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On April 24, 2012 the Hydra developers "who make Hydra happen" released Active Fedora 4.0.0 and HydraHead 4.0.0

The gems are at:

https://rubygems.org/gems/active-fedora/versions/4.0.0
https://rubygems.org/gems/hydra-head/versions/4.0.0

and supporting libraries at:

From USETDA 2012 Conference Organizing Committee and USETDA Board of Directors

Ithaca, NY In a recent Campus Technology article (May 1, "DuraCloud Offers Redundant Storage Across Multiple Cloud Providers": http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2012/05/01/DuraCloud-Offers-Redundant-Storage-Across-Multiple-Cloud-Providers.aspx?Page=3) author Alicia Brazington points out that academia is often nervous about entrusting precious and irreplacable digital assets to cloud storage providers.

From Joshua Sternfeld, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities

Features and pricing for simple and cost effective preservation and archiving in the cloud

Ithaca, NY Registration is open for the second in the 2012 series of curated web seminars in Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series. DuraSpace web seminars fill up fast so register today to save your spot.

Hot Topics: The DuraSpace Community Webinar Series
Series two curated by Karen Cariani, WGBH Boston: Managing and Preserving Audio and Vdeo in your Digital Repository

Community-based solution to help Internet2 members preserve scholarly, scientific and cultural heritage for future generations

Arlington, VA DuraSpace and Internet2 announced today at the Spring 2012 Internet2 Member Meeting that Internet2 members now have automatic access to DuraCloud [http://duracloud.org], a trusted service for archiving and managing content in the cloud featuring one-click creation of many copies, in multiple locations with several providers.

Ithaca, NY Content replication across cloud storage providers is a key factor in meeting higher education and research requirements for taking advantage of the cloud. As Kyle Johnson reported in the April 19 WIRED Cloudline post, "DuraCloud Protects Against Cloud Failures" [link: http://www.wired.com/cloudline/2012/04/duracloud/], DuraCloud's one-click access to multiple cloud storage providers can ensure that irreplaceable content is preserved in multiple spaces simultaneously.