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Sun Solutions Support Holocaust Living History Project Sun StorageTek Solutions Assist with One of World's Largest Archiving Operations
Sun's press release announced the completion of The USC Shoah Foundation Institute's first stage of the living history project. As one of the world's largest digital video archiving projects, the Shoah Foundation utilized Sun's solutions to capture more than 100,000 hours of interviews of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. The USC Shoah Foundation, originally established by filmmaker and USC trustee Steven Spielberg, has worked to archive these important testimonials to a long lasting digital format. "Based on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the USC Shoah Foundation Institute deployed a comprehensive solution consisting of Sun Fire servers, Sun StorageTek 6540 arrays, and the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System with a capacity of 8.6 petabytes. The infrastructure also includes Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drives, which have a longer life span and can store up to one TB of data. In addition to meeting the Institute's current and future storage needs for the archive, the solution has allowed the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to save $6 million instantly in IT costs." "These are the master copies," said Sam Gustman, chief technology officer for the Institute. "Losing the tapes means losing the testimonies of nearly 52,000 individuals who witnessed the Holocaust. Something must be done to preserve them, and USC is taking action. For the first time in history, it is more cost effective to preserve content in files than on videotape," says Gustman. "We have used digitizing equipment to make files of the original analog videotapes and then store them on tape using Sun systems." About the USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Established in 1994 to collect and preserve the testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute maintains one of the largest video digital libraries in the world: nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages and from 56 countries. The Institute is part of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California; its mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry -- and the suffering they cause -- through the educational use of the Institute's visual history testimonies. The Institute works within the University and with partners around the world to advance scholarship and research, to provide resources and online tools for educators, and to disseminate the testimonies in its archive for educational purposes. In addition to preserving the testimonies, the Institute helps document the stories of survivors and witnesses of other genocides. Currently, the Institute is working with the Rwandan organization IBUKA to begin a project to collect testimony from survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that claimed as many as one million lives. Once collected and indexed, the testimony will be incorporated into the Visual History Archive. More Information
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Launches Important Living History Archive Project USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Sun Helps USC Institute Preserve Holocaust Testimonies
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We have used digitizing equipment to make files of the original analog videotapes and then store them on tape using Sun systems. - Sam Gustman, chief technology officer for the Institute
Sun Solutions Support Holocaust Living History Project
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