published on Monday, January 31, 2005

SURFdiensten and SARA close 3-year agreement for 'remote storage'

SURFdiensten and SARA Computer & Networking Services have made an arrangement for the delivery of storage services by SARA. This agreement is also applicable to APS-diensten and SLB-diensten. Thanks to this arrangement, institutes for higher, secondary, and primary education can make use of SARA’s state-of-the-art remote data storage environment.

SARA offers a total solution for daily backupping. SARA can also archive files for an undefined period of time.

Outsourcing of remote storage services to SARA has the following advantages:

• extreme secure data storage facility
  
• easy to implement
  
• vast expertise in management of storage environments
  
• tight work procedures
  
• 24x7 active monitoring and failure handling
  
• scalable solution due to flexible rate system (per Gbyte per month)
  
• redundant data storage (on two locations)
  

Inside one of SARA's storage facilities.