HAMBURG, Germany, Oct. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of
the 25th anniversary of German Reunification, the
Brandenburg Gate has been digitally preserved through a
collaboration between Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, University of
Stuttgart's Institute of Photogrammetry, CyArk, storage and
information management leader Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:
IRM), and world-leading data storage company Seagate Technology
(NASDAQ: STX).
CyArk and its partners used laser scanning and the latest in
reality capture technologies to create a hyper-accurate record of
the Gate for use in ongoing conservation efforts and public
education and interpretation. The scan results will be unveiled at
CyArk's Annual Summit at the Berlin State Library on 20-21 October.
At the same time, people around the world will be able to virtually
explore the Gate online to learn about its history by viewing 3D
models and videos.
"Digitally preserving the Brandenburg Gate is important because
this structure is more than a municipal Monument, it is an icon of
this city and country," Elizabeth
Lee, vice-president, CyArk. "The Gate's scanning also
contributes to the global conservation community that is working
diligently to conserve the world's heritage sites – especially in
the Middle East, where hundreds of
monuments are at risk of destruction."
Once scanned, the imaging data – including data from the laser
scan and photo, video, audio and metadata – is captured using
Seagate storage solutions onsite and sent back to CyArk's servers
at its headquarters via an external hard drive. CyArk's technical
team can then access the raw data via CyArk's onsite servers to
render them into 3D images. Once complete, some of the data is kept
onsite for quick access, while a "gold copy" of the 3D image is
backed up to a tape and transported offsite to Iron Mountain.
The laser imaging of the Brandenburg Gate creates an astounding
amount of data – the equivalent of nearly 1 million high-definition
photographs. Seagate is working with CyArk to provide cutting-edge
enterprise servers, intuitive business NAS systems and rugged
mobile hard drives to capture, centralize, render and archive these
massive data files.
"Seagate is proud to partner with CyArk on their historic and
innovative global undertaking, and the anniversary of
re-unification is the perfect time to celebrate the preservation of
the Brandenburg Gate in particular," said Ulrich Plechschmidt,
managing director, EMEA for Seagate's cloud systems and electronic
solutions business. "Seagate's storage technology is helping CyArk
build the museum of the future, and we are excited to play a role
in helping future generations experience this incredible site in a
way never before possible."
Funding for the digital preservation of the Brandenburg Gate
project was provided by Iron Mountain as part of its partnership
with, and support for, CyArk and the CyArk 500. Iron Mountain
protects and preserves digital scans of each monument scanned by
CyArk, archiving the data in a highly-secure underground records
and data storage facility in western Pennsylvania, U.S. Located 220 feet
underground in a former limestone mine, the facility is guarded
24/7 and home to other important and priceless information assets
and cultural collections, including rare photo collections and
historical documents.
"We're thrilled to once again partner with CyArk, this time to
help preserve and protect one of the most iconic landmarks in
German history," said Hans-Günter Börgmann, managing director, Iron
Mountain Germany. "Growing up in post-war Germany, the Gate was a symbol of peace and
unity, yet was inaccessible to many until the fall of the Berlin
Wall. Everyone deserves equal access to the ideas and artifacts of
our history, regardless of geographic and economic barriers. The
opportunity to apply our information management and protection
capabilities to fulfill CyArk's mission of preserving cultural and
heritage allows to us to use our expertise and experience to help
ensure landmarks like the Gate remain accessible to all
forever."
About Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain
Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is a leading provider of storage and
information management services. The company's real estate network
of over 67 million square feet across more than 1,000 facilities in
36 countries allows it to serve customers with speed and accuracy.
And its solutions for records management, data management, document
management, and secure shredding help organizations to lower
storage costs, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and
better use their information for business advantage. Founded in
1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects billions of information
assets, including business documents, backup tapes, electronic
files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com for more
information.
About Seagate
Seagate creates space for the human
experience by innovating how data is stored, shared and used. Learn
more at www.seagate.com. Follow Seagate on Twitter, Facebook,
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About CyArk
CyArk was founded in 2003 to ensure
heritage sites are available to future generations, while making
them uniquely accessible today. CyArk operates internationally as a
501(c)3 non-profit organization with the mission of using new
technologies to create a free, 3D, online library of the world's
cultural heritage sites before they are lost to natural disasters,
destroyed by human aggression or ravaged by the passage of time.
http://www.cyark.org
About the CyArk 500 Challenge
The CyArk 500 Challenge
is CyArk's ambitious goal to digitally preserve 500 cultural
heritage sites within the next five years. CyArk and its partners
are on a mission to save these cultural heritage sites digitally
before more are ravaged by war, terrorism, arson, urban sprawl,
climate change, earthquakes, floods, and other threats.
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