<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b><br><br>January 23, 2013<br>Contact: Carol Minton Morris <<a href="mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org" target="_blank">cmmorris@duraspace.org</a>><br>Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/Vjz27f" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/Vjz27f</a></font><br>
<p><b><font size="4">New 2013 DuraCloud Price Cuts</font></b></p>
<p>        <i>Winchester, MA </i>Today the DuraSpace organization announced price cuts to <a href="http://duracloud.org" target="_blank">DuraCloud</a>
storage costs for each subscription plan—Preservation Basic,
Preservation Plus, and DuraCloud Enterprise. Each plan offers customers
affordable and managed digital preservation and archiving services
matched to customers' needs. DuraCloud subscription plans are
competitive with commercial cloud providers, do not require additional
transfer or variable costs, and reflect recent price cuts across most
major cloud storage providers including Amazon, Google, Azure, HP, and
Rackspace.</p>
<p>        The new prices have been posted on the DuraCloud web site: <a href="http://duracloud.org/pricing" target="_blank">http://duracloud.org/pricing</a>.</p>
<p>        Key DuraCloud benefits include:</p>
<p>        • Copies of your content stored with multiple providers</p>
<p>        • Automated health checking of content, so files are never corrupted or lost</p>
<p>        • Easy to use content synchronization and retrieval tools</p>
<p>        • A full suite of reports that let you more effectively manage your content</p>
<p>        • Online sharing and streaming to any internet-linked device</p>
<p>        • Permissions and access controls for content stored in the cloud</p>
<p>        A FREE 2-month DuraCloud trial run comes complete with one-on-one
customer support and a production DuraCloud instance that allows you to
upload any of your content to DuraCloud and test all of the DuraCloud
services. This is an opportunity for you to find out how cloud storage
and services can help you plan for meeting your back-up, preservation,
streaming, and collaboration needs now and for the future. DuraCloud is
the only "one click to the cloud" managed cloud service that provides
you with instant access to multiple locations and providers.</p>
<p>        Take advantage of <a href="http://duracloud.org" target="_blank">DuraCloud</a> 2013 price cuts today! Apply for your free DuraCloud trial account here:<br>
        <a href="http://www.duracloud.org/trial-account-request" target="_blank"><br>
        http://www.duracloud.org/trial-account-request</a></p>
<p>        If you have any questions please contact us at <a href="http://mailto:info@duracloud.org" target="_blank">info@duracloud.org</a>.</p>
<p>        ABOUT THE DURASPACE ORGANIZATION<br>
        <a href="http://duraspace.org" target="_blank"><br>
        DuraSpace</a> is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization
founded in 2009 when the Fedora Commons organization and the DSpace
Foundation, two of the largest providers of open source repository
software, joined to pursue a common mission to preserve our shared
scholarly, scientific and cultural record. The DuraSpace community
includes more than 1,500 worldwide institutions that use DSpace or
Fedora open source repository software to provide durable access to
documents, imagery and media. More information at <a href="http://duraspace.org" target="_blank">DuraSpace.org</a>.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br><a href="tel:607%20592-3135" value="+16075923135" target="_blank">607 592-3135</a><br>
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