1. Archiving and preservation services in the cloud
Thank Educause for inviting DuraSpace to talk about one of our new cloud based solution DuraCloud.
Michele Kimpton, CEO DuraSpace Organization

2. A not for profit serving Academia
Mission is to provide leadership and support in the development of OS technologies and services that promote durable peristent access to the scholarly record- define the scholarly record- we believe it is the summation of all output from the academic community- ETD’s, journal articles, books, more recently video, audio and data sets.
Our goal is to drive the technologies we support forward to be able to manage and persist a variety of content and to ensure the content can move easily across institutions, technology platforms, and time
Goals is to help our community advance their preservation strategies through technology, services and collaborations.
We have over 1500 institutions world wide, primarily academic institutions using either the DSpace or Fedora repository to manage and persist
We are committed to providing open source technologies and services that promote durable, persistent access to the scholarly record.

3. We are the largest provider of open source repository technology

4. What is DuraCloud?
Community based SaaS runs in the cloud, providing online storage and preservation services
Upload once and make multiple copies to various storage providers
Ongoing fixity checks
Integrated management and reporting through web UI
Access content anywhere from any Internet connected device

5. How can DuraCloud help me with my preservation strategy?
Ability to easily move online copies offsite, distribute geographically
Easily check the health of all copies
Easily repair or replace corrupted files
Ability to do a full or partial restore of content with no technical assistance
Scale storage up or down as needed
Full Web access with ability to view/edit/delete and upload/download your content

6. How Universities are using DuraCloud
Back up and preservation services for repositories( DSpace, Fedora
Digital archiving for preservation copies of files
Primary storage of video files

7. Amazon vs. DuraCloud Features Amazon DuraCloud Online backup ✔
Web access
Integrated management console
File health checkup
Ability to move or copy content to multiple cloud providers( SDSC and Rackspace)
Online Sharing
Shibboleth integration
Community-share platform
Business relationship with DuraSpace

8. Our service validation partners

9. Goals of service validation
Test and complete authentication integration
Standard I2 business contract
Internet 2 connection
Define other services of interest

10. I2 Cloud based digital archiving network
Duracloud
Duracloud
Duracloud
Duracloud
Duracloud

11. Where can I find out more?
Web site:
Contact Carissa Smith if interested in a live DuraCloud demo session.