By Sue Clarke, Ovum Tessella, an IT and consulting services company that provides digital archiving technology, is addressing the problem of long-term digital preservation. Its Safety Deposit Box (SDB) offering enables organizations to store and preserve digital information and, more importantly, to access this information even after several years…read more

Advances in computer technology offer many new opportunities but also new challenges. One of the most important challenges is tackling the problem of digital obsolescence: ensuring that the digital information we create and store today will continue to be accessible for as long as we may need it. A complete archiving solution must retain knowledge [...]

The Tessella and AIIM free webinar Digital Preservation: challenges and benefits, held on October 15th 2008, was a huge success with over 300 attendees world-wide. The speakers, Tessella’s Mark Evans and Prof Greg Hunter of Long Island University (and Senior Consultant to History Associates, Inc.) discussed the need to take steps now to address digital preservation. Lessons learned during [...]