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Hello NDSA Members, Big thank you to the 33 partners who have responded to the storage survey so far! The Infrastructure working group is very excited about what we will be able to do with these results, but we really need to get a higher response rate. So if your organization hasn't responded to the survey please take the time to respond by October 1st. http://bit.ly/ndsa-storage-survey Here are some preliminary interesting results from the survey: * Almost all of the respondents (97%) are storing preservation copies on spinning disk, and more than half are also continuing to use magnetic tape. * More than 20% of respondents are already using third-party cloud storage providers to keep one copy of their content. * Over 70% of respondents are planning on making significant changes to technologies in their storage architecture within the next three years. * Over 70% of respondents have a strong preference to host, maintain, and control their own technical infrastructure for preservation storage. We realize that some of the NDSA member organizations do not have preservation storage systems. If that is the case for your organization, please just send a short email to that effect to me [log in to unmask] and we will be able to take that into account for the coverage of the survey. Again, thanks to the 33 members who have already responded. If you are not sure if a participant from your organization has responded yet please review the full list of respondents thus far. Respondents thus far include: AMPAS CIESIN Columbia University California Digital Library Columbia University Libraries DuraSpace FCLA Harvard ICPSR Internet Archive Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries KY Dept. for Libraries and Archives LOCKSS Maryland State Archives Michigan State University Library NC Department of Cultural Resources National Library of Medicine New York University Odum institute PBS Penn State Portico Rhizome Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Stanford UC San Diego United States Holocaust Memorial Museum University of Michigan University of Minnesota Libraries University of North Texas University of Southern California Utah State Archives WGBH Educational Foundation i/oTrak E-Z Photo Scan Best, Trevor Owens Digital Archivist National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program Office of Strategic Initiatives The Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave SE Washington DC 20540-1300 202.707.7217 ############################ To unsubscribe from the NDSA-ALL list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://list.digitalpreservation.gov/SCRIPTS/WA-DIGITAL.EXE?SUBED1=NDSA-ALL&A=1