Preservica and Microsoft Collaborate

Preservica Ltd, in digital preservation software, has announced the availability of its Enterprise Private Cloud offering on the Azure cloud platform.

The combined solution enables Microsoft enterprise and government customers to protect and future-proof critical long-term data over decades in order to extract value, mitigate litigation and compliance risk and leverage knowledge for competitive advantage.

Preservica’s Enterprise Private Cloud for Azure is designed for organizations with regulatory, privacy and security requirements. It is managed by Preservica and can be deployed in a private Azure network with dedicated resources or on a customer’s own Azure infrastructure.

The platform includes APIs for integration with other content services platforms, federated search and discovery, as well as leveraging Microsoft’s AI and machine learning services for facial recognition, AV transcription, sentiment analysis, cognitive search and identification of sensitive data e.g. Personally Identifiable Information for GDPR compliance.

Preservica has also announced an automated archiving and digital preservation offering for enterprise-scale SharePoint environments. The SharePoint connector enables customers to automatically transfer critical long-term records and content from SharePoint sites across the enterprise to the firm’s active digital preservation platform based on user defined fields. This enables organizations to streamline the governance of critical long-term content, drive greater cost efficiency and ensure compliance.

Paul Veck, AI partner development, Microsoft said: “Microsoft Azure is driving new levels of organizational productivity and intelligent data-driven experiences making it an ideal platform for Preservica’s vision for AI enabled active digital preservation. The powerful combination of Preservica’s proven enterprise-grade technology with Azure empowers organizations to protect and extract value from critical long-term digital assets.“

Jon Tilbury, CTO and head of innovation, Preservica, added: “We are delighted to work with Microsoft to make Preservica Enterprise Private Cloud available on the Azure platform. The combination provides enterprise customers with a highly secure and durable global platform for future-proofing critical digital assets over decades. It also opens up new possibilities to leverage Microsoft AI and machine learning services to enrich and classify long-term digital information for competitive advantage.“

Studies by the IGI and AIIM show that every major organization has a large and diverse array of critical digital data that needs to be kept for decades or permanently in order to mitigate risk, meet compliance and extract value. Digital transformation and application decommissioning initiatives are driving further exponential growth in long-term digital content. Preservica’s OAIS (ISO 14721) conforming active digital preservation platform future-proofs all types of digital information against technology obsolescence ensuring valuable digital assets remain accessible and trustworthy over decades.

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