DCaaS (Data Center-as-a-Service) is an under-rated service offering that can have an immense impact on the future of colocation hosting. A data centre refers to both the building and the premises in which the central computing technology of one or more companies or organizations is housed, as well as the organization itself, which takes care of these computers/servers. It is therefore of central … [Read more...]
What is a Digital Archive?
A digital archive (also referred to as a data archive) is usually an information system whose goal is to store different digital resources and make them available to a defined group of users. In terms of content and technology, digital archives continue to grow together with digital libraries and digital museums, which is why the term memory institution is now also used as a collective term. As in … [Read more...]
Long-Term Archiving : Basics
Long-term archiving (LCA) refers to the collection, long-term storage and preservation of the permanent availability of information. With the long-term archiving of digitally available information (digital preservation), certain new problems arise. For the preservation of digital resources, "long-term" does not mean the submission of a guarantee declaration for five or fifty years, but the … [Read more...]