In our ongoing mission to bring cost-effective archiving and digital repositories to all, we have doubled the memory on all containers for customers running archives on the KnowledgeArc platform. This will allow us to provide existing customers with better performance as well as enabling us to introduce additional improvements to speed and other metrics in the coming days, weeks and months.
If you have important information that needs to be archived and want to join the revolution in digital asset management, search, journalling and peer review, check out what we offer an the low-cost solutions we provide.
JCar, the Joomla! extension suite for integrating archived information with the Joomla! content management system, is now available as a stable release 1.0.0.
Our goal at KnowledgeArc has been to provide low-cost archives that are fast, reliable, scalable and easy to maintain and with the recent deployment of our new containerized archives we continue to achieve what we set out to do.
Solutions for archiving (and for many other web application hosting solutions) fall into two groups; archives are either deployed to shared equipment or are installed individually on dedicated resources. In the case of a shared hosting solution, your archive is at the mercy of other archives and the server as a whole; if one of the other archives requires a restart or corrupts the system for any reason, your archive is affected. In the case of dedicated resources, you have the luxury of isolating your archive from others but in turn this increases costs, including set up (you need a full stack of software to be installed to run your archive), performance (even paying month to month for a cloud-based solution can add up), and maintenance (these systems don’t upgrade themselves).
Additionally, in the case of cloud-based solutions, scaling requires complex installations, and many will only scale horizontally, meaning more servers are deployed automatically if performance is dropping. Also, many of these autoscaling solutions are poorly implemented, resulting in spikes in costs and manual intervention to “kill off” unnecessary resources.
We understand that different organisations have different needs. Because of that we offer several services so that you can pick the one that suits you and your organisation the best. DSpace As an academic institution, like a university or research institute, you may have academic publications that you need to manage and disseminate. To meet…
JCar, the Joomla! extension suite for integrating archived information with the Joomla! content management system, closes in on a production release with the beta pre-release of version 1.0.0. 1.0.0 Beta introduces a number of bug fixes as well as an improved interface for embedding archive items within a Joomla! articles. For more information, visit the…
We are pleased to welcome CGIAR’s WorldFish Digital Archive to KnowledgeArc’s managed hosted DSpace platform. CGIAR is dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger whilst working with the various ecosystems to provide research for sustainable agriculture. WorldFish Center, headquartered in Penang, Malaysia, has the goal “to reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture.” The…
DSpace managers needing to review harvested items before they are published now have an option. JHarvest introduces a new paradigm in harvest management, depositing ingested items into DSpace’s workflow manager when you configure your collection’s accept/reject permissions.