An increasingly important role belongs of long-term storage of irreplaceable data, such as results of measurements of physical experiments, digitized views of archaeological artifacts and documents.
For this purpose we give users access to virtual machines on powerful servers which are able to access capacity on data storage.

In addition to high own requirements for storage capacity, there is a use by external scientific institutes in the form of cooperations. For this purpose we give them virtual machines on powerful servers which have access  to the data storage. Our work is an exact and securely reproducibility of the data as a stream of bits  without examining the contents of the data. A continuous improvement of the underlying technology sometimes requires a migration of data. This is also done by us.

The following projects are active at this time:

MDC            - Archiving of primary data from genome sequencing
FIZ Chemie   - Archiviing of digital publications
Kinemathek  - Archiving of digital movies
DAI              - Archiving of digital pictures
AEI              - Archiving of  astro- physical measurement