Scality, a leader in software solutions for global data orchestration and distributed file and object storage, has announced that the National Library of Scotland is employing Scality RING object storage software to preserve and protect historic and current collections cost effectively and efficiently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of Scotland\u2019s national\ncultural collections, the National Library of Scotland\u2019s growing repository\ncurrently occupies 120 miles of shelving, with thousands of new items being\nadded every single week. The library\u2019s digitisation initiative makes the collections\nmore accessible to the public, while preserving the important assets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Accommodating the increasing volumes of digitised data and eliminating labour-intensive tape were two key requirements for the team at National Library of Scotland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cModernising and streamlining as we move into this period of mass digital growth moved us to simplified object storage, standardised on S3,\u201d said Stuart Lewis, National Library of Scotland\u2019s Associate Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The team chose Scality RING\nas the foundation of the Library’s preservation storage with one copy in each\nof two on-premises RINGs in their Edinburgh and Glasgow data centres and a\nthird copy in AWS Glacier Deep Archive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ease of management and the\nability to scale easily and limitlessly as they add thousands of items each\nweek, coupled with software licensing that doesn\u2019t penalise them for choosing\nreplication as their resiliency model because Scality licenses software on a\n\u201cdata protected\u201d model, not total data stored, won them over. Offering modern,\nresilient S3-compatible storage, Scality made the choice even easier by\nproviding a bitrot checker for digital preservation monitoring that streamlines\nthe data integrity checking process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Things are going so well for\nthem that the National Library of Scotland is looking at additional use cases.\n\u201cScality met all of our requirements and more,\u201d added Lewis. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at\nmoving other backups, replacing tape with disk-to-disk backup; moving the\nnon-print collections and even offering it as a service to other organisations,\ngiven its multi-tenancy capabilities.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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