“The single greatest threat to materials being preserved over the long term is money,” states Victoria Reich, Director of the LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries. “Societies will have good times and bad. Keeping content safe must be a marginal expense in order to decrease the threats during bad times and to maximize available funds for new acquisitions during good times. Until we discovered Capricorn, entry costs for our massive digital preservation project were prohibitive. Thanks to their low-entry price and low overall maintenance costs, we have been able to proceed with our plans for housing massive datastores in various locations on a very limited budget.” 

“The CLOCKSS initiative is being undertaken by a not-for profit community partnership with the critical mission of long-term storage of scholarly content in a dark archive,” remarks CR Saikley, Founder and CEO of Capricorn Technologies. “Together these factors make Capricorn’s low-power storage platform an ideal technology choice. Our low entry price and low operating expense facilitate a more comprehensive archive with a greater degree of replication than would otherwise be possible.” 

About the PetaBox 
PetaBox storage units are 1U systems designed to provide high storage density with minimal power dissipation. By carefully managing the power budget, operating temperatures are reduced and reliability is optimized, while operating costs, cooling requirements, and maintenance overhead are minimized. Together with the PetaBox’ economical entry point of well under $1.50 USD/GB, these features yield the lowest Total Cost of Ownership of any data storage solution available today. 

PetaBox Availability
PetaBox technology is available immediately from Capricorn Technologies. For more product information, pricing, or to place an order, please contact: sales@capricorn-tech.com.

About CLOCKSS
CLOCKKS is a community-based initiative to build a trusted, distributed dark archive in order to protect online scholarly content from catastrophic events and other long-term interruptions. CLOCKSS stands for ‘’Controlled - Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe’’, which underlies a core value of this intiative - distributed governance and administration. The CLOCKSS dark archive can be considered an extension of the institutional stewardship role that libraries have collectively played for the printed format – to preserve digital content for the world wide research community now and into the future. To learn more about CLOCKSS, please visit www.lockss.org/clockss.

About Capricorn Technologies
Capricorn Technologies is proud to be a leader in the next data storage revolution. Founded in 2004, Capricorn supplies a wide range of storage options: from petabyte-class storage solutions for some of largest data archives in the world, including the Internet Archive, to 1 terabyte storage units for small and medium enterprises. Our PetaBox technology provides low cost, low power-consuming storage solutions for data used in nearline storage systems. For further information, please visit www.capricorn-tech.com. 

Public Relations Contact
Janice Spampinato
Capricorn Technologies
450 Mission Street, Suite 402
San Francisco, CA 94105-2505
510.847.9259
press@capricorn-tech.com 

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