Arkivum data archiving

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OVERVIEW OF THE SERVICE

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Arkivum service in a nutshell

SLA with 100% data integrity guaranteed

World-wide professional indemnity insurance

Long term contracts for enterprise data archiving

Fully automated and managed solution

Audited and certified to ISO27001

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Supporting retention and access(IT Services)

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data volumestorage unit costIT budget

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Supporting retention and access(RDM perspective)

Open Access, e.g. CC0

Legacy data

Commercial research

Personal data

Third-party data

Under development

No public repository

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Low cost• Way to cope with data growth• Free up expensive resources• Eliminate the ‘cost of loss’

High safety• Data reuse or regulatory compliance• Data is immutable, replicated, managed• Auditable integrity, authenticity, access

Easy access• Quick to retrieve data when its needed• Frequency: each year, not each second• Speed: minutes, not milliseconds

Common requirements

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Achieving the real benefits of RDM

• 50% Storage cost savings• 80% Infrastructure freed up• 3% More time for PIs• 1% More research income• 4% Higher success rates for

funding • 30% Increase in data centric publications• 69% More citations and impact• 500% More data downloads

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HOW IT WORKS

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Arkivum’s Active Archive

A-StorDC

A-StorDC

Encrypted VPN

A-Stor creates an encrypted copy on the gateway andcopies to Arkivum’sData Centre One

A-Stor

A-StorDC creates the second copy in Arkivum’sData Centre Two

A-StorDC creates the escrow copy in theTape Vault

Once all three copies are confirmed safe and secure the original copy can safely be deleted

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What users see

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What users don’t see

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Active Archiving

• Preservation best practice (diversity, intervention)– Multiple copies in different locations– Different technologies and different people– Active management: migration, integrity

Ingest Queue

Access Queue

Replication and Repair Queue

Storage System 1 Storage System 2

Scrubbing and migration

Scrubbing and migration

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Trust but verify!

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Arkivum is a lot more than just IaaS

• Skilled and trained people• Validated processes and procedures• Comprehensive risk management • Specialist infrastructure• Economies of scale• Audit and validation

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Audit trails

• Essential in compliance applications• Part of records management• Digital preservation is an active process• Good practice to record checks/interventions

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Ready made exit plan

• Metadata and data on a file system• Open standards and formats• 3-way agreement on ownership/access• Drive down costs and risks

LTFS

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Purchasing Options

• Pre-agreed terms• PAYG or Paid-Up for 5,10 or 25 years• JANET connected• Ingress or egress included• Migrations and refreshes included• Audits and certification included• Escrow copy included• DMP friendly• Not just for research data• Easy budgeting

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INTEGRATIONS

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Institutional Repository Integration

• Ingest and access• Chain of custody• Controlled access• Review-approve processes• Audit trails

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Getting stuff in

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Getting stuff out

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More to come…

• ePrints, DSpace, PURE• iRODS, Archivematica• All supported by Arkivum REST API• Collaboration with Universities/Vendors• Open source plugins where possible• Proof of Concept→Pilot→Production

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QUESTIONS