As part of Digital Bedrock’s services, the company incorporates online storage to analyze, process, and validate digital content before the files are brought through its digital preservation system. It now utilizes Quobyte’s software-defined storage solution, which improves Digital Bedrock’s ability to manage client data prior to preservation.
At any one time up to 1 PB of storage can be stored on its local servers. These can be files from a variety of sources, including large media files, time- based artworks that can incorporate code and software, and digital works that contain thousands of individual files.
“Paradoxically, one of the significant challenges in providing exceptional digital preservation services is deletion,” said Linda Tadic, CEO, Digital Bedrock. “As preservation actions are completed, and multiple copies are written to LTO media and stored in multiple offline locations, there is a need to delete large data volumes from the servers so we can continue processing new batches of client data. Quobyte’s ability to seamlessly integrate with the workflow makes deletion much easier.”