Library Technology Guides

Preservica announces partnership with The Crowley Company to future-proof digitized materials for academic and cultural heritage organizations. Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation archiving, announced their partnership with The Crowley Compan, an award-winning specialist in digitization solutions ranging from capture services, digitization equipment and technical support for digitization products. [Full Announcement].

Preservica announces partnership with Australia's DatacomIT to preserve and future-proof access to critical long-term digital information. Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation archiving, announced today their partnership with Australia's DatacomIT, a leading provider of specialised digitisation and hosted solutions for digital collections. [Full Announcement].

Preservica launches new generation of intuitive and automated digital preservation. Preservica announced a new generation of our leading Active Digital Preservation archiving and discovery software. Guided by our growing user community our new generation of software includes an array of powerful new innovations that enable archivists, records managers and information professionals to further simplify and automate the future proofing of high-value digital content for compliance and long-term value protection. [Full Announcement].

Stuart Reed joins Preservica to lead the vision, strategy and operational execution of the Digital Preservation platform. Preservica, experts in active digital preservation archiving, are pleased to announce that Stuart Reed is joining the company as Chief Product Officer. As the new CPO, Stuart will lead the vision, strategy and operational execution of the Digital Preservation platform, ensuring Preservica continues to lead the market and deliver outstanding value to its customers. [Full Announcement].

David Clipsham joins Preservica to accelerate digital preservation research. Preservica, experts in active digital preservation archiving, announced that David Clipsham has joined the company as File Format Analyst to further strengthen its digital preservation research and innovation team, accelerating the roll-out of Preservica's automated and embedded digital preservation software. [Full Announcement].

Preservica launches free-forever digital preservation in Canada. Preservica Starter edition, our popular free-forever and low-cost digital preservation and discovery solution, is now available hosted on AWS Canada. Over the last year, remote working and online access to digital materials has become increasingly important for many Canadian government, academic, cultural and commercial organizations. Starter edition provides archives of all sizes across the region with an easy, locally hosted way to preserve important records and showcase digital collections that document Canada's rich history. The solution ensures the vital steps to keep content safe and usable over decades are all automatically taken care of. [Full Announcement].

Libraries Tasmania selects Preservica to safeguard records. Preservica, a global leader in Active Digital Preservation software, has partnered with Libraries Tasmania in a multi-year contract to accept, preserve, and store digital government and non-government records as archives. Preservica worked with local partner Document Management Tasmania on the formal tender and procurement process. The digital preservation service will be hosted on AWS Asia Pacific region. [Full Announcement].

The New York Public Library announces partnership with Preservica for preservation of unique digital collections. Preservica, the world leader in active digital preservation software, announced The New York Public Library has selected Preservica's Enterprise Private Cloud to preserve and safeguard its vital digital content.With 56 million items and 92 locations including branches and research centers, The New York Public Library is one of the largest and most widely visited library systems in the world. The Library, a private non-profit, offers free materials, computer access, classes, exhibitions, programming, digital services, and more to everyone from toddlers to scholars, and has seen record numbers of attendance and circulation in recent years. [Full Announcement].

Preservica now available on Texas Department of Information Resources contract with partner IQBG. Preservica, the world's most trusted cloud archiving and active digital preservation platform, announced that its archival and digital preservation products and services are now available as part of the Texas Department of Information Resources Contract via their partner IQBG. [Full Announcement].

Alaine Behler Joins Preservica as VP of Marketing for North America. Preservica announced Alaine Behler as VP of Marketing for North America, with responsibilities including go-to-market (GTM) strategies and Demand Generation for the North American region. This role expands the leadership team to increase the focus to the North American Market, building on momentum created by a 400% growth in users over a three-month span following the launch of our freemium/PLG offering. [Full Announcement].

Preservica announces new free-forever digital preservation solution. Preservica announcedPreservica Starter, a brand new set of FREE (forever) and low-cost (from $199 per month) digital preservation solutions, making it easy and affordable for institutions of all sizes to preserve, curate and share digital content online in minutes. [Full Announcement].

University of Nottingham partners with Preservica to promote open discovery of unique digital collections. Preservica, the market leader in cloud-hosted active digital preservation, has been selected by the University of Nottingham Libraries to safeguard and aid the open discovery of its unique and diverse range of academic, business and cultural digital collections. [Full Announcement].

University of Pittsburgh Library System chooses Preservica for its digital preservation and access needs. Preservica, the market leader in active digital preservation, has been selected by the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) to safeguard over two million digitized pages and born-digital materials including university records, archives, and special collections. [Full Announcement].

Digital fragility a Ticking Time Bomb for enterprises says latest report. Digital fragility has emerged as a risk to digital business that CIOs and CMOs are failing to confront concludes a recent report by Forrester, a leading global research and advisory firm.According to the report, vital digital information sources and assets are at risk due to link rot, obsolete file formats and media, and vendor abandonment of online services. This can leave firms scrabbling to find or recreate digital assets, opening the door to loss of valuable trademarks, costly failures to meet regulatory crackdowns and poor corporate governance. [Full Announcement].

University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries and University Archives modernize digital preservation environment with Preservica. Preservica, the market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, announced that the University of Notre Dame has chosen Preservica’s digital preservation solution to seamlessly integrate digitized and born-digital material at the Hesburgh Libraries, with particular support for University Archives collections. [Full Announcement].

Former OpenText CEO John Shackleton joins Preservica as Chairman of the Board. Preservica, the market leader in SaaS-based active digital preservation, welcomes enterprise information management veteran John Shackleton to its board to spearhead the company’s next phase of global expansion. Shackleton will play a hands-on role in guiding the Preservica board and management team as it further scales the business through product innovation and key partnerships. [Full Announcement].

The University of Bristol chooses Preservica to safeguard extensive digital collection. Preservica, market leaders in active digital preservation, has announced that the University of Bristol will use its Enterprise Private Cloud (EPC) digital preservation platform to safeguard over 50 TBs of unique cultural records. [Full Announcement].

The Absolut Company chooses Preservica to future-proof its 140-year history. Preservica, market leaders in active digital preservation has announced that the Absolut Company has selected its cloud hosted active digital preservation platform to protect and future-proof more than 140 years of unique brand heritage and company history. The online archive will be used to inspire and empower marketing, comms and product teams across the business, as well as engage employees in the values and history of the company and iconic brands including Absolut Vodka, Malibu, Kahlúa, Our/vodka and Åhus akvavit. [Full Announcement].

Preservica and Microsoft collaborate to provide enterprise-grade archiving and digital preservation on Azure. Preservica, leaders in active digital preservation software, has announced the availability of its Enterprise Private Cloud offering on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The combined solution enables Microsoft enterprise and government customers to protect and future-proof critical long-term data over decades in order to extract value, mitigate litigation and compliance risk and intelligently leverage knowledge for competitive advantage. [Full Announcement].

Liverpool Record Office chooses Preservica for new cloud-based public archive. The Liverpool Record Office, part of Liverpool City Council’s Libraries and Information Services, has chosen Preservica’s cloud-based active digital preservation software to create a new online archive and to digitally preserve culturally significant records dating back to the 13th century. [Full Announcement].