[Cross-posted to the EPrints Tech mailing list and the EPrints News
blog at http://eprintsnews.blogspot.com/ .]
As part of Sun Microsystem's Preservation Archiving Special Interest
Group (PASIG), the EPrints team have been collaborating with Sun to
enable EPrints to be used with archival storage products, such as the
Honeycomb (STK-5800).
This collaboration has informed the development of the new EPrints 3.2
Storage Controller that enables the repository to distribute its
objects between many storage platforms according to the rules laid
down in an XML policy language. Hybrid storage provides the maximum
flexibility for storage decisions based on object properties and
related metadata, allowing multiple copies to be managed across local,
archival and cloud storage services.
We are pleased to announce that we have been working collaboratively
with Sun's Cloud Computing Unit to allow the EPrints Storage
Controller to link to the forthcoming Sun Cloud Storage Service (due
for release later this year). A demonstration is available at this
week's Community One conference in San Francisco (http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/index.jsp
). EPrints is one of a few software products to have gained an entry
in the early adopters catalog (available at the conference).
With an Amazon S3 plugin already available for the EPrints Storage
controller, Sun's Cloud Storage Service is a logical next step in
terms of cloud providers. EPrints is also committed to supporting the
DuraSpace proposed DuraCloud service, and hopes to release a connector
for the Microsoft Azure platform.
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Les Carr
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