New DuraCloud Digital Preservation and Archiving Services

The DuraSpace organization announced DuraCloud subscription plans that offer three levels of digital preservation and archiving services in the cloud.

Prices for the new subscription plans are competitive with commercial cloud providers and do not require additional transfer or variable costs.

Customers of the managed service can now choose between three plans that offer solutions for preservation and enterprise use cases:

The DuraCloud Preservation Basic subscription is for institutions that would like to have two redundant copies of their original content stored at one cloud data center.
For added protection, the DuraCloud Preservation Plus plan is for institutions that wish to have four redundant copies of their original content stored at two cloud data centers.
The DuraCloud Enterprise subscription plan provides a suite of configurable DuraCloud features and is for institutions that need multiple DuraCloud sub-accounts for departments, research groups, cross institutional projects, or individuals.

To ensure preservation of content DuraCloud now offers automated weekly content health checks, reporting, file repair and more.

DuraCloud features
For archiving digital library materials and research output from academic institutions, museums, government organizations and professional organizations DuraCloud a managed software service that archives content across more than one cloud provider so that documents, imagery and videos are always accessible. It runs on Amazon AWS, Rackspace and in the near future on the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Cloud-the largest academic-based cloud storage system in the U.S.

DuraCloud provides customers with: