GlassHouse
Technologies Wins Consulting Deal with Washington State Digital Archives Project
Framingham, MA
and Olympia, WA - May 6 2003 - GlassHouse Technologies, Inc today
announced that it has won a contract and is providing consulting services to the
Washington State Digital Archives Project, the first state digital archives in
the United States.
The scope of the consulting engagement includes a feasibility analysis
of three key components of the Digital Archives project: SANs, Converting from
Legacy Software and Data, and Data Archiving. GlassHouse consultants are
assessing the feasibility of a variety of storage, data conversion and archiving
technologies for the project, as well as making recommendations, providing
preliminary design parameters, documenting recommendations and best practices,
and providing proof-of-concept testing via GlassHouse's Storage Interoperability
Lab Services.
"While many states in America are talking about digitally
archiving their records, Washington State has taken the lead with a bold,
visionary plan to make the state's vast legal and historical records -
everything from homesteading records to the history of state law and historical
records about state lands, parks and natural resources - available to citizens
through a central digital repository," said Richard Scannell, GlassHouse
Vice President of Strategy. "We are pleased that Washington State chose us
for this challenging project."
The Washington State Digital Archives project is an unprecedented
effort to capture and digitize state and local government electronic records,
preserving a comprehensive record of the state's history. Spearheaded by the
Office of the Secretary of State, Archives and Records Management Division, the
project has as its goal the transfer of the recorded history of the State into a
single, widely-available digital repository.
Washington State broke ground on the building which will house the
Digital Archives April 7, 2003. Ultimately, the digital archives will hold 800
terabytes of information. The new Digital Archives building, currently being
constructed on the campus of Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, is
scheduled to open its doors in 2004.
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