Arkivum brings cutting-edge digital archiving, preservation and access solutions to public sector organisations through government procurement framework

Chippenham, Wiltshire, 11th August 2016 – Arkivum, the leading provider of managed data preservation and archiving solutions, is pleased to announce that its range of data archiving and digital preservation solutions is available via G-Cloud 8, the government procurement framework used by organisations in the UK public sector to identify and source cloud-based technology and services.

Having a number of Arkivum’s services listed under the G-Cloud 8 digital marketplace framework simplifies the procurement process for Arkivum’s clients through the use of pre-agreed pricing, contract, and commercial terms and conditions. Within the range of services provided through G-Cloud 8, Arkivum has listed Perpetua, the company’s recently launched end-to-end preservation solution for preserving, managing and accessing digital assets, on the framework.

By joining G-Cloud 8, Arkivum becomes part of a group of businesses that provide cloud-based services to government departments, agencies and other public sector organisations. Using frameworks such as this enables Arkivum’s customers to specify, procure, deploy and go-live with long-term data archiving and preservation solutions in a matter of weeks.

Guy Yaniv, CEO of Arkivum, comments, “The G-Cloud framework is important to us here at Arkivum because we value our public sector customers and we want to do all we can to simplify the procurement process for them. We know that government departments and agencies have significant digital preservation and access needs and having our Perpetua solution listed under G-Cloud 8 will help them achieve their goals in a simple and straightforward way.”

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About Arkivum
Arkivum provides industry-leading data preservation and archiving solutions to organisations in higher education, healthcare, life sciences, and digital heritage. These solutions assure the long-term value, trustworthiness and authenticity of data irrespective of whether it’s terabytes or petabytes being preserved, and irrespective of whether the retention period is years, decades, or a quarter of a century.

Through active data management, chain of custody and ISO 27001 compliance processes, Arkivum’s unique technology provides rapid, low-latency access to archived data and provides an unrivalled 100% data integrity guarantee. Backed by indemnity insurance, this is our commitment to protect, curate and preserve data for the future and to eliminate the needless loss of information and knowledge.

Arkivum works with partners to deliver integrated, scalable and flexible solutions for data discovery and sharing; publishing; file format preservation; and information portals.

Since its formation in 2011, Arkivum has grown steadily, boasting 300% growth in 2014 and again in 2015. As an example, Arkivum provides data archiving solutions to 1 in 2 of the top 60 universities in the UK, but its business growth is not only within the higher education sector. The need to retain and provide access to large volumes of data for many years to come is also paramount in other sectors too, such as Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Digital Heritage. For more information, visit www.arkivum.com

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