Tessella plc, the information technology and consulting services company selected by R&D, science and engineering leaders for business-critical assignments, launches version of 4 of Tessella Safety Deposit Box (SDB4) at the 8th European Conference on Digital Archiving in Geneva, Switzerland.



The technology helps memory institutions (including libraries and archives), who are already skilled at preserving paper material, face the problems posed by preserving material stored in digital formats. Version 4 provides the architecture and functions to deliver a multi-tenant digital archiving solution that can support small local archives through to large national systems. Key to this is a flexible workflow engine which allows customers an easy way to configure their own ingest, data management, access and preservation and processes.

Ann Keen, archiving account director, at Tessella said: “We believe that multi-tenant facilities are going to be increasingly important in future digital archiving solutions. The recent selection by the Austrian Federal Chancellery of Siemens IT Solutions and Services and Tessella SDB to develop the Austrian State e-government Archives validates this point of view”.

Jon Tilbury, director at Tessella added: “We believe that working in partnership is hugely important to the success of SDB. SDB continues to be the archive of choice for advanced long-term archiving and the SDB User Group has really helped set product direction”.

The SDB User Group now compromises 9 flagship organisations: UK National Archives, Swiss Federal Archives, Malaysian National Archives, Dutch National Archives, Rotterdam Regional Archives, the British Library, Wellcome Trust Libraries, Estonian Archives and The Austrian Federal Chancellery.

SDB was developed out of work done in partnership with The National Archives of the UK to help confront the problem of digital preservation. The software, which has already been in use at The National Archives for over six years as the basis of their award-winning Digital Archive system, has been significantly enhanced as part of The National Archives’ Seamless Flow programme.