Editing Contribute: Plugins/StoragePluginsArkivum (section)

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The Arkivum ePrints storage plugin allows content in an ePrints repository to be copied or moved into Arkivum’s data archiving service.    

Arkivum provides online data archiving as a service to organisations that need to keep data for long-term compliance or reuse.  

The company is a spin out of the University of Southampton and is based on a decade of expertise and technology created from working with large archives on digital preservation and long-term data retention and access.  As part of the Arkivum service, three copies of customer data are held in three UK locations: two online in secure data centres and one offline in escrow with a third-party.  Arkivum actively manages data integrity through regular checks and migrates media and infrastructure to counter obsolescence and to ensure prices remain low.  
 
Good preservation practice, trained staff and very carefully controlled processes means that Arkivum can offer a guarantee of data integrity.  

All data returned from our service is always bit-for-bit identical to the data the customer supplied, with no restrictions on time or volume.   The guarantee is backed by worldwide insurance and is included in our contract and SLA.  
Arkivum is certified to ISO27001 and is regularly audited for the integrity, confidentiality and availability of data assets in our possession.   This approach makes the Arkivum service ideal for long-term storage of research data, for example to meet research council retention requirements and to ensure it is available for easy access in the future.   

For more information see [http://www.arkivum.com www.arkivum.com]  including our series of articles and webinars on Research Data Management.