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What is digital preservation?

Rapidly increasing volumes and complexity of digital data require more storage and computational power than ever before.

Traditional storage models were nothing more than static data backups, but in an increasingly digitised world, users want more. Modern archives must be accessible and available in order to remain – or become – a true asset, while security is more important than ever in a world of data breaches and cyber-attacks.

Digital preservation keeps your digital information alive. By utilising a compliant, flexible centralised storage solution that can be scaled in both capacity and performance from the very beginning of your digital journey, the management of your high value data becomes simpler and more cost efficient. And by avoiding the need to migrate data in the future, data corruption risks are minimised, reducing operational effort and manual intervention

Why does digital preservation matter?

It protects one of your most valuable assets

Your digital content is one of your organisation's most valuable assets - it tells your story, captures your expertise, and fuels future growth. Digital preservation ensures that this information stays protected, authentic, and accessible, no matter how technology changes.

It's a smart investment in the future

By actively preserving your digital assets, you're not just safeguarding data - you're protecting your brand's reputation, strengthening compliance, and creating a foundation for future innovation. It's a smart investment that keeps your knowledge alive and your organisation ready for what's next.

Digital preservation is the technological challenge to protect through its data the heritage, cultural references or history of an organisation, industry or nation.

Whether that be its science, innovations, inventions, art or records, these are projects of huge importance.

James Melhuish
boxxe Strategic Lead for Digital Preservation

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How to start your digital preservation journey

In this video series, we will be exploring the art of digital preservation in five simple steps to help you understand what you need to consider and how to start your digital preservation journey.

In our first video, we ask the question ‘What is digital preservation?’

We’ll cover the facts that digital preservation ultimately protects data, the heritage, cultural references or history of an organisation, industry or nation. Whether it be science, innovations, inventions, art or records, these projects are of huge importance.

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Digital preservation ensures you provide secure, reliable access to your archived digital assets as an investment in the future of your organisation, whether your digital materials contain priceless artefacts or critical business information.