What do the National Library of Scotland and the Victoria and Albert Museum have in common?
National Library of Scotland Founded in 1689 as the Faculty of Advocates, a rare treasure from the legal profession, the National Library of Scotland (NLS) holds almost 400 years’ worth of the country’s written history and culture. Scotland’s legal deposit library for all publications produced in the United Kingdom needed to have the storage capacity to make all its collection related data accessible to the public and develop a digital repository to keep its extensive archive safe for posterity. The solution deployed consisted of two Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 systems, each with 120TB of capacity and services provided by Hitachi Data Systems Global Solution Services and Viglen Ltd. The advanced scalability and reliability of the solution mean documents ranging from historical manuscripts to online magazines are now available to users across the globe, 24 hours a day. Online support for start-up companies Business users of the National Library of Scotland can now have free a
