French oceanographers clock up 23 years on Atempo backup software | Computer Weekly
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The institute – Ifremer, for short; it’s an abbreviation – needs to be able to access records that date back over that period of near two-and-a-half decades. Ifremer specialises in oceanographic studies, aims at sustainable use of the sea’s resources and the marine environment, and shares information with a wide range of organisations to those ends. It employs 1,500 in a workforce that includes scientists, engineers, technicians and admin staff across five centres in France and its overseas territories. A third-party support provider, RIC, based in northern France, looks after operational maintenance, infrastructure, networks, backup, storage and the security of research data. We are partisans of the principle of open data in science, but at the same time, we have to be aware of espionage and attempts to take critical data.” Jérôme Le Letty, who also works on the Tina team, added: “Being able to navigate temporally was another key factor in the adoption of the solution.