<div class="gmail_quote"><div><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br><br></b>Sept. 27, 2012<br>Contact: Carol Minton Morris, (<a href="mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org" target="_blank">cmmorris@duraspace.org</a>)<br>Read it online: <a href="http://dell.to/NTBQDv" target="_blank">http://dell.to/NTBQDv</a><br>
<p><i>From Dell Global Education Communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and DuraSpace</i></p>
<p><font size="4"><b>Dell and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Create Preservation Archive with Open Source Fedora Repository Software</b></font></p><p>• One of the largest public university libraries in the country uses
open source software on Dell DX Object Storage Platform to manage and
protect digital assets<br>
• University lowers storage total cost of ownership with scalability to support archive growth</p>
<p><i>ROUND ROCK </i> Working with Dell, the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created a new digital
archive for its university system that simplifies how it manages digital
assets, including rare books and faculty intellectual property output
such as research documents, papers and lectures — content typically
produced in multiple digital formats. The new archive reduces storage
costs and streamlines the management, retention and protection of
scholarly works through a solution based on the Dell DX Object Storage
Platform and DuraSpace Open Source Fedora Commons Repository Software.
Critical for the university was the ability to meet today’s needs and to
scale efficiently over time as digital content evolves and grows.</p>
<p>Explosive data growth and large data sets make it more difficult for
libraries, museums and government organizations to efficiently preserve
and protect documents, multimedia content and digital assets for future
generations. As one of the largest public university libraries in the
world, the Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
manages the intellectual property and digital content created by
faculty, administrators and students -- from one-of-a-kind, fragile
books that can create 600 to 800 image objects once digitized, to
retiring professors’ collections of work over a 20- to 25-year tenure.
</p>
<p>After considering its digital archive and retention goals, the
University of Illinois customized a version of Fedora Repository
Software and combined it with the Dell DX Object Storage Platform. The
platform automatically replicates an archive master and a working master
of each file to simplify data backup, storing one copy on the
University’s main library cluster and a second copy in its engineering
library. In the future, a third copy will be archived in the cloud to
further simplify data access and sharing across the University system.
The Dell DX Platform also produces metadata to manage the archive,
identifying files that need to be transitioned from older to newer
digital formats for future generations. And the DX Object Storage
Platform’s plug and play framework lets archivists add additional
retention capacity to the digital archive as it is needed, simply and
efficiently. </p>
<p><i>Quotes</i></p>
<p>John Mullen, Vice President, Education and State & Local Government, Dell<br>
“With the transition from stacks and the Dewey Decimal system to bytes,
clusters and metadata, academic libraries need a digital archiving
strategy that addresses their immediate and future needs. The University
of Illinois’ innovative and open approach to this challenge is a
practical model for any university.”</p>
<p>Thomas Habing, Research Programmer, Research and Development, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Library<br>
“This opportunity provides us with extra resources to further the
development of the Library’s digital preservation archive. It also
allows us to continue to utilize Open Source Fedora Commons Repository
Software while at the same time employing a commercially-supported
object storage platform with many digital preservation features, such as
replication and validation, which we will not need to implement
ourselves. Plus, we can share all of our development efforts back to
the open source community which helps everyone, including Dell.”</p>
<p>Michele Kimpton, CEO of DuraSpace<br>
“The Open Source Fedora repository platform is used by more than 400
institutions around the globe. We believe commercial implementations,
such as Dell, provide our users with the best of both worlds -- hardware
and services from a large-scale commercial vendor integrated with open
source software, Fedora Repository. The total package provides users
with greater transparency and durability in the long run.”</p>
<p><b>About Dell</b><br>
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative
technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more
information, visit <a href="http://www.dell.com" target="_blank">www.dell.com</a>.</p>
<p><b>About University of Illinois</b><br>
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has long been ranked
among the nation’s most distinguished teaching and research
institutions. Its diverse, world-class programs reflect the mission of a
land-grant university. The largest public university in Illinois, the
Urbana campus was chartered by the state in 1867 as the Illinois
Industrial University and opened its doors to students in 1868. Its
library is ranked highly nationally and globally, and its collections
and services are used heavily by students, faculty, and scholars. For
more information, please visit <a href="http://www.library.illinois.edu" target="_blank">www.library.illinois.edu</a>.</p>
<p><b>About DuraSpace</b><br>
DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace
software and services are used worldwide as solutions for open access,
institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital archives, data
curation, virtual research environments and more. The organization’s
open-source technology portfolio includes DSpace open access repository
application and the Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is the
home of DuraCloud, a cloud-based software service that leverages
existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital
content. For more information, visit <a href="http://duraspace.org" target="_blank">www.duraspace.org</a>.</p>
<p><b>Contact Information</b><br>
<br>
Kari Sherrodd<br>
Dell Global Education Communications<br>
<a href="tel:%2B1%20%28512%29%C2%A0%20728%202835" value="+15127282835" target="_blank">+1 (512) 728 2835</a>; <a href="http://mailto:Kari_Sherrodd@dell.com" target="_blank">Kari_Sherrodd@dell.com</a></p>
<p>Heather Murphy<br>
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>
Assistant Director of Advancement for<br>
Publications and Public Affairs<br>
<a href="tel:%2B1%20%28217%29%20333%203758" value="+12173333758" target="_blank">+1 (217) 333 3758</a>; <a href="http://mailto:hmurphy@illinois.edu" target="_blank">hmurphy@illinois.edu</a></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p>Carol Minton Morris<br>
DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications<br>
<a href="tel:%2B1%20%28607%29%20592%203135" value="+16075923135" target="_blank">+1 (607) 592 3135</a>; <a href="http://mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org" target="_blank">cmmorris@duraspace.org</a></p>
</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br>
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