[Pasig-discuss] Archive to Cloud? Top 5 questions to ask before outsourcing your archives to a cloud vendor

[gail at trumantechnologies.com]

Preservation community - Do you agree?
Top 5 questions to ask before outsourcing your archives to a cloud
vendor 


Curate, Preserve, Archive – you’ll probably agree that these words
are neither used nor understood by the major cloud providers. There’s
been a gaping lack of understanding around what archivists and
librarians need in order to feel safe outsourcing their digital archives
to the cloud. To be viable as a place to digitally preserve content
forever (or many decades), cloud storage needs to do more than protect
the bits for the long term. There are data ownership, location,
authenticity and provenance considerations, among others.
Here are the first five questions I recommend asking a cloud storage
vendor – and what to look for in their reply


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Gail Truman
Truman Technologies, LLC

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