I am sharing an internal message I sent to the Sun Education group and Sun internal PASIG members on Dec. 17. It actually shows the kind of things we need to understand at Sun. I think the efforts of the customers involved in the PASIG have done a lot to educate and cross-fertliize ideas with Sun storage experts around long-term preservation, repository, and sustainability.
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Below is the recent message I sent to the PASIG members and This study hits exactly on the focus area of the Sun PASIG. If you look at the contributors many are Sun PASIG advisors.
Our customers are struggling to understand the IT and economic model needed to develop a long-term, sustainable preservation and repository system. Our positioning around open storage and open archiving gives us a very unique proposition with respects to this community. They have issues around 1) long-term skills development to sustain an architecture, 2) predicting the growth and uses of datasets, 3) planning for scalability, 4) linking the developments in storage to their economic models and potential new content types, and 5) the ability to mix and match appropriate technologies from Sun, other firms, and community developers.
This is why presentations at the recent PASIG by Chris Wood, James Simon, Keith Rajecki, Ray Clarke, and the IAS group have been so well-received. We are the top vendor trying to address holistically their very long-term economic, IT, and data management issues.
Below is the message I sent to the 1300 members of my Library aliases. I highly advise you to look at the presentations on the PASIG website if you are interested in this market.
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Subject: Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Preservation - Interim Report Published
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:02:19 -0800
From: ARTHUR PASQUINELLI <arthur.pasquinelli@sun.com>
Organization: Sun Microsystems
To: pasig@sun.com, kesig@sun.com
A task force of experts set up last year to look at sustainable economic
models for preservation has issued its interim report.
The press release can be seen at;
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/547502/
The report is available at;
http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Interim_Report.pdf
The contributor biographies are at;
http://brtf.sdsc.edu/members.html
A presentation on this report was recently given by Sayeed Choudhury
from Johns Hopkins U. at the November Sun PASIG. This is accessible at;
http://events-at-sun.com/pasig_fall08/presentations.html