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In the Cloud, you can’t choose your neighbors

Some recent, high-profile security-related events are adding another wrinkle of complexity for those who are trusting the cloud for their data storage and content delivery: who your neighbors are, and what they might be doing. On June 21, the FBI raided a Reston, Virginia based server farm for Swiss hosting provider Digital One.  While the […]

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Japan’s Crises, and its ramifications on digital preservation

The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis in Japan may have far-reaching cultural and history-recording effects worldwide… possibly exacerbating a digital dark age.

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Dataset sharing and preservation strategies at Rutgers

The NSF now requires academic researchers to come up with a plan to store and share their digital research data. RUcore is here to help.

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Lessons Learned from Google’s temporary Gmail loss

This past week offered up a little dose of panic to an estimated tens of thousands of users to Google’s free Gmail service, when they logged in to discover that all of their e-mail was missing. This event should be seen as an opportunity for users of Cloud services to reflect on how important that stored data is to them, and what impact it would have on their lives if that content were lost.

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NY Times Article on the realities and costs of Born Digital preservation

The New York Times today published an article that reflects some of the challenges of preserving born digital content – that is, documents, data and other content that has been created digitally, on a computer or electronic device, and for which there is no physical original (such as on paper). In particular, they highlight the […]

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