Friday, September 02, 2016

TRAC Certified Long-term Digital Preservation: DuraCloud and Chronopolis for Institutional Treasures

TRAC Certified Long-term Digital Preservation: DuraCloud and Chronopolis for Institutional Treasures. Website. 1 September 2016.
     "An institution’s identity is often formed by what it saves for current and future access. Digital collections curated by the academy can include research data, images, texts, reports, artworks, books, and historic documents help define an academic institution’s identity."

DuraSpace and the Chronopolis service at the University of California at San Diego’s  announce the DuraCloud Enterprise Chronopolis subscription plan for digital preservation. It stores digital content in Amazon and in the Chronopolis network. It provides geographic replication and synchronization of content between three storage locations, and has content integrity monitoring in a dark storage option. Plan options are a combination of Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, and SDSC.

Pricing and Plan details
DuraCloud Preservation                    Subscription Fee: $1,175 Storage: $700/TB
DuraCloud Preservation Plus             Subscription Fee: $1,175 Storage: $825/TB
DuraCloud Enterprise                        Subscription Fee: $5,250 Storage: $500/TB
DuraCloud Enterprise Plus                Subscription Fee: $5,250 Storage: $625/TB
DuraCloud Enterprise Plus                Subscription Fee: $5,550 Storage: $1,200/TB (Option 2)
DuraCloud Enterprise Chronopolis    Subscription Fee: $2,750 Storage: $500/TB (Ingest and retrieval fees extra)

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