazon, SDSC,
and RackSpace.</li></ul>
<p><font color="#000000"><b>About SDSC Cloud Storage</b></font><br>
<font color="#000000">SDSC’s cloud storage services (</font><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://cloud.sdsc.edu/" target="_blank">https://cloud.sdsc.edu/</a>)</font> provide academic
and research partners with a cost-effective way to store, share, and
archive data, including extremely large data sets. Utilizing the open
standard cloud storage software, OpenStack, with Swift Object Storage,
content is written to multiple physical storage arrays simultaneously,
ensuring at least two verified copies exist on different servers at all
times. Once objects are in the SDSC Cloud they are immediately
available over the web to other users, the public, or just the content
originator. By assigning a URL to each file or container created,
SDSC’s Cloud provides a simple way to expose and share any amount of
data.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000"><b>About DuraCloud</b></font><br>
<font color="#000000">DuraCloud (<a href="http://duracloud.org" target="_blank">http://duracloud.org</a>) is a platform that enables users to
manage, preserve, and access content in the cloud, as well as utilize
multiple cloud providers through a single web based dashboard.
DuraCloud simplifies the task of moving copies of content into the
cloud and storing them with several different providers. As a result,
it eliminates the risk of storing content with a single cloud provider.
On top of providing a single interface through which to replicate and
manage content across multiple underlying cloud stores, DuraCloud also
offers a suite of preservation and archiving services.</font></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>
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