Edward Iglesias wrote: > Thanks to all of you who answered. Crowdsourcing does work if you > pick the right crowd. We have been looking at the S3 possibility but > I agree this would have to be a second copy. There been lots of talk about hardware platorms but not much about software to manage all that data. You might want to take a look at DuraCloud from DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org/duracloud.php). DuraSpace is the recently created organization from the merger of Fedora and DSpace. When I first started at Cornell 12 years ago I sat next to Sandy Payette, who is now the CEO of DuraSpace.