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U of Michigan Reveals Google-Based Digitization Project: Page 3 of 4

Michigan and its development partner, the University of Indiana, will open the digitization project up to other institutions within the Big Ten conference. “As more libraries come into this, we are likely to grow beyond 400 Tbytes. It’s going to be on a continual basis, we will be adding things annually, maybe semi-annually.”

Wilkin was less forthcoming on the specific value of the University of Michigan’s contract with Isilon, although he estimates that the Michigan Digitization Project will cost around $1.1 million a year. “That’s in terms of the hardware, site, and electricity costs, but that doesn’t involve any of the staff costs."

It's not just the University of Michigan that's ramping up its storage efforts at the moment. Houston-based Rice University today announced details of a deal to deploy 66 Tybes of Isilon IQ-9000 and IQ-200 hardware as a digital repository for its Shepherd School of Music and the James Baker Institute for Public Policy.

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