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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">October 15, 2013</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Contact: Carol Minton Morris <<a href="mailto:cmmorris@duraspace.org" target="_blank">cmmorris@duraspace.org</a>></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/1ghwIaI" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1ghwIaI</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font size="4" color="#000000">NOW AVAILABLE: Easy Drag and Drop Upload with DuraCloud 2.4.0</font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><i>Winchester, MA</i> Today the DuraSpace organization announced the release of DuraCloud 2.4.0. The latest version of DuraCloud offers customers significantly improved content upload and download capabilities including the drag and drop upload feature, installers that make it easy to use the Sync Tool, and more. DuraCloud (<a href="http://duracloud.org/" target="_blank">http://duracloud.org</a>) is an archiving and preservation service that gives users the choice of where to store their content while providing a suite of services that ensure their content's long term accessibility.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000">Primary features of the 2.4.0 release are:</font></b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i><font color="#000000">Improved Content Upload:</font></i></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#000000"><br></font></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000">• DuraCloud now provides the option to upload files using the familiar</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">file selector or with simple drag and drop through the web interface.</font></div><div><font color="#000000">• New Sync Tool installers provide a simple graphical installation</font></div><div><font color="#000000">flow and are consistent with the usual installation process on</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.</font></div><div><font color="#000000">• The Sync Tool now provides 3 options for handling files which have</font></div><div><font color="#000000">changed locally:</font></div>
</blockquote><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">1. Overwrite the file (the default, and the only option available in</font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">previous versions)</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">2. Skip the file (ensures that there are no changes made to any</font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">existing files in DuraCloud)</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">3. Rename original (rename the old copy of this file first, then add</font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">the new file to DuraCloud)</font></blockquote></blockquote><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i><font color="#000000">Improved Content Download:</font></i></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000">• The Retrieval Tool now allows users more flexible content retrieval</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">options, including downloading from:</font></div></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<font color="#000000">1. A list of the files in a space</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">2. A specific set of files from a space</font></blockquote>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">3. An entire space</font></blockquote></blockquote><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000">Videos to help users get started with DuraCloud are now available:</font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#000000"><br></font></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font color="#000000">• <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DURACLOUDDOC/Getting+Started+with+DuraCloud" target="_blank">Get Started!</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">• <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DURACLOUDDOC/How+to+Automatically+Upload+Files+and+Directories+to+DuraCloud" target="_blank">Automatically Upload Files and Directories</a></font></div>
</blockquote><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">For more information, a complete list of the new features and</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">improvements in DuraCloud 2.4.0 are available in the release notes:</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DURACLOUDDOC/Release+Notes" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DURACLOUDDOC/Release+Notes</font></a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><b><font color="#000000">ABOUT DURASPACE</font></b></div><div><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#000000">DuraSpace (<a href="http://duraspace.org/" target="_blank">http://duraspace.org</a>) is an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. We collaborate with academic, scientific, cultural, and technology communities by supporting projects and creating services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, "Committed to our digital future."</font></div>
</div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><font color="#000000">-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br>607 592-3135<br>
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