Figshare gets serious about storage

"We’re excited to announce a new partnership with DuraCloud as a way to better manage and store your institution’s research data. The collaboration will combine the end-user experience of figshare.com with the powerful storage, management, and preservation functionalities of DuraCloud. With figshare for Institutions, universities and colleges can manage their research outputs from point of creation and data management plan through to itspublication and subsequent impact. DuraCloud automatically copies institutional content onto several different cloud storage providers. The figshare and DuraCloud collaboration will then ensure all of the captured data is managed and preserved appropriately to align with institutional and funder policies ... One area where DuraCloud goes above and beyond is around preservation. DuraCloud is an open source software so it can live on the Amazon S3 storage or be built on top of existing institutional infrastructure. Since DuraCloud also ties directly into Amazon Glacier, the Digital Preservation Network through the DuraCloud Vault node (in partnership with Chronopolis, which is run out of the University of California, San Diego), institutions can use DuraCloud as a service for additional archiving and preservation of all figshare content as they see fit.  This is a really exciting development on our end because there’s been a lot of thought put into the archiving and preservation capabilities of DuraCloud. As a result, the academic community will be able to take advantage of these tools to decide on what institutional data to preserve and how they want to preserve it ..."