DuraSpace Services,
"2015 Accomplishments and A Sneak Peek at What Lies Ahead."
Webinar 2 presented by Carissa Smith, DuraSpace
Monday, November 16, 2015
3. DURACLOUD
• Launched November 2011
• Preservation “savvy” hosted cloud service from
DuraSpace
• Customers:
• Academic libraries
• Community colleges
• Public libraries
• Government agencies
• Professional associations and centers
• Discipline specific repositories
• Museums
• Religious organizations
4. BENEFITS
• Quick start-up
• Configurable cloud storage providers
• Easy content transfer options
• Automatic content health checks
• Anytime data access and download
• YOU own your data
• Predictable annual billing
• Personalized support
• Open source
5. STANDARD FEATURES
• Hosted web-based interface
• Managed system administration and upgrades
• Easy-to-use content transfer and synchronization tools
• Configurable cloud storage provider options
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Glacier
• Rackspace Cloud Files
• San Diego Supercomputer Center Cloud Storage
• Coming soon: Chronopolis
• Automatic replication between cloud storage providers
• Automated quarterly content integrity checks (bit-level)
6. MORE STANDARD FEATURES
• Downloadable reports
• Audit information
• Content manifest
• Storage
• Content health
• User, group, and permission management
• Media streaming features
• Customer support system
• Upgrade storage needs at any time
• Integrate with other systems (e.g. DSpace, Archivematica)
• Open source software, no vendor lock-in
7. SUBSCRIPTION PLANS
• Preservation
• Price: $1,875/year (includes 1TB)
• Additional storage: $700/TB/year
• Enterprise
• Price: $5,750/year (includes 1TB)
• Additional storage: $500/TB/year
• Preservation Plus and Enterprise Plus
• Price and additional storage based on secondary cloud
storage providers chosen
• More storage
• Custom quotes available!
9. 2016 UPDATES
• Chronopolis storage provider option
• Tentative launch in first quarter of 2016
• 3 geographically disperse replica copies
• Oracle Archive Storage storage provider option
• Preliminary discussions
• Subscription Plan and Pricing
• Simplified options
• Reduced pricing
10. DURACLOUD VAULT
• Targeted launch January 2016
• DuraCloud + Chronopolis + Digital Preservation
Network (DPN)
• end-to-end solution for long-term access and preservation
services for DPN members
• Partnership between DuraSpace and Chronopolis
to offer ingestion and replication services to DPN
11. BENEFITS
• All of the benefits of DuraCloud PLUS…
• DPN benefits:
• by the academy, for the academy
• dark, diverse replication in 3 separate locations (nodes)
• audit and stewardship succession in place at the time of
deposit
• legal structure to mitigate organizational change/dissolution
• structured (financially, technically) for long term
preservation
12. STANDARD FEATURES
• Hosted web-based interface
• Managed system administration and upgrades
• Easy-to-use content transfer and synchronization tools
• Integration with other systems (e.g. DSpace,
Archivematica)
• Automatic preparation and replication of content to
DPN nodes
• Deposited content reports and DPN-related data
• Restoration of DPN content
13. DURACLOUD VS DURACLOUD VAULT
DuraCloud DuraCloud Vault
Cost Model:
Pay for storage annually
Cost Model:
Pay for DPN membership receive
storage for 20 years
Succession:
Content can be downloaded or
deleted at end of subscription
Succession:
Stewardship succession via DPN
Storage:
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Glacier
• Rackspace Cloud files
• San Diego Supercomputer
Center
Storage (DPN Nodes):
• Academic Preservation Trust
• Chronopolis
• HathiTrust
• Stanford Digital Repository
• Texas Digital Library
Business Model:
Software as a service (DuraSpace)
Business Model:
Membership (DPN)
14. 2016 UPDATES
• Launch!
• Post-launch
• Content ingestion and metadata best practices
• More detailed reporting
• Technical improvements/refinements
• Longer term
• New feature development based on DPN member
feedback