Cloud Storage is storage accessed over a network via web services APIs. For digital preservation storage, one option is the 3-2-1 Rule (3 copies, 2 mediums, 1 offsite).
Benefits of Cloud Storage
- Limitless scalability
- Custom metadata
- Single namespace
- Simplified management
- System / cloud performance
- Security
- Infrastructure and investment
- Stability and longevity of the solution
- Descriptive metadata
- Fixity and where that happens
- System security and access control
- Audit Event Tracking (e.g. maintaining records of actions associated with an asset)
- Version control so that originals are unchanged
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Cloud computing has proven a boon to businesses—especially small businesses, for which it hits a particularly sweet spot. With cloud services, small businesses reap the benefits of not having to deploy physical infrastructure like file and e-mail servers, storage systems or shrink-wrapped software.
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