Digital Libraries
Digital Libraries' are challenged with archiving, maintaining and preserving data over extensive periods of time, and to make sure that data is available and accessible for discovery and re-use without regard to physical location. WOS addresses these Digital Library requirements and can cope with the increasing number of large objects such as film, video, and archaeological scans that require storage to scale to multiple petabytes of data – and that can be added dynamically and modularly as the Digital Library grows.
Digital Libraries’ preservation mission requires this vital data to be maintained and accessed and understood through changes in technology. To ensure this, WOS has been tightly integrated with the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data-management System (iRODS). The iRODS data grid is an open source, next-generation adaptive middleware architecture for data management that was developed under funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration.
- WOS can store massive amounts of data and access it quickly and reliably across the globe
- Multisite replication reduces latency of data access from worldwide storage sites
- Easy to manage with high resiliency
- Breakthrough Cloud Storage Economics
