PRESS RELEASE: Tessella unveils world leading multi-tenant digital archiving platform
Latest version of Tessella’s digital archiving platform launched at leading US Archiving conference.
Washington DC | 10 August 2010. Today, Tessella, the information technology and consulting services company selected by R&D, science and engineering leaders for business-critical assignments, launches version 4 of Tessella Safety Deposit Box (SDB4) at the DC2010 Archives & Records Joint Annual Meeting of COSA, NAGARA and SAA.
The technology helps memory institutions (including libraries and archives), who are already skilled at preserving traditional materials such as paper and microfiche; 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 multiple 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 policy with regards to ingest, data management, access and preservation processes.
Mark Evans, Tessella Inc. Digital Archiving Practice Manager said: “We believe that multi-tenant capabilities are going to be increasingly important in future sustainable digital archiving solutions. The recent selection by the Austrian Federal Chancellery of Siemens IT Solutions & Services and Tessella SDB to develop the Austrian State e-government Archives validates this point of view”.
Grant Stephen, CEO at Tessella Inc. 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, Wellcome Trust Libraries, Estonian Archives, Austrian Federal Chancellery and recently the Finnish National Archives.
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 UK 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.
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About Tessella
For decades, Tessella has been successfully delivering IT and consulting services to world leaders in R&D, science and engineering. We enable our clients in life sciences, energy, the public sector, and consumer industries to achieve a wide range of objectives, including, forecasting floods, developing fusion power, enhancing military sensor capability, improving drug discovery and development efficiency, and reducing risk to health and the environment in the extraction and production of oil and gas. With offices in Europe and North America, global companies rely on Tessella for business critical assignments.
Further information is available at www.tessella.com or visit our dedicated microsite on http://www.digital-preservation.com/
Recent news on SDB
Finnish National Archives visit http://www.tessella.com/2010/06/press-release-the-finnish-national-archives-selects-tessella
Austrian Federal Chancellery visit http://www.tessella.com/2010/03/press-release-the-austrian-federal-chancellery/
Estonian Archives visit http://www.tessella.com/2009/11/press-release-estonia-national-archives
SDB User Group Meeting visit http://www.tessella.com/2009/12/sdb-user-group-meeting-2009-december-8-9th-2009-one-great-george-street-london-uk/
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