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Press Release: Running Adaptive Clinical Trials: Myth and Reality – Free Webinar

teac — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:52:02 +0000

Tessella experts to share experienced gained on over 30 adaptive trials in free online event

Oxford, UK | 15th December 2011. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services, is proud to be hosting a free online webinar for all life sciences professionals interested in deepening their understanding of Adaptive Clinical Trials.

Clinical trials that employ frequent adaptation offer great opportunity but pose specific challenges. In this free webinar adaptive trial veterans; Tom Parke (Head of Clinical Trial Solutions, Tessella ) and Martin Kimber (Project Manager, Adaptive Clinical Trials, Tessella) will share their experience gained on over 30 adaptive trials. The webinar will discuss: what these trials are, why people run them, how they are designed, how the logistics to run them are put together, what it’s like to run one as well as observed benefits both expected and unexpected.

The “Running Adaptive Clinical Trials; Myth and Reality webinar” will take place on Thursday December 15th 2011, 3:00 PM (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, and London. To register online for the event visit: https://tessella.adobeconnect.com/_a970567468/runningadaptivetrialsevent/event/event_info.html

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Notes to the Editor

For further information visit our dedicated microsite on http://www.smarterclinicaltrials.com

Media Contact

Tessella
Christina Tealdi | Public and Analyst Relations Executive
Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453 | christina.tealdi@tessella.com

Press Release Tessella Associate VP Thuman Trains Library of Congress’ First Corps of Digital Preservation Teachers

teac — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:00:56 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C. October 6, 2011. On September 20 to 23, 2011, Michael Thuman, Associate Vice President of Digital Archiving at Tessella Inc., served as an expert instructor and content developer for the Library of Congress’ inaugural workshop on teaching digital preservation. The event took place at the Library’s James Madison Building, in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Thuman and five colleagues taught a class of 24 professionals, selected from around the U.S. and representing mainly the library, archival, and museum fields. These students were trained to teach digital preservation to others, in turn, in their home regions of the United States.

Many people mistakenly believe that digital resources will last forever, when in fact they have a shorter lifespan, and are more fragile, than paper-based resources. Examples of materials that commonly need this specialized form of preservation include Web sites; emails; digital photos, music, and videos; and electronic records.

The workshop was sponsored by the Library of Congress’ Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Program (DPOE, www.loc.gov/dpoe), whose mission includes fostering national outreach and education to encourage individuals and organizations to actively preserve their digital content. DPOE is committed to sharing high-quality digital preservation training across the nation, eventually making it available and affordable to virtually any interested organization or individual.

At Tessella, Mr. Thuman is dedicated to working with organizations of all sizes to collaborate on the education, definition, and deployment of digital preservation programs. In previous senior digital archiving roles he has delivered educational symposia, assessed institutional readiness and helped plan deployments ranging in size from gigabytes to petabytes of data. He has participated in the recent “Staying on TRAC” workshop (LYRASIS, 2010), “Digital Preservation Management Course: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long-Term Problems” (N McGovern, University of Michigan, 2010 and 2008) and the “Stewardship of Digital Assets” workshop (in 2007 and 2008, the Northeast Document Conservation Center, in conjunction with PALINET, SOLINET, Amigos Library Services, and the OCLC Western Service Center, and with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, developed a two-day workshop focusing on sustaining digital collections). A committed advocate for the digital preservation discipline, Mr. Thuman has a long-standing IT background in which he has collaborated with institutions on the need for digitization, assisted with development of scanners and document management systems and has worked with emerging technologies to allow organizations to keep pace with the evolving needs of their patrons, students, professors and professionals.

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Notes to the Editor

About The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress, the oldest U.S. federal cultural institution, is the world’s preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled collections and integrated resources to the Congress and the American people. Many of the Library’s rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov and via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myLOC.gov.

For more information on DPOE, including its work with corporate, academic, and other partners, visit www.loc.gov/dpoe

About Digital Archiving at Tessella
Tessella are world leaders in the provision of Digital Archiving technologies, working with major governments in 7 countries across 3 continents. Tessella’s Digital Archiving offerings cover software, consulting, research and support and place us at the cutting edge of this emerging discipline. Our core technology, SDB, is now in its fourth generation and provides stable professionally supported platform with the flexibility to deliver individual customer needs.

For further information visit our dedicated microsite on www.digital-preservation.com/

Media Contacts

DPOE
George Coulbourne, gcou@loc.gov, 202-707-7856

Tessella
Christina Tealdi | Public and Analyst Relations Executive
Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453 | christina.tealdi@tessella.com

Press release: STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at the leading edge when preserving digital scientific data

teac — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:48:56 +0000

STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory becomes the first user in the scientific research sector to adopt SDB for their archiving solution

Oxford, UK | 22 August 2011. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Science and Technology Facilities Council to set up a pilot of Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) to manage part of their scientific data archive.

David Corney, Head of Data Services at RAL said: “SDB integrates perfectly into our scientific data archive.”

The selection follows a successful pilot project used to evaluate the practicality and effectiveness of SDB for storing part of RAL’s data. Initially, datasets from the ISIS neutron spallation experiments will be collected and ingested in to SDB4, together with the metadata required to facilitate long-term management and preservation. SDB4 supports multiple data “tenants” and it is expected that the pilot will be extended to other users such as the British Atmospheric Data Centre.

SDB has been used for many years to store digital assets in memory institutes, but its use in a scientific environment is new. RAL is at the leading edge of digital archiving of scientific data. SDB will enable RAL to assess the benefits of long-term data preservation to scientific research environments.

Jon Tilbury, Director at Tessella said: “We are extremely pleased that RAL has chosen Tessella’s SDB. The flexibility of SDB’s Digital Preservation Platform has come to the fore proving that it is a mature business solution ready for widespread adoption by academic and commercial organisations, as well as its traditional success with memory institutions. It is also great to work on a project linking Tessella’s scientific heritage with our innovative work in Digital Archiving.”

Tessella will provide RAL with SDB4, the latest version, and will collaborate closely with key individuals from the eScience team and ISIS data administrators.

Tessella’s SDB technology is the leading platform for the preservation of long-term digital records in archives around the world. SDB4 has been designed to help memory institutions (including libraries and archives), who are already skilled at preserving paper material, but face the problems posed by preserving material stored in digital formats.

Pilot users will join the SDB community which includes other archives and libraries such as the UK, Swiss, Malaysian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, and Austrian State Archives, as well as the Rotterdam Regional Archives, the Wellcome Trust Library and recently Family Search.

Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (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.

Tessella has over 30 years of experience supporting scientific research organisations, including RAL, and has a deep appreciation of their long-term data needs. SDB has been constructed to support archiving and preservation of all kinds of scientific and technical data, not simply documents.

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Notes to the Editor

About STFC

The Science and Technology Facilities Council is keeping the UK at the forefront of international science and tackling some of the most significant challenges facing society such as meeting our future energy needs, monitoring and understanding climate change, and global security.

The Council has a broad science portfolio and works with the academic and industrial communities to share its expertise in materials science, space and ground-based astronomy technologies, laser science, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.

STFC operates or hosts world class experimental facilities including:

In the UK; ISIS pulsed neutron source, the Central Laser Facility, and LOFAR. STFC is also the majority shareholder in Diamond Light Source Ltd.
overseas; telescopes on La Palma and Hawaii

It enables UK researchers to access leading international science facilities by funding membership of international bodies including European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

STFC is one of seven publicly-funded research councils. It is an independent, non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

www.stfc.ac.uk

About Digital Archiving at Tessella

Tessella are world leaders in the provision of Digital Archiving technologies, working with major governments in 7 countries across 3 continents. Tessella’s Digital Archiving offerings cover software, consulting, research and support and place us at the cutting edge of this emerging discipline. Our core technology, SDB, is now in its fourth generation and provides stable professionally supported platform with the flexibility to deliver individual customer needs.

For further information visit our dedicated microsite on http://www.digital-preservation.com/

About Tessella

For further information visit our dedicated website on http://www.tessella.com/

Media Contacts

Tessella

Christina Tealdi | Public and Analyst Relations Executive

Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453 | christina.tealdi@tessella.com

Press Release: Comprehensive archiving solution to manage Wellcome Trust’s digitised and born-digital assets

teac — Tue, 10 May 2011 10:29:34 +0000

Wellcome Trust’s large-scale digitisation programme picks Tessella’s SDB to manage digital assets

Oxford, UK | 10 May 2011. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is pleased to announce that it has been selected by the Wellcome Trust to deliver a Digital Asset Management (DAM) using Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB), to provide an essential component system of the developing Wellcome Digital Library.

Robert Kiley, Head of Digital Services at the Wellcome Library said: “As the Library was already using SDB to manage its born-digital collections it made sense to work with Tessella to see if SDB could be developed further so that it could also manage the assets we will create through our large-scale digitisation programme. Based on a feasibility study, coupled with an in-depth requirements specification undertaken with Tessella, we are confident that SDB4 will provide the Wellcome Library with a single repository solution for all the Library’s digital assets, both digitised and born-digital.”

The Trust’s current DAM system is version 3 of Tessella’s SDB. The Trust will upgrade this to SDB version 4 (SDB4). SDB4 is expected to preserve the Trust’s digital material for the long term.

Jon Tilbury, Director at Tessella, said: “The Wellcome Library is trusted with research records that are of global significance. We are very proud that Wellcome has selected to continue working with Tessella to deliver the system that will safeguard such precious digital assets.”

Additionally SDB4 will be extended by Tessella to enable the ingest and storage of all the Trust’s digital material (both born-digital and digitised) and to disseminate it on request from the Trust’s delivery system (DDS). The required software extensions were specified during a comprehensive User Requirements phase where Tessella worked in close cooperation with Library staff to identify their needs, for the DAM and that helped clarify the requirements for other component systems that will be needed by the Wellcome Digital Library.

The delivery of the Trust’s digital material is handled by three components: A Workflow Tracking System, WTS, that ensures that digital content destined for the Wellcome Digital Library is created, quality controlled and made available for ingest into the SDB4 based DAM that stores all the digital files. Additionally a delivery system (DDS), will be procured to provide a cache (for storing frequently and/or recently requested material) and can deliver lower resolution presentation copies of material on-demand to improve download speeds for users where low (broadband) network bandwidths may be a problem.

SDB4 must provide the Trust with the same or similar functionality as that in use previously within the Trust’s implementation of the SDB3 Digital Preservation System, as well as providing the additional functionality that the Trust requires for the DAM to function within the Wellcome Digital Library.

This version is a substantial upgrade to the version used for the born-digital system. As well as new pieces of functionality, the main “architectural” difference includes its increased ease and flexibility of the system to add new workflows or adapt existing workflows for each customers needs.

SDB4 will be implemented as two collections within a single tenant instance and should not employ the use of different tenants. Porting the born-digital system to the upgraded system will be straightforward since it has few bespoke configurations and still runs on the same combination of technologies (Tomcat java web server). The Trust was keen to migrate the database technology to their internally supported platforms, so SDB4 can now also be deployed to the MS SQL Server 2008 database system.

In addition, as part of this upgrade, Tessella will deploy the latest version of the Technical Registry (SDB Registry, was named PCR previously but has now been integrated into the SDB4 family of web applications). This will be deployed with a newly populated database.

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Notes to the editor

About Digital Archiving at Tessella

For further information visit our dedicated microsite on http://www.digital-preservation.com/

About Tessella

About the Wellcome Library

The Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation, is dedicated to improving human and animal health. It supports the brightest minds in biomedical research and the medical humanities. The Trust’s breadth of support includes public engagement, education and the application of research to improve health. It is independent of both political and commercial interests.

The Wellcome Library is based on the collections created by the Trust’s founder, Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936). The Wellcome Library holds books, manuscripts, archives, films and pictures on the history of medicine from the earliest times to the present day. In August 2010 the Wellcome Library launched a £3.9m project to digitize its collections and make them available to a worldwide audience, providing a global resource for the study of the history of medicine and modern bioscience.

Media Contacts
Tessella
Christina Tealdi | Public and Analyst Relations Executive
Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453
christina.tealdi(@tessella.com

Press Release: The National Archives and Tessella win Queen’s Award for Enterprise

fowj — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:01:29 +0000

Unique public-private partnership recognised for innovation by UK’s most prestigious business awards

The National Archives is the only public sector organisation among this year’s winners of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. In doing so it becomes the first winner from a government department since the awards were expanded in 2000.

An Innovation Award was made jointly to The National Archives and Tessella for developing a system for preserving digital information which has since been adopted by libraries and archives around the world.

The Safety Deposit Box (SDB) is capable of ensuring the survival of digital information over long periods of time, regardless of changes in technology. At a time when archives, libraries and other institutions are grappling with the complexities of ensuring the long-term survival of digital information, SDB has become the de-facto standard. Now available in its fourth version, it remains unique in the marketplace.

Oliver Morley, chief executive of The National Archives, said: “Preserving digital records is one of the biggest challenges facing archives in the twenty-first century. Unlike paper records, which can last for hundreds of years in the right conditions, digital records are extremely vulnerable to changing technology. The National Archives and Tessella have worked together to develop a best-in-class archiving solution which has since been adopted by archives and libraries all over the world. This innovative approach is one key step to ensure digital records remain accessible for good.”

Kevin Gell, managing director at Tessella said: “Winning the Queens Award, jointly with our client The National Archives, is a fantastic achievement and demonstrates the strength of collaboration forged between UK industry and UK Government, which has enabled a number of export successes for Tessella’s SDB technology.”

Gell continued: “I feel honoured that Tessella has been recognised with such a prestigious award and I should like to pay tribute to Tessella’s staff for their innovation and commitment over an extended period of time. This award will strengthen our resolve to see Tessella’s digital preservation technologies adopted on a global basis.”

The SDB provides users with the ability to store and preserve critical digital information in a reliable yet accessible manner. Most importantly, it contains an Active Preservation capability to ensure the information is trusted and remains usable long into the future.

The National Archives’ identification of an emerging business need in information management and its commissioning of Tessella as a private partner to solve this problem is a significant example of public-private partnership which has stimulated the UK high-tech economy and put Britain at the forefront of a new international business.

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are highly prestigious awards for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of Innovation, International Trade and Sustainable Development. The awards are made annually on the Queen’s Birthday and are only given for the highest levels of excellence demonstrated in each category. HM The Queen will host a reception for the winners at Buckingham Palace in July 2011.

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About SDB

SDB is a comprehensive, flexible system that has been selected and installed at many advanced customers. Version 1 was delivered to the National Archives in 2003 and has since had a number of upgrades. Version 3 has been implemented widely and the latest release, Version 4, was delivered in mid-2010 and adds even more capabilities.

SDB is a fully functioned digital archival solution that has all the capabilities ready for immediate implementation.

The SDB system developed by Tessella and The National Archives has been adopted by libraries and archives all over the world including: Wellcome Trust Library, Arkib Negara (Malaysian Archives), Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands), Gemeente Rotterdam (Rotterdam City Archive), Schweizerisches Bundesarchiv (Swiss Federal Archives), Rahvusarchiiv (National Archives of Estonia), Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives) and Arkistolaitos (Finnish National Archives Service) and the Finnish Archives.
Tessella also works FamilySearch International which has selected Tessella’s SDB to maintain the digital records that enable people to connect with their ancestors.

About Digital Archiving at Tessella

We are world leaders in the provision of Digital Archiving technologies, working with major governments in 7 countries across 3 continents. Tessella’s Digital Archiving offerings cover software, consulting, research and support and place us at the cutting edge of this emerging discipline. Our core technology, SDB, is now in its fourth generation and provides stable professionally supported platform with the flexibility to deliver individual customer needs.

For further information visit our dedicated microsite on http://www.digital-preservation.com

About Tessella

For further information visit http://www.tessella.com

About The National Archives

The National Archives, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk, is a non-ministerial government department and an executive agency of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). As the official archive of the UK government, it preserves, protects and makes accessible one of the most significant historical collections of official records in the world, dating back over 1000 years.

As a leading advocate of the archive sector, The National Archives expertise touches every point in the lifecycle of information – from the early stages of planning processes and storage methods, through the creation, management, use and re-use of information in day-to-day business by government and citizens, right through to its eventual archiving and long-term preservation. This work helps inform government’s decisions and ensures that they become tomorrow’s permanent record.

Today The National Archives brings together the skills and specialisms needed in our digital world for managing and preserving government information past, present and future – and for making it accessible to its users.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Media Contacts
The National Archives
Tommy Norton, Press Officer
+44 (0) 208 392 5277 press@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk
Tessella
Christina Tealdi – Public and Analyst Relations Executive
+ 44 (0)7799346453 | + 44 (0) 1235 546 638 | teac@tessella.com

Press Release: World’s largest genealogy service selects Tessella to preserve family connections

teac — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:01:06 +0000

FamilySearch International chooses Tessella’s digital archiving platform Safety Deposit Box

Oxford, UK | 5th April 2011. Tessella, the international provider of science-powered technology and consulting services, is pleased to announce that FamilySearch International has selected Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB) to maintain the digital records that enable people to connect with their ancestors.

Russell Stay, senior vice president for the Information Division of FamilySearch, said: “FamilySearch is dedicated to preserving the records of the family of mankind. Its purpose is to simply connect people with their ancestors through easy access to historical records.”

Stay added, “As part of this mission, we must capture and preserve huge numbers of digital records. Tessella’s SDB gives FamilySearch a strong technical platform and most importantly the ability to share best practices and workflows with the active and noteworthy Tessella SDB user community.”

Stay continued: “We see Tessella as a great partner in pushing digital archiving technology beyond the current early adopters. We think their commercial model that combines a professionally supported core with shared open source tools for specific micro-services will be very attractive to the community, and we look forward to using our experience and investment to enable the whole archiving world to benefit.”

Jon Tilbury, the director responsible for building Tessella’s digital archiving capabilities, said: “Both Tessella and FamilySearch are committed to using this relationship and the capabilities it yields to broaden the availability of digital archiving technology to a much wider range of organisations. With the backing of FamilySearch and the incorporation of the ideas and drive from the academic community, we hope to make SDB the platform of choice where budgets and know-how have, so far, been unable to stretch in this emerging discipline.”

CEO at Tessella Inc., Grant Stephen, commented: “I am extremely pleased that FamilySearch chose Tessella as the solution for their digital records. We are looking forward to working with FamilySearch to demonstrate the ability of SDB to scale to the levels required by their specification.”

Mark Evans, the Practice Head of Tessella’s U.S. Digital Archiving team, added: “The FamilySearch digital archiving facility will be huge in terms of archive size and throughput. We are looking forward to working with the FamilySearch experts to solve these challenges and are delighted they have placed their confidence in our software and our team.”

FamilySearch joins the SDB community of archives and libraries such as the UK, Swiss, Malaysian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, and Austrian state archives, as well as the Rotterdam Regional Archives, the Wellcome Trust Library and most recently the Minnesota Historical Society and the Library of Congress.

Tessella’s SDB technology is the leading platform for the preservation of long-term digital records in archives around the world. FamilySearch chose the latest version of Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box (SDB4) as the best available solution to manage the ingest process for their archives. SDB4 has been designed to help memory institutions (including libraries and archives), who are already skilled at preserving paper material, to overcome the problems posed by preserving material stored in digital formats.

Tessella’s Safety Deposit Box 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.

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Notes to the Media

About Family Search

FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,600 family history centers in 132 countries, including the renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Further information is available at familysearch.org.

About Digital Archiving at Tessella

For further information visit our dedicated microsite on www.digital-preservation.com

About Tessella

For further information visit our dedicated website on www.tessella.com

Media Contacts

Tessella

Christina Tealdi | Public and Analyst Executive

Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453

christina.tealdi(@tessella.com

FamilySearch

Scott Bean, Strategic Relations

Phone: +1 (801) 240-4123

Mobile: +1 (801) 999-8644

sbean@familysearch.org

Press Release: US State Entities use Tessella’s SDB to advance their learning on digital archiving.

teac — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:47:20 +0000

Library of Congress funded project to explore multi-tenancy digital archiving solution to provide cost-effective enhanced online access to legislative materials in digital form.

Oxford, UK | 30 March 2011. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is pleased to announce that it will be working with the Minnesota Historical Society and the Library of Congress to run a series of digital preservation education consultancy sessions with a number of state legislative divisions. In addition the state participants will conduct a pilot evaluation of a multi-tenant deployment of Tessella’s digital archiving solution, SDB.

The main purpose of the pilot is to allow the state entities to gain practical experience of managing and preserving electronic content by using a live system rather than a paper exercise. Participants will learn how to load, organise and preserve their information and how to enable user access.

The project, led by Robert Horton, the Minnesota Historical Society’s Director for Library, Publications and Collections, and funded by the Library of Congress’ National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) programme, will feature up to four states using SDB in a multi-tenant configuration hosted at Tessella’s secure provider.

William G. LeFurgy, Digital Initiatives Project Manager, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, Library of Congress said: “We are pleased that states will have the opportunity to test the Tessella tool for managing and preserving digital information. Many states have significant needs in this area, and practical exploration of advanced preservation technology is essential, especially as the amount of government digital information continues to grow rapidly.”

Multi-tenancy (a software architecture principle where a single instance of the software runs on a server serving multiple client organizations) can deliver cost savings, which are over and above the basic economies of scale achievable from consolidating IT resources into a single operation.

Entities participating in the initiative include: The Minnesota Historical Society, Illinois State Library, Tennessee Department of State, and Vermont State Archives.

Jon Tilbury, Director at Tessella, said: “We are delighted that the Minnesota Historical Society has chosen Tessella to provide technology, direction and advice on the challenges of digital preservation being faced today. We hope this is a partnership in where we pass on our experience of long term digital preservation and also learn about the challenges facing state entities when preserving their digital history.”

Tilbury continued: “It makes perfect sense to do this using the world’s most advanced Digital Archiving platform, SDB, and to learn from Tessella’s experience of implementing such systems in Europe and Asia. The lessons and experience can then be shared with their organization and be opened up to other US state archivists.”

Tessella’s SDB technology is the leading platform for the preservation of long term digital records in archives around the world. SDB4 has been designed to help memory institutions (including libraries and archives), who are already skilled at preserving paper material, but face the problems posed by preserving material stored in digital formats.

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Notes to the Media

For further information visit our dedicated microsite on www.digital-preservation.com

About the Minnesota Historical Society
The Minnesota Historical Society is a non-profit educational and cultural institution established in 1849. Its essence is to illuminate the past as a way to shed light on the future. The Society collects, preserves and tells the story of Minnesota’s past through museum exhibits, libraries and collections, historic sites, educational programmes and book publishing.

For more information visit www.mnhs.org

Media Contact
Christina Tealdi | Public and Analyst Executive
Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453
christina.tealdi@tessella.com

Press release: Tessella selected to be a Bank of England Framework Partner

teac — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:20:53 +0000

Tessella to provide IT services, advice and development expertise to the Bank of England

Oxford, UK | 16th March 2011. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is pleased to announce that it has been selected for a framework agreement and awarded a four-year call-off contract by the Bank of England for the provision of IT services.

Lawrence Hopkins, Associate Director at Tessella commented: “We are delighted to have been awarded a call-off contract with the Bank of England and look forward to supplementing the Bank’s teams with high calibre staff offering the full range of Tessella’s services.”

Alan Gaby, Tessella’s Divisional Director added: “The Bank were very clear in defining the areas of support they require, and I am pleased they recognised Tessella’s strengths in modelling and simulation, technical consulting and the development of high quality, robust analytical software.”

Tessella has been selected as one of six organisations to provide application development services to the Bank of England, under a new framework agreement. The agreement allows the Bank of England quickly and cost-effectively to call down additional application development, and related IT services and to undertake tasks to help with peaks of demand.

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About Tessella

Founded in 1980, Tessella is the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services. World leading organizations choose our unique blend of science, engineering and sector expertise to deliver innovative and cost-effective solutions to complex real-world commercial and technical challenges. Our people are high achievers from leading universities and are passionate about delivering value to clients. We are proud that our work makes the world a better place to live in: developing smarter drug trials; preserving the digital heritage of nations across the globe; minimizing risk in oil and gas exploration; controlling the orbit and attitude of satellites; researching fusion energy.

Further information available at www.tessella.com

Media Contact at Tessella

Christina Tealdi | PR/AR Executive | Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453

Press Release: ESA chooses Tessella to engineer savings in space system development

teac — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:43:43 +0000

Tessella to lead world class team in development of advanced models for Attitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS)

Oxford, UK | December 8, 2010. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is pleased to announce that the European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Tessella to develop generic sets of unit simulation models that can be used by AOCS providers throughout the project lifecycle, from study simulators through to real time test benches. It is anticipated that the developed models will be a valuable resource for the AOCS development community, providing validated reusable modules that will deliver significant savings in the AOCS development, verification and validation process.

ESA are currently funding a study aimed at prototyping several sensor and actuator simulation models to be used for attitude, orbit and control system (AOCS) performance analysis, verification and validation on a range of test environments, including Avionics test benches.

A consortium, led by Tessella, including Thales Alenia Space and EADS Astrium, won the competitively tendered contract to develop these generic simulation models for specified units (star tracker, gyro and reaction wheels). The consortium’s approach will ensure that development guidelines are specified in order to meet the needs of the AOCS community at the several steps of the AOCS development cycle, and that the simulation models are validated against real hardware.

Alan Gaby, director at Tessella commented: “We are delighted that ESA has chosen Tessella for this prestigious project. It demonstrates our ability to deliver value to clients by innovative use of advanced modelling approaches. In addition, our team benefits enormously from the participation of two world leading spacecraft prime contractors, EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space”

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Notes to the Media

About Tessella

For further information visit www.tessella.com

Media Contact
Christina Tealdi | Public and Analyst Executive
Phone: +44 (0) 1235 555511 | Mobile: + 44 (0) 779 9346453

christina.tealdi@tessella.com

PRESS RELEASE: Leading science labs collaborate on open source software

teac — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:44:32 +0000

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory neutron source scientists team up with Tessella to deploy open source software solution for international data reduction and analysis project

Oxford, UK |December 9, 2010. Tessella, the international provider of science powered technology and consulting services is pleased to announce that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) has chosen to use Mantid software developed for the ISIS neutron source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) by Tessella. Mantid (Manipulation and Analysis for ISIS Data) is an open source project for data reduction and analysis of neutron scattering experiments. ORNL and RAL have reached an agreement on the resources they will each commit to the ongoing development and deployment of Mantid, and both will be using Tessella to provide some of that effort.

Mark Hagen, Scientific Data Analysis Group Leader for Neutron Scattering Science Division at ORNL commented: “We are very excited by the opportunity, provided by this international collaboration between facilities, to develop powerful new data reduction, and analysis software to benefit neutron scattering researchers.”

Hagen added: “The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), and High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), facilities at ORNL provide scientists, from both the US and internationally, with the most intense beams for neutron scattering research. As such these facilities generate large amounts of data, for a wide range of scientific fields, and there is therefore a wide diversity of data reduction and analysis requirements.”

Mantid was originally developed by a team of Tessella scientists at the ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source in Oxfordshire. It is an extensible, open source framework independent of instrument or analysis technique, built to professional standards of software development, and has a proven track record of flexibility, extensibility and maintainability.

Grant Stephen, CEO at Tessella Inc. said: “We are delighted that ORNL has chosen to join the Mantid collaboration with ISIS and Tessella to work with them on the Spallation Neutron Source.”

Stephen added “Tessella’s unique and unparalleled blend of scientific and software development expertise, combined with our experience from the original development of Mantid, means that Tessella can provide software engineers who can understand the scientific research requirements at SNS and have a detailed knowledge of the existing Mantid framework required to extend and apply it.”

Tessella will be providing a team of software engineers with physics backgrounds working at a combination of ORNL in Tennessee and Tessella’s Boston office. Contractual responsibility for direction of the software engineers lies with ORNL’s Mark Hagan.

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